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FOY 0. POWELL, who is associated with John L. Sneed in the real estate and insurance business at Vidalia, Georgia, is one of the prominent and popular young men in both the social and business circles of the town, where he has resided since December 1, 1909.

Mr. Powell is a native of Alabama. He was born at Eufaula, January 4, 1883, son of F. R. and Carrie May (Dudley) Powell, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of South Carolina. At Eufaula, Alabama, and at Clayton. Alabama, he received his education, being a graduate of the Clayton schools, with the class of 1903. Following his graduation he was for four years in the employ of his uncle, a furniture dealer at Eufaula. The next three years he was in the fire insurance business, for himself, and then he came from Eufaula to Vidalia and associated himself with Mr. Sneed, his present partner, with whom he is successfully engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business.

Mr. Powell is a Knight of Pythias and a Methodist, and, like his partner, he is as yet unmarried.

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