General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 83GV-6J
REFN: 120530
Howell, John--Captain 7th Regiment--Mar. 12, 1811.#

Farmer.
Family tradition states that John first came in 1839 with surveying expedition.



1843 Wagon Train Pioneers:

The following list contains the names of every male member of that great train over the age o f sixteen years. It was prepared by [James Willis] NESMITH when the train was organized, an d preserved among his papers for a third of a century before given for publication. (Publicat ion was in TOPA [Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association] 1876, The Occasional Addres s of Hon J W NESMITH with this list appearing on pp 49-51.)

All reached the Willamette Valley, except a few, the exceptions being designated by marks an d foot notes:" --[The original published list was "corrected by Nellie B PIPES, Secretary, Oregon Historical Society" prior to publication in TOPA. The list below is re-alphabetized an d notes included for this publication. I have also compared it name-by-name with the list pub lished by Jesse A APPLEGATE in A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 [Chicago: Caxton Club, 1934] , which lists the adult male immigrants on pp 195-201. Jesse APPLEGATE and William MARTIN spl it the Wagon Trail into two units, and Jesse led the group with herds of cattle.]

G W HOWELL
John HOWELL b 6 Dec 1787 TN, d 4 Oct 1869, married Temperance MIDKIFF (29 Apr 1796-22 Mar 184 8); both buried Howell Cemetery, Howell Prairie, Marion Co OR.
Thomas E HOWELL
Wesley HOWELL 1826-1883, served in Cayuse War 1848. Buried Howell Cemetery.
Wm HOWELL

# Change Date: 8 Mar 2004 at 20:

there is an Ancestral File that lists 14 children. For further information about this family, there are two websites about the Great Migration of 1843 to Oregon Territory that list the Howell's. John and Temperance and many of their offspring went on that wagon train. The sites are http://www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm (check under 1843) and www.peak.org/~mransom/pioneers.html. The Howell's and their daughter and son-in-law Elizabeth and George McCorkle settled in the Willamette valley in a place near Salem that was called Howell Prairie. Both John and Temperance are buried in the cemetery there, close to the cabin where they lived and originally on their property. There is information about land claims made by several of the Howell's at two other websites. One is www.arcweb.sos.state.or.us/

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