Brief Life History of John Wesley
When John Wesley Howell was born on 10 September 1841, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jethro Howell, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Needham, was 17. He married Amanda Casandra Dozier in 1862, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 23 February 1914, in Kenton, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sunny Side Cemetery, Kenton, Obion, Tennessee, United States.
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- John Howell, "United States Census, 1850"
- John W Howell, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- John Wesley Howell, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Biography of John Wesley Howell - History of Gibson County, Tennessee - The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee 1887 - page 889
http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/gibson/biographies_h.html JOHN W. HOWELL John W. Howell, justice of the peace and merchant, of Kenton, Tenn., was born in Gibson County, Tenn., September 10, 1841; son …
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