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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. 28 – Edward Corlew
This post is number 28 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.
My sixth great grandfather, Edward Corlew, had an perilous start when he immigrated to New England about 1730. His ship was expected to dock in Boston when it was shipwrecked near the North River near the Plymouth Colony. I have not yet found the ship’s name. Allegedly many hands lost their lives.
Corlew came from the Kent area of England, but could be of Irish descent. The name is sometimes spelled Curloo. He remained in the Plymouth colony settling in Scituate. The home of my House/Howes ancestors.
He married Abigail Russell in 1732 and they had four or five sons. Edward and four of his sons served in the French Indian Wars in 1757. Two sons were twins, Edward and Thomas born in 1736. I am descended from Thomas.
Abigail Russell may be the daughter of James Russell and Mary Howe. I am finding a few James Russell and Abigail Russell’s in New England in this time period that is going take some time sorting out.
Thomas Corlew (1736 – about 1808), my fifth great grandfather, wed Mary Russell. I am not sure yet if she is related to Abigail Russell at this time. They had a son named Edward Corlew (1765-1838). Edward married Abigail Stevens (1769-1838), whose mother was Deborah Case. Which may be another dot that interconnects in my family tree. My fourth great grandfather David House married a Mary Case. David and Mary’s son Selah married Vina Corlew, the daughter of Edward and Abigail Corlew.
#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. 17 – Gracie Pittman
This post is number 17 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’s website.
I just spent a fun weekend catching up with half-cousins once removed. So this week’s entry is going to be quick. No, really.
Gracie Pittman was born in 1887. She is the first daughter of then 15 year-old, Josepine Woodburn and John T. Pittman. She is the sister to my great-grandmother, Mable Pittman Roll Baumgartel.
Gracie marries at age 17 in 1904 to one, Chester Oliver Board. The marriage wasn’t agreeable to either of them. They are together on the 1910 Census and have gone their separate ways by the 1920 Census. The 1910 Census alleges that the mother has given birth to two children that are living. However, no children are enumerated with this couple. I have not discovered a birth or death certificate for any child born of this union.
Chester is living in San Francisco as a laborer on the 1920 Census. Gracie has remarried. Her new husband is James H. Holmes. James and Gracie have four children. Mary B Holmes, 1918; James in 1921, Margaret in 1923, and the last Bettie Jo Holmes in 1927.
Regrettably, Gracie Pittman Holmes dies in 1932 at the age of 45. The cause of death in Pulmonary Tuberculois. She passes away at the Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, KY. Her oldest child is 14 and the youngest, is just 5. I have not been able to locate the family in the 1940 Census at this time.
Within my grandmother Olive Roll Howes batch of photos, there was a mystery photograph of an Edwards family. My genealogy research led me to identify the family as children of Margaret Holmes Edwards.
“Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4QR-6DJ : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Chester O Board and Gracie Pittman, 12 Nov 1904; citing Muhlenberg, Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 557331.
“United States Census, 1910,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M28N-DL4 : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Grace Board in household of Chester Board, Magisterial District 1, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11, sheet 12A, family 235, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374481.
“Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-19550. Microfilm rolls” #7016130-7041803. Kentucky Dept for Libraries, and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
#52 Ancestors – No. 9 – John T. Pittman
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Uncategorized on March 2, 2014
This post is number 9 in the series of the 52 Ancestors Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year.
John Thomas Pittman is my second great-grandfather. John outlived both his brides. Born in 1863 to Issac N. Pittman and Rachel Maranda Fortney, he passed away at age 93 in 1956. My Pittman or Pitman line, are the Scots-Irish who originally settled in the Orange County, North Carolina in the mid 1750’s. The family migrated toward Kentucky in the early 1800s.
At the age of 22, John Thomas married 14 year old Josephine K. Woodburn. I wrote about her in subject No. 2 of this series, Josephine Woodburn Pittman. Josephine died 1893. John must have had some help raising his three young daughters during that time. But I have no family stories to tell. Seven years after Josehpine’s death. John met and married 29 year-old, Ella Belle McDowell in 1900.
They went on to have four children of their own, Tena, Clarence, Hugh, and Finis. Finis supposedly got his name as he was going to be the last child. Through 1900 to 1920, John mostly works in coal related industries. On the 1920 Census, he is listed as a Farm Manager. The family struggles during the depression area in the late 1920’s, early 1930’s. John is 66 and not working, according to the 1930 Census record.
His daughter Tena, is still single at 29, and living at home according to the 1930 Census. The 1940 Census indicates that all John’s and Ella’s children have returned home and are enumerated together. Two of the sons, Clarence and Finis are in the late 30’s and single. Hugh is divorced. His wife, Ella, passed away in 1936 at the age of 65.
My grandmother, Olive Roll, mentioned that John T. Pittman was a hard man. The girls from his first marriage all left the house before the age of 18, never to return because of this.
From old family photos, Olive and my grandfather, Hugh A. Howes, visited her grandfather John from time to time. I have a photo of her and Finis. Photos showing my mom and Aunt Tena at John’s house in Kentucky. A letter that Finis wrote to my Grandmother about his life. It’s a response to a letter my grandmother wrote to him about a possible family burial plot.
I am not sure if my great-grandmother, Mable, John’s daughter from his first marriage visited her father, after she moved to Michigan. If there are photos, they didn’t get passed down. And, so the stories and memories are gone also.
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