Howell, Thomas - Cherry, Elizabeth Actual Marriage Date - 3 Jan 1833 Pitt Marriage Notice, NC Star, New Bern, NC, Jan. 18, 1833. Groom of Martin Co., NC; bride dau. of Roderick Cherry, Esq. Howell, Wm. - Cooper, Eliza Actual Marriage Date - 23 Apr 1835 Martin Marriage Notice, NC Standard, May 8, 1835. Bride dau. of Jesse Cooper, Esq., Senator from Martin Co., NC. Grant W. Johnston, If I had it to do over again I would, if I could just remember how I did it the first time.

Darlene, I have Howell family in White Co.,Tenn.that moved to Texas before 1880 o.My husband's grandfather was sent to live with them when his mother Tabitha Howell died in 1887.I think the person that he was with was John Howell.I have a census that places him in the house of John Howell in Tx.1900 as a young man I think 22 years old.I have these Howells on the Howell Web site.It is the family of John Howell and Nancy Brewer from Va.and White Co.Tenn..This might be of interest to you.It was really a large family of Howells. Jeany

I am looking for the following family: 1880 Census Place: Tyler, Smith, Texas Source: FHL Film 1255326 National Archives Film T9-1326 Page 119A Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace J. W. HOWELL Self M M W 23 TN Occ: Carpenter Fa: TN Mo: TN J. M. HOWELL Wife F M W 22 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: TN Mo: TN Robert HOWELL Son M S W 3 TX Fa: TN Mo: TN J. W. HOWELL Son M S W 2 TX Fa: TN Mo: TN T. S. HOWELL Son M S W 3M TX Fa: TN Mo: TN I suspect this is John W. the son of Edwin Wallace Howell from Polk Co., TN...... 1. What is her name? Her maiden name? 2. Where did he and Mrs. J. M. Howell marry? I have the Smith County marriage book and it wasn't there. She was also born in TN so chances are they married there. 3. Son Robert could be named after grandpa Robert H. Howell or maybe her father. 4. Son #2 could be J.W. Jr. 5. Son #3 T.S. who knows? Any help would be appreciated..... Darlene [email protected] "One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday." -- Eeyore

Hi, I don't know how "off topic" this will be, but, I'll risk it... Birthday cards can be sent from the White House to people celebrating their 80th birthday, or more. Anniversary cards are available for couples married 50 years or longer... Requests must be received at least one month in advance... To request these cards, send the name(s) and and address of the honoree(s) and the date of the event to: GREETING OFFICE WHITE HOUSE 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20500-0000 This is not a hoax... I did this for my Grandmother, 3 or 4 times... and, a 3rd cousin that was up in years... both lived to be 93 years old... (1998) I miss my Granny very much... Dixie Lea in K.C...

I'm sorry but I don't know his name.I happened to find that information and though that it might be someones ancestor.I wish I could tell you more about him. Jeany

In a message dated 12/12/2001 5:26:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > John, Can you give us the full name of R.B.C.Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford Howell, b. March 10, 1801 is it? Darlene [email protected] "One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday." -- Eeyore

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John, Can you give us the full name of R.B.C.Howell, !!! Thank You Carol [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "john t. roark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:13 PM Subject: [HOWELL] Union Impacts Baptist Heritage > --=====================_1008238387==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > http://www.uu.edu/unionite/winter99/chlife.htm > --=====================_1008238387==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > [DEFAULT] > BASEURL=http://www.uu.edu/unionite/winter99/chlife.htm > > [InternetShortcut] > URL=http://www.uu.edu/unionite/winter99/chlife.htm > Modified=0081F95C8C83C101A7 > > --=====================_1008238387==_-- > > > ==== HOWELL Mailing List ==== > Our homesite is the Howell Research Room located at > <http://www.geocities.com/howell_research>. > >

) ( ( ) Good Morning Family! ( \ .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . \* ) \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . .=|=. \| |// ...and we even have decaf, |~'~| | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! | | \ / _|___|_ ------ (_______) Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. New cousin? the holiday CHAT: forum is open 3. Christmas in New England TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire 4H family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Howell lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Howell ancestors or any of the 9 variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. You have joined not just a list, but a family of cousins who are four teams of researchers combined into one family, the 4H. Although we are one family, we have two homesites and if you haven't visited these sites yet, you are encouraged to do so ~ Home for the HOWELL-L, HOWELLS-SOUTHERN-L, and HOWLE-L is the Howell Research Room (otherwise known as the HRR) which opened May 28th. You'll find it located at <http://geocities.com/howell_research>. While not large in size yet, this site is to become a clearinghouse dedicated to global research of the Howell[s] surname and all her variant spellings. You're invited to submit material for display at the HRR. Simply let me know you want to house material there and what it is. We can display anything, provided it doesn't involve living persons. Contact me at <[email protected]>. Home for the HOWELL-SURNAME-L is the Edward Howell Family Association site at <http://www.ehfa.org>. This is a site dedicated to descendants of Edward Howell of Southampton, Long Island, New York. There you'll find an online transcription of "Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, [England], and Southampton, Long Island, New York," Second Edition by Dr. David Faris. Web mistress for the EHFA site is Kristen Howell <[email protected]>. NEW COUSIN?... HOLIDAY CHAT: FORUM IS OPEN The holiday season is what most people call the "family time" of year. Just as we do every year, I'm opening the list up for any family discussion outside of our normal genealogy. Every year, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the CHAT: forum opens for everyone to discuss holiday traditions and memories, pass greetings and recipes along, etc. The CHAT: forum is the safe harbor for off-topic discussion. Does anyone have any holiday family traditions or memories they'd like to share? As long as CHAT: starts out your subject line, you are in CHAT: forum and you can safely discuss non-genealogy subjects. HOWEVER, so everyone understands how this works, there are a few guidelines for the CHAT: forum: 1. You MUST start your subject line with CHAT: 2. Absolutely NO genealogy is to be put in CHAT: forum messages because not everyone in the family wants to read CHAT: messages. Those people know to simply delete messages with CHAT: in the subject line knowing they won't miss any genealogical data. CHAT: format messages are not an everyday occurrence. They normally happen here and there. The only, and longest, time the CHAT: forum is actively open is the holiday season ... now. After January 2nd, the CHAT: forum closes and resumes its normal inactivity with occasional messages only. Please remember everyone, to use the CHAT: forum for all your holiday greetings and traditions messages. And for your own protection, step into the CHAT: forum and start your subject line with CHAT: CHRISTMAS IN NEW ENGLAND "...in the air there's a feeling of Christmas..." Perhaps "the feeling" of Christmas stems from all the lovely seasonal cards one receives. Possibly it is a childhood memory that stirs the consciousness; or the lyrics of a popular song extolling the beauty of a white Christmas hundreds of miles away... "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening..." "Silver bells, silver bells, it's Christmastime in the city..." Of all the regions in the world, hearing those songs reminds me of none other than the New England area of the United States ~ at this time of the year, a region usually covered under a quiet blanket of pristine white. Nostalgia... a word used to equate a New England Christmas... I see: ...young girls' hair wrapped in fur-covered hoods, their hands in white-fur muffs rather than gloves. ...single-horse sleighs with the animals' breath smoking into the wind. Bells jingle with every movement of the horse. ...old bridges, and ponds covered with thick sheets of ice. ...Christmas trees standing in the windows of early 19th century homes. ...fresh balsam wreaths decorated with a red bow, hanging on the white doors of Federal-style homes. I sense old-fashioned Christmas, surrounded by snow, mountains and white steepled churches. What a perfect New England Christmas image! Traditionally, in smaller New England towns people gather just after dusk on one end, light candles, sing Christmas carols and stroll to the town square where Santa pulls a switch to light the public Christmas tree in celebration of the start of the holiday season. Those same people may be strangers to each other by name yet they all share the same songs, hot chocolate, hot cider and other goodies along the way. Many choralers sing late into the evening. Children dance and bell ringers play carols in a church. A wall of people occupy every available space on the town's main street. Children jump aboard wagons and take a hay ride through the center of town to the square. No one is fighting, yelling, or pushing. It's the population emulating an inner warmth of camaraderie as part of something much larger themselves. The New England Christmas dominates today's holiday imagery, yet northern celebrations were much more subdued before the Civil War, especially in New England where the legacy of Puritanism ran deep. In Puritan New England, Christmas wasn't a legal holiday until 1856. Records indicate the first Christmas in the new world passed uneventfully. Some of the new settlers celebrated Christmas, while most did not. The Mayflower Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth in December 1620, determined to banish Christmas from the public calendar. Since December 25th wasn't selected as the birth date of Christ until several centuries after his death, they didn't consider Christmas a truly religious day. Within a year, they had instead set aside a day for giving thanks to the Lord for all their blessings and celebrated it sporadically throughout the following decades. But they pointedly ignored Christmas. Additionally, the holiday celebration usually included drinking, feasting, and playing games - all things which the Puritans frowned upon. Puritan leader Cotton Mather condemned the "long eating, hard drinking, lewd gaming, rude revelling" that accompanied the Christmas holiday, noting that such actions "have more of hell than heaven" in them. One such tradition, "wassailing" occasionally turned violent. The older custom entailed people of a lower economic class visiting wealthier community members and begging, or demanding, food and drink in return for toasts to their hosts' health. If a host refused, there was the threat of retribution. Although rare, there were cases of wassailing in early New England. Finally, the British had been applying pressure on the Puritans for a while to conform to English customs. The ban was probably as much political as it was religious for many. The events of the second Christmas celebrated by Puritans in Massachusetts were documented by the group's governor, William Bradford. Sickness had wiped out many of their group, and for the first time they were facing hostility by one of the Native American tribes in the area. Bradford recorded that on the morning of the 25th, he had called everyone out to work, but some men from the newly arrived ship "Fortune" told him it was against their conscience to work on Christmas. He responded he would spare them "until they were better informed." But when he returned at noon, he found them playing games in the street. His response, as noted in his writings was: "If they made the keeping of it matter of devotion, let them keep their houses, but there should be no gameing or revelling in the streets." That second Christmas was the first time the celebration was forbidden in Massachusetts, but the ban didn't make it into the law books until several years later. As the settlement grew, and more English emigrated to the area, tensions grew between the Puritans and British. The more pressure the English king exerted on the colonists, the more they resisted. In 1659, the ban became official. The General Court banned the celebration of Christmas and other such holidays at the same time it banned gambling and other lawless behavior, grouping all such behaviors together. The court punished anyone "found observing, by forbearing from labor, feasting, or any other way, any days such as Christmas [Day]," under penalty of a 5-shillings fine, imprisonment or whipping. The ban was revoked in 1681 by an English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban against festivities on Saturday night. But even after the ban was lifted, the majority of colonists still abstained from celebrations. Samuel Sewell, whose diary of life in Massachusetts Bay Colony was later published, made a habit of watching the holiday - specifically how it was observed - each year. "Carts came to town and Shops open as is usual. Some, somehow, observe the day; but are vexed, I believe, that the Body of the People profane it, - and, blessed be God! no Authority yet to compell them to keep it," Sewell wrote in 1685. For the following two centuries, American southerners celebrated the holiday with increasing heartiness, while those to the north, influenced by Puritans, either ignored or censured Christmas, calling it a celebration of pagan revelry. Other religious sects such as Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Mennonites, Amish and Brethren, tended to agree. On the other side, the Anglican (Episcopal), Dutch Reformed, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches all held to the tradition of Christmas. Thus the South, settled mostly by Anglicans, made merry on December 25th. A British actress, Fanny Kemble, wrote in 1832, "Comparatively no observances of tides and times punctuated the American years. Christmas day is no religious day and hardly a holiday with them. New-year's day is perhaps a little, and only a little more so. For Twelfth-day, it is unknown; and the household private festivals of birthdays are almost universally passed by unserved from the rest of the toilsome days devoted to the curse of labor." Several things helped the Puritans change their attitudes towards Christmas. Among them was Clement Moore's poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the night before Christmas...," 1822) and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). The success of the latter work and the many other Christmas books and articles Dickens wrote later was greatly amplified by the rise of large-scale commercial publishing and helped fix the Victorian era as the classic Christmas setting throughout the English-speaking world. Other contributors to the Victorian Christmas tradition include Prince Albert, husband of Victoria, who popularized the Christmas tree, previously a German custom. Also contributing to holiday traditions was English artist John C. Horsley. In 1843, the same year "A Christmas Carol" appeared, Horsley designed the first Christmas card, depicting a family party with the words "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" below. Slowly, the cultures of the South began to bleed across the regional borders... As early as 1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow detected "a transition state about Christmas here in New England. ...The old puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty holiday, though every year makes it more so." However, it was the sentiment that Christmas evoked during the Civil War that gained the holiday greater prominence over any other. As George Templeton Strong wrote in 1862, "Christmas is a great institution, especially in time of trouble and disaster and impending ruin." Even though Harper’s Weekly printed Thomas Nast's renderings of Santa Claus with Union affections, Northern publications did acknowledge at the time that Christmas had never been fully observed in America, except in the South. Soon, fevered commentaries were being printed, denouncing the Puritan restrictions and celebrating new American traditions for Christmas. The first New England settlers dined on meals of pork, apple pie and hedgehog pudding. Today's New England Christmas dinner follows the same basic menu as that of Thanksgiving, though some families have ham or roast goose instead of turkey. Traditional is the Lumberjack Pie ~ a mashed potato crust, filled with meats, onion and cinnamon. Favorite desserts include pumpkin pie, fruitcake, plum pudding, and mince pie. It would be interesting to see what our descendants think of our celebrations, and how many of our customs will be looked upon as being nostalgic and continued as family traditions. A great deal of information is obtained from letters and diaries describing family or local celebrations, provided we write down our family traditions. Otherwise, how will future generations know how we celebrated our holidays today? After all, it's family ... and that's what we're all about. I so enjoyed spending this time with you today. Thank you for sharing it with me. I wish each of you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love and inner peace. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'

Motherkill Friends Cemetery Kent County, Delaware Contributed by Keith A. McKain, Sep 17, 2000 [[email protected]]. Total records = 122. There is a very old cemetery near Magnolia, DE (just N of town limits on Eastern side of Route 113 Alternate). It contains 2 very worn and difficult to read signs. I spent some time trying to figure out exactly what they say and have been able to piece together (I think) the following result. - Keith A. McKain "Quaker Meeting House And Burying Ground. In this cemetery are the remains of at least 150 souls including those of Dr. Nathaniel Buff, Battalion Surgeon with Geo. Washington at the crossing of the Delaware for the Battle at Trenton & Warner Mifflin, The first abolitionist in America. " "The following named souls are buried in this cemetery but their graves cannot be identified. Many more may be buried here but written records were evidently poorly kept and not all deaths were recorded." Howell, Ann, 8/27/1807 Howell, Daniel, 5/25/1800 Howell, Debbie, 11/3/1831 Howell, Elizabeth, 3/18/1828 Howell, Jacob, 10/--/1802 Howell, Samuel Jr., 12/5/1806 Howell, Samuel, 10/16/1806 Howell, Susannah, 1/7/1791 Howell, Thomas, 2/28/1787 Howell, Walker, 9/--/1803 Dixie Lea...in K.C...

Colleen Santa's elf blew it, sorry. Should have sent it to your address, not your fault. Barbara Colleen Pustola wrote: > Please forgive me Barbara, and cousins. This was meant to be a private > message. I'm so sorry. :( All I saw was 'Christmas gift' and didn't > realize it had already gone to the list. > > My face is red ... I don't think I'll need to paint my toenails now! > > Colleen > > Colleen Pustola wrote: > > > > Hi Barbara, > > > > I just received both files from you, and I thank you. ;-) > > ==== HOWELL Mailing List ==== > Our homesite is the Howell Research Room located at > <http://www.geocities.com/howell_research>.

Colleen -- My gift is a dog toy? How'd you possibly know I have a new grand-puppy, celebrating her first Christmas? How thoughtful of you! <grin> All this Christmas effort -- and ESP to boot! You're amazing! -- Candi Beard Nation

Please forgive me Barbara, and cousins. This was meant to be a private message. I'm so sorry. :( All I saw was 'Christmas gift' and didn't realize it had already gone to the list. My face is red ... I don't think I'll need to paint my toenails now! Colleen Colleen Pustola wrote: > > Hi Barbara, > > I just received both files from you, and I thank you. ;-)

Thomas Howell born about 1638 in Harlston, Stafford, England. Married Catherine ?. Thomas died before 9 March 1687/8 in Glocester County, New Jersey-per will. Thomas and Catherine owned land in England, Delaware and New Jersey. They arrived in America about 1680. They had five children and my direct ancestor was Catherine Howell born about 1670, possibly in Tamworth, Warwick, England. Catherine married James Robinson. Catherine and James later moved to Virginia. Barbara Moore [email protected]

Hope I am sending this is to the correct address and form, dumped a few days ago and hope this is OK. Sarah Howell born 1791 in Kentucky. Married David Chance about 1813. They lived in St. Clair and Marion Counties, Illinois and Des Moines, Iowa. In the 1860s they moved through Kansas to north Texas where they died. Barbara Moore [email protected]

In a message dated 12/05/2001 9:07:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Hi Don, > > There's a link at the bottom of the front page to the Howell Research > Room <http://www.geocities.com/howell_research> that says "To the > Tree!" Just click there and you'll be whisked away to it. > > Colleen > > LOL!!! Colleen( : Mine quacked. Now share the *unwrapping* time with all. I am as bad as my 2 sons. Jackie

Hi Barbara, I just received both files from you, and I thank you. ;-) I need to ask you though, if you can't provide a little more. Both messages read more like queries, I'm afraid, rather than data to be housed at the HRR. Let me know, okay? Thanks so much for your willingness to participate in this, our first family Christmas. I hope 'Santa' leaves something under our tree to make your holidays (and research) even more special. :) Colleen B Moore wrote: > > Thomas Howell born about 1638 in Harlston, > Stafford, England. Married Catherine ?. > Thomas died before 9 March 1687/8 in > Glocester County, New Jersey-per will. > Thomas and Catherine owned land in England, > Delaware and New Jersey. They arrived in > America about 1680. They had five children > and my direct ancestor was Catherine Howell > born about 1670, possibly in Tamworth, > Warwick, England. Catherine married James > Robinson. Catherine and James later moved > to Virginia. > Barbara Moore > [email protected] > > ==== HOWELL Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you.

In a message dated 12/05/2001 7:11:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > How do we view the tree? > You have to wait until Christmas, other wise the presents are just shiny or a you know you shouldn't be doing this. LOL! I tried. Jackie H.

Hi Don, There's a link at the bottom of the front page to the Howell Research Room <http://www.geocities.com/howell_research> that says "To the Tree!" Just click there and you'll be whisked away to it. Colleen Don's Mail wrote: > > How do we view the tree? > Don E.

Well! Excuse Me. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [HOWELL] CHAT: CHRISTMAS GIFTS DEADLINE REMINDER > In a message dated 12/05/2001 7:11:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] > writes: > > > > How do we view the tree? > > > > You have to wait until Christmas, other wise the presents are just shiny or a > you know you shouldn't be doing this. LOL! I tried. > Jackie H. > > > ==== HOWELL Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > >