Owsley County, Kentucky:          Howell Cobb Brewer

Submitted to the KyGenWeb by:  Hazel Roache
                               20 April 2002
                               RRoache@InfoAve.net
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There is a Biographical Sketch of Howell Cobb Brewer at his home in Owsley County, Kentucky, which was written by V. S. Brewer on 13 August 1885.  It states:

 Howell Brewer, age 94, nine months and thirteen days, was born in the state of North Carolina, Moore County, on Deep River, in the year of our Lord, October 20, 1790.  Married there on the tenth of September 1810.  Emigrated from there to Hawkins County, East Tennessee in 1814, then 24 years old.  Me and my  wife had twelve children, one born in North Carolina.  We lived together about 24 years and in the year 1834, April 22, she died.  Enter to the second wife the twelfth of September 1834.  I had no children by her.  She died June the sixteenth 1837.  She lay about sixteen months of that time that she was scarcely able to walk alone.  On September 2, 1838, I  married my third wife.  We had five children, four sons and one daughter and we and all of these children are still living.  I raised eleven of my first children and five of my last children to man and woman hood which makes sixteen in all and I never had to part with any of them.  I jointed the Missionary Baptist Ch!
urch in the year 1832 and have lived in my duty most of my time.  I have been in public life, civil and military, upwards of fifty years.  I had two sons that volunteered in the Florida War and served six months.  Then I had two sons that went into the war with Mexico and served until peace was made.  At the commencement of the late war I had nine sons living and out of the nine, six entered the Federal Army, five of whom served three years.  I furnished in the late war sons, sons-in-law, and grandsons the fifth of a captains company (2).  I have lived to see the fourth and might say the fifth generation.  I have 133 grandchildren now living, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren I might say 200.  I emigrated from East Tennessee in the year of 1848 to Owsley County, Kentucky, and have lived here since.

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