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Francis Marion Howard

Male 1874 - 1958  (83 years)


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  • Name Francis Marion Howard  [1, 2
    Birth Oct 1874  Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Birth 27 Oct 1874  Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As Frank  [2
    Residence 1900  Precinct 3, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Residence 1910  McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 24 Mar 1958 
    Burial McAlpin Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Person ID I24845  tng Genealogy

    Father Matthew Albritton Bergsteiner Howard,   b. Sep 1824, McIntosh, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1902, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Rachel Clark,   b. 1845, Charlton, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1911, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F10801  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Ann Eliza Greene,   b. 19 Dec 1880, Benton, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1966, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 4 Feb 1897  Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
    +1. Goff Ives Howard,   b. 1 Apr 1909, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Dec 1963, Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. Ethel Howard,   b. 13 Mar 1898, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Feb 2001, Hawthorne, Alachua, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 102 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. George Willard Howard,   b. 12 Mar 1900, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1977, Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Pauline Howard,   b. 28 Aug 1904, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1983, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Francis Marion Howard, Jr,   b. 25 Jan 1907, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1974, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Marguerite Howard,   b. 24 Dec 1915, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1926, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Greene Van Buren Howard,   b. 23 Jun 1919, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1944, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Verna Ruth Howard,   b. 9 Aug 1911, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1994, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +9. Hazel Howard,   b. 14 Oct 1914, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Feb 2003, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +10. Mary Elizabeth Howard,   b. 6 Oct 1921, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jun 2014, Ben Atchley State Veterans Home, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     11. Sadie Howard,   b. 1902, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1903, Watertown, Columbia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F8268  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Oct 1874 - Florida, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Oct 1874 - Florida, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1910 - McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Headstones
    Francis M Howard gravestone
    Francis M Howard gravestone

  • Notes 
    • Francis Marion Howard

      My Father-in-law, Francis Marion Howard and his wife Mary Ann Greene had their first child, Ethel, at Blount's Ferry in 1898. Their second child, Willard, was born in March of 1900 also at Blount's Ferry. Thereafter, the family moved to Watertown. She lived to 103 so you can see I got this information from one who lived it.

      They lived in one of the row houses long enough to see the children walking the old board to walk to their school. Mr. Gelberg of the clothing store told me that that board walk got him in his original business. He would ride a bike to Watertown with a basket of clothing, sell it to the workers and return to town.

      Frank, as he was called, had a mule and a drag. It was his job to drag the excess wood into the burning fire. They lost their third child, Sadie to an unknown illness in Watertown. She was buried at the Hopewell Baptist cemetery near Blount's Ferry to be near the child's grandparents. Soon afterwards, they moved to McAlpin, Fla. The child's death seemed to have something to do with the move.

      An interesting note. Frank owned the mule and a plow, bedstead, some chairs but that was it, no wagon. He went to Max Brown at the State Exchange and Max loaned him a wagon to make the trip. Frank and Liza had to sharecrop for the first year but they raised 9 children, built two houses, was burned out of both, rebuilt and died leaving his children 200 acres debt free. He once told me in the last days he felt like he had somehow failed. One of the finest, most respected men in Suwannee County. More failures like Francis Marion Howard and this country would not be in the obvious trouble today.

      Submitted by: Walter C. and Mary Howard Petersen, Lake City, FL, ptrznmb@bellsouth.net

      http://www.watertownflorida.com/howard.htm

  • Sources 
    1. [S340] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;).
      Year: 1900; Census Place: Precinct 3, Columbia, Florida; Roll: T623_166; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 4.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=33999548&indiv=try
      [ View Federal Census Document]
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=33999548&indiv=try

    2. [S356] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).
      Year: 1910; Census Place: Mcalpin, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T624_168; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 337.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=3106741&indiv=try
      [ View Federal Census Document]
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=3106741&indiv=try

    3. [S122] FindaGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88268292
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88268292.
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88268292

    4. [S142] Gravestone.
      [ View gravestone photograph]

    5. [S96] Columbia County, FL Marriages 1893-1925.
      Francis Marion Howard and Mary Ann Eliza Greene marriage