This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Owens, Phillips, Powell, Smith Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.wilkes/4251.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Bill. There is a man living in Wilkes Co. who spent eight years, along with his late wife, documenting the cemeteries in Wilkes Co. I would think you could contact him to see where the Powell cemetery is. I know he used to charge a nominal fee for records he provided, but I don't know if he charges just to tell someone where a certain cemetery is located. His name is George F. McNeil, 1128 Winkler Mill Rd., Wilkesboro, NC 28697. This was where he lived in 2002, and I'm going on the assumption that he still lives there. I have a John Martin Powell, b. abt 1798 in Wilkes Co., NC, on my family tree. He married Mary Owens. Do you know if he is part of the Powell families that have been discussed in this thread? I got my Powell information from an Owens descendant who has since passed away. John Martin and Mary Owens Powell had children Alice, Rachel, Rhoda, Green, Nancy, Jane, John Madison, William, Rebecca, and Mary Ann. A few of the girls married into my Phillips family. I think John Martin's parents were William and Rachel Smith Powell from VA, but I have no proof of this. It is something I found online, and there weren't any sources listed, unfortunately. John Martin was listed as one of the children of William and Rachel, and there was a Mason Powell listed as brother to John Martin. This information says that this Mason was born abt. 1797 in Wilkes Co. Barbara Shirley Rogerson