Howard Cemetery
2002
Located behind 143 Walnut Lane, Fall Branch, TN. This cemetery is very well kept with a white picket fence surrounding it.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web July 2002 by Donna Cox Briggs, Dawn Peters and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information
A marker was dedicated on June 24, 2000, in the Howard Cemetery located on the Howard Family Farm at Fall branch, Tennessee. Seventy-five of their descendants attended.
Photo # 2722 shows a marker with the following inscription:
Joseph Howard 1799-1859 Rachel Rector Howard 1801-1875
Married 1820 in Jonesboro, Tennessee and had the following 12 children all born here on the Howard farm at Fall Branch, TN;
*James Howard b: 1821 d: 1863 in Little Rock, Arkansas
John Howard b: 1824 d: Unknown
Samuel Howard b: 1827 d: Unknown
William Carter Howard b: 1829 d: 1905 in Cane Hill, Arkansas
*Enoch William Howard b: 1831 d: 1910 in Morrow, Arkansas
Benjamin Howard b: 1833 d: Unknown (In 1860 Missouri census)
*David Robert Howard b: 1836 d: 1901 in Fall Branch, Tennessee
*George Washington Howard b: 1838 d: 1913 in Polk County, Missouri
*Thomas Haws Howard b: 1840 d: 1930 in Bloomingdale, Tennessee
*Joseph Franklin Howard b: 1842 d: 1933 in Lincoln Arkansas
Mary Ann Howard b: 1844 d: 1928 in Bolivar, Missouri
Zachariah Taylor Howard b: 1848 d: 1907 in Morrow Arkansas
- Civil War Veterans
ERECTED BY THE DESCENDENTS OF THE ABOVE – JUNE 2000
Additional information:
A copy of The Descendants of Joseph Howard & Rachel Rector Howard of Washington County in Eastern Tennessee, 1799-1999, c2000, by June and John Wayne Howard, 805 Ivy, Deer Park, TX 77536 can be found in the Tennessee Room of the Johnson City Public Library, TR/929.2/HOW
Joseph Howard b. Watauga, Tennessee May 1, 1799
Rachel Rector b. 1801Greene Co., TN. She was the daughter of John B. Rector, b. 1764 Greene Co., TN and Chloe McPherson, daughter of Richard McPherson and Eleanor Barton.
Joseph Howard and Rachel Rector married 31 Jan 1820 Washington County, Tennessee by Archibald Glasscock, Book O, p.22.
1880 Census, Washington County, Tennessee
p.591 Irvin, Geo. W. 50, Margaret D. 49, William A.B. 18, Valentine M. 16
p.592 McCrary, Elizabeth 56, Eliza 30, William 21, Virginia 18, Mollie 15
1870 Census, Washington County, Tennessee
p.95 McCoury, William 46, Elizabeth 47, Eliza 22, Nancy 20, Marcus 15, James 14, William 11, Virginia 7, Mollie 4.
1860 Census, Washington County, Tennessee
571 McCurry, William S. 36, Elizabeth 37, Eliza 11, Nancy 9, Marcus 7, James 4, William 1
572 Howard, Rachel 58, George 22, Thomas 20, Joseph F. 17, Mary A. 16, Z.T. 12, Nancy M. 16
573 Howard, David 24, Catherine 30, Nancy E. 4/12
576 Erwin, William 58, Catherine 47.
577 Erwin, G.W. 30, Margaret D. 29, Catherine 4, Elizabeth 2, Martha E. 10/12
578 Shown, Adam 36, Martha A. 31, Mary A.E. 8, William J. 4, Stout, Peer 16
582 Howard, Enoch 28, Catherine 27, Martha A. 6, Mary C. 6/12