Brooks-Bibb-Dougherty County GaArchives Biographies.....Powell, Alfred Jackson 1856 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 875-876

   ALFRED JACKSON POWELL. An industrious and prosperous tiller of the soil,
Alfred Jackson Powell, living in the Dixie district, owns and occupies a
well-managed farm, on which he has a substantial set of farm buildings, located
just outside the corporate limits of the town of Dixie, these with their
surroundings having an air of neatness and prosperity that never fails to
attract the attention of the passing traveler. He was born September 23, 1856,
in Arkansas, where his father, Dr. Alfred Jackson Powell, was then engaged in
the practice of his profession.

   Dr. Powell was born in North Georgia, his parents having been farmers, who
spent the later years of their lives in Wilkes county, Georgia. After his
graduation from the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, Dr. Powell took
a special course of study in the Baltimore hospitals, acquiring knowledge and
experience of great value to him in his work. Returning then to his native
state, he practiced medicine for awhile in Worth county, and then located in
Arkansas, about twenty-five miles from Little Rock. Soon after the outbreak of
the Civil war, the doctor came back to Georgia, settling his family in Dougherty
county, and enlisted in the Confederate service as hospital surgeon, a position
which he filled acceptably until the war was ended. Going then to Chihuahua,
Mexico, Dr. Powell learned the language of the natives, and there continued his
residence as a physician and surgeon until his death.

   The maiden name of the wife of Dr. Powell was Georgiana Elizabeth Jordan. She
was born in Bibb county, Georgia, a daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Hays)
Jordan, being of Scotch-Irish descent. Removing from Bibb county to Worth
county, Georgia, Joshua Jordan bought land on the Flint river, twenty-two miles
from Albany, and was there extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits,
operating his large plantation with slave labor, both he and his wife spending
their last days there. For some time after the close of the war Dr. Powell's
wife resided on her farm in Dougherty county, Georgia, but her later years were
spent in Moultrie, Colquitt county, where her death occurred when she was about
seventy-five years of age. She reared five children, as follows: Mary, Cynthia,
Elizabeth, Alfred Jackson, and Florence, all of whom, with the exception of
Elizabeth, are now living.

   Acquiring his early education in the rural schools, Alfred Jackson Powell
began when young to perform his full share of the manual labor incidental to
life on a farm, becoming familiar with the theory and practice of agriculture.
When twenty-two years of age he began work as a woodsman, and for twelve years
was engaged in the turpentine business. Investing then his money in land, Mr.
Powell bought sixty-five acres in the Dixie district of Brooks county, the
improvements on the place consisting of a cleared and improved plot of a little
more than twenty acres, on which stood a small board house. Beginning farming on
a modest scale, Mr. Powell met with very encouraging success from the first.
From time to time he has purchased other tracts lying near by, and now has a
fine farm of three hundred and twenty-five acres, which he devotes to mixed
husbandry, his land being under a good state of tillage, and yielding profitable
harvests each season.

   Mr. Powell married Alice McKinnon, who was born in Brooks county, Georgia, a
daughter of William G. and Mary Jane (Groover) McKinnon, and a granddaughter of
James Groover, one of the first settlers of Brooks county. Two children have
been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Powell, Wallace and Mary E. Both Mr.
Powell and his wife are identified by membership with the Missionary Baptist
church.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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