Are any of these Howells related to Nancy Howell who married Aaron Rhea, brother of Lucy Rhea 1787-1854 who married Levi Perkins. The Rhea, Perkins, Bolin, Lollar, Cooper, and Golden families were all related and all lived on/near Golden Mountain near Cherry Creek. Marie Eubanks On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Willie Smith wrote: > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 13:59:25 -0600 > From: Willie Smith <wolfslayer@ficom.net> > To: TNWHITE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNWHITE] Local DAR of White County > > Does anyone know who the local head of the White County, TN DAR is? I want to find out who provided the spurious information by which the John "Hamilton" Howell DAR monument was set up in the Elrod Cemetery. The John Howell who served in Capt. Nathaniel William's Company of Light Infantry, 2nd N.C. Battalion, during the Revolutionary War was the son of Joshua Howell, and was born in Dobbs (now Wayne County, N.C. in 1753 and was a minister of the Episcopal Church, living all his life in Wayne County, N.C. and died there at the age of 90 years in 1843. He was never in Tennessee, and there was no John Howell operating a gristmill in White County in 1797. White County did not exist in 1797. Neither was his middle name "Hamilton". This spurious middle name is not used amongst any of John's and Nancy's children, nor in the family of John Howell of Wayne County, N.C. It is sad when people take old wives' tales and crackpot research as fact and put it in the heritage book. > John Howell came to Tennessee between March 12, 1811 and August 1812, with his brother Calvin Howell and Richard Cole, and purchased land on Cherry Creek. Richard Cole's wife was Sarah Pool, daughter of William Pool Sr. of White County, TN. Their son, Isaiah Cole, married Anner/Onner Howell in Grayson County, VA in 1804. Calvin Howell married Barbara Rhudy in Grayson County, VA in 1807, and John Howell married Nancy Brewer, daughter of LEWIS Brewer and Agatha Holland (MASTIN Brewer was her brother), in Grayson County, Va on March 12, 1811. It is my belief that John and Calvin Howell were the sons of either Capt. George Howell and his wife, Mary "Polly" Osborne, or George's brother, William Howell, who resided on New River at the mouth of Fox Creek, in Grayson County. In all likelihood, George Howell was their father, since George was the only Howell who had land on Elk Creek (Turkey Fork), and who lived in the immediate vicinity of Lewis Brewer and Jacob Rhudy in Grayso! ! ! n ! > County. > > Thanks > Will Smith > http://www.ficom.net/members/wolfslayer/silashowell.html > > > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ================================== > Get paid to surf the net. > http://www.alladvantage.com/home.asp?refid=dwd-179 > > ______________________________