Howard Genealogy Blog

I came across some notes from Janice about kit# 16385 for William Buckhannon Howard a match for Obediah, Seth and Edward Howard of NC:
Hi Karen, I recently had some luck in tracing some of the Howards in Bedford Co, TN. I have found a brother and a sister to John Wesley Howard. I never believed that he was an only child.

Hiram Howard (wife Kathryn) of the 1850 Bedford Co., census was in Williamson Co., TN in 1870 pg 245 household 108/114 with his wife, Elizabeth Rudd Howard (sister to John Wesley’s wife Nancy Ann Rudd).

In 1880 Hiram is in Tipton Co., TN ED 21 SD 154 with wife, Sarah Bosley Howard, This census states that Hiram’s father was born in SC and his mother was born in IRELAND! I knew that Hiram had married a Rudd but the third marriage was a surprise. No wonder I couldn’t find him, I was always passing over him because of the different wives. I had been searching in Ark, Tx and OK for Hiram. I recently was given some family data that stated that John Wesley had a brother named Hiram. I would have worked that angle harder if I had known that.

Elizabeth Howard was in Seth’s and Jane’s house in 1850 Bedford Co, TN. In 1860 she was with Jane in Dist # l Lynchburg, Lincoln Co., TN house 155. In 1880 she (as Betty) was a housekeeper for Wm. P. Hix and Mahala Hix. She was age 46, single and stated that her father was born in SC and her mother was born in IRELAND. I found this on Family Search. John Wesley named a daughter Betty.

Daniel “WD” Howard of 1850 Bedford Co., TN was in Sevier Co., ARK in 1860. Lost him after that. He had a son William B. (Buckhannan?) living near by. Maybe they were casulties of the Civil War. Too bad that he wasn’t in the 1880 census so I could see his parents birthplaces. John Wesley named a son Charles Daniel Howard.

In 1880 James H. and Hiram Howard, sons of Daniel (WD) Howard were in Pike Co., ARK I made a trip to the Amarillo Library but couldn’t add anything else to the above.

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The Howard DNA Project has grown quite a bit in the past year or two, and we now have 80 kits tested, with several different group matches. Be sure to check out the DNA site before leaving our genealogy site.

Several months ago I came across 12-Marker matches which did not continue to match when they were upgraded to a higher number of markers. At about the same time we got the results back for Gideon Howard and his descendents, several were named after his son, Reason/Rezon. One of these sons did not match Gideon, nor some of the others in the group, but it appeared there was a fast moving marker that had also changed on one of the earlier Reason’s and because he was a close match with him, we could figure that he was also a descendent of Gideon.

I am beginning to see more of these groups and plan to post them as matches even though they are not listed as such on the FTDNA site, just to make sure we do not miss a possible intermediate connection.