SILAS NEWTON HOWARD

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, p3c

Another Pioneer Gone

Died on the 5^th 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.

SILAS N.

husband of

SARAH A. HOWARD

born

Sept. 18, 1806.

died

Nov. 5, 1869.

There is sweet rest in Heaven.

SARAH A.

wife of

S. N. HOWARD.

born

May 18, 1813.

died

Sept. 25, 1868.

Free from pain, she sweetly sleeps.

Gravestone photos by County Coordinator

   The gravestone of Silas Howard had previously been located in McMullin Cemetery, Moundville Township, Vernon County, Missouri, and reported in the 1979 Cemetery Directory of Vernon County, Missouri.

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.

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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