Some Farrar's Island Descendants: William Henry Howard Jr. and Martha Sutton Webb of Augusta
1979 · Alvahn Holmes, Some Farrar's Island Descendants ([Baltimore]: A. Holmes, 1979)
Named here: Martha Sutton Webb, William Henry Howard Jr, George Jefferson Howard, William Harrison Howard, Charles Harrison Howard, William Henry Howard Sr. (son of Henry Howard and Priscilla Farrar), father of William Henry Howard Jr., Elizabeth Key (daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Garrett) Key), wife and widow of a William Henry Howard (son of Henry and Priscilla); whether she was William Henry Jr.'s mother is not shown, Lucy Elizabeth Howard (1859–1919), daughter of George J. Howard
The book at the Internet Archive
Transcription
The book is in the Internet Archive's lending library, so its pages could not be opened by script; the archive's full-text search returns short passages around each match. These are every passage found that concerns this family, exactly as the search returned them, with the small superscript generation numbers of the original dropped ([…] marks where a passage begins or ends mid-sentence):
[…] bur. in Magnolia Cem. 21. William Henry Howard Jr. (William Henry Howard, Priscilla Farrar, George, William […]
[…] 22.1831, at Shady Dale, Jasper Co., Ga., MARTHA SUTTON WEBB (2.11.1811-11.17.1885, Augusta, Ga.) Both […]
[…] Ga.) Both bur. in Magnolia Cem. Issue: (4 children bur. with them in Magnolia Cem.) *56. George [J]efferson […]
[…] 56. DR. GEORGE JEFFERSON HOWARD (William Henry Howard Jr., William H. […]
[…] William, William); s. of William Henry & Martha Sutton (Webb) Howard; b. 12.12.1838; d. 4.2.1879. Lived in […]
[…] 57. WILLIAM HARRISON HOWARD (William H. Howard Jr., William H. Howard […]
[…] 58. Charles Harrison Howard. sb. 12510518403 ad Lal L906s5ms SUE STEPHENS […]
(The text layer is garbled here; it appears to read "b. … 1840 … d. … 1906, m. Sue Stephens".)
[…] *96. Lucy Elizabeth Howard, b. 9.28.1859, Cartersville; d. 2.22.1919 […] LUCY ELIZABETH HOWARD (George J. Howard, Wm. Henry Howard Jr […]
On the earlier generation (five separate passages, in the order the search returned them):
[…] Edgefield and Abbe- ville Co., S.C., married ELIZABETH KEY, widow of William Henry Howard (son of Henry & Priscilla (Farrar) Howard) […]
[…] Farrar Jr. However, on 10.5.1791 he married ELIZABETH KEY, dau. of Thomas & Elizabeth (Garrett) Key of […]
[…] (Edgefield Co., S.C., D. Bk. 12, 1795-6; TAL 95) Elizabeth (Key) Howard is said to have m. 2nd. ROBERT AUGUSTUS […]
[…] Some say Elizabeth Key Howard married, 2nd., Robert Augustus Farrar […]
[…] Mag- nolia Cemetery, Augusta, Ga., who was Elizabeth Key who married Will- iam Henry Howard and married […]
And on its sources for the Augusta graves: "Tombstone inscriptions, Howard plot, Magnolia Cem., supplied by Mr. Berry Fleming".
Citation: Alvahn Holmes, Some Farrar's Island Descendants ([Baltimore]: A. Holmes, 1979), entries 21 (William Henry Howard Jr.) and 56–58 (his sons); Internet Archive item somefarrarsislan0000holm, a lending-library book, quoted from the archive's full-text search passages, https://archive.org/details/somefarrarsislan0000holm?q=%22Martha+Sutton+Webb%22, searched 10 November 2026.
What it says, against the tree
Each fact this record gives, set beside what the FamilySearch tree says: it agrees, it is new (the tree lacks it), it conflicts, or it is context.
| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Henry Howard Jr. | Name | William Henry Howard Jr. | William Henry Howard Jr | agrees |
| William Henry Howard Jr. | Father | William Henry Howard, son of Henry Howard and Priscilla Farrar (his line in the book: "William Henry Howard, Priscilla Farrar, George, William …") | no parents | new |
| William Henry Howard Jr., Martha Sutton Webb | Marriage | […]22.1831, at Shady Dale, Jasper County, Georgia | 22 February 1831, Jasper, Georgia | agrees (date as far as seen); new (Shady Dale) |
| Martha Sutton Webb | Birth | 2.11.1811 (11 February 1811) | 11 February 1811, Warren, Georgia | agrees |
| Martha Sutton Webb | Death | 11.17.1885 (17 November 1885), Augusta, Ga. | 17 November 1885, Georgia | agrees; new (Augusta) |
| William Henry Howard Jr., Martha Sutton Webb | Burial | Both buried in Magnolia Cemetery (Augusta), Howard plot, with four of their children | Augusta, Richmond, Georgia (1885, 1891) | new (cemetery) |
| George Jefferson Howard | Title, parents | Dr. George Jefferson Howard, son of William Henry Howard Jr. | George Jefferson Howard (1831–1898), son of William Henry Howard and Martha Sutton Webb | agrees; new (doctor) |
| George Jefferson Howard | Daughter | Lucy Elizabeth Howard, born 28 September 1859, Cartersville; died 22 February 1919 | no children recorded under him in the export | new |
| William Harrison Howard | Parents, dates | Son of William Henry and Martha Sutton (Webb) Howard; born 12 December 1838; died 2 April 1879 | 12 December 1838, Augusta; 2 April 1879, Richmond County | agrees |
| Charles Harrison Howard | Dates, wife | Born 1840; died 1906; married Sue Stephens | 1840–1906; wife Susannah Stevens | agrees |