James Burton Watkins

Notes:

James Burton Watkins (1906-1998)





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First Photograph: Dailey School 1919

This old picture is of the Dailey School, which was originally located adjoining the J. H. Dailey Farm 1.5 miles west of Blanch [Caswell County, North Carolina]. The picture was take in 1919. Those shown in the picture are (front row, left to right) Ruth Hyler, Garnet Powell, Ralph Harrison, Frank Powell, Jeanette Harrelson Mobley (deceased), Ardie Hyler, John Harrelson, and Charlie Hyler.

Second row: Fannie Harrelson, James Watkins, Evelyn Bradner Moorefield, Rebecca Moore (deceased), and Claude Hyler.

In the rear is Miss Fannie Sue Wilson, teacher.

The old picture was contributed by Mr. I. G. Dailey of Blanch, who also presented a letter dated February 17, 1919, which wa written to Miss Wilson from M. J. H. Dailey, member of the school committee. The letter is as follows: "Dear Miss Wilson, I saw Mr. Watkins this morning and he said the thought you would take this school. If you will take it, we would be glad to have you teach for us. Signed, J. H. Dailey."
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Second Photograph: Group Photograph: Watkins Reunion c.1939

Watkins Family Reunion at Dan Valley Farm c.1939

Foreground: Lydia Ann Watkins, Spot Watkins (dog)

Seated: Dan Patterson, Edna Mebane, Lydia Watkins, Lucille Watkins, Salie Patterson, Dan Simmons, Beth Simmons

Standing: Dee Gee Watkins, Cary Watkins, Katherine Mebane, Jack Patterson, Mabel Watkins, Henry Watkins, James Watkins

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000
Name: James Burton Watkins
Date of Birth: 19 Sep 1906
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth County: Caswell
Parent1 Name: Daniel Gunn Watkins
Parent2 Name: Lydia Ann Powell
Roll Number: B_C020_68001
Volume: 7
Page: 159

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: James B Watkins
Age in 1910: 3
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1907
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Daniel G
Father's Birth Place: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Lydia A
Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina
Home in 1910: Dan River, Caswell, North Carolina
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Daniel G Watkins 52
Lydia A Watkins 45
Edna E Watkins 25
Welbur L Watkins 24
Loucille N Watkins 20
Henry T Watkins 18
Katie C Watkins 16
Dee G Watkins 14
Maggie E Watkins 13
Sallie A Watkins 11
Elizabeth Watkins 9
Mabel Watkins 6
James B Watkins 3

North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-2004
Name: James Burton Watkins
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Social Security Number: 237092405
Father's Last Name: Watkins
Age: 82
Date of Birth: 19 Sep 1906
Birth Location: North Carolina
Birth State: North Carolina
Residence County: Caswell
Residence State: North Carolina
Date of Death: 12 Dec 1988
Death State: Virginia
institution: General Hospital
Attendant: Physician
Burial Location: Burial out of state
Source Vendor: NC Department of Health. North Carolina Deaths, 1988-92

See: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 560-561 (The Henry Thomas Watkins Family by Cary King Watkins).
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James married Annie Maude Abell. Annie was born on 05 Jul 1914 in Georgia; died on 01 Oct 1992 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; was buried in Purley United Methodist Church (Purley, Caswell County, North Carolina). [Group Sheet]

1. Barbara Faye Watkins was born on 20 Oct 1939; died on 27 Mar 1996; was buried in Purley United Methodist Church (Purley, Caswell County, North Carolina).

Notes:

Daniel Gunn Watkins (1857-1937)



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See: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 380-381.

Source: 1900 US Census (Danville Township, Caswell County, North Carolina)
Name: David G Watkins [Daniel G. Watkins]
Home in 1900: Dan River, Caswell, North Carolina
Age: 42
Estimated birth year: 1858
Birthplace: North Carolina
Race: White
Relationship to head-of-house: Head

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Daniel G Watkins
Age in 1910: 52
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1858
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Virginia
Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina
Spouse's Name: Lydia A
Home in 1910: Dan River, Caswell, North Carolina
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Daniel G Watkins 52
Lydia A Watkins 45
Edna E Watkins 25
Welbur L Watkins 24
Loucille N Watkins 20
Henry T Watkins 18
Katie C Watkins 16
Dee G Watkins 14
Maggie E Watkins 13
Sallie A Watkins 11
Elizabeth Watkins 9
Mabel Watkins 6
James B Watkins 3

See Also: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 560-561 (The Henry Thomas Watkins Family by Cary King Watkins).

At page 163 of An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, Ruth Little-Stokes (1979) is a photograph of the Daniel G. Watkins House accompanied by the following commentary:

Photo 258. Daniel G. Watkins House. indeterminate age. 1.5-story log structure which is now the rear wing of a 2-story frame late 19th or early 20th century house. Original structure has been stuccoed and considerably altered.

Whether this was the home of the Daniel Gunn Watkins who married Lydia Ann Powell has not been confirmed.
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"I was about to give the same guess [as to the person for whom Blanch, North Carolina was named], although I didn't know that Blanche Moore's father had run the post office. Blanche Moore was a cousin of my grandmother's, Lydia Anne Watkins, and they were very close. I remember visiting "Cousin Blanche" as a child when she lived in the house the Moorefields own now. She was quite a lady, and Blanch can be proud to be named for her! My grandparents built the house in Blanch that Wayne and Linda Bray now own, and they raised a family of 11 children. After he turned his dairy farm over to a son, my grandfather also ran the post office and train station there. It was before my day, but have heard many stories of the "hobos" who road the trains during and after the depression and stopped in the area. My grandfather bought some beautiful pieces from peddlers who rode through (former shop owners who had lost all but their merchandise). Some of those things have been handed down through the family."

Source: JoAnn Watkins Warn Post to CCHA Facebook Wall 30 June 2010.

Daniel married Lydia Ann Powell about 1883. Lydia (daughter of Henry Alexander Powell and Martha Ann Walters) was born on 13 Apr 1865 in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina; died on 02 May 1960. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Lydia Ann Powell (1865-1960)



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Lydia Ann Powell Watkins holding Wilbur Lawrence Watkins.
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Mrs. Bettie Moore To Be Buried Today: Funeral services for Mrs. Bettie M. Moore will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of B. E. Powell in Blanch, N. C. Mrs. Moore died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. B. Moore, in Yanceyville yesterday evening at the age of 86. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. S. B. Moore. Yanceyville, N. C., and Mrs. R. N. Shearon, Bunn, N. C., one sister, Mrs. Lydia Watkins. Blanch, N. C. and one brother, A. H. Powell, Sutherlin, Va.

Source: The Bee (Danville, Virginia), 21 July 1938.
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"I was about to give the same guess [as to the person for whom Blanch, North Carolina was named], although I didn't know that Blanche Moore's father had run the post office. Blanche Moore was a cousin of my grandmother's, Lydia Anne Watkins, and they were very close. I remember visiting "Cousin Blanche" as a child when she lived in the house the Moorefields own now. She was quite a lady, and Blanch can be proud to be named for her! My grandparents built the house in Blanch that Wayne and Linda Bray now own, and they raised a family of 11 children. After he turned his dairy farm over to a son, my grandfather also ran the post office and train station there. It was before my day, but have heard many stories of the "hobos" who road the trains during and after the depression and stopped in the area. My grandfather bought some beautiful pieces from peddlers who rode through (former shop owners who had lost all but their merchandise). Some of those things have been handed down through the family."

Source: JoAnn Watkins Warn Post to CCHA Facebook Wall 30 June 2010.
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See also: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 560-561 (The Henry Thomas Watkins Family by Cary King Watkins); The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 380-381.

Attended Roanoke Female College in Danville, Virginia (which became Averett University) [went there in the 1800s and studied, among other things "deportment'].
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The 1900 US Census (Dan River, Caswell County, North Carolina) shows her as: Lydia M.
Name: Lydia M Watkins
Home in 1900: Dan River, Caswell, North Carolina
Age: 38
Estimated birth year: 1862
Birthplace: North Carolina
Race: White
Relationship to head-of-house: Wife

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]

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

Notes:

Carter Glass Powell (1800-1857)

His birth date also is seen as 16 May 1800. 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).

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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Carter Powell s/o Mastin and Mary Carter Powell, married Sarah Bates Moore July 28, 1822.
Children

Sidney Armstead Powell M.D.
Edwin Moore Powell M.D. b: 1822
Henry Alexander Powell b: 16 DEC 1824 in Caswell County, North Carolina
Ann Catherine Powell b: 1827
Margaret Elizabeth Powell b: 1832
Emily Caroline Powell b: 1834
Ashby Banks Powell b: 1837
Nicholas Van Buren Powell b: 1840

1848/12/23 NCCaswell- 1848-Dec-23: NCCasw- MASTIN POWELL of Caswell to CARTER POWELL of Caswell. All of said
MASTIN POWELL's eighth interest in the estate of his mother the late ELIZABETH POWELL, both that which has come
into the hands of her administrator, CARTER POWELL, and also what may be due and coming from the estate of her
father,and now in the hands of his executor, Isaac SATERFIELD; MASTIN POWELL late of the county of Halifax, VA
also all the right, title and interest of the estate of his father the late JAROLD POWELL, deceased.
NCHistorical Commission, Caswell Co. Records, Deeds & Deeds of Trust, 1794-1856. (20.037).



Early ancestors of Louise Powell Butler
My great-great-great-grandparents on my gg grandfathers' side were Mastin Powell and Mary called "Polly" Carter. He was a settler, tavern keeper, owener of a race track and slaves. They resided about 8 miles below Milton, NC on Powell Creek, Halifax Co., VA now Turberville. They had nine children:
> Carter, 5/6/1800-10/26/1857, married Sarah Bates Moore,
1/31/1804-10/21/1877, 6/22/1822; Elizabeth married Gerald Powell, her uncle, 12/24/1816;
Biggers married Gillie Lipscomb, 6/16/1829;
John Bibb married Nancy Carter;
Nancy T. married Richard Carter;
Mary Ann married Green Carter;
William Jefferson married Elizabeth Allen Carter;
Susan married Jackson "Jack" her nephew;
Harriett I. married, 1st Joseph Yarbrough and, 2nd, Henry Laws. Most of their children settled in and around
Caswell County, NC and Danville, VA Source: Information from Uncle Walter B. Powell, Great Aunt Fleetwood Powell, Stanfield Family Bible, paper written by Charlie Stanfield
to Uncle Walter B. Powell and wills.
> > > >
> > > > END of EXTRACTION

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Carter Glass Powell was born 06 MAY 1800 in Virginia, and died 26 OCT 1857. He was the son of 12. Mastin J. Powell and 13. Mary O. Carter.

7. Sarah Bates Moore was born 31 JAN 1804, and died 21 OCT 1877. She was the daughter of 14. Tarleton Moore and 15. Elizabeth Stanfield.



Children of Sarah Bates Moore and Carter Glass Powell are:
i. Edwin Moore Powell M.D. was born 1822, and died 1892. He married Anna Patrick Watlington 29 OCT 1857, daughter of James Watlington and Jane Wilson Scott. She was born 1833.
ii. Henry Alexander Powell was born 16 DEC 1824 in Caswell County, North Carolina, and died 14 JUN 1866. He married Martha Ann Walters 29 OCT 1846 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, daughter of Spiers Walters and Lydia Ann Stamps. She was born 24 SEP 1825 in Caswell County, North Carolina, and died 26 MAY 1892 in Sutherlin, Virginia.
3. iii. Ann Catherine Powell was born 1827, and died 20 NOV 1922 in Danville, Virginia. She married Albert G. Fuller 27 OCT 1847. He died ABT 1910.
iv. Margaret Elizabeth Powell was born 1832, and died 1907. She married John Daniel Glass 14 FEB 1854.
v. Emily Caroline Powell was born 1834. She married Levi Whitted.
vi. Ashley Banks Powell was born 1837, and died 1876. He married Athenia Augusta Cunningham 26 MAR 1863. He married Laura Helen Jennings 15 NOV 1866 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
vii. Nicholas Van Buren Powell was born 1840, and died 1866.
viii. Sidney Armstead Powell M.D.. He married Cynthia P. Read 18 JAN 1853.

Carter married Sarah Bates Moore in 28 Jul 1822 in Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A.. Sarah was born in c 1800; died on 21 Oct 1877. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah Bates Moore (1804-1877)



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38. Tarleton Moore167, born Abt. 1780 in Halifax Co, VA. He was the son of 76. John Moore. He married 39. Elizabeth Stanfield 1812 in Halifax Co, VA.

39. Elizabeth Stanfield168.

Children of Tarleton Moore and Elizabeth Stanfield are:
19 i. Sarah Bates Moore, born 31 Jan 1804 in Halifax Co, VA; died 21 Oct 1877 in Caswell Co, NC; married Carter Powell 19 Nov 1821 in Halifax Co, VA.
ii. Armistead Tarleton Moore168, born 1815 in Halifax Co, VA; died 1870 in Halifax Co, VA; married Rebecca E Scott 26 Sep 1831 in Halifax Co, VA; born 19 Oct 1813 in Halifax Co, VA.
iii. Banks Moore168, married Elizabeth J Wilson.
iv. Catherine Frances Moore168, born Abt. 1813; died 1889; married Branch Penick 25 Nov 1835.
v. Edwin Moore168

Birth:
Probably born in Halifax County, Virginia.

Notes:

One researcher gives the marriage date as 29 November 1821 in Halifax County, Virginia. 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).