The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-01
CAPTAIN POWELL DEAD
4 VETERAN MONTGOMERY CITIZEN
 PASSES AWAY.
He Was z4 Years old, spd Had lived Tn Thia City Nearly All of the
 YearD of His Life.

After an Illness lasting two months. Captain John w. Powell. weli-known and popular citizen, died at s:i5 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Margarets Hospital. He had been confined to his bed for six weeks and had been at the
 hospital four weeks previous to his
 death
 Captain Powell was one of the old- est citizens of Montgomery. He was "A years old, and had lived here about 70 years. His friends were numbered by the thousands, and owing to his i happy disposition and genial nature, he was attractive in whatever circle he moved. His death will be learned
 with sorrow by wide circle of ac-
 quaintances in Montgomery and the surrounding territory.
 Captain Powell was native Alabam- ian, having been born in Claiborne. Monroe County. on December s, 1881. He was the son of John Powell and Ma
 tilda Morgan. and, at the age of about
 four years. removed to Montgomery
 with his parents in 1865 he married Miss Mollie s. Gilmer. of Montgomery. She preceded her husband to the grave by eighteen years.
 As a Confederate soldier. Captain Powell made a fine record. He was a member of the Montgomery True Blues before the war. and at his death be- longed to the Old Survivors Association of the Blues. At the outbreak of the civil
 war, he went to Pensacola and there served in Fort Barancas for several weeks after which he came back to Montgomery and enlisted in the famous | 3rd Alabama Regiment, under the command of Colonel Lomax. and went with the regiment to Virginia where | he was engaged in nearly every battle nf with the 3rd Alabama regiment un- 1 til he was appointed a Lieutenant in i the 42nd Alabama commanded | by Colonel Michael L. Woods. This | regiment was serving in the West. and Captain Powell joined the command in
 the neighborhood of vicksburg. Some | time later, in desperate struggle with the Federal around vicksburg. this reg iment was cut off from the main part of the army. and nearly everey member of the regiment was taken prisoner. Captain Powell was among those pris-
 oners sent to Johnson's Island. Hc
 remained there for eighteen months. | until the close of the war, After peace had been declared Captain
 Powell returned to Montgomery and en-, gagged in the manufacture of carriages and the livestock business. For the past fifteen years he had been almost continually connected with the United
 States Government, and. at his death.
 he was in the service of the United
 States Department of Agriculture. en-
 gagged in compiling cotton statistics.
 Captain Powell is survived by four
 sons. Edward c. Powell. of Birming-
 ham. Osce K. Powell and Jack Powell, of Montgomery, and Thomas L. Powell
 of St. Louis; one daughter, Miss Nell
 Powell. of Birmingham. three brothers,
 Captain James W. Powell and George M Powell. of Montgomery. and W. ".
 Powell, of Mobile, and one sister, Mrs.
 c. E. Arnold.
 The remains were removed yesterday to the residence of Osce K. Powell, [ South Jackson street. The funeral will
 take place from there at o'clock this
 afternoon, Rev. J. A. Rice, D. D., Pas
 tor of the Court Street Methodist
 Church will officiate.