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