Isaiah "Zae" Powell, born in New Jersey in 1864, moved with his parents to Fisher County, Texas, when he was about fifteen years old. He began working on area ranches as a teenager, and in 1881, after a cattle drive to Caldwell, Kansas, he hired on with Albert M. Colson, a Caldwell businessman and rancher. Colson, who became mayor of Caldwell in 1882, was a stockholder in the Caldwell Stock Exchange Bank, and a director of the Caldwell Savings Bank. He pastured his herds with the Salt Fork Cattle Pool and used the "Yoke" brand on his livestock.
After working for Colson, Powell hired on with cattleman Marion Blair, a member of the Cherokee Livestock Association's Board of Inspectors. Blair, in partnership with Caldwell businessmen Ed Batten and I. N. Cooper, used the "Flat S," "Double O," and the "BS" cattle brands. They leased Outlet pasture along the Salt Fork River west of the Chisholm Trail in present-day Grant County, Oklahoma.
When the Outlet was closed to cattlemen in the early 1890s, Powell returned to Texas where he began ranching in Fisher County. He later moved to Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas. In 1915 he married Pearl Drake Gunn, and they became parents of two children. About 1918 Powell was manager of the "Z Bar L" Ranch in Crosby County, and later he was associated with the "Half Circle S" Ranch and the Crosbyton Cattle Company. These ranches all occupied land originally patented to the Kentucky Cattle Raising Company of Louisville, Kentucky.
Powell joined the CSCPA in 1921 and attended reunions through 1924, recommended for membership by CSCPA secretary Oscar Brewster. He listed his home as Crosbyton, Texas, where he was a "stockman" and "bank manager." He died in November 1924 at his home in Texas and was buried in the Crosbyton Cemetery.
Submitted by Al Stehno
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