When Thomas Charles Davis Howell was born on 22 February 1814, in Waynesboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, his father, Caleb Howell, was 39 and his mother, Celia Nancy Boyett, was 29. He married Sarah Stewart on 5 July 1835, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Oxford, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1901. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 3 September 1902, in Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Clifton, Oneida, Idaho, United States.
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Illinois is the 21st state.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
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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