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SILAS
NEWTON
HOWARD
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Silas Newton Howard
September 18, 1806 - November 5, 1869
DIED
HOWARD -- Recently, at his residence in Nevada, Vernon county, Missouri,
Silas N. Howard, Esq., formerly of this place, aged 66 years.
Mr. Howard was well known to most of the old residents of this county,
and his death will be received with more than usual sadness.
He came to Rochester from Ohio as early as 1855 or 1856, so much reduced
by disease of the lungs as to be unable to walk. He found the
recuperative virtues of the Minnesota climate so beneficial to his
health, that he pre-empted a quarter section of land in the town of
Marion, and made his home there, where he was entirely restored to
health, and remained until the spring of 1868, when he sold his
homestead to the county for a "Poor Farm" and removed to Nevada, Mo.
A few weeks after establishing his new home in Missouri, Mrs. Howard,
his wife, died, notwithstanding she was vigorous and strong when they
left Minnesota.
Mr. Howard was a quiet, unassuming, honest man. He was most respected
where he was best known. He was warmly attached to his friends, and
loved by them in return. His moral character was above reproach, and
"his word was as good as his bond." In his death Olmsted county loses
one of its oldest settlers; and many of its inhabitants one of their
best friends.
His children in Missouri and his aged friends in Sandusky have the
sincere sympathy of the writer of this obituary tribute to his memory.
Rochester Post, Rochester, MN. 18 Dec 1869, p3c3
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Another Pioneer Gone
Died on the 5th instant, at his home
in Nevada, Vernon County
MO.,
Silas N. Howard, Esq., aged 66 years.
Mr. Howard, many years ago, settled at a place now called Hessville, a
few miles west of Fremont, but at that time a wilderness. Here he
cleared up a heavily-timbered farm and aided in the construction and
completion of the National Road from Fremont to Perrysburgh. He
remained at that place long enough to see population thicken around him,
and schools and churches thoroughly established, in all of which he took
a lively interest. His health failing, he sold out and removed to
Minnesota, where he regained that great blessing; but, becoming weary of
the long and tedious winters of that region, he again removed and
located in Southwestern Missouri, where he died.
Mr. Howard was an honest, honorable man, an attached and sincere friend,
and wherever best known, most loved. His death breaks another of
the links in the chain that binds those who loved him to earth, and they
hope ere long to meet him in a brighter, happier world.
Weekly Journal, NY. Date unknown.
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SILAS N.
husband of
SARAH A. HOWARD
born
Sept. 18, 1806.
died
Nov. 5, 1869.
There is sweet rest in Heaven.
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SARAH A.
wife of
S. N. HOWARD.
born
May 18, 1813.
died
Sept. 25, 1868.
Free from pain, she sweetly sleeps.
Gravestone
photos by Nancy Thompson
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The gravestone of Silas Howard had previously been located in McMullin
Cemetery, Moundville Township, Vernon County, Missouri, and reported in
the 1977 Cemetery Directory of Vernon County, Missouri.
In a March 2004 re-survey of McMullin Cemetery, an additional 12
previously unrecorded gravestones were located. The gravestone of
Sarah Howard was found close to that of Silas, lying flat under about
six inches of leaves and soil, protected, where it had fallen many years
prior.
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1850
Sandusky, OH Census. Silas N. Howard household:
In 1860,
the family was enumerated in the Olmsted Co., Minnesota Census.
HOWARD,
Silas N., 54 yr old male, Farmer, $3,000 Real Estate, $600 Personal
Property, born NY.
Sarah A., 47 yr old female, born NY.
Minnie O., 22 yr old female, born OH.
Silas H., 13 yr old male, b. OH.
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Photographs
of Silas Howard and his daughter and both obituaries provided by researcher
Carolyn Howard Hardie Cox.
Carolyn also gives us these additional details:
Sarah
Ann "Sally's" maiden name was Harris.
Children included:
George or Orange Howard, who was born Jan. 1832, in Fremont, Sandusky,
OH; and died about Jan. 1, 1907, Nobles County, MN.
Cecelia Anna Howard, who was born Mar. 28, 1833, in Washington, Sandusky
County, OH; and died Nov. 29, 1866, Dubuque, IA. (Photo right:
Cecelia Anna Howard Lyon)
Minnie Calista Howard, who was born about 1837 in Ohio and died after
1860.
Silas Newton Howard, Jr., who was born about 1846 in Ohio and died after
July 26, 1865.
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