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 1824 - 1866 (41 years)
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| Name |
Henry Alexander Powell [2] |
| Born |
16 Dec 1824 |
Caswell County, North Carolina  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
14 Jun 1866 [2] |
| Buried |
Powell Family Cemetery (Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina) [3] |
| Notes |
- Henry Alexander Powell (1824-1866)
(click on photograph for larger image)
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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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| Person ID |
I14032 |
Devin Timber |
| Last Modified |
15 Dec 2011 |
| Father |
Carter Glass Powell, b. 6 May 1800, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. , d. 26 Oct 1857 (Age 57 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Bates Moore, b. c 1800, d. 21 Oct 1877 (Age 77 years) |
| Married |
28 Jul 1822 |
Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. [4] |
| 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).
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| Family ID |
F4360 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Martha Ann Walters, b. 24 Sep 1825, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 26 May 1892, Sutherlin, Virginia (Age 66 years) |
| Married |
29 Oct 1846 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia [5] |
| Notes |
- Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850
Groom Name: Henry A. Powell
Bride Name: Martha Ann Walters
Marriage Date: 19 Oct 1846
County: Pittsylvania
State: Virginia
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| Children |
| | 1. Mary Catherine Powell, b. 24 Sep 1847, Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 14 Jul 1850 (Age 2 years) [Natural] |
| + | 2. Bettie Margaret Powell, b. 20 Dec 1851, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 22 Jul 1938 (Age 86 years) [Natural] |
| + | 3. Rufus Edwin Powell, b. 22 Jan 1856, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 05 Dec 1924, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 68 years) [Natural] |
| + | 4. Felix Banks Powell, b. 24 Apr 1859, Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 07 Sep 1893 (Age 34 years) [Natural] |
| + | 5. Arthur Henry Powell, b. 04 Jan 1863, Blanche, Caswell County, North Carolina [Natural] |
| + | 6. Lydia Ann Powell, b. 13 Apr 1865, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina , d. 02 May 1960 (Age 95 years) [Natural] |
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| Family ID |
F5672 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
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).
- Details: Gravestone in the Powell Family Cemetery (Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina).
- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 140-141 (Article #101 "L.
- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 138-139 (Article #99 "Fa.
- Details: Allen Powell Dew and Neva Ann Daniel Ancestors.
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