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| Name |
Henry E. Powell |
| Born |
Abt 1840 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Notes |
- On July 5, 1871 Catherine married Larkin Grinstead, 12 years her senior. At the outbreak of the war Grinstead was a resident of neighboring Person County . He enlisted in Co. D., 13th N.C. Infantry on July 30, 1861 and remained as a private in that unit until it surrendered as part of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. By coincidence, this is the same regiment in which Franklin Summers Phillips’ future father-in-law, Pleasant Johnson Scott also served. However P.J. Scott was in Co. A, the Caswell Company of the 13th. The 1880 census found Catherine (then 35) and Larkin Grinstead (then 47) residing in Danville (First Ward) where his occupation is listed as a tobacconist. By 1900 Catherine was once again a widow and living next to her older brother Henry E. Powell and his family in Dan River Township in Caswell County. My Aunt Lessie Phillips (1894-1990) recalled, as a child, a visit from "Miss Mary Catherine" who rode to their house on horseback. She last appears on the 1910 census as 65 year old Mary C. Grinstead back in Danville ( Third Ward) as a lodger in a house with two other elderly widowed ladies who, like her, never had children. She died August 6, 1917 in Caswell Co. and is buried in a "F. (family) Grave Yard".
Source: CCHA Message Board (Mike Phillips, 13 October 2009).
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| Person ID |
I54584 |
Devin Timber |
| Last Modified |
17 Jan 2012 |
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