Mrs Della Powell, died 1894

Mrs Della Powell, died 1894


A silver gelatin print showing an elderly black woman identified on the reverse of the mount as Mrs Della Powell. An inked inscription reads: 'Mrs Della Powell. Mother died 1894 / of Mrs Lillie Powell. Mother died July 10, 1935 / of Mrs Hazel Lyden Henderson'.

The 1880 census shows a Della Powell living in Friendship, Crockett County, Tennessee, close to the Arkansas border. Born in 1840, at the time of the census she was working on a farm. She was unmarried, but she had at least 6 children, including Lillie, born in 1876. Della was born in Tennessee, as were her parents before her.

Photographed by Carroll of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, identified by a blindstamp on the mount.
 


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