When Seth Allen Howes Jr was born on 11 January 1849, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Seth Allen Howes, was 25 and his mother, Julia Ann Baker, was 23. He married Maria F Long on 22 July 1869, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 20 July 1884, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Dennis Port, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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English:
pronounced to rhyme with hose, a variant of Howe 1 with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Hose (Leicestershire), recorded as Howes in 1086, is named with the plural of Old English hōh ‘hill spur’.
pronounced to rhyme with cows, a variant of Howe 2 (see Hugh ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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