Dr. George W. Magruder was the son of Dr. William Wilson Magruder and Mary Susan Williams. George was a member of the Virginia Militia during the Civil War. On January 9, 1862, he married Kate Powell. In 1889 they moved from Virginia to Fort Worth, Texas, where he died in 1891.
Sources
Ball, Rosalie Noland. The Family Tree of Col. Leven Powell’s Line of the Powells of Virginia. Manchester, Virginia: Privately Published, 1938, p 23.
Lucas, Rev. Silas Emmett, Jr. The Powell Families of Virginia and the South. Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1969, p 325.
Obituary found on newspapers.com in the Shenandoah Herald, Woodstock, Virginia on Friday,August 14, 1891, p 3
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