REFN: 2019 Colonial Families in the U.S.: John Eager Howard, b 25th June, 1788; d 18th October, 1822; m 20th December, 1820, Cornelia Annabella READ, b. 1798; d 28th December 1862. He was at the battle of North Point, near Baltimore, 12th September, 1814. They had one child, b 3d September 1821, who in the Mexican War served as Captain and was brevetted Major for gallantry, being the third to scale the walls of Chapultepec, and who d. umn. 14th August 1862.