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Subject: Re: LOYALISTS IN THE FAMILY TREE?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:46:10 EDT

Hi ! Shelia;

I don't know about your Mathew unless he was one of the son's of William
Howell, who came 24 hours after their father. You may find the following
interesting concerning William's trek from Canada.

Dave.

1. WILLIAM1 HOWELL was born in Canada. He married JANE IRWIN September 20,
1827 in Meigs Co. Ohio, daughter of HUGH IRWIN and JANE.
Notes for JANE IRWIN:
Jane was second wife of William Howell. William had two sons also in the
Union army, by a previous marriage.

Meigs county news; ( Article saved by Pearl Reeves Dodd), and passed on to us
by her daughter, Isabel McGuire.
Jane Howell, Pioneer woman honored by Daughters Of Vets.
Local Tent of Daughters of Union Veterans of Civil War is namesake of one
of Meigs County's earlist settlers.
Jane Howell is the name that has been chosen for the Tent Of The Daughters
of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, when it was unanimously adopted at
their meeting last Friday night.
A sketch of Mrs. Howell's life follows;

Jane Erwin (Irwin) Howell was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, and came to
Meigs County with her parents when she was but seven years old, (1811).
The family drifted down the Ohio river with their live stock and household
goods on a raft. They landed at Loading Creek and went to their new home in
Scipio township. Her parents Hugh and Jane Irwin had bought a section of land
where the family of Blackwoods and Stanleys now own some of the finest farms
in Meigs County. The creek on which they settled was named for this family,
"Irwin Creek".
Jane was married to William Howell, who treked all the way from Canada and
crossed Lake Erie on the ice.
Jane was the mother of fourteen children, nine being boys, and all sons
joined the Union army in the Civil War. They were; Irwin, William, Joseph,
John, Harrison, Samuel, Marcellus, Milton and Marion.
Harrison was killed in action at Chickamauga, July 1863. Samuel died in an
army hospital in 1863 at Gallitan, Tennessee. The names of Harrison & Samuel
are on the soldiers monument in the court house yard. Only one of the nine
soldiers survived, James Milton, now living in Pomeroy.
Jane Irwin Howell died at Downington in 1898 (1899)in her 95th (93rd) year
and is buried in the cemetery near that village, ( Pioneer Cemetery at
Pageville - No marker ). With very little education, she was a most gracious
lady, refined in her manners, and loved and respected for her gentle and
noble character.


Pomeroy Tribune Telegraph Obit, Feb.15,1899;

DEATH OF AN OLD LADY;

Mrs. Jane Howell, an old lady more then 92 years of age, died at her home at
Downington last Friday and was buried Sunday. The funeral being conducted by
Rev. Kirkpatrick of the Presbyterian church.
She was the mother of a large family of children having had eight sons in the
Civil war, and these together with a great number of Grand-children, Great
grand-children and Great-Great grand-children, constitute(s) one of the
largest families in Meigs County.
Those who knew her say that she was a fine old Christian lady and was loved
and respected by all who knew her. She was the Grandmother of A. Ves Howell,
a well known school teacher.

Children of WILLIAM HOWELL and JANE IRWIN are:
2. i. ELIZABETH2 HOWELL, b. November 30, 1825, Meigs Co. Ohio; d. May 12,
1900, Sidney, Fremont Co. Iowa.
ii. KIZIA HOWELL, b. June 19, 1828.
iii. IRWIN HOWELL, b. July 21, 1829.
iv. SARAH ANN HOWELL, b. May 28, 1831.
v. WILLIAM HOWELL, b. February 12, 1833.
vi. MARY HOWELL, b. October 12, 1834.
vii. JOSEPH HOWELL, b. March 21, 1836.
viii. JOHN HOWELL, b. May 30, 1838.
ix. WILLIAM HARRISON HOWELL, b. April 15, 1840.
x. MARCELLUS HOWELL, b. April 05, 1842.
xi. SAMUEL HOWELL, b. December 04, 1844.
xii. JAMES MILTON HOWELL, b. March 22, 1846.
xiii. ISAAC MARION HOWELL, b. March 16, 1848.


In a message dated 9/7/99 7:05:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Do any of you have LOYALISTS IN YOUR FAMILY TREE? Are they from Canada?
I
would love to hear about them. My Mathew Howell, abt 1818-20, came to
Meigs Oh from Ontario Canada, where he had lived for some time. He was a
UEL (British Loyalist) so I assume he went there to avoid the prosecution
that the subjects loyal to the King were prone to. Why Meigs Oh? Perhaps
someone in your family has the key. What attracted the Loyalist to Meigs,
OH? Other than it being such a wonderful place to live and raise a family?

Sheila UEL >>

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