Wade & Webb Family History

James W Howell1812–1887

Georgia · Autauga · Hickory Flat · Fredonia Methodist Church Cemetery

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 12 Feb 1812 Georgia 1

Marriages

  1. 24 Dec 1841 Tabitha McKinney, at Chambers, Alabama 2

Death and burial

  1. 1887 Burial: Fredonia Methodist Church Cemetery, Fredonia, Chambers, Alabama
  2. 25 Sep 1887 Death: Chambers, Alabama 6

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 24 Dec 1841
Tabitha McKinney 1822–1889
Children
Joseph H Howell 1844–1885
James W., Jr. Howell 1850–1852
Mary Frances Howell 1846–1926
William Harrell Howell 1852–1924
Henry S. Howell 1863–1930
Sarah Howell 1848–1910
Elijah 'Eli' Jefferson Howell 1842–1911
Francis H Howell 1845–1846
John Thomas Howell 1857–1922
Emanuel Howell 1854–1858

Line of descent Webb line

  1. James W Howell
  2. Husband of Tabitha McKinney
  3. Eli Harris McKinney Sr.
  4. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Husband of 2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

James W. Howell was born in Georgia on 12 February 1812, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date and does not name his parents.1 He married Tabitha McKinney, a daughter of Eli McKinney, in Chambers County, Alabama, in December 1841; the county index entries give the day variously as 22, 23 and 24 December.2 The tree names ten children, born between 1842 and 1863, of whom Francis H., James W. Jr. and Emanuel died in childhood.3 The federal census of 1860 lists James Howell as the head of a household in the Northern Division of Chambers County, that of 1870 in election precinct 1 at Prattville, Autauga County, and that of 1880, as Jas. Howell, at Hickory Flat, Chambers County, with his wife Tabitha each time.4 On 15 August 1865 Fanny Howell married Lee R. Johnson, and a James Howell is named in the county record of the marriage.5 Inference This is probably his daughter Mary Frances (1846–1926), for the Georgia death record of a Mary Fannie Johnson in 1926 names her father as Howell.5 James W. Howell died in Chambers County on 25 September 1887 and was buried in the Fredonia Methodist Church Cemetery at Fredonia.6 The tree places his wife's burial, two years later, in the Howell Cemetery at Fredonia; whether these are two names for one burial ground or two separate cemeteries is not clear from the records in hand.7 He is named as father in the Alabama death records of Tabitha Sallie Belcher in 1910 and of Henry Howell in 1930.8

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to James W Howell.

  1. 24 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 23 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 24 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 22 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 22 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 22 Dec 1841James W Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  7. 23 Dec 1841James W. Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  8. 1841James W. Howell, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  9. 23 Dec 1841James W. Howell, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  10. 1860James Howell, "United States Census, 1860"
  11. 15 Aug 1865James Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  12. 15 Aug 1865James Howell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  13. 15 Aug 1865James Howell, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  14. 1870James Howell, "United States, Census, 1870"
  15. 1880Jas. Howell, "United States, Census, 1880"
  16. 4 Mar 1910James Howell, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  17. 20 Mar 1926Howell, "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927"
  18. 1930Jim Howell, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  19. James W. Howell, "Find a Grave Index"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNSG-8RD: birth 12 Feb 1812, Georgia, no source attached; no parents in the tree back to the text
  2. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James W Howell and Tabitha M McKinney, 24 Dec 1841. Record: James W Howell and Tabitha M McKinney, 24 Dec 1841 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James W Howell and Tabitha McKinney, 23 Dec 1841. Record: 23 Dec 1841 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James W Howell and Tabitha McKinney, 22 Dec 1841. Record: 22 Dec 1841 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K6QX-R27 (their page): parents Eli McKinney and Sarah Sallie Gresham back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNSG-8RD: ten children 1842–1863; Francis H (1845–1846), James W. Jr. (1850–1852), Emanuel (1854–1858) back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, James Howell, 1860. Record: James Howell, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, James Howell, 1870. Record: James Howell, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Jas. Howell, 1880. Record: Jas. Howell, 1880 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Tabitha Howell in entry for James Howell, 1860. Record: Tabitha Howell in entry for James Howell, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNSG-8RD: residences 1860 Northern Division, Chambers; 1870 Election Precinct 1 Prattville, Autauga; 1880 Hickory Flat, Chambers back to the text
  5. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James Howell in entry for Lee R. Johnson and Fannie Howell, 15 Aug 1865. Record: James Howell in entry for Lee R. Johnson and Fannie Howell, 15 Aug 1865 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, James Howell in entry for Lee R Johnson and Fanny Howell, 15 Aug 1865. Record: Lee R Johnson and Fanny Howell, 15 Aug 1865 "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927", FamilySearch, Howell in entry for Mary Fannie Johnson, 20 Mar 1926. Record: Howell in entry for Mary Fannie Johnson, 20 Mar 1926 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNSG-8RD: child Mary Frances Howell (1846–1926) back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KNSG-8RD: death 25 Sep 1887, Chambers; burial 1887, Fredonia Methodist Church Cemetery, Fredonia, Chambers "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, James W. Howell. Record: James W. Howell, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K6QX-R27 (their page): burial 1889, Howell Cemetery, Fredonia, Chambers back to the text
  8. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, James Howell in entry for Tabitha Sallie Belcher, 4 Mar 1910. Record: James Howell in entry for Tabitha Sallie Belcher, 4 Mar 1910 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Jim Howell in entry for Henry Howell, 1930. Record: Jim Howell in entry for Henry Howell, 1930 back to the text