Gonzales Co., TX 976.4257 The History of Gonzales County, Texas, by The Gonzales County Historical Commission, C1986 Curtis Media Corporation David, Caroline Patterson family:..Pearl [Elizabeth David] married HORACE JAMES HOWELL (January 29, 1886-December 13, 1952) June 4, 1912 in Belmont (see HOWELL, J.M.). They had two sons: Horace James Jr. (November 16, 1918) and David Ray (September 26, 1926 - October 1, 1972). JIM HOWELL had five children: Barbara K., Horace James III, John Wesley, Judith Ann and Jo Ellen. DAVID RAY HOWELL married Glenna Ruth Walters (see Walters, A.S.) in Gonzales June 18, 1949. They had three daughters: Rebecca Elizabeth (May 23, 1952); Lisa Ruth Burger (April 16, 1954) who had one son David Charles (September 16, 1979) and Valorie Susan (October 31, 1957) married Jeffrey Daniel Elkin (July 15, 1958) and had one son Joshua Daniel (May 31, 1982). Flynt, Joe Halbert family:..Joe Halbert Fynt was orphaned at seven years of age in 1864 when both his mother and father died. He was then raised by his Aunt ONEY PERCILLA FLYNT HOWELL and her husband Doctor JOHN MILAM HOWELL, in Belmont, Gonzales County, Texas. HOWELL, JOHN MILAM family: Doctor John Milam Howell settled in Gonzales County in December, 1855. He was the son of Jane and Edward HOWELL and was born May 13, 1829 in Alabama. His father was born in Tennessee and his mother in North Carolina. He married Oney Percilla Flynt November 12, 1851 in Tishomingo County, Mississippi (see Flynt, J.H.). She was born November 29, 1831 in Madison County, Alabama and her family moved to Mississippi in 1837. Doctor HOWELL and his family settled on the Guadalupe River in the western part of Gonzales County one mile above Belmont. He was a physician and surgeon, farmer and rancher. He enlisted as a private in Cunningham's Company in 1861 during the Civil War but was soon returned to practice his profession. He became a Mason in 1850 in Danville, Mississippi and later a member of the Belmont Lodge Number 131; after the demise of the Belmont Lodge in 18 84 he became a member of Leesville Lodge Number 334 in 1897. He was a Royal Arch Mason and had become a member of the Methodist church when twenty-one years of age. Doctor HOWELL was a delegate to the state convention of the Democratic Party in 1878. In 1879 he sent a bale of cotton by express to the St. Louis World's Fair. Doctor HOWELL died November 6, 1903. His wife Oney preceded him in death April 21, 1894. She had joined the church in her twelfth year and thus laid the foundation for a long and useful life in the church of her choice. She was a good woman, an affectionate mother, a devoted wife and a consecrated Christian. Her hospitable home was for many years a welcome resort for the weary itinerant as he traveled the beautiful valley of the Guadalupe. A tribute was paid Doctor HOWELL by his fraternity stating that the lodge had sustained an irretrievable loss, the church one of its most useful members, the son and daughter a kind and loving father, the country a staunch citizen and physician and the poor their true friend. Doctor HOWELL and his wife were the parents of two children: Edward Halbert and Margaret "Maggie" Oney. Maggie died unmarried. Joe Halbert Flynt and John M. Flynt were also reared in the Howell home. Edward Halbert HOWELL (July 7, 1854 Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi) married February 2, 1875 at Belmont Emily Feroba Justice (August 29, 1857 Gonzales County). To this union ten children were born: Milam Tilman, Thomas Calvin, William Edward who died in childhood, Joe John, Virgil Elmo, Horace James (see David, C.P.), Henry Clay, Jefferson Davis, Annie Oney and Alice Edna. By Margaret HOWELL Hollon Rackley, Shelby families: ....."Sallie" [Sarah Matilda Rackley] married FRANK HOWELL in 1883. Sikes, Robert Columbus family:...Pasco [cannot figure out what his last name was] married NADINE HOWELL and had Earl and Joe.