HOWARD CEMETERY

Howard Cemetery 2002

Howard Cemetery
2002

Located behind 143 Walnut Lane, Fall Branch, TN. This cemetery is very well kept with a white picket fence surrounding it.

NAMEBIRTH DATEDEATH DATERow # Grave #REMARKS
Hutton, R.L.2 Nov 186007/07/9501/01Aged 35 yrs. 7 m. 10 D
Blank markers01/2-6
Blank markers02/1-6
Howard, Oscar B.20 Jan 189109 Jul 189302/07Aged 5 y 4 mos. 12 days
Howard, Rachel[No date]187502/08Mother
Howard, Joseph[No date]185902/09Father
Howard, Amanda04 Jul 189304 Jul 189302/10
Irvin, G.W.24 Dec 182917 May 190803/01
Irvin, Margaret D.19 Mar 183120 May 189103/02
Fieldstone03/03
Shown, Martha A.08 Oct 182806 May 186103/04Wife of Adam Shown
Fieldstone03/05
Fieldstone03/06
Broken stone03/07
Stevens, Mary M1873195104/01
Painter, Jennie E.03 May 186328 Apr 190704/10
McCrary, Eliza E.23 Oct 184731 Dec 192804/11
Stevens, Thomas P.06 Apr 185131 Mar 190404/02
Stevens, Nancy C.10 Apr 185006 Oct 190804/03Wife of T.P. Stevens.
Stevens, Geo. Thomas1941194104/04Son of Hazel & Grover Stevens
Stevens, Grover B.20 Apr 191025 Dec 195604/05
Sampson, Mollie E.20 Apr 186620 Apr 190004/06Wife of J.S. Sampson
Sampson, Axie D.01 Sep 189606 Oct 189604/07
McCrary, W.L.15 Jun 182423 Apr 187904/08Masonic Emblem
McCrary, Elizabeth15 Jul 182330 Jan 189704/09
McCrary, Hallie R.01 Sep 188408 Jan 188805/013y 8 mo 7 days
McCrary, W.B.L.04 Mar 185925 Mar 189305/02
McCrary, Mary N. Howard20 Dec 186230 May 194205/03Wife of Willie McCrary
Stevens, Carl R.10 Apr 191327 Mar 198705/04US Army, World War II

 

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

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