U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Howell, Grant Truman (1861-1912) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 395-396 Grant Truman Howell, born 1861, son of Nehemiah and Rebecca (Limbers) Howell, was married October 18, 1893, to Anna Belle, daughter of Eldridge and Darothy (Bartlett) Golden. Children, Eva Maude, Harold George and Jessie. He is a member of the M. E. Church; of the A. O. P. A., is a farmer and lumber dealer, owning 164 acres near the old homestead mostly improved. He was educated in the public schools of Barbour. The great grandfather came from Scotland and settled near Philadelphia, and Nehemiah Howell was born in Preston County 1815, and died 1885. Nehemiah's father's name was John, and he was born in 1792. The grandfather, John Limbers, was born in Prance, and with his parents settled in Green County, Pennsylvania, about 1835. Rebecca Howell was born 1823. William Howell, brother of Nehemiah, was in the Union army under Averell, and was in the battle of Droop Mountain and at other places, dying of a wound received at Cedar Creek in 1864. The children of Nehemiah and Rebecca Howell, were as follows, with the dates of their births: Sarah, 1841; John, 1843; William, 1845; David, 1847; Lewis, 1848; .Rachel, 1850; Martin, 1852; James, 1854; George, 1856; Samuel, 1858; Grant, 1861; Mattie E., 1865. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-REGISTER, Barbour County, WV Page 90, Line Numbered 7 Name: Grant T. Howell Date-of-death: Feb 28, 1912 at age 53y-3m-27d Place-of-birth: Philippi Cause-of-death: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Occupation: Merchant Marital-status: Married Informant: J. W. Myers, Physician DEATH-CERTIFICATE: Boone County, WV #17403 Full-name: Annie Bell Golden Howell Birth: born in Barbour County, WV Death: Dec 15, 1941 (age 77y-6m-19d) in Madison, Boone, WV Marital-status: Widowed Father: Elza Golden, Born in Virginia Mother: Dollie Bartlett, born in Virginia Informant: Dr. H. H. Howell of Madison, W.Va. Cause-of-death: Congestive heart failure Burial: Jerusalem, Philippi, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------