News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

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    William Jefferson Powell, Sr.[1]

    Male 1807 - 1882  (74 years)


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    • Name William Jefferson Powell 
      Suffix Sr. 
      Born 12 Dec 1807  Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 04 Dec 1882  Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Notes 
      • Powell/Powell Deed, 1853 - Halifax Co. VA
        Deed, William J. Powell Jr. to William J. Powell Sr.
        Library of Virginia, Halifax County Virginia Deeds, Book 56, page 61, 28
        November 1853
        William J. Powell
        Witness:
        Carter Powell
        A. L. (?) Ball
        Greensby Carter
        Submitted by Steve Carson

        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.
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        > > > > END of EXTRACTION
      Person ID I8269  Devin Timber | Mary Eggleston Pedigree
      Last Modified 9 Dec 2011 

      Father Mastin J. Powell, Sr.,   b. Abt 1776, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1846, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
      Mother Mary O. "Polly" Carter,   b. c 1783, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1868  (Age 85 years) 
      Married Bef 1817 
      Family ID F2761  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Elizabeth Allen Carter,   b. 16 Jul 1807, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Sep 1883  (Age 76 years) 
      Married Abt 1838 
      Children 
      +1. Sarah Frances "Sally" Powell,   b. 19 Mar 1840, Crew, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1912, Crew, Halifax, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
      +2. Thomas B. Powell,   b. 22 May 1841, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
       3. William Henry Powell,   b. 10 Aug 1843, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
      +4. Mary G. Powell,   b. 28 Aug 1845
      +5. Maria Jane Powell,   b. Abt 1845, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
       6. Emma C. Powell,   b. Abt 1846
      +7. Addison G. Powell,   b. 5 May 1854, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Dec 1923, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
      +8. Martha Booker Powell,   b. Abt 1850, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
       9. Pattie B. Powell,   b. c 1860, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
       10. James L. Powell,   b. 16 Aug 1856, Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
      Last Modified 22 Nov 2011 
      Family ID F2760  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
        Library of Virginia, Halifax County, Virginia, Will Book #21 pages 188-289, dated 27 August 1846, probated 26 October 1846
        Will of Mastin Powell
        To my son William Powell seven hundred and eighty six dollars