Individual Details
Rev Samuel Charles Howard
(12 Feb 1793 - 29 Sep 1838)
They immigrated to Illinois in 1830 in a wagon, driving four teams of oxen, as the hardships of the road through the wilderness would be too great for horses to endure. They had a family of nine children. ANNA and her husband died at Marietta, Illinois, he having lived there only eight years. It is said that the first wheat bread in Illinois was made from flour sent to them by Ohio friends. This was keel-boated down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, then hauled to where they lived. They made clapboards to pay for the freight. For a long time, letter postage was not paid in advance. The rate was twenty-five cents a letter. One came to them when they had no money, as was often the case in those days, so they flailed out a bushel of wheat for which they got twenty-five cents, and so were able to get their letter.
"SAMUEL HOWARD was a native of the Old Dominion; he brought his family toIL in 1831 in a wagon drawn by 3 yoke of oxen. When they reached the Kickapoo river they found the floor of the bridge had been swept away and the river high. Thinking it dangerous to ford, Mr. H. directed his wife and the elder children (among whom was Charles) to walk over the remaining stringer of the bridge, while he took the two smalaler children and the team and attempted to ford the river. When he reached the center of the stream the current was so swift that it turned the wagon over. Mr. H. caught his children and made his way to shore. It was only through the greatest exertion that he succeeded in saving his oxen."
(HIST OF FULTON CO.IL, Chapman,1879 p.702)
In 1831 SAMUEL & ANNA (ALDERMAN) HOWARD "came to Illinois. They located in Farmers Township, Fulton Co, and sold that claim before the land came into market...then buying a piece of wild land on the Lewistown and Bernadotte road not far from the village of Bernadotte in Bernadotte Twp. They can well remember hearing wolves howl in Table Grove, when they lived in their pioneer home there. They were very poor and their only wealth consisted in a team of oxen. The first summer of their residence here, the crops failed and in the following winter provisions were high and the family had a hard time to get along. The wolves killed two of the oxen, so Mr. H had to abandon his land the next summer, 10 acres of which he had broken, and he sold his claim to Robt Hughes. He then rented a piece of land near Isaac Cadwalleder. He and his family wintered there one season and the next winter he bought a tract of land. He was an honest, hard working man, and in time became better off." (Portrait & Biog Album of Fulton Co. IL., Chicago Biog Pub Co., 1890, p 337.)
They emigrated to Illinois in 1830 in a wagon, driving four teams of oxen, as the hardships of the road through the wilderness would be too great for horses to endure. They had a family of nine children. Anna and her husband died at Marietta, Illinois, he having lived there only eight years. It is said that the first wheat bread in Illinois was made from flour sent to them by Ohio friends. This was keel-boated down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, then hauled to where they lived. They made clapboards to pay for the freight. For a long time, letter postage was not paid in advance. The rate was twenty-five cents a letter. One came to them when they had no money, as was often the case in those days, so they flailed out a bushel of wheat which they sold for twenty-five cents, and so were able to get their letter. (Bernice Graham)
"SAMUEL HOWARD was a native of the Old Dominion; he brought his family toIL in 1831 in a wagon drawn by 3 yoke of oxen. When they reached the Kickapoo river they found the floor of the bridge had been swept away and the river high. Thinking it dangerous to ford, Mr. H. directed his wife and the elder children (among whom was Charles) to walk over the remaining stringer of the bridge, while he took the two smalaler children and the team and attempted to ford the river. When he reached the center of the stream the current was so swift that it turned the wagon over. Mr. H. caught his children and made his way to shore. It was only through the greatest exertion that he succeeded in saving his oxen."
(HIST OF FULTON CO.IL, Chapman,1879 p.702)
In 1831 SAMUEL & ANNA (ALDERMAN) HOWARD "came to Illinois. They located in Farmers Township, Fulton Co, and sold that claim before the land came into market...then buying a piece of wild land on the Lewistown and Bernadotte road not far from the village of Bernadotte in Bernadotte Twp. They can well remember hearing wolves howl in Table Grove, when they lived in their pioneer home there. They were very poor and their only wealth consisted in a team of oxen. The first summer of their residence here, the crops failed and in the following winter provisions were high and the family had a hard time to get along. The wolves killed two of the oxen, so Mr. H had to abandon his land the next summer, 10 acres of which he had broken, and he sold his claim to Robt Hughes. He then rented a piece of land near Isaac Cadwalleder. He and his family wintered there one season and the next winter he bought a tract of land. He was an honest, hard working man, and in time became better off." (Portrait & Biog Album of Fulton Co. IL., Chicago Biog Pub Co., 1890, p 337.)
They emigrated to Illinois in 1830 in a wagon, driving four teams of oxen, as the hardships of the road through the wilderness would be too great for horses to endure. They had a family of nine children. Anna and her husband died at Marietta, Illinois, he having lived there only eight years. It is said that the first wheat bread in Illinois was made from flour sent to them by Ohio friends. This was keel-boated down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, then hauled to where they lived. They made clapboards to pay for the freight. For a long time, letter postage was not paid in advance. The rate was twenty-five cents a letter. One came to them when they had no money, as was often the case in those days, so they flailed out a bushel of wheat which they sold for twenty-five cents, and so were able to get their letter. (Bernice Graham)
Events
| Birth | 12 Feb 1793 | Virginia, United States | |||
| Marriage | 30 Jun 1820 | Athens, Ohio, United States - Anna (Hannah) Alderman |  | ||
| Death | 29 Sep 1838 | Fulton, Illinois, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Anna (Hannah) Alderman (1801 - 1879) |
| Child | Charles Howard (1822 - 1905) |
| Child | Elisha Howard (1824 - ) |
| Child | Nancy Howard (1825 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Ann Howard (1826 - 1875) |
| Child | James Howard (1828 - ) |
| Child | Isaac Howard (1832 - 1920) |
| Child | William F. Howard (1836 - 1863) |
| Child | Samuel Meek Howard (1837 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Parker, William Alderman., Aldermans in America. (William A. Parker Edwards & Broughton Co., Raleigh, N.C., 1957), p 484.
2. Verne R. Spear, assisted by Patricia Finch Harjung and Leonard R. Alderman, compiler, The descendants of William Alderman who settled first at Windsor, Connecticut and later Simsbury, Connecticut 1671 - 2002 (South Deerfield, MA:,), p 74.