Lewis Daniel Isbell

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Woodson.
Son of John Wesley Isbell and Celia Ann Smith Isbell; grandson of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah Anderson Isbell; great-grandson of William Isbell and Ann Dillard Isbell.

He studied law under his first cousin and namesake, Lewis Daniel Isbell (1818-1889), who was the first judge of Appomattox County and a member of the Secession Convention of 1861. Judge L.D. Isbell was the son of his uncle William Isbell. The name of both men is sometimes written Louis Daniel Isbell.

April 1848: born in Virginia
Education: Washington and Lee University, law school
1860 Census: Lewis D. Isbell, age 12
1870 census: Occupation: Farm laborer, age 22
1873 Emigration: From Virginia to Fayette Co., WV
1880 census: Fayetteville, Fayette, W.V.: Lewis D. Isbell Occupation: Lawyer, age 33.
1900 census: Ward 1 Huntington, Cabell, WV: Lewis D. Isbell

1910 census Ward 4 Huntington, Cabell, WV, Lewis Isabell Occupation: Lawyer, age 59;  Residence: Fifth Avenue 

1920 census Ward 3 Huntington, Cabell, WV, Occupation: Lawyer, general practice, age 71
1930 census Huntington, Cabell, W.V.: Lewis Isbell Occupation: Lawyer, age 75

He appears on a large group photo and composite picture of the Cabell County Bar Association published by the Bar in 1928.

In 1903, his address was described: "The handsome family residence is located at No. 823 Fifth Ave., Huntington," a site now occupied by the Federal court house in Huntington.

He resided at 425 13th Street, Huntington, W.V., at the time of his death.

Richmond TIMES DISPATCH, May 4, 1904, p.8, column 1:
MRS. C.A. ISBELL
(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)
LYNCHGURG, VA., May 3--Mrs. Celia Ann Isbell, wife of the late John H.(sic) Isbell, died yesterday at the home of her son, Mr. L.D. Isbell, in Huntington, W.Va., aged ninety-four years. Mrs. Isbell was born and reared in Appomattox. Her husband fought in the war of 1812. The remains will be interred here.

21 MAY 1931: killed when hit by auto driven by Harry Moorefield in Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia
21 MAY 1931 obituary: Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia
Name on Obituary: Louis Daniel Isbell
Name on Death Certificate: Lewis Daniel Isbell
Name on tombstone: Lewis Daniel Isbell

The History of West Virginia, Old and New (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1923), Volume III, pg. 249-250: The biography of Walter Ferguson refers to him as Judge Lewis Daniel Isbell.

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