| Birth: | Apr. 22, 1844 | | Death: | Jul. 7, 1865 | 
Lincoln Assassination Conspirator. He fought at Gettysburg as a Confederate soldier. He was hanged for his involvement in the assassination of President Lincoln. Lewis tried to murder William H. Seward, Secretary of the State in the plot to kill Mr. Lincoln. Seward's son was nearly beaten to death by Lewis, and William Seward was stabbed several times in the face, both survived. Powell was originally buried at the execution site, but during the next twenty years his remains were moved and reburied several times. In 1885 his skull (identified by a broken jaw bone, the result of a kick from a mule during Powell's boyhood) turned up as specimen # 2244 in the Army Medical Museum located in Ford's Theatre. In 1898 the skull was turned over to the Smithsonian Anthropology Department.
Cause of death: Hanged
Search Amazon for Lewis Paine | | | Burial:
Geneva Cemetery
Geneva
Seminole County
Florida, USA
Plot: Grave is marked with Confederate military decorations |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Feb 27, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 8554 |
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