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Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5           Generation 5                                       
                                         
                       +-- Abram Howe
                       |   (~1797-????)       
 Anna Catherine Howe --+                     
 (1830-1890)           |                         
                       +-- Barbara Unknown
                           (~1787_????)
                                        

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Children

(Eight children with wife Barbara Unknown; names of three are known.)

Places of Residence

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1'	History of Clarion Co. PA 1887, by Davis, p. xxv. Biography of George Howe, second of 8 children born to Abraham and Barbarah Howe, was born in Huntington Co. 11 July 1823; arrived Clarion Co. 1837.	(Complete text)
2	1830 United States Federal Census Slippery Rock Twp., Mercer Co. PA. Family of a George How age 30-40, (wife) age 30-40; 4 children: 1M & 1F aged under 5; 2M aged 5-10. This George How is likely a brother of Abram Howe. Abram had a son named Goerge who eventually resided in Mercer Co. PA. In 1930 Abram Howe was aged about 33 yrs; this George How was aged 30-40 yrs, with 4 children.
2	1840 United States Federal Census,Toby Twp., Armstrong Co. PA. No date of census given. Abraham Howe age 40-50; (wife) age 50-60; children: 1M age 5-10; 1M&2F age 10-15; 2M age 15-20. These ages acomodate the presently known family members: Abram 42, Barbara 53, George 17, Catharine 10, Samuel 9. If this is the correct family, there are 3 more male chldren.
2	1850 Federal Census, Porter Township, Clarion Co. PA,pg 110, (from Ancestry.com; heading missing; no date of census) Abram How age 53, wife Barbara age 63, dau. Catherine age 20, son Samuel age 19. Abram born in PA, had a farm of 600 acres.
3	1860 Federal Census, Porter Twp., Clarion Co. PA, Abram Howe age 63, Barbara Howe age 73
4	Personal correspondence of Fran Bean, descendant of Reuben Kline. Located the 1850 census record for Abram How in Porter Twp. Clarion Co. PA; noted repetition of Abram & Barbara in children's names; correspondence of calculated birth year from Catherine's census age & gravestone date & age.
5	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, granddaughter of Winnifred May Kline.	N/A

Source Notes

• 1840 census PA, Cumberland Co. Dickinson Twp: Abram How age 40-50; 1F age 30-40; 1F&1M age 10-15; 2M age <5. The male age 40-50 is correct for what we know of our Abram Howe, and the female childe age 10-15 is correct for dau. Catherine. The other ages do not match what we know of Barbara, George & Samuel. Does not appear to be the correct family.

1850 census PA, Cumberland Co., Dickinson Twp.: Abram Howe age 48, Elizabeth age 39, and 5 children including a Catherine E. age 3. This is not the same person as Abram Howe above, nor could he be his father; no apparent relationship.

• Per Robert Beals,1995 (Emlenton, PA, great-grandson of Catherine Howe), Catherine had a brother named George Howe who owned a coffee company and Catherine's husband, Henry Kline, had a brother who worked there for George for a time. (In 1995, the phone book listed a George J. Howe Coffee Co., 629 W. Main St., Grove City, Mercer Co. PA. Whether the compamy name has changed to reflect current owner's name is unknown). The History of Clarion Co., 1887, p. xxv biography of George Howe b. 1823, lists his parents as Abraham & Barbara Howe. Henry Kline & Catherine Howe named one of their sons John Abram Kline, and one of their daughters Barbara; this name repetition supports the belief that the Abraham Howe in this biography is the father of Catherine Howe. If so, the family originated, or was in Huntington County PA for a time. The 1850 census of Porter Twp.,Clarion Co., household of Abram & Barbara How, daughter Catherine's age as 20. Her gravestone lists her age as 60 yrs., when she died in 1890. This would make her 20 yrs. old in 1850.

Conjecture

• George G. Howe, relationship unknown. There is a second Howe biography, p. xxv, 1887 History of Clarion Co., of one Nelson B. Howe of Knox b. 1849. It lists his father as George C. and Barbara E. (Armstrong) Howe - so possibly a son of the George Howe above, except that it also lists his paternal grandfather as Simeon Howe, pioneer of Clarion Co. PA. It is enticing to wonder if the writer mangled the second biography, skipping a generation, assigning Barbara Armstrong to the wrong generation of Howe, etc. (See complete text) This Nelson Howe appears as an 11 year old child in the 1860 census, parents Barbara E. and George G. Howe. Nelson's brother, John F. Howe, is buried in the Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery, "Old Beaver Cemetery", Clarion Co. PA.
  (See complate page, documents, gravestone photo for George G. Howe family)

*Venango County Records, Vol. I,1984, Venango Co. Genealogical Club, Oil City. pg. 18. Miller Farm Cemetery, Oil Creek Twp., Venango Co. "the Miller Farm Cemetery is located within the present Oil Creek State Park & includes a number of pre-oil burials...the cemetery has been badly vandalized & many stones listed below destroyed. This copy made in 1958: ...
Emily, dau. of Samuel & Sarah Howe, died July 5, 1843, (age illegible).
Rachel, dau. of Samuel & Sarah Howe, died June 10, 1848, aged 9 yr. 4 mo., 7 da.
(Note: Samuel & Sarah Howe are also buried here in unmarked graves. Samuel Howe was murdered on his farm near Pioneer in 1879.)"
Any relationship of this Samuel Howe to our Howe family above is unknown; the presence of a Samuel Howe in each was noted.

Howe Families in 1850 Census, Western PA

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