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1927 - 1991 (63 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
2. | Robert Guy Powell was born on 08 Oct 1892 in Dan River Township, Caswell County, North Carolina (son of Rufus Edwin Powell and Madora Ella Stanfield); died on 14 Jul 1961; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina). Notes:
World War I veteran whose biographical sketch was published in Caswell County in the World War, 1917-1918: Service Records of Caswell County Men, George A. Anderson, Compiler (1921).
Robert married Mary Elizabeth Gatewood on 27 Nov 1925. Mary was born on 06 Apr 1899; died on 28 Sep 1977; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina). [Group Sheet]
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3. | Mary Elizabeth Gatewood was born on 06 Apr 1899; died on 28 Sep 1977; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina). Children:
- Madora Powell was born on 16 Nov 1926 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 20 Aug 2011 in York, Nebraska; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery (York, Nebraska).
- 1. Robert Guy Powell, Jr. was born on 31 Dec 1927; died on 26 Nov 1991; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
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Generation: 3
4. | Rufus Edwin Powell was born on 22 Jan 1856 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina (son of Henry Alexander Powell and Martha Ann Walters); died on 05 Dec 1924 in Caswell County, North Carolina; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina). Notes:
Rufus Edwin Powell (1856-1924)
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This photograph is believed to be of siblings Bettie Margaret Powell (1851-1938) and Rufus Edwin Powell (1856-1924). They were children of Henry Alexander Powell (1824-1866) and Martha Ann Walters (born 1825).
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The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 6 December 1924 (Page 5)
Rufus E. Powell Dies at His Home at Blanch, N.C.
Announcement is made of the death at his home at 5:50 p.m. yesterday of Rufus E. Powell, an influential citizen and farmer of Blanch, Caswell county, N. C., aged 68 years. He had resided near Blanch all his life, was a deacon in the Baptist church
and a man of the highest standing in his community.
Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 p.m. Sunday (tomorrow) and interment will be made in the family cemetery.
Deceased has a brother Arthur H. Powell of Sutherlin, Va. and two sisters Mrs. Betty P. Moore, of Bunn, N. C. and Mrs. D. G. Watkins of Blanch, N. C. He is survived by eight children: Mrs. W. L. Griggs, North Wilkesboro, N. C.; H. A. Powell, N. C.; R. E. Powell, Marshville, N. C.; Miss Mary E. Powell, Raleigh, N. C.; Dr. Walter B. Powell, Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Rosa P. Taylor, Charlottesville, Va.; Robert G. Powell, Blanch, N. C. and Mrs. B. V. Chamblee, Hamlet, N. C.
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The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 10 December 1924 (Page 11)
Card of Thanks
We, the children of Mr. R. E. Powell, Blanche, N. C. wish to express to friends and relatives our deepest appreciation of the many kindnesses shown us during the sickness, death and burial of our beloved father.
Rufus married Madora Ella Stanfield on 25 Mar 1879 in Leasburg, Caswell County, North Carolina. Madora was born on 28 Jul 1859 in Leasburg, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 10 Jan 1915; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina). [Group Sheet]
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5. | Madora Ella Stanfield was born on 28 Jul 1859 in Leasburg, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 10 Jan 1915; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina). Children:
- Herbert Willard Powell was born on 12 Jul 1837; died on 12 Oct 1897; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Mattie Lea Powell was born on 17 Jan 1880; died on 02 Apr 1941; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Reverend Henry Asbury Powell was born on 01 Feb 1882 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 31 Aug 1962.
- Rufus Edwin Powell, Jr. was born on 12 Mar 1884; died on 31 Mar 1941; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Mary Elizabeth Powell was born on 05 Feb 1886; died on 10 Dec 1963; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Dr. Walter Belvyn Powell, DDS was born on 31 Dec 1887; died on 06 Jan 1977.
- Dr. Rosa Powell was born on 31 Jul 1890; died on 09 Jul 1963.
- 2. Robert Guy Powell was born on 08 Oct 1892 in Dan River Township, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 14 Jul 1961; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Emma Cobbs Powell was born on 19 Jul 1894.
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Generation: 4
8. | Henry Alexander Powell was born on 16 Dec 1824 in Caswell County, North Carolina (son of Carter Glass Powell and Sarah Bates Moore); died on 14 Jun 1866; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina). Notes:
Henry Alexander Powell (1824-1866)
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Source: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 387-388 (Article #496 "Alexander "Sandy" Banks Moore and Blanche Lydia Moore" by Lois Moore Gardner).
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The owners of the homes in which Thomas Day's architectural woodwork is found constituted some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in the Dan River region: physician John Tab Garland, M.D., at one time the richest man in Caswell County (1850s and 1860s); banker and civic leader Thomas Donoho Johnston; machine shop, foundry, and sawmill owner Caleb Richmond; state senator James Kerr; merchant and tobacco factory owner John Wilson; planters William Long (also the owner of a sawmill and gristmill), Sidney Lea, George Williamson, Haywood Williams, Thomas Mumford McGehee, and William H. Holderness.
Family relationships among the planters enhanced the demand for Thomas-Day-made architectural trimwork. Thomas Donoho Johnston built Clarendon Hall in 1842 and tapped Day to embellish the interior; when his sister and brother-in-law, Sarah and William Long, built the Long House in 1856, they, too, turned to Day. Day provided the architectural woodwork for the house of Captain Carter Powell around 1848 and that of his son Henry Alexander Powell less than a decade later. Thomas L. Lea and his siblings Sidney S. Lea and Rebecca Lea (Mrs. George Williamson), his niece Elizabeth Lea (Mrs. Calvin Graves), and his daughter Ann Lea (Mrs. William Griffin Graves) provided Day the opportunity to do the woodwork on a law office and four of their five houses between 1840 and 1850.
The woodwork suggests the Carter Powell house was built around 1848 rather than the more often cited 1850. Day's machine-cut newels with tendrils date Henry Powell's house to 1853-1855. Day's work for Elizabeth Lea and Calvin Graves was not on their house, as it was built several years earlier, but on Calvin's law office, for which Day supplied the mantel. For a discussion of this family, see Whitlow, "Thomas L. Lea," in Heritage of Caswell County, 354.
Source: Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll (2010) at 134-135 and 246 (footnote 10).
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One researcher has this person as Henry Thomas Powell. See: Allen Powell Dew and Neva Ann Daniel Ancestors
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Henry married Martha Ann Walters on 29 Oct 1846 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Martha was born on 24 Sep 1825 in Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 26 May 1892 in Sutherlin, Virginia; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina). [Group Sheet]
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9. | Martha Ann Walters was born on 24 Sep 1825 in Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 26 May 1892 in Sutherlin, Virginia; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina). Notes:
Martha Ann Walters (1825-1892)
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Second Photograph: Based upon the writing on the front of this photograph the person is Mrs. Martha Powell Moore or Mrs. Martha Moore Powell. The person probably is Martha Ann Walters (1825-1892) who married Henry Alexander Powell and then Armistead Alexander Moore.
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See: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 387-388 (Article #496 "Alexander "Sandy" Banks Moore and Blanche Lydia Moore" by Lois Moore Gardner); The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 140-141 (Article #101 "Louise Powell Butler" by Louise Powell Butler). A death date of 26 May 1862 ascribed to her by some researchers must be incorrect as she married her second husband 22 December 1870. Source: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 438-439 (Article #573 "The Carter Powell Family" by Mrs Helen Powell Neal).
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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Martha A. Moore
Home in 1880: Birch Creek, Halifax, Virginia
Age: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1825
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to head-of-household: Wife
Spouse's name: Armistead A. Moore
Father's birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Keeps House
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Female
Household Members: Name Age
Armistead A. Moore 35
Martha A. Moore 55
Arther A. Powell 17
Lydia Powell 14
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Notes:
Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850
Groom Name: Henry A. Powell
Bride Name: Martha Ann Walters
Marriage Date: 19 Oct 1846
County: Pittsylvania
State: Virginia
Children:
- Mary Catherine Powell was born on 24 Sep 1847 in Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 14 Jul 1850; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Bettie Margaret Powell was born on 20 Dec 1851 in Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 22 Jul 1938; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- 4. Rufus Edwin Powell was born on 22 Jan 1856 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 05 Dec 1924 in Caswell County, North Carolina; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Felix Banks Powell was born on 24 Apr 1859 in Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 07 Sep 1893; was buried in Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Arthur Henry Powell was born on 04 Jan 1863 in Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina.
- Lydia Ann Powell was born on 13 Apr 1865 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 02 May 1960.
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