Member of Tennessee House, 28th General Assembly, 1849-51; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Hawkins County on September 27, 1821; son of Judge Samuel and Mary Caidwell (Rutledge) Powel. Educated for the law; practiced at Rogereville, Hawkins County. Attorney-general, 1854-60; Presidential elector, 1856. In Civil War: enlisted as captain of 29th Regiment, C.S.A.; elected colonel on September 31,1861; severely wounded and forced to resign, November 5, 1962. Married to Mary Elizabeth Armstrong; children–Robert Rathbone, Margaret Virginia, Sarah Armstrong, Samuel Franklin, Bessie, and Annie Powel. Later removed to Hernando, Mississippi. Member Presbyterian Church. Died on July 10, 1902, place not stated; buried in Old Presbyterian Cemetery, Rogersville. Son of Samuel Powel, Supreme Court judge and member of Congress; grandson of General George Rutledge, member of Constitutional Convention of 1796 and member Tennessee General Assembly; brother of George Rutledge Powel, sometime members Tennessee General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Sources: East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications<\/em>, No. 24, p. 103; Tennessee Confederate Records, Reel #240; Miller’s Manual<\/em>, 192; Ray, Tennessee Cousins, 91; Tennessee Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Tennessee<\/em>; Vol. 176, p. 869; Green, Bench and Bar<\/em>, 54; Rogersville Review<\/em>, January 5,1950; May 27, 1943; U.S. Census, 1860, Hawkins County.<\/p>\n From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of Tennessee House, 28th General Assembly, 1849-51; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Hawkins County on September 27, 1821; son of Judge Samuel and Mary Caidwell (Rutledge) Powel. Educated for the law; practiced at Rogereville, Hawkins County. Attorney-general, 1854-60; …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}