Francis Marion Howard b. 27 Oct 1874 Florida, USA d. 24 Mar 1958: acw

1874 - 1958 (83 years)

Name	Francis Marion Howard [1, 2]
Birth	Oct 1874	Florida, USA [1]
Birth	27 Oct 1874	Florida, USA [2]
Gender	Male
Also Known As	Frank [2]
Residence	1900	Precinct 3, Columbia, Florida, USA [1]
Residence	1910	McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA [2]
Death	24 Mar 1958
Burial	McAlpin Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Suwannee, Florida, USA [3, 4]
Person ID	I24845	tng Genealogy

Father	Matthew Albritton Bergsteiner Howard, b. Sep 1824, McIntosh, Georgia, USA d. 4 Jan 1902, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age ~ 77 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Rachel Clark, b. 1845, Charlton, Georgia, USA d. 1911, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA (Age 66 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F10801	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary Ann Eliza Greene, b. 19 Dec 1880, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 30 Apr 1966, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 85 years)

Marriage 4 Feb 1897 Columbia, Florida, USA [5]

Children

+	1. Goff Ives Howard, b. 1 Apr 1909, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 13 Dec 1963, Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA (Age 54 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	2. Ethel Howard, b. 13 Mar 1898, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 2 Feb 2001, Hawthorne, Alachua, Florida, USA (Age 102 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. George Willard Howard, b. 12 Mar 1900, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 28 Apr 1977, Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, USA (Age 77 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. Pauline Howard, b. 28 Aug 1904, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 8 Jul 1983, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, USA (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. Francis Marion Howard, Jr, b. 25 Jan 1907, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 23 Oct 1974, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	6. Marguerite Howard, b. 24 Dec 1915, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 26 Jan 1926, Suwannee, Florida, USA (Age 10 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	7. Greene Van Buren Howard, b. 23 Jun 1919, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 8 Jul 1944, France (Age 25 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	8. Verna Ruth Howard, b. 9 Aug 1911, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 18 Jun 1994, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	9. Hazel Howard, b. 14 Oct 1914, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 22 Feb 2003, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+	10. Mary Elizabeth Howard, b. 6 Oct 1921, McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA d. 10 Jun 2014, Ben Atchley State Veterans Home, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA (Age 92 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	11. Sadie Howard, b. 1902, Blounts Ferry, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 1903, Watertown, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F8268 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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Birth - Oct 1874 - Florida, USA

Birth - 27 Oct 1874 - Florida, USA

Residence - 1910 - McAlpin, Suwannee, Florida, USA

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Headstones
Francis M Howard gravestone

Notes

Francis Marion Howard

My Father-in-law, Francis Marion Howard and his wife Mary Ann Greene had their first child, Ethel, at Blount's Ferry in 1898. Their second child, Willard, was born in March of 1900 also at Blount's Ferry. Thereafter, the family moved to Watertown. She lived to 103 so you can see I got this information from one who lived it.

They lived in one of the row houses long enough to see the children walking the old board to walk to their school. Mr. Gelberg of the clothing store told me that that board walk got him in his original business. He would ride a bike to Watertown with a basket of clothing, sell it to the workers and return to town.

Frank, as he was called, had a mule and a drag. It was his job to drag the excess wood into the burning fire. They lost their third child, Sadie to an unknown illness in Watertown. She was buried at the Hopewell Baptist cemetery near Blount's Ferry to be near the child's grandparents. Soon afterwards, they moved to McAlpin, Fla. The child's death seemed to have something to do with the move.

An interesting note. Frank owned the mule and a plow, bedstead, some chairs but that was it, no wagon. He went to Max Brown at the State Exchange and Max loaned him a wagon to make the trip. Frank and Liza had to sharecrop for the first year but they raised 9 children, built two houses, was burned out of both, rebuilt and died leaving his children 200 acres debt free. He once told me in the last days he felt like he had somehow failed. One of the finest, most respected men in Suwannee County. More failures like Francis Marion Howard and this country would not be in the obvious trouble today.

Submitted by: Walter C. and Mary Howard Petersen, Lake City, FL, ptrznmb@bellsouth.net

http://www.watertownflorida.com/howard.htm

Sources

[S340] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;).
Year: 1900; Census Place: Precinct 3, Columbia, Florida; Roll: T623_166; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 4.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=33999548&indiv=try
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[S356] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).
Year: 1910; Census Place: Mcalpin, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T624_168; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 337.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=3106741&indiv=try
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[S122] FindaGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88268292
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88268292.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88268292
[S142] Gravestone.
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[S96] Columbia County, FL Marriages 1893-1925.
Francis Marion Howard and Mary Ann Eliza Greene marriage