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Generation No. 3

      4. John Alexander Howerton, born March 17, 1857 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; died March 11, 1926 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. He was the son of 8. Rufus Howerton and 9. Emily Catherine Fly. He married 5. Mary A. Stephens December 25, 1881 in Bride's Residence, Barry County, Missouri.

      5. Mary A. Stephens, born June 1855 in Missouri; died 1911 in Barry County, Missouri.

Notes for John Alexander Howerton:
Barry County Republican
December 3, 1925

FRONT PAGE HEADLINE: "PHARIS HOWERTON ACCIDENTLY SHOOTS SELF"
SUB-HEADLINE: "Shoots Self In Stomach While Taking Gun Out of Crib. Dies Within a Few Hours"

      A sad Thanksgiving was spent at the home of the Howerton's on Shoal Creek near Wheaton caused by the accidental shooting of Pharis Howerton when he attempted to take a shot gun through a crack in the corn crib on the farm.
      Pharis is the 28 year old son of Alex Howerton and was living near his father since he and family returned from California a few months ago. During the early morning his father had taken the gun and gone out to some traps that had been set to catch rabbits and on returning had been told by his son that all the feeding had been done with the exception of feeding the hogs. The elder Howerton went into the crib, taking the gun with him and leaning it up against the wall and commenced shucking corn to feed the hogs. Pharis wanting to use the gun reached through a crack and was drawing the gun with the barrel toward him and in some way the hammer caught on the board and was raised far enough to cause the gun to discharge when it fell, Pharis receiving the full charge of the load in his stomach. He made his way to the house and physicians were summoned, but the charge had severed some of the intestines and they were unable to give him much relief and expressed the belief that he would live but a few hours. The accident occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning and he lived until about 3 o'clock.
      Funeral services were held Sunday and was attended by the largest crowd that had ever assembled at a funeral at the New Hope church. Interment was made in the Clark cemetary

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Cassville Democrat
March 20, 1926

HEADLINE: ALEX HOWERTON DIES VERY SUDDENLY FROM A BROKEN       HEART IN MUSKOGEE, OKLA
SUB-HEADLINE: Shooting Declared Accidentally by His Son Who Lived But       Few Hours After Happening

      Alexander Howerton, charged with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his son, Pharis Howerton, who was killed on November 26, 1925, when a gun in the hands of his father was discharged while the two men were in a field near their home, seven miles southwest of Purdy, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grover Overton, in Muskogee, Okla.
      Word received here Friday announced that Howerton, who was to be tried at Cassville during the March term of Barry county circuit court, was found dead in bed by the daughter. Heart disease was said by physicians in Muskogee to have been the cause of death.
      The shooting of Young Howerton took place on the father's farm last November and was considered for several weeks as an accident. First reports were that Howerton shot his son when he handed him a shot gun, which was discharged accidentally when the father passed it to his son, from a corn crib.
      Young Howerton lived several hours after being wounded and told members of his family and physicians that the shooting was accidental, no idea of murder being advanced at that time.
                  Charge Filed Later
      Later a rumor that Howerton had murdered his son was circulated and a charge of murder was filed against the father, resulting in the elder Howerton's arerst (sic) in Denver Colo., where he had gone with another son, Fred Howerton. The father returned from Colorado without the necessity of Barry county officers accompanying him and surrendered himself to Hugh Brixey, sheriff of Barry county.
      At a preliminary hearing held in Monett, Howerton was bound over to the March term of Barry county circuit court. He was allowed bond and left Monett a short time later to visit his daughter in Muskogee.
      Public opinion in the region near Howerton's home favored the man, who was not generally thought guilty of murder. He was a member of one of Barry county's oldest families and considered as a hardworking and fair man, never having been charged with any type of crime prior to the death of his son.
      Howerton's body arrived in Monett Friday night, accompanied by the daughteer at whose home he died in Muskogee. Funeral services will probably be held Sunday afternoon from the home of a brother, C. C. Howerton, near Wheaton, where the body was taken the night it arrived in Monett.
      In company with his son, he was preparing to drive from Muskogee to his farm the following day and wired relatives to expect him. A short time thereafter the death telegram was received by them.
      A recent Associated Press dispatch from Muskogee, Okla., states that Muskogee physicians who attended Mr. Howerton, after his death, stated that the killing of his son had preyed on the aged man's mind so greatly that he died from a broken heart.
      Howerton's body arrived at his home last Friday and was intered in the Clark cemetary, after funeral services which were conducted by Rev. C. M. Smith of Exeter.

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More About John Alexander Howerton:
Fact 1: Buried in Clark Cemetary, SW of Purdy, MO

More About Mary A. Stephens:
Fact 1: Buried in Clark Cemetary

Children of John Howerton and Mary Stephens are:

Nora Pearl Howerton, born November 1881 in Barry County, MO; died 1957 in Neosho, MO; married James Knox Garrison.

More About Nora Pearl Howerton:
Fact 1: Buried at Clark Cemetary, SW of Purdy, MO

Notes for James Knox Garrison:
Became enraged when brother, Ira Lee Garrison, out of disgust, voted a straight Republican ticket. Confronted Ira saying their father would spin in his grave if he knew he voted for a Republican!

More About James Knox Garrison:
Fact 1: Buried at Clark Cemetary, SW of Purdy, MO
Fact 2: Justice of the Peace, Barry County, MO
Fact 3: 1939, Committed suicide by shot gun

	ii.	Harrison Lee Howerton, born March 12, 1886; married Mamie Brown 1903.
	iii.	Ada E. Howerton, born August 1889 in Barry County, MO; died April 10, 1942 in Muskogee, Oklahoma; married Grover Edwin Overton January 05, 1908.
2	iv.	Fred Rufus Howerton, born September 23, 1892 in Barry County, Missouri; died May 31, 1962 in San Diego, California; married (1) Florence A. Hilker 1910 in Barry County, Missouri; married (2) Vera Jean Garrison August 30, 1947 in Wheaton, Missouri.
	v.	Pharis Alexander Howerton, born March 20, 1894 in Barry County, Missouri; died November 26, 1925 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; married Lillie Viola Ellis.

More About Pharis Alexander Howerton:
Fact 1: Buried in Clark Cemetary
Cause of Death: "Gunshot to bowels"

      6. Ira Lee Garrison, born January 24, 1879 in Corsicana, Missouri; died June 23, 1941 in Monett, Missouri. He was the son of 12. John Right Garrison and 13. Sarah Jane Davidson. He married 7. Mary Etta Vassar January 01, 1905 in Exeter, Missouri.

      7. Mary Etta Vassar, born July 27, 1879 in Exeter, Missouri; died October 13, 1961 in Monett, Missouri. She was the daughter of 14. Thomas L. Vassar and 15. Serena Bell Banks.

More About Ira Lee Garrison:
Fact 1: Buried at New Site cemetary, SW of Monett, MO

More About Myrtle McGlothlin:
Fact 1: Died with child in childbirth

More About Mary Etta Vassar:
Fact 1: Buried at New Site cemetary, SW of Monett, MO

Children of Ira Garrison and Mary Vassar are:

	i.	Nona Garrison, born October 24, 1905 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; married Frank Leroy Rainey October 25, 1925 in Exeter, Barry County, MO.
	ii.	Burl Garrison, born August 15, 1907 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; married Bessie Faye Burge January 26, 1933.
	iii.	Verne Garrison, born January 29, 1909 in Exeter, Barry County, MO; married Zelma Mae Vallmar December 25, 1942 in Mansfield, MO.
3	iv.	Vera Jean Garrison, born December 06, 1910 in Corsicana, Missouri; married (1) Tommy Crabtree; married (2) Fred Rufus Howerton August 30, 1947 in Wheaton, Missouri.
	v.	Cora Mae Garrison, born May 23, 1913 in Corsicana, Missouri; married Leon A. Walters.
	vi.	Paul Leroy Garrison, born August 04, 1915 in Corsicana, Missouri; married (1) Mona Ruth Raines; married (2) Evelyn Howard.
	vii.	Ruth Marie Garrison, born March 12, 1917.
	viii.	Sarah Belle Garrison, born September 01, 1921 in Corsicana, Missouri; died February 22, 1930 in Monett, Missouri.

More About Sarah Belle Garrison:
Fact 1: Buried at New Site Cemetary, SW of Monett, MO

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