Thomas Tyre Howe

Brief Life History of Thomas Tyre

When Thomas Tyre Howe was born on 4 April 1850, in New York, United States, his father, John G. Howe, was 44 and his mother, Harriet Morehouse, was 25. He married Elizabeth Purvis on 14 September 1873, in Scotland, Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lindley, Steuben, New York, United States in 1850 and Mount Pleasant Township, Scotland, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 22 March 1910, in Clay Township, Adair, Missouri, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Willmathsville, Adair, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Tyre Howe
1850–1910
Elizabeth Purvis
1852–1916
Marriage: 14 September 1873
Sarah A. Howe
1874–1958
Howe
1876–1900
Philip Jesse Howe
1878–
William Harrison Howe
1878–1954
Luella "Ella" Howe
1883–1956
Thomas Franklin "Frank" Howe
1885–1966
Walter Freeman Howe
1887–1952
Henry Erastis Howe
1889–1952
Hosea R Howe
1892–1963
Clarice Howe
1895–1916

Sources (20)

  • Thomas Howe in household of John Howe, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Thomas Howe, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Thomas Howe, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Adair, Missouri, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, , is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .

English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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