Dear List, My John Powell was my father, John William Gordon "Jack" Powell of Roxobel, Bertie County, NC. He was born Dec. 26, 1897 and died July 10. 1973 in Washington, DC. He married in 1929 Janet G Travell, M.D. (1901 - 1997) of New York City. He was the son of Edgar Powell of Bertie County and Isa Cornelia Snowden Gordon of Perquimans County, NC. The father of Edgar Powell was William L. Powell, M.D. who was born Sept. 10, 1831 in Hertford County NC, the son of Albert J. Powell and Elizabeth Moore. He married Cornelia Ann Bishop of Bertie County. Dr. Powell died before Jan. 27, 1863 when his estate was settled. Virginia