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1124 No. 2, Confederate Veterans. On November 24, 1868, he was married to Miss Alice G. Cox, of Alexandria, and they have seven sons living.

Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Lee Powell, of the Nineteenth militia regiment, afterward Second State reserves, was born in Loudoun county, Va. He was educated and graduated at the Virginia military institute, and was there prepared to render the most effective service to his State in her day of trial. After the war Colonel Powell was engaged in educational work and for many years prior to his death was in charge of the Virginia female institute at Richmond. Thomas Temple Powell, son of the foregoing, was born at Richmond, Va., July 15, 1865, and was educated in the Episcopal high school near Alexandria, and the university of Virginia. After his graduation in the latter institution he taught two years in Maryland and then completed a law course in the university of that State. In the fall of 1889 he entered upon the practice of law at Richmond, and in 1892 made his home at Newport News, where he has very successfully established the foundations of a promising career. In 1895 and 1897 he was elected to the house of delegates by the five counties of the peninsula, and in the fall of 1896 he was appointed superintendent of the public schools of Newport News.

Edward Powell, now a prominent business man of Portsmouth, did not participate in the military operations of the Confederate army, but he labored during the period of the war in a sphere of usefulness that was closely connected with the maintenance of the Confederacy. During the year previous to the beginning of hostilities he was a member of the Marion Rifles, of Portsmouth, but when the company was called into active service, he was by reason of his training as a metal worker, more needed in the navy yard than elsewhere. He was employed by the government in the Portsmouth navy yard until the evacuation of that region in 1862, when he was given employment in the shops of the Virginia Central railroad during the remainder of the war. As an employe of this road, so greatly in use for military transportation, he was very closely connected with the military service, and he was certainly loyal and faithful to the cause of his State. Mr. Powell was born at Norfolk, January 11, 1842, the son of Moses and Margaret (Holly) Powell, natives of Nansemond and Norfolk counties respectively. The father died during his son's infancy, leaving the latter in the care of the mother, who removed to Portsmouth, and died there in 1860. He was reared at Portsmouth, and apprenticed to the coppersmith's craft, in which he became an experienced and skillful artisan. After the war he returned to Portsmouth, but soon afterward removed to Baltimore, where he remained a year. Again becoming a citizen of Portsmouth he has ever since remained there, where he is regarded as an influential and enterprising business man. He has given his attention mainly to the stove, plumbing and tinning business. He has served one term in the city council and three terms upon the board of health. He is a member of the Methodist church, in the Masonic order has membership in the Knights Templar and lodge of perfection, and is prominent in the Knights of Pythias. On May 22, 1862, he was married to Aurelia M. Nicholson, daughter of Dr. Lemuel P. Nicholson, who died of yellow fever at Portsmouth in 1855.