OBITUARY: LEWIS CLARKSON POWELL

Submitted by: Diana Smith

Source: "The Oregonian", 16 May 1910, p. 5.  (photo)

"Woodland Pioneer Dies Near Home He Carved From Forests Fifty-Five Years Ago"

Woodland, Wash., May 15
   Lewis Clarkson Powell, who died at his home near Woodland Thursday, May 12,
aged 79 years, was buried in the Kerns Cemetery, near his home, Friday
afternoon.  Mr. Powell was born in Illinois, March 9, 1831.  He moved to
Missouri in early childhood; crossed the plains in 1852 by ox team and took up a
homestead four and one-half miles from what is now the town of Woodland, but
which at that time was a wilderness.  He lived on that homestead over 55 years,
when he moved to a town home at Kerns, one mile from Woodland.  Mr. Powell
served in the Indian war of 1855-6, in Captain William Bratton's company of
volunteers.  He was one of the first settlers in the valley, and when he came
here the only means of transportation were pack animals, over rough trails, and
canoes on the waterways.  He reared a family of 11 boys, nine of whom are alive,
and is survived by his wife, whom he married in 1866, and also has three
brothers and three sisters.

[Transcriber's note: His first name was spelled "Louis" in the WA State Death
Index.]