This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howe Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3702 Message Board Post: Everett Daily Herald 10/07/1902 Sam Howe, one of the earliest pioneers of this region. Died yesterday at his old homestead three miles west of Snohomish. He had resided on this same place since 1861. He was born in Devonshire, England, December 29, 1836 and in 1853 went to the Crimean wars, serving for three years. He fought in the battles of Alma and Inkerman and after being wounded was for a long time in the hospital of Balaklava. He came to America and in 1858 came to Puget sound and spent two; years in the employ of the Port Madison Mill company. In 1860, in the company with John Harvey he came to Snohomish and located on what is known as the Del Ford ranch, just across the river from town. At that time the metes and bound of the ranch were not definitely known and after the survey was made he was disappointed to know that some of the land he valued most was across the line of the Harvey ranch. He sold his interests and went down to Eby slough where he located the place on which he died. Mr. How! e was ever an active citizen, and took an interest in politics, being a republican. He left a widow to mourn his loss, but no children, his five little ones having died within a month at the time of the epidemic of black diphtheria, which in 1878 cause great sorrow in this community and laid low many people old and young, but of all the sad stories of that dark hour none are so sad as the tale of the death of his babies. The hour for the funeral has not yet been decided upon, but it will probably take place Thursday from the family residence.