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#52Ancestors – No. 31 – Onah Golda Howes
Howes Siblings circa 1950
This post is number 31 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
I chose Onah for this edition because of her name. It is an old fashion name that you know came from a different time period. Onah is the sister of my grandfather Hugh A. Howes. She may be one of eleven children of which two of her siblings died in infancy. Born in 1894 to Louis Lafayette Howes and Martha Isabelle Hunter. The 1910 Census states that Martha Hunter Howes gave birth to 11 children and 9 survived.
She married Owen Francis Coburn (date not known) in Union County, Kentucky. She and Owen may have had 10 children. I have in my possession a set of photos taken at a reunion circa 1950 in Evansville, IN. Her father, Louis, is still alive at that time.
I can only identify my grandparents , my mother, and Great Grandpa Louis Howes is the following photos.
Children of Louis L. Howes at reunion circa 1950
Group photo at Howes Family Reunion
#52Ancestors – No. 20 – Selah House
This post is number 20 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
A Slow Migration West to the Ohio Valley
My 9th great-grandfather Samuel House arrives in the Plymouth Colony circa 1634. The first four generations of his descendents remain in the area around Scituate, Massachusetts, for the next 100 years. His great-great grandson, Combes House (1730-1790) leaves the Atlantic coast moving inland 160 miles to Springfield, Vermont. Springfield’s soil is good for farming and the Black River Falls offers a good water source. Two generations later, the family is on the move again.
Combes grandson, SELAH HOUSE (1791-before 1849) leaves Vermont for the Ohio Vally region about 1819. Why did he choose to take his family over 1000 miles to start over in untamed land? After the War of 1812, the Ohio Valley opened up and New Englander’s fled to buy the cheap land. If Selah served in the War of 1812 against the British and Indians, he may have received land grants of 160 or 320 acres for his military service. This is why I so want a time machine.
Selah married Vina Corlew in 1814. Their oldest child, William was born in Vermont. The six other children are alluded to being born in Indiana after 1819. Selah settled near Boon Township (now called Boonville), Warrick County, Indiana. Their last child, Lewis Charles House, my 2nd great-grandfather, was born in 1832.
I have yet to find Selah or Vina in the 1840 Census. Vina is living with her son Roswell as of the 1850 Census. Selah could have died between 1840 and 1850. His sons are listed as farmers. Lewis Charles House son, Lewis (Louis) Lafayette House move south of the Ohio River into Sebree, Kentucky. Louis Lafayette House adopts the Howes spelling of House.
In 1925/1926 my grandfather, Hugh A. Howes, moves up to Michigan because he didn’t want to work in the railroad or farm. He just happens to meet a young 16 year-old girl, Olive Roll, at the picture show who’s family had recently moved up from Central City, Kentucky. It’s a small world after all.
Sources
Land grands for US Military Veterans: http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/benefits.htm
#52 Ancestors – No. 11 – William Hammond
Posted by Caroll in Uncategorized on March 16, 2014
This post is number 11 in the series of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year.
My first ancestor to arrive in North America was my 10th great grandfather, William Hammond (1575-1662). He left Bristol, England aboard the ship “Lyon” in 1631 for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He made several trips back and forth to England to bring his family to the new world. His daughter, Elizabeth Hammond arrived a few months before her future husband, Samuel House (Howes), in 1634.
Disclaimer
I have not done a detail research on William Hammond. My search has been limited to the Pioneers of Massachusetts and/or The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
I did come across a very interesting blog by Jeanie Roberts on William Hammond’s life history. Jeanie writes The Family Connection. Click on William Hammond to read her post on the Hammond family. Even back in the early 1600’s, people were fleeing bankruptcy, taking a risky chance for a new start. I need to check with Jeanie to see where we may be related or if there is a DNA match between us.
William died in 1662 at Watertown, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Elizabeth Paine, outlived most of their children. I am descended through his daughter Elizabeth Hammond.
Bits of Thread
William Hammond was from Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Lavenham was part of the wool trade that brought riches to England in the 15th & 16th centuries. Unfortunately, the linen and wool trade industry collapsed around 1600. Facing ruin, loss of jobs, many individuals and families to left Old England for “New England” in the early-mid 1600’s.
The manor of Lavenham existed before the Norman Conquest. The manor was once owned by Aubrey de Vere (the first) in 1086. Later in history, this de Vere family line became the Earls of Oxford. Allegedly, de Vere is the origin of the family name “Weir”. Bill Weir states in his article on the Weir Family name that a descendent of Aubrey de Vere pledged his allegiance to Scotland in the 1100’s.
I am also descended from a family of Scots-Irish Weir’s on my mother’s side. Could it be possible that my family tree intertwines in Lavenham? Maybe all these threads can be woven into a tapestry of my lineage.
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