When James Earl Powell was born on 3 January 1931, in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States, his father, Robert Truman Powell, was 25 and his mother, Laura Theresa Parr, was 21. He died on 19 May 1932, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
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