Coryell Co. TX - Howards to Texas

Submitted by Bobbie Ross  <bwross@htcomp.net>

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                              HOWARDS TO TEXAS
                                      
    Harvey Howard and Caroline Crawford Howard, left their native Georgia home
    to travel to Texas in 1840. They made their way to Eagle Springs, Coryell
    Co. Texas. Harvey Howard's parents' (names not known) had previously left
    Georgia to join the Frontier Westward Movement to California, in search of
    gold; they traveled overland, in covered wagons pulled by oxen, for almost
    three months, before reaching their destination of Visalia, Tulare Co. CA.
    In 1855, Harvey and Caroline Howard traveled to New Orleans by wagon; from
    New Orleans, they took a "packet ship", which would go by way of the
    Isthmus of Panama, then on to San Francisco.* Here, they "hired a man with
    a buckboard at the fabulous price of $10.00 a day", to take them overland
    to Visalia, to join his parents in their search of gold. On April 11, 1856,
    Harvey and Caroline's first child, Millard Filmore Howard was born, "the
    first white child born in a half-dugout**". In 1857, Harvey and
    Caroline,with their baby son, returned to Eagle Springs, Coryell Co. Texas,
    where Millard Filmore Howard grew to manhood. In 1880, Millard married
    Sallie Williams, and raised their family of four sons and two daughters***.
    At some point, after the death of Harvey Howard in March of 1877 in Coryell
    County, the Howards', including Caroline and her surviving children****,
    made their way to Olney, Young Co. Texas, where Caroline Howard, Millard
    and Sallie Howard, lived til their deaths*****. This narrative was
    transcribed from a hand-written biography by my Gr Gr Aunt, Clyde Howard
    Gray, youngest daughter of Millard Filmore and Sallie Williams Howard. * I
    learned it took about two weeks (good weather)from Isthmus of Panama, to
    reach San Francisco, by packet(mail)ship ** This has not been researched as
    fact *** Roger Quincy Mills Howard b. 28 Nov 1881 d. 8 Jan 1970 Edward Moro
    Howard b.12 Mar 1884 d. 11 June 1968 Stella Howard b.14 Feb 1886 d. 14 Nov
    1978 Walter Bunyon Howard b.15 Dec 1887 d.19 Feb 1970 Clarence Howard b. 10
    Nov 1890 d. 26 May 1898 Clyde Howard(female) b. 9 Aug 1894 d. 29 Apr 1988
    ****Caroline Crawford Howard b.20 Oct 1833 d. 8 May 1901 Catherine Melissa
    Howard b. 26 Dec 1856 d. 10 Oct 1876 Edward L. Howard b. 22 Aug 1858 d. 28
    Aug 1883 To date, have been unable to determine who Harvey Howard's
    parents' were; it is said they were from Georgia. Caroline Crawford
    Howard's gravemarker has her birthplace as Greensboro, Georgia. Submitted
    by: Linda Howard Jaschke ljaschke@swbell.net

             copyrighted 2001 by Linda Jaschke and Bobbie Ross