Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 646-648 [Hickman] PHILLIP HOWARD, a successful farmer and extensive landowner in both Hickman and Graves counties, Kentucky, resides upon his pleasant and valuable homestead in the former county. He was born in Surry county, North Carolina, in 1819, and is a son of Benjamin Howard, also a native of that state, but who subsequently located in Graves county, Kentucky, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was an excellent business man, and his death occurred in 1835. In his family were seven children who grew to years of maturity. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Joseph Campbell, who removed from his native state of South Carolina to Graves county, Kentucky, in 1828, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. His death occurred in the year 1840, and he now lies buried in Graves county. When the time came for him to engage in the active battle of life for himself Phillip Howard secured employment at cutting cord wood in Fulton county, being thus engaged from 1837 until 1838. In the latter year he left his boyhood home and made his way to Arkansas, where he was employed in driving a team for the government, hauling supplies for the Indians, and followed that occupation until 1839, the year in which he came to Graves county. Here he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and here he remained until his children were grown, after which he located in Hickman county, on his present homestead. His fertile and well cultivated farm consists of two hundred and forty acres, and in addition to this he is also the owner of a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of excellent land in Graves county. In 1841 Mr. Howard was united in marriage to Rachel Campbell, who was born in South Carolina in 1823, and the following children have been born of this union: Joseph B., a farmer of Graves county; Mary Jincie, the wife of J. T. Cunningham, a farmer of Weakley county, Tennessee; J. Kimburn, also a farmer in Graves county; W. C., an agriculturist, physician and merchant in Texas; W. D., engaged in agricultural pursuits in Arkansas; Mrs. L. E. Sherffins, whose husband is a farmer in Hickman county. In 1901 the wife and mother was called to the home beyond, passing away at the age of seventy-seven years, and she now lies buried in Graves county, the family burying ground. In his political affiliations Mr. Howard has been a life-long Democrat, and on its ticket his fellow citizens have honored him with many positions of honor and trust. His religious connections are with the Christian church in Hickman county. Howard Campbell Cunningham Sherffins = Graves-KY Surry-NC SC Fulton-KY AR Weakley-TN TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/hickman/howard.p.txt