Powell, Henry Alexander b. 16 Dec 1824 Caswell County, North Carolina d. 14 Jun 1866: Caswell County Genealogy

Caswell County Genealogy

1824 - 1866 (41 years)

Name	Powell, Henry Alexander [1, 2, 3, 4]
Birth	16 Dec 1824	Caswell County, North Carolina [1, 4]
Gender	Male
Reference Number	10232
Death	14 Jun 1866 [1, 4]
Burial	Powell Family Cemetery, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina [1]
Person ID	I10047	Caswell County
Last Modified	2 May 2024

Father	Powell, Carter Glass, b. 6 May 1800, Virginia d. 26 Oct 1857 (Age 57 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Moore, Sarah Bates, b. 31 Jan 1804 d. 21 Oct 1877 (Age 73 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	22 Jun 1822 [5]
Reference Number	181507
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).
Family ID	F5145	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Walters, Martha Ann, b. 24 Sep 1825, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 26 May 1892, Sutherlin, Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Age 66 years)

Marriage 29 Oct 1846 Pittsylvania County, Virginia [2, 3]

Reference Number 51773

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

	1. Powell, Mary Catherine, b. 24 Sep 1847, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 14 Jul 1850 (Age 2 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	2. Powell, Bettie Margaret, b. 20 Dec 1851, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 22 Jul 1938 (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	3. Powell, Rufus Edwin, b. 22 Jan 1856, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 5 Dec 1924, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	4. Powell, Felix Banks, b. 24 Apr 1859, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 7 Sep 1893 (Age 34 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	5. Powell, Arthur Henry, b. 4 Jan 1863, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	6. Powell, Lydia Ann, b. 13 Apr 1865, Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 2 May 1960 (Age 95 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F1239 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 2 May 2024

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	Birth - 16 Dec 1824 - Caswell County, North Carolina
	Marriage - 29 Oct 1846 - Pittsylvania County, Virginia

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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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Sources

Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 140-141 (Article #101 "Louise Powell Butler" by Louise Powell Butler).
Details: 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).
Details: Allen Powell Dew and Neva Ann Daniel Ancestors.
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 138-139 (Article #99 "Family of Jefferson Davis Butler" by Iola B. Murphy).