Hi there! Oddly you too were on my mind this week! Why? I have received additional information about my HOWARD line and since I have always known them to be Newton County, ARK, SC... linked, this week when I reread an older GenForum (I think) message of yours, I thought how your HC has to be part of my line. You just can't get that close in that area and not "hit," if you know what I mean! I even went back and read some of the stuff you had sent earlier. Another reason I know they must connect is because I know that there was a big "chunk" of them that I can't get simply because no one yet has broken through with that one little bit of the puzzle...as in knowing my gr gr grandfather was married 4 times and we only know 3 of the wives. So who are the children of the 4th dangling wife? Let alone, who was she? The info someone sent this week helped me to put more together and I wondered if you too have it already. Do you have stuff that goes back...and I do mean wayyyyy back to the Ezekiel HOWARD and then his son WIlliam? I do have a few Malindas in there also. Let me send something to you that may be totally useless to you and or you already have. It was passed on to me last week and gave me some missing parts. Let me know, okay? Happy Weekend! Scroll on down..I pasted it to this post. Quick refresher...the Lewis HOWARD is my line. Deb HOWARD FAMILY 07 Nov 2000 First Generation 1. Ezekiel HOWARD was born 22 Mar 1760 in Halifax, VA. He died 1836 in Pickens Co., SC. Ezekiel served in the Revolutionary War. He is on Census: 1790 Spartanburgh, SC: 4 boys under 16 & 1 girl; 1810 Census in Montgomery, VA?; 1820/30 Pickens, SC Prior to 1826 Pickens District was the Pendelton Dist. Ezekiel married Mary Ann GOODMAN on 5 Feb 1785 in Botetourt, VA. Mary was born 1768 in Gates, NC. She died 1840 in Pickens Co., SC. They had the following children: + 2 M i. William HOWARD was born about 1797 and died about 1855. Second Generation 2. William HOWARD (Ezekiel) was born about 1797 in South Carolina. He died about 1855 in Pickens Co, SC. William is on census: 1820 - 1850 in Pickens Co., SC. William married Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1795 in SC. She died about 1865 in AR or TX. Elizabeth is on 1860 Census in Polk Co., AR living with son Joab. May have gone to live with one of the other sons or daughters and died in Texas? William and Elizabeth had the following children: 3 M i. James HOWARD was born 1814. + 4 M ii. Joab HOWARD was born 1 Feb 1816 and died 24 Mar 1897. + 5 M iii. Ivory J. HOWARD was born 22 May 1818 and died 1 Sep 1899. 6 M iv. Samuel HOWARD was born 1821 in South Carolina. Samuel married Margaret STANCIL on 30 Sep 1858 in Lumpkin Co., GA. May be STANCEL. + 7 M v. Lewis HOWARD was born 15 Apr 1826 and died 20 Feb 1897. 8 M vi. William Van HOWARD was born 1826 in South Carolina. Census of 1850 has him living with brother Joab in Lumpkin Co., GA Third Generation 4. Joab HOWARD (William, Ezekiel) was born 1 Feb 1816 in Pickens Co, SC. He died 24 Mar 1897 in DeLeon, Comanche Co., TX and was buried in Copperas Creek Cem., Comanche Co., TX. Alt spelling: Joeab Moved from SC to Arkansas in 1851, then to Texas in 1877 on a Wagon Train. They entered in through Grayson Co. They later went to Commanche Co. and settled on Copperas Creek, near De Leon, TX. He is on Census: 1840 SC, 1850 GA, 1860 AR. Daughter Susan does not appear on 1860 census? She would have been 6 yrs. old. Winna is buried in a private land cemetery, next to Joab. Joab married Winna Esther REECE, daughter of William Uriah REECE and Easter WOOD, about 1839 in Pickensville, Pickens Co., SC. Winna was born 25 Dec 1815 in Pendelton Dist., SC. She died 18 Jul 1878 in DeLeon, Comanche Co., TX and was buried in Copperas Creek Cem., Comanche Co., TX. They had the following children: 9 F i. Susan Catherine HOWARD was born 1840. She died abt 1861 in Polk Co., AR. 10 M ii. William Marion HOWARD was born 3 Jun 1842 in Pickens, Co., SC. Came from SC on a Wagon train with their parents in 1852 to Polk Co., AR. Here William enlisted for the Civil War in 7-15-1861. Fought all four years, fought for South. Went in as a private and left a Corporal. Wounded 3 times and Captured for 6 days before escaping. At the end of the war, found his family back in TX. Married and moved to Commanche Co, TX. Served on the St Legislature in 1899, called session of 1900. Then moved to Terry Co., and bought two sections of farm land. One of the first members of the Brownfield Baptist Church. William married Elizabeth LEWIS "Betty", daughter of Abner LEWIS and Martha LADD, on 2 Mar 1870 in Grayson Co., TX. Betty was born 16 Apr 1847 in Oconee Co., SC. 11 M iii. Isaac HOWARD was born 23 Aug 1844 in SC. He died 1 Jul 1915 in Haskell Co., TX. Isaac married Cynthia. 12 M iv. Joab HOWARD Jr. was born Jul 1847 in GA. He died 27 Jan 1914 in Haskell Co., TX. 13 M v. Joseph Lewis HOWARD was born 20 Feb 1850 in GA. He died 27 Jan 1914 in Haskell Co., TX and was buried in Howard Cem., Haskell Co., TX. Joseph married Mary Ann EARP, daughter of Josiah Silas EARP and Mary Elizabeth PIRTLE, on 13 Jan 1878 in Comanche, TX. Mary was born 22 Nov 1854 in AR. She died 26 Jun 1917 and was buried in Howard Cem., Haskell Co., TX. Wyatt Earp is Mary Ann's 1st cousin. 14 F vi. Easter HOWARD was born 1852 in GA. Easter married (1) K.H. KENNEDY. Easter also married (2) Hugh MEADOWS. 15 F vii. Susan HOWARD was born 1854. Susan married Seaton COX. 16 M viii. Alfred W. HOWARD "Alf" was born 21 Apr 1856 in TX. He died 23 Apr 1916 in Brownville, TX. Alfred married (1) Lucindy. Alfred also married (2) Martha LEWIS. 5. Ivory J. HOWARD "Gooba" (William, Ezekiel) was born 22 May 1818 in South Carolina. He died 1 Sep 1899 in Sayre, OK. Ivory married unknown. They had the following children: 17 F i. Angelina HOWARD. Angelina married Judge YATES. 7. Lewis HOWARD (William, Ezekiel) was born 15 Apr 1826 in South Carolina. He died 20 Feb 1897 in Rocky Comfort, MacDonald Co., MO and was buried in Prosperity Cem.. Lewis' brother, Joab, was married to his 1st wife's sister. At least the first three children were born in Lumpkin Co., GA. They stayed in Polk Co., Arkansas before and after the death of his 1st wife, Esther in 1858. He re-married after the 1860 census in Polk Co., and moved to Missouri in the spring of 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War. His family was accompanied to MO by the Richard Shockley family. Richard was married to Lewis' 2nd wife's sister. Lewis had 16 children, with two wives, three children died before him. All children married but one. He is buried in the Prosperity Cemetery, Rocky Comfort, McDonald Co., MO. His second spouse Elizabeth is buried next to him. Rocky Comfort was in Newton Co. until approx. 1880 when it became part of McDonald Co. The 1860 Polk Co. census has an 18 yr. old farm laborer helping Lewis. He is Maxwell Reece born in SC, and probably the brother or nephew of his deceased wife Easter Reece. Lewis married (1) Esther REECE, daughter of William Uriah REECE and Easter WOOD, on 7 Feb 1847 in Lumpkin Co., GA. Esther was born 1823 in Georgia. She died 1858 in Polk Co., AR. Alt. spelling: Reese. May have been visiting or living with her sister Winna & brother-in-law Joab (her husband's brother) in Arkansas when she died. Lewis and Esther had the following children: 18 M i. John Keeth HOWARD was born 1848 in Lumpkin Co., GA. 19 F ii. Elizabeth Matilda HOWARD "Malindy" was born 1850 in Lumpkin Co., GA. Elizabeth & Winna were twins. The 1850 census has them at 3 mos. of age. Winna appears to be a family name with Elizabeth naming her daughter "Winnie" (the familiar for Winna) after her twin sister, and her mother's older sister. Malindy married John Thomas SHOCKLEY, son of Richard B. SHOCKLEY and Martha Ann MAY, on 16 Feb 1868 in Rocky Comfort, Newton Co., MO. John was born about 1851 in Polk Co. AR. 20 F iii. Winna Amanda HOWARD "Winey Armindy" was born 1850 in Lumpkin Co., GA. Winna & Elizabeth were twins. Both married bef. 1872. 21 F iv. Easter HOWARD "Angaline" was born 1852 in Lumpkin Co., GA. 22 M v. Joab HOWARD was born 16 Dec 1854 in Lumpkin Co., Georgia. He died 2 Jul 1911 in Granby, Newton Co., Missouri. Joab married (1) Angeline SHEWMAKE. Angeline was born about 1850. Joab also married (2) Sarah Emeline DEBUSK, daughter of DEBUSK and Edaline BIBLE, on 20 Nov 1890 in Rocky Comfort, MaDonald Co., Missouri. Sarah was born 6 Sep 1861 in Clay Co., Illinois. She died 2 Dec 1944 in Buhl, Idaho. 23 M vi. Lewis HOWARD Jr. was born 5 Jan 1858 in Polk Co., AR. Lewis married Susan Ausidine SHEWMAKE "Dina". Lewis also married (2) Elizabeth T. MAY, daughter of Dr. Abram Silas MAY and Mary LARCE. Elizabeth was born 4 Apr 1834 in IA. She died 29 Mar 1913 and was buried in Prosperity Cem., Rocky Comfort, MO. 1850 census for Newton Co. gives her age as 19 (b. 1831). Her son Hiram is probably named after her brother. Lewis and Elizabeth had the following children: 24 F vii. Maryann HOWARD was born about 1860. 25 M viii. Abram HOWARD was born about 1861. 26 M ix. Shearidan HOWARD "Sherd" was born about 1863. Sherd married Fanny. 27 M x. Columbus HOWARD "Lum" was born about 1865. 28 M xi. Hiram H. HOWARD "Hy" was born 24 Aug 1868 in Granby, Newton Co., MO. He died 20 Oct 1928 in Buhl, Twin Falls Co., ID and was buried in Buhl Cem.. From the Buhl Hearld Oct. 25, 1928: PIONEER IS TAKEN Hiram Howard, familiarly known as "Hy" died very suddenly Saturday evening about five o'clock at his home a mile south of Deep Creek school house. He was stacking hay and had said to the boys working with him that they would rake up around the stock and call It a day. They observed that he fell to the hay as he was about to step on the ladder to come down from the stack. They climbed up to him and found that his heart had ceased functioning. Mr. Howard was born in Missouri In 1869 and when he was nineteen years of age he was married to Mary Elizabeth Davidson. After two years the young couple moved to the state of Washington where they lived until 1906 when the opening of this tract induced them to come to Idaho. They and their children arrived here before the water was turned into the canals and more than a year before the railroad was in operation. They helped clear the sagebrush from the townsite and farm land and he has farmed on the tract since. Mrs. Howard died In January, 1926, and was buried in Buhl Cemetery. The children surviving are Roy Howard, Twin Falls; Oval Howard, Blackfoot; Ernest Howard, and Mrs. Wesley Flynn, Longview, Washington; Mrs. Jack Thomson, Lucerne district, Buhl; and Mrs. Lloyd Smith who lives north of Snake River. All of the children except Oval were present for the funeral on Wednesday. In 1927 Mr. Howard was married to Mrs. Rowenah Wilson and she survives him. A large relationship of the Howard family live in this community, Including seven families of cousins. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church on Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock and were largely attended. Rev. Lathrop officiated. Interment was made beside the mother, Mary Elizabeth, in Buhl cemetery. Hy married (1) Mary Elizabeth DAVIDSON, daughter of Thomas DAVIDSON, on 23 Sep 1888 in Missouri. Mary was born 29 Nov 1869 in Granby, Newton Co., MO. She died 19 Jan 1926 in Buhl, Idaho and was buried in Buhl Cemetery. Hy also married (2) Rowenah WILSON about 1926. 29 M xii. James HOWARD was born about 1870. 30 M xiii. Samuel HOWARD was born about 1872. 31 F xiv. Sarah HOWARD was born about 1874.