Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, Jordan B. Sr., 1951 

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JORDAN BEALE POWELL

FORMER COMMISSIONER DIES FRIDAY MORNING AFTER MONTH'S ILLNESS

   Hurt in an accident at the Country Club on December 17, when he broke his 
leg just below the hip, and suffering from complications which failed yield to 
treatment, Dr. Jordan Beale Powell, former Town Commissioner, died Friday 
morning, February 2, in Raiford Memorial Hospital, to which he was carried 
following his injury.

   Dr. Powell was the husband of Mrs. Margaret Edwards Powell of Franklin, who 
survives him, and a son of the late Godwin Moore and Cornelia Ann Holloman 
Powell of Hertford County. N.C., where he was born July 2, 1885.

   Moving to Norfolk in early manhood, he entered the employ of Jacob Bennett, 
jeweler. In August, 1906, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of 
Horology and Optics. For several years, he was associated with an elder 
brother, Dr. John Mills Powell, in the firm of Powell Brothers, Jewelers and 
optometrists, later conducting the business alone. For the past three years he 
had been associated with Dr. Ernest B. Gatten, Jr., in the practice of 
optometry, with offices at 106 Third Avenue.

   He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and its Bruner Bible class, 
the Shriners, and the Lions Club. From 1942 to 1950 he was a member of the 
Town Commission.

   Besides his wife he is survived by a son, Dr. Jordan Beale Powell, Jr., of 
Ahoskie, N.C.; a granddaughter, Margaret Gatling Powell, also of Ahoskie; a 
sister, Mrs. J.A. Murphy of Boston, Mass; two brothers, Dr. C.G. Powell of 
Ahoskie and Dr. John Mills Powell of Galax; and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held at the graveside in Poplar Spring Cemetery at 
2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Revs. Randolph Gregory and Elmer N. 
Hassell officiating, following by Masonic rites. Active pallbearers were W.R. 
Atkinson, Robert E. Coggsdale, Dr. E. B. Gatten, Jr., J. Burnett Johnson, Dr. 
Darden W. Jones, Emerson Jones, G. Hinson Parker and W. Wilkinson.

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DR. JORDAN BEALE POWELL

   It was characteristic of Dr. Jordan Beale Powell, whose death here last 
Friday occasioned universal sadness, to be completely loyal to the state of 
his adoption.  This loyalty was conferred likewise upon the community in 
which he settled and in which he spent the greater part of his life; for he 
was convinced beyond any argument that nowhere else in the world was there a 
finer town than Franklin.

   Having driven his stake deeply into the local sod, he elected to stay on 
after his elder brother, Dr. John Mills Powell, moved to the western part of 
the state.  Here he was and here he proposed to remain.  A man of gregarious 
instincts and a ready wit, he made friends with enviable case.  He liked 
people; and because he liked people he was ever willing to perform the little 
favors and courtesies that are the mark of a true gentleman.

   Another trait for which he was noted was his unshakable faith in the future 
of the town.  His belief that Franklin was destined to grow into a thriving 
city prompted his eight years ago to announce his candidacy for membership on 
the Town Commission, where his sane and constructive advice commanded the 
respect of his fellows.  His two terms as Commissioner came during the most 
exciting period in the town’s history, when the direction of municipal affairs 
called for all the wisdom and knowledge and patience that could be brought to 
bear upon them.  We believe that, had he been questioned on the matter, he 
would have declared those years on the Town Commission as the most satisfying 
of his entire career.


Dr. Jordan Beale POWELL, Sr., optometrist, former Town Commissioner, 
b. 2 Jul 1885, Hertford Co, NC, d. 2 Feb 1951, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 132*), Franklin, 
   4 Feb 1951, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 9, 1951, pp. 1-2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 18, 1968, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p400m3ob.txt 


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