Died--In this City, on Friday last at the residence of Maj. Wooley, Mr. JOHN HOWARD, at the advanced age of 103. He was born in Goochland county, Virginia near Carter's Ferry. His father, Col. Allen Howard, placed him, at the age of 15, with the celebrated Samuel Davis (who was afterwards President of Princeton College, and who received into his family, six young gentlemen) for instruction. After spending three years with Mr. Davis, Mr. Howard united with the church, a rare instance at this time of a youth with a liberal education and peculiar advantages, put early in possession of a valuable property, and the expectation of considerable more which he realized. Notwithstanding the allurements of fortune and the dissipated place and age in which he was brought up--it please Providence to convert him amidst these temptations, and make him an eminent and exemplary member of the Presbyterian church, which he adorned upwards of eighty years. He was a strict observer of the Sabbath, and when traveling, on that day always rested...He had outlived all of his family, except his second daughter. His only son, Gov. Benj. Howard died in St. Louis in 1814.
Mr. Howard was an early adventurer to this country. He made settlement at Boonesborough in July, 1775. He was a firm and decided Whig in the old revolution; and was a volunteer at the battle of Guilford; when in the act of taking a wounded man from the field he was attacked by Tarleton's light horse, and received five wounds, three of which were pronounced mortal by the surgeon who dressed them. His sight and activity continued good until his hundredth year. He never used spectacles, and would ride with ease thirty miles a day, and walk several to visit his neighbors in preference to riding. And unfortunate fall injured him so severely that he was confined to his bed upwards of two years. In that time he has been a pattern of untiring patience and resignation, and was never heard to murmur or repine. Previous to his fall his bodily vigor was such as to promise a comfortable life of eight or ten years... From the Western Luminary. (Lexington) --The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Kentucky); 08 Nov 1834
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Mr. Howard was an early adventurer to this country. He made settlement at Boonesborough in July, 1775. He was a firm and decided Whig in the old revolution; and was a volunteer at the battle of Guilford; when in the act of taking a wounded man from the field he was attacked by Tarleton's light horse, and received five wounds, three of which were pronounced mortal by the surgeon who dressed them. His sight and activity continued good until his hundredth year. He never used spectacles, and would ride with ease thirty miles a day, and walk several to visit his neighbors in preference to riding. And unfortunate fall injured him so severely that he was confined to his bed upwards of two years. In that time he has been a pattern of untiring patience and resignation, and was never heard to murmur or repine. Previous to his fall his bodily vigor was such as to promise a comfortable life of eight or ten years... From the Western Luminary. (Lexington) --The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Kentucky); 08 Nov 1834
(The account of the F/G member who created the original memorial for JOHN HOWARD has been disabled. This second memorial was created to make the above obituary available to family members.)
Died--In this City, on Friday last at the residence of Maj. Wooley, Mr. JOHN HOWARD, at the advanced age of 103. He was born in Goochland county, Virginia near Carter's Ferry. His father, Col. Allen Howard, placed him, at the age of 15, with the celebrated Samuel Davis (who was afterwards President of Princeton College, and who received into his family, six young gentlemen) for instruction. After spending three years with Mr. Davis, Mr. Howard united with the church, a rare instance at this time of a youth with a liberal education and peculiar advantages, put early in possession of a valuable property, and the expectation of considerable more which he realized. Notwithstanding the allurements of fortune and the dissipated place and age in which he was brought up--it please Providence to convert him amidst these temptations, and make him an eminent and exemplary member of the Presbyterian church, which he adorned upwards of eighty years. He was a strict observer of the Sabbath, and when traveling, on that day always rested...He had outlived all of his family, except his second daughter. His only son, Gov. Benj. Howard died in St. Louis in 1814.
Mr. Howard was an early adventurer to this country. He made settlement at Boonesborough in July, 1775. He was a firm and decided Whig in the old revolution; and was a volunteer at the battle of Guilford; when in the act of taking a wounded man from the field he was attacked by Tarleton's light horse, and received five wounds, three of which were pronounced mortal by the surgeon who dressed them. His sight and activity continued good until his hundredth year. He never used spectacles, and would ride with ease thirty miles a day, and walk several to visit his neighbors in preference to riding. And unfortunate fall injured him so severely that he was confined to his bed upwards of two years. In that time he has been a pattern of untiring patience and resignation, and was never heard to murmur or repine. Previous to his fall his bodily vigor was such as to promise a comfortable life of eight or ten years... From the Western Luminary. (Lexington) --The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Kentucky); 08 Nov 1834
(The account of the F/G member who created the original memorial for JOHN HOWARD has been disabled. This second memorial was created to make the above obituary available to family members.)
Mr. Howard was an early adventurer to this country. He made settlement at Boonesborough in July, 1775. He was a firm and decided Whig in the old revolution; and was a volunteer at the battle of Guilford; when in the act of taking a wounded man from the field he was attacked by Tarleton's light horse, and received five wounds, three of which were pronounced mortal by the surgeon who dressed them. His sight and activity continued good until his hundredth year. He never used spectacles, and would ride with ease thirty miles a day, and walk several to visit his neighbors in preference to riding. And unfortunate fall injured him so severely that he was confined to his bed upwards of two years. In that time he has been a pattern of untiring patience and resignation, and was never heard to murmur or repine. Previous to his fall his bodily vigor was such as to promise a comfortable life of eight or ten years... From the Western Luminary. (Lexington) --The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Kentucky); 08 Nov 1834
(The account of the F/G member who created the original memorial for JOHN HOWARD has been disabled. This second memorial was created to make the above obituary available to family members.)
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