HOWERTON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HOWERTON, J. S. - b: 1836 Rockingham Co, NC
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 704
residence: Big Creek Twp

J. S. Howerton, farmer and stock raiser, came originally from Rockingham County, 
North Carolina. His father, William Howerton, was a native of Virginia. There he 
grew to maturity, and was married in North Carolina, to Miss Frances P. Wall, of 
that state, and a daughter of Richard Wall. William Howerton, Richard Wall and 
others, removed from North Carolina to Missouri in 1839, and located in Henry 
County. The former entered land and improved a farm in the northern part of the 
county, and resided upon it till his death in 1876. For seven years he had been a 
sufferer from paralysis. J. S. Howerton passed his youth upon the home farm, and 
was married July 18, 1867, to Miss Eliza Ann Harrington, a native of Henry 
County, and a daughter of William Harrington, who was also one of the pioneer 
settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Howerton have four children: Dophelia Belle, 
Susan Frances, Nancy Ann, and Sallie T. They have lost two: Oscar Lee, died 
September 10, 1872, at the age of four years, and Mary E., died May 10, 1873, at 
the age of three years and three months. After his marriage Mr. H. resided on the 
old homestead about six years. He removed to his present place in 1872, and now 
has 180 acres of land, 160 acres being in his home farm, fairly improved, with a 
good house and a young, bearing orchard. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 
1862, and served in Hindman's body guard until April, 1863, when he was 
transferred to Young's Battalion, serving in the cavalry until the fall of 
Vicksburg. After this last engagement, his regiment was reorganized and was 
known as the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, in which he served till the close of the war. 
He participated in a number of important engagements, among which were the 
fight at Helena, and Little Rock, Arkansas, Glasgow, and the numerous battles of 
Price's raid through Missouri. After the final surrender he returned to Missouri.

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