HARVEY HOWARD
Harvey Howard and Caroline
Crawford Howard, left their native Georgia home
to travel to Texas in 1840.
They made their way to Eagle Springs, Coryell Co.
Texas. Harvey Howard's parents'
(names not known) had previously left Georgia
to join the Frontier Westward
Movement to California, in search of gold; they traveled
overland, in covered wagons
pulled by oxen, for almost three months, before
reaching their destination
of Visalia, Tulare Co. CA. In 1855, Harvey and Caroline
Howard traveled to New Orleans
by wagon; from New Orleans, they took a "packet
ship", which would go by
way of the Isthmus of Panama, then on to San Francisco.*
Here, they "hired a man
with a buckboard at the fabulous price of $10.00 a day", to
take them overland to Visalia,
to join his parents in their search of gold. On April 11,
1856, Harvey and Caroline's
first child, Millard Filmore Howard was born, "the first
white child born in a half-dugout**".
In 1857, Harvey and Caroline,with their baby son,
returned to Eagle Springs,
Coryell Co. Texas, where Millard Filmore Howard
grew to manhood. In 1880,
Millard married Sallie Williams, and raised their family
of four sons and two daughters***.
At some point, after the death of Harvey Howard
in March of 1877 in Coryell
County, the Howards', including Caroline and her
surviving children****,
made their way to Olney, Young Co. Texas, where Caroline
Howard, Millard and Sallie
Howard, lived til their deaths*****.
This narrative was
transcribed from a hand-written biography by my
Gr Gr Aunt, Clyde Howard
Gray, youngest daughter of Millard Filmore and
Sallie Williams Howard.
* I learned it took about two weeks (good weather)
from Isthmus of Panama,
to reach San Francisco, by packet(mail)ship **
This has not been researched
as fact *** Roger Quincy Mills Howard
b. 28 Nov 1881 d. 8 Jan
1970 Edward Moro Howard b.12 Mar 1884
d. 11 June 1968 Stella Howard
b.14 Feb 1886 d. 14 Nov 1978
Walter Bunyon Howard b.15
Dec 1887 d.19 Feb 1970 Clarence
Howard b. 10 Nov 1890 d.
26 May 1898 Clyde Howard(female) b. 9 Aug
1894 d. 29 Apr 1988 ****Caroline
Crawford Howard b.20 Oct 1833 d. 8 May 1901
Catherine Melissa Howard
b. 26 Dec 1856 d. 10 Oct 1876 Edward L.
Howard b. 22 Aug 1858 d.
28 Aug 1883
To date, have been unable
to determine who Harvey Howard's parents' were;
it is said they were from
Georgia. Caroline Crawford Howard's
gravemarker has her birthplace
as Greensboro, Georgia.
Submitted by: Linda Howard
Jaschke ljaschke@swbell.net