When William Stuart Howard was born in April 1845, in Alabama, United States, his father, William T. Howard, was 35 and his mother, Mary Minerva Strickland-Howard, was 29. He married Bailey Iantha Orr on 21 March 1877, in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Beat 1, Harrison, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Beat 1, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States in 1910. He died on 9 September 1912, in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in United States.
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English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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