Powell, Lloyd

Born: 1834-XX-XX Virginia

Died: 1861-07-21 Virginia

Flourished: 1850 to 1861 Henry, Illinois

Lloyd Powell moved to Henry, Illinois in 1850, when he lived in the household of his uncle, Richard Lloyd, and worked as a clerk. He went on to work as a travelling salesman and land agent, and by the time of the 1860 census he owned real and personal property valued at $12,000. Powell retained Abraham Lincoln and filed suits over property ownership in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois in 1858 and 1859. He returned to Virginia in 1861 to rejoin his family and to enlist in the Confederate Army. Powell died at the First Battle of Bull Run.

Inventory, Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00085.frame; Lorraine Janney Kintz, Israel & Elizabeth Janney: Their Ancestors and Descendants ([Richland Center, WI]: [L.J. Kintz], [1985]), 147-48; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Loudoun County, VA, 170; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Henry, Marshall County, IL, 107; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Henry, Marshall County, IL, 37; For legal cases involving Lincoln, search Participant, “Powell, Lloyd,” Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), https://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/; The Sun (Baltimore, MD), 29 July 1861, 1:3; 26 September 1862, 1:3; Gravestone, Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, VA.