James Watson and Annite Whiteside Powell - Troy, MO - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

County of memorial: Lincoln County
Location of memorial: Boone St & Assafras Lane, City Cemetery entrance, Troy

Plaque Text:

"The petition [to Incorporate Elsberry, MO] was granted November 17, 1883 and the town was incorporated as "Inhabitants of the Village of Elsberry." The first Board of Trustees appointed by the Court consisting of C. A. Mayes, J. W. Powell, ... "

" ... However, in March of 1881 the pressure became too strong and he sold a half-interest in the paper to J. W. Powell and in December of the same year sold Powell the remaining half of the Elsberry paper and bought from W. J. Knott a half-interest in the Troy Free Press, the Troy firm becoming Ward and Childers. In September of 1882 he brought Ward's interest becoming the sole proprietor of the Troy Free Press.
"The transaction was probably an unfortunate one so far as Elsberry was concerned. Powell was a rising young lawyer and while he was a talented editor he would perhaps have done better to have concentrated on his law practice and Elsberry would have retained Henry Childers, one of the most dynamic personalities of his time.
"James Watson Powell (1855-1924) son of Watson Thomas Powell and Sarah Washington Zimmerman, member of the firm of Walton, Avery and Powell until April of 1880 when he moved from Troy to Elsberry, was admitted to the bar in October, 1879, married Anna Eliza Whiteside in 1881 editor of the Elsberry Advance from December of 1881 to 1894 when he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Lincoln County. After serving 4 years as prosecuting attorney he resumed his legal practice and in 1902 was elected Probate Judge and served for eight years. He returned to Elsberry in 1910 but was never again associated with newspaper work.

"On the election of J. W. Powell as Prosecuting Attorney, he sold the Advance to Cornick and it was merged with the Lincoln County News. In his valedictory of February 7, 1895, the last issue of the Elsberry Advance, Powell writes "I have been connected with the paper for about 15 years. After the first of March I will move to Troy." And the Elsberry Advance had ceased to exist. Times were hard. A depression was on. And business does not seem to have prospered with the News and a few months later Cornick abandoned the field to the Gazette and moved his plant to Hardin, Illinois where in a destructive fire the back files of the Elsberry Advance were destroyed. In fact as late as 1906 it was announced that all files of all papers ever published in Elsberry had been destroyed." ~ History of Elsberry pages 24, 37

This arch is a simple one. Upright poles rise out of two tan brick columns. Across the top span two rolled bars of wrought iron, with in hole the flat wrought iron letters spelling: TROY CEMETERY
Up at the top in the center is a flourish of brick-a-brack lace work.