History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 739. JAMES W. HOWARD (deceased) was born Sept. 23, 1796, in Orange County, N. C., and was a son of Mark and Rachel (Webb) Howard, natives of North Carolina, and descendants of the Howard and Webb families of Essex, England. James W. came to Kentucky when eight years of age, and lived on the same farm his father settled in 1804, till his death, May 10, 1881. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel and Sallie I. Johnson. They had ten children, seven now living--Nester C., Henry W., Sallie I. (Mrs. Benjamin Tanner), Albert G., Robert, Arabella (widow of John A. Rown), and Rosanna (Mrs. T. L. Tanner). Jane, wife of John Walden, of Henderson, Ky., Samuel J. and Araminta D. are deceased. Mrs. Howard is still living, aged seventy-seven years. Albert G. Howard was married in February, 1870, to Allie L., daughter of Thomas J. and Martha J. (Lee) Blanchard. They have six children--James L., Blanchard, Mary A., Hattie V., Nester and Martha. In 1870 Albert, in company with his brother, Robert, bought 255 1/2 acres in the western part of Murray Precinct. Howard Webb Johnson Tanner Rown Walden Lee Blanchard = Orange-NC England Henderson-KY Grabbed on 12:09, Tue, May 29, 2001 This page has been grabbed using Zip Up The Web!