There are two unmarked graves listed for Thomas Howard in plot 51a, spaces 3 & 4, and 4 unknown burials in Plot 193c, spaces 1,2,3, & 4.
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Following is an excerpt from "History of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin" edited by George Forrester, and printed by A. Warner Publisher, Chicago, Illinois 1891-2. Please note all spelling and punctuation was left as it was in the original).
Thomas Howard, farmer, Pepin, was born in Jefferson county, Pa., July 21, 1826, and was a son of Caleb and Fanny Howard. At twenty-two years of age he began working about a charcoal furnace, which he continued for about four years. He afterward engaged in farming, and in 1854 came to Pepin, where he purchased a farm in 1857. February 27, 1857, he married Mahala Kephart, who borne him nine children: David D., Fanny J. (Mrs. C. Lincoln), Asa J., Maggie C. (Mrs. W. H. McCain), William T., Mary M., Theodore C., James P. and Charles Crosby, only six of whom are now living. Mr. Howard purchased the farm where he resided in 1860.
For a number of season he operated a threshing machine, but now leaves most of his business to his sons, who was intelligent and capable young men. In politics Mr. Howard was a republican, and served the town as supervisor for three years.
Mrs. Howard's father, David Kephart, was born in Carroll county, Md., April 8, 1792, and died at Pepin, May 1, 1882. He served in the American Army during the campaign about Baltimore (war of 1812), for which he received a pension and warrant to 160 acres of land. He married Mahala Zene, who bore him eight children, two of whom, Mrs. H. Francis and Mrs. Howard, now reside in Pepin. Mrs. Kephart died in Pepin in August, 1871. Mr. Kephart arrived in Pepin Co 1855 and purchased a farm.
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Following is an excerpt from "History of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin" edited by George Forrester, and printed by A. Warner Publisher, Chicago, Illinois 1891-2. Please note all spelling and punctuation was left as it was in the original).
Thomas Howard, farmer, Pepin, was born in Jefferson county, Pa., July 21, 1826, and was a son of Caleb and Fanny Howard. At twenty-two years of age he began working about a charcoal furnace, which he continued for about four years. He afterward engaged in farming, and in 1854 came to Pepin, where he purchased a farm in 1857. February 27, 1857, he married Mahala Kephart, who borne him nine children: David D., Fanny J. (Mrs. C. Lincoln), Asa J., Maggie C. (Mrs. W. H. McCain), William T., Mary M., Theodore C., James P. and Charles Crosby, only six of whom are now living. Mr. Howard purchased the farm where he resided in 1860.
For a number of season he operated a threshing machine, but now leaves most of his business to his sons, who was intelligent and capable young men. In politics Mr. Howard was a republican, and served the town as supervisor for three years.
Mrs. Howard's father, David Kephart, was born in Carroll county, Md., April 8, 1792, and died at Pepin, May 1, 1882. He served in the American Army during the campaign about Baltimore (war of 1812), for which he received a pension and warrant to 160 acres of land. He married Mahala Zene, who bore him eight children, two of whom, Mrs. H. Francis and Mrs. Howard, now reside in Pepin. Mrs. Kephart died in Pepin in August, 1871. Mr. Kephart arrived in Pepin Co 1855 and purchased a farm.
There are two unmarked graves listed for Thomas Howard in plot 51a, spaces 3 & 4, and 4 unknown burials in Plot 193c, spaces 1,2,3, & 4.
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Following is an excerpt from "History of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin" edited by George Forrester, and printed by A. Warner Publisher, Chicago, Illinois 1891-2. Please note all spelling and punctuation was left as it was in the original).
Thomas Howard, farmer, Pepin, was born in Jefferson county, Pa., July 21, 1826, and was a son of Caleb and Fanny Howard. At twenty-two years of age he began working about a charcoal furnace, which he continued for about four years. He afterward engaged in farming, and in 1854 came to Pepin, where he purchased a farm in 1857. February 27, 1857, he married Mahala Kephart, who borne him nine children: David D., Fanny J. (Mrs. C. Lincoln), Asa J., Maggie C. (Mrs. W. H. McCain), William T., Mary M., Theodore C., James P. and Charles Crosby, only six of whom are now living. Mr. Howard purchased the farm where he resided in 1860.
For a number of season he operated a threshing machine, but now leaves most of his business to his sons, who was intelligent and capable young men. In politics Mr. Howard was a republican, and served the town as supervisor for three years.
Mrs. Howard's father, David Kephart, was born in Carroll county, Md., April 8, 1792, and died at Pepin, May 1, 1882. He served in the American Army during the campaign about Baltimore (war of 1812), for which he received a pension and warrant to 160 acres of land. He married Mahala Zene, who bore him eight children, two of whom, Mrs. H. Francis and Mrs. Howard, now reside in Pepin. Mrs. Kephart died in Pepin in August, 1871. Mr. Kephart arrived in Pepin Co 1855 and purchased a farm.
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Following is an excerpt from "History of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin" edited by George Forrester, and printed by A. Warner Publisher, Chicago, Illinois 1891-2. Please note all spelling and punctuation was left as it was in the original).
Thomas Howard, farmer, Pepin, was born in Jefferson county, Pa., July 21, 1826, and was a son of Caleb and Fanny Howard. At twenty-two years of age he began working about a charcoal furnace, which he continued for about four years. He afterward engaged in farming, and in 1854 came to Pepin, where he purchased a farm in 1857. February 27, 1857, he married Mahala Kephart, who borne him nine children: David D., Fanny J. (Mrs. C. Lincoln), Asa J., Maggie C. (Mrs. W. H. McCain), William T., Mary M., Theodore C., James P. and Charles Crosby, only six of whom are now living. Mr. Howard purchased the farm where he resided in 1860.
For a number of season he operated a threshing machine, but now leaves most of his business to his sons, who was intelligent and capable young men. In politics Mr. Howard was a republican, and served the town as supervisor for three years.
Mrs. Howard's father, David Kephart, was born in Carroll county, Md., April 8, 1792, and died at Pepin, May 1, 1882. He served in the American Army during the campaign about Baltimore (war of 1812), for which he received a pension and warrant to 160 acres of land. He married Mahala Zene, who bore him eight children, two of whom, Mrs. H. Francis and Mrs. Howard, now reside in Pepin. Mrs. Kephart died in Pepin in August, 1871. Mr. Kephart arrived in Pepin Co 1855 and purchased a farm.
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