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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1800 - 1857 (57 years)
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| Name |
Powell, Carter Glass [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Birth |
6 May 1800 |
Virginia  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
15970 |
| Death |
26 Oct 1857 [2] |
| Person ID |
I15657 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
| Family |
Moore, Sarah Bates, b. 31 Jan 1804 d. 21 Oct 1877 (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
22 Jun 1822 [2] |
| 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).
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| Children |
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| | 2. Powell, Dr. Edwin Moore M.D., b. 1822 d. 1892 (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Powell, Henry Alexander, b. 16 Dec 1824, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 14 Jun 1866 (Age 41 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 4. Powell, Ann Catherine, b. 1827 d. 20 Nov 1922, Danville, Virginia (Age 95 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 5. Powell, Margaret Elizabeth, b. 1832 d. 1907 (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 6. Powell, Emily Caroline, b. 1834 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 7. Powell, Ashley Banks, b. 1837 d. 1876 (Age 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 8. Powell, Nicholas Van Buren, b. 1840 d. 1866 (Age 26 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F5145 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
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| 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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1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Corter [Carter] Powell
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1800
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: Caswell, North Carolina
Gender: Male
Family Number: 333
Household Members: Name Age
Corter [Carter] Powell 50
Sarah Powell 46
Sidney A Powell 20
Margaret E Powell 17
Emily Powell 15
Ashley B Powell 12
Nicholas Powell 10
A G Taylor 22
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| Sources |
- Details: 1846 Will of Mastin Powell.
- 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).
- 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: Descendants of Jarrold Powell by Jayne Davis Szaz.
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