Major Daniel Howe b. 20 Sep 1758 Pulaski County, Virginia, USA d. 2 Jan 1838 "Sunnyside", Pulaski County, Virginia: If the Legends Are True...

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Prefix Major

Alt. Birth 20 Sep 1757 [9]

Birth 20 Sep 1758 Pulaski County, Virginia, USA [1, 6, 7, 8]

Gender Male

AFN 115V-6R0

Military Service during the Revolutionary War as an officer [4]

Died 2 Jan 1838 "Sunnyside", Pulaski County, Virginia [7, 8, 9]

Buried Howe Cemetery, Sunnyside, Pulaski County, Virginia [7, 8, 9]

Person ID I5471 If the Legends Are True...

Last Modified 17 Dec 2009

Father Major Joseph Howe, b. Est 1720, England , d. 4 Mar 1794, "Sunnyside", Pulaski County, Virginia

Mother Eleanor Dunbar, b. 1730

Alt. Marriage Between 1754 and 1755 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Biographical Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia

had 7 children according to Daniel Dunbar Howe

Residence Aft 1757-1758 Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia

Family ID F539 Group Sheet

Family Nancy Heavin, b. 8 Jan 1771, New River, Montgomery County, Virginia , d. 4 Mar 1830, "Sunnyside", Pulaski County, Virginia

Alt. Marriage 28 Aug 1790 Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA [6, 8]

Married 31 Aug 1790 [7, 9]

Biographical had 11 children [7]

Children

>	1. Elizabeth Howe, b. 15 Jul 1791, d. 23 Apr 1862
>	2. Eleanor Haven Howe, b. 1 Dec 1792, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 13 Jun 1856, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia
>	3. Julia Howe, b. 3 Jun 1795, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 6 May 1865
>	4. Rutha Howe, b. 27 Jan 1797, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 16 Jul 1875, Missouri
>	5. Joseph Howard Howe, b. 28 Sep 1798, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 7 Dec 1884, Draper, Pulaski, Virginia, USA
>	6. Major John Dunbar Howe, b. 4 Jan 1801, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 9 Jan 1885, "Sunnyside", Pulaski County, Virginia
>	7. Lucretia H. Howe, b. 26 Aug 1803, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 1889
	8. Daniel Webster Howe, b. 29 Oct 1805, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. 28 Jun 1806
	9. Nancy Pearis Howe, b. 28 Aug 1807, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
>	10. William Henry Howe, b. 15 Mar 1810, Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia , d. 24 Jun 1896, Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, USA
>	11. Luemma F. Howe, b. 18 Aug 1813, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 17 Dec 2009

Family ID F2010 Group Sheet

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Alt. Marriage - 28 Aug 1790 - Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, USA

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Notes	Major Daniel Howe, an officer in our War for Independence, was often on detached service in search of Tories. The story is told that one John Haven, of Plum Creek, was suspected of being a Tory, and that Major Howe was sent on more than one occasion to arrest Haven, but was unable to do so, and that finally a pretty, black-eyed daughter of Haven, whose name was Nancy, caught the Major and she became his wife, as already stated. David E. Johnston – 1906 At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the army against the Indians, and was probably with Col. Christian on his epedition to join Gen. Andrew Lewis in his campaign in 1774, and arriving upon the battlefield of Point Pleasant, the day after the battle, of which he gave a description. He afterwards enlisted as a Revolutionary soldier, and served at intervals throughout the war, attaining to the rank of captain. He belonged to Capt. Henry Patton's Company of Col. William Preston's Regiment, but served under various other commanders, and was engaged principally on the frontier of Virginia and North Carolina. After the Revolution he became a Major in the militia. He succeeded to the "Sunnyside" homestead of his father, where he died 2 Jan. 1838. His tombstone is in the cemetery on the old homestead bears this inscription, "In youth a soldier of the Revolution, in old age a soldier of the cross." There are not many descendants of Daniel Howe, who bear the family name, but all who do, live in Southwest Virginia. There are, however, a large number of them who bear other names than Howe, who live in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and on the Pacific Coast. In religion the Howes of Virginia, and their descendants, with few exceptions, were Presbyterians, and in politics were Democrats. The greater number of those of military age, saw active service on the Confederate side, during the Civil war. Several of Daniel Howe's descendants were killed at the battle of Cloyd's Farm, fought in the neighborhood of the old homestead; a grandson died a prisoner of war, another was wounded and taken prisoner at Gettysburg, and another remianed in the service until Lee's surrender. Daniel Wait Howe – 1929

Sources

[S89] Howe Genealogies, Daniel Wait Howe, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1929, 1236 pgs.), Appendix p. 556 (Reliability: 3).
[S71] Hoge, Family of, James Hoge Tyler (compiler), (Greensboro, North Carolina: James Fulton Hoge, editor & publisher, 1927), page 59 (Reliability: 4).
[S486] Listen to the Mockingbird, Daniel Dunbar Howe, (Boyce, Virginia: Carr publishing Company, Inc., 1961), page 287 (Reliability: 4).
[S191] Middle New River Settlements, David E. Johnston, (Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Printing & Publishing Co, 1906), Appendix C. Biographical - Hare-Howes. (Reliability: 4).
[S191] Middle New River Settlements, David E. Johnston, (Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Printing & Publishing Co, 1906), Appendix C. Biographical - Peck-Peters.. (Reliability: 4).

[S443] Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick Adams Virkus, F. I. A. G., Volume VII, page 815 (Reliability: 3).
(Chicago, Illinois: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1942)
[S486] Listen to the Mockingbird, Daniel Dunbar Howe, (Boyce, Virginia: Carr publishing Company, Inc., 1961), page 289 (Reliability: 4).
[S9] FamilySearch Ancestral File, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, 1995-2005), 115V-6R0 (Reliability: 1).
[S486] Listen to the Mockingbird, Daniel Dunbar Howe, (Boyce, Virginia: Carr publishing Company, Inc., 1961), page 368 (Reliability: 4).