Sent you an email with links to a 1917 map of Powell Meridian Nebraska. Showing a plot of land across the road from my GM and GF's place. They were there in 1940s-50s John W & Eva M Powell. In the 1917 map it was Sarah Powell and A J Gillespie was across the road to the west.
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/26739/Meridian+Precin...My mother taught school in Powell for a time, while she was still a Powell. She was born in 1916.
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