The Green Forest tribune., 1898-10-13
Howard Re.UniOn.

who belongs to the third generation, for the relatives 10 meet at Omaha, Nebr., during the Trans Mississippi Exposition.
 Miss H Hattie Howard of Ripple Creek, Colo,. Asa Howard of Chicago, Oliver Howard of Red Oak, To-, also George Howard of Elliott, To-, gave efficient assistance in the arranging of the time and place of meeting. The par. lors of the Utopia Hotel, 1721 Dayen- port St., were selected to be the place of meeting. and 120 of the decendehts of John Howard spent August 3l and September and 3 in joyful reunion.
 Tradition, as given by our ancestors, is that when the of King was compell- ed to flee into Wales, Duke Henry Howard accompanied him as one of his suit. While there Duke Henry Howard married Welsh woman. When Duke Henry returned to Eng land, his family would not acknowl- edge her, because she was not of the nobility. He then left England and came to America and settled at New. burn, N. c. His brother in England died, and the family sent a chartered vessel to convey Duke Henry to Eng land. He ordered the vessel back with with emphatic expression that Duke dom was no temptation to him, to live in country where his wife could not be acknowledged as his equal. He died, leaving an infant son-Bar- tholmew. The Welsh woman then married man named Horton. He also died, but she lived to be very old. She raised her son, Bartholomew How ard, who married Ruth Stanton. They named their first child Horton Howard, after his mother, who was then the widow Horton. Their second child was Mary Howard, who married Aaron Brown. Their third child was John Howard, the subject of this sketch. He married Cherry Dew, who was the mother of Sarah D., Asa, Ruth, Wiley and Cherry Howard. Later he married Hannah Ralev, who became the mother of James, Rachel, Abbie, Jane, Pharoby. Isaac, Joseph. John, Charles and Mary Howard. Only two of this large family are now living. Mrs. Wiley Howard Greggs of Law renee, Kansas, aged 90 years, and the youngest member of the family. Mrs. Mary Howard Larkin, aged 65 years, who both attended the late reunion at Omaha, Nebr.
 John Howard owned large tract of land near Beanford, N. G., also many slaves, the slaves being valued at $90 900. He became convinced that it was wrong to hold human belongs in bondage, and he wished to make them free. The laws of North Carolina were against their manumission, unless bond was given securing the state against their becoming public charge. They preferred to stay in the South, so he settled the on his lands, and about the year 1900 he moved to Ohio, which was then vast wilderness. He located at Mount Pleasant in Jefferson county where he worked at cabinet making. There the above marriage took place and he reared his large family. During the rest of his life he occasionally visited North Carolina tolook after the interest of his freed men Qiberated slaves.) He died Nov. 12. '39
 Tradition gives it that when Duke Henry Howard was called home from home from America he exclaimed "To hell with your Dukedom, I live in free country" He despised title and fortune, and rank which requir- ed his disearding his wife. And of my grand father it is said W hen remon- stated with by friends concerning the great sacrifice he was making in freeing his slaves, he remarked; II have con sidered it well, my duty is clear, and God will preserve ne in doing it." The examples of these two hopored men in sacrificing all their earthly DO. sessions for conscience sake are not entirely lost on succeeding generations. As in this family there has never been g pauper or a cri minal. and many of it's members have filled and many are