| i. | Samantha Jane Howerton, born July 26, 1851 in Barry County, MO; died April 19, 1941 in Barry County, MO; married Randolph N. Lansdown December 17, 1872 in Barry County, MO. | |||
| ii. | Sarah Elizabeth Howerton, born August 16, 1853; died March 16, 1930; married Thomas Crawford September 05, 1868 in Barry County, MO. | |||
| iii. | George Jackson Howerton, born November 05, 1855; married Sarah Alabama May 13, 1877 in Barry County, MO. | |||
| 4 | iv. | John Alexander Howerton, born March 17, 1857 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; died March 11, 1926 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; married Mary A. Stephens December 25, 1881 in Bride's Residence, Barry County, Missouri. | ||
| v. | Christopher Columbus Howerton, born June 15, 1857 in Barry County, MO; died Abt. 1897 in Barry County, MO; married Martha E. Downing June 25, 1883 in Barry County, MO. | |||
| vi. | William Monroe Howerton, born February 01, 1861 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; died August 29, 1950 in Round Rock, Travis County, Texas; married Martha Jane Campbell September 07, 1884 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri. | |||
| vii. | Columbia Angelina Howerton, born January 20, 1863 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; married James A. Hackwith April 09, 1880 in Barry County, MO. | |||
| viii. | Charlie Tilman Howerton, born November 21, 1864 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; died June 26, 1928 in Barry County, MO; married Dora A. Bradley November 05, 1893 in Corsicana, Missouri. |
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More About Charlie Tilman Howerton: Fact 1: Buried in Corsicana Cemetary |
| ix. | Charles Chartar Howerton, born March 13, 1867 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; died April 20, 1929 in Barry County, MO; married Ruth Stephens. | |||
| x. | Calvin Leonadis Howerton, born January 28, 1869 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; died April 07, 1926 in Barry County, MO; married Ida Burkett October 27, 1896 in Corsicana, Missouri. |
| i. | Erastus Elmer Garrison, born August 21, 1872 in Missouri; died September 16, 1944 in Salem, Oregon; married Lillie May Hunt. | |||
| ii. | Abram Charter Garrison, born January 05, 1875 in Barry County, Missouri; died March 20, 1978; married Nora Smith April 16, 1905 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri. |
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Notes for Abram Charter Garrison: Newspaper Clipping Springfield, Missouri, Sunday News & Leader, Feb. 12, 1967 Photos & Byline: Charles Allonby Just outside the front door of his home, 92 year-old Chart Garrison looked down the country road that comes south and west from Purdy, about five miles away. Suddenly it was Corsicana in 1900. Farther down the road he glanced toward the site of his birthplace, where he arrived on Jan. 5, 1875. Only a memory remains, for it blew down in the 1943 tornado. But some things haven't changed. His home is the one in which he and his wife, Nora, were married April 16, 1905. It's one of only two buildings still standing in what was once the stopping place for the scores of wagon trains on their way west. That only other building of that hectic last half of the nineteenth century is one of the blacksmith shops, its complete ruin imminent. Gone are the post office, the creamery, the canning factory, the stores of Barney Bales and Silas May, and a second blacksmith shop. And, of course, the mill, indispensable to frontier existence. But here still flows Joy creek, named for Corsicana's first settler. Its flow has diminished in late years but it was once a strong tributary of Shoal creek and, with plenty of water for the mill, had much to do with bringing Corsicana into existence. Chart sets Corsicana's origin sometime before the Civil War, probably somewhere around 1855 which was twenty years before he was born. The first mill in Corsicana was built by Lorenz J. Blankenship, Virginia born in 1820, who came to Barry county and built a carding mill near Cassville in 1851. Somewhere around the early 1870s, this first Corsicana mill was built on a perfect site just a short distance downstream from the bubbling falls of Joy creek. Slowly Chart made his way to the site, then tried to remember what had happened to the mill. "I guess," he decided, "it was torn down to make room for the second one." This mill was built by Uncle Jackie Blankenship, son of Lorenz, around 1900 or perhaps a little earlier, Chart said. His father, John Garrison, operated the mill for Uncle Jackie until it was washed away in the spring flood of 1904. Then followed the third mill and Chart slowly walked the short distance downstream where it was built. It had a basement and three stories and was a roller mill with five stands of rolls, four rolls to the stand, made flour and ground meal. This third mill had a fanciful career but in the end it followed the course seemingly set out for just about all that was Corsicana. Its second owner was W. J. Lough, who bought it from Uncle Jackie Blankenship. "Next," Chart explained, "M. E. Miller and I bought it from Lough and we ran it as partners for fifteen years." Chart sold his share to Miller in 1919, taking as payment 40 acres of ground and three mules. He and Nora still have the acres, part of the homestead where they now live. The mill burned in 1920, but other buildings and their owners carried on the Corsicana story.Clustered around the mill site were a canning factory, a creamery which ground feed in a second enterprise and another blacksmith shop, its location marked today only by a concrete slab. Here a general store was built about 1940, Chart remembers, but it disappeared in a 1943 windstorm. Another store location was across the main street where the first one on that spot was built about 1870 by Silas May. He sold it to Gilbert McNatt, a name that was destined to have its own historic connection in McNatt's mill, near Neosho. A later owner was W. J. Smith, Mrs. Garrison's father, who sold it about 1900 to Jimmy Swindle, father of Abe Swindle, Chart's uncle who later became his partner. Their building also housed the Corsicana post office, a connection which disappeared with the advent of rural free mail delivery. A house, built later on the corner, burned about six years ago and made the Garrison home the only one of the original Corsicana houses still standing. Chart swung around and glanced at the other corner where acres of green wheat await the coming of spring. Here was the site of the Overton drug store, like the mill and the other buildings only a historic memory. "Like all the rest," Chart said, "That was a long time ago." ****************************************************************************************************** Please note: Uncle Chart's memory was pretty good considering he was 92 years old --however--his father, John Right Garrison, having died in 1888 could not have operated the mill for Uncle Jackie in 1904. He did in fact run the mill but it was in the 1870's. |
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More About Nora Smith: Fact 1: Buried in Purdy, Missouri |
| 6 | iii. | Ira Lee Garrison, born January 24, 1879 in Corsicana, Missouri; died June 23, 1941 in Monett, Missouri; married (1) Myrtle McGlothlin December 21, 1901 in Barry County, Missouri; married (2) Mary Etta Vassar January 01, 1905 in Exeter, Missouri. | ||
| iv. | William Alonzo Garrison, born August 19, 1881 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; died October 03, 1966 in Monett, Missouri; married Effie Mary Packwood May 09, 1914 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri. |
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More About William Alonzo Garrison: Fact 1: Buried in Clark Cemetary |
| v. | Cora Rebecca Garrison, born August 18, 1883 in Corsicana, Missouri; died March 01, 1976 in Exeter, Barry County, Missouri; married Charles Otis Brattin August 18, 1901 in Corsicana, Missouri. |
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More About Cora Rebecca Garrison: Fact 1: Buried in Wheaton, Missouri |
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More About Charles Otis Brattin: Fact 1: Buried in Rocky Comfort Cemetery |
| vi. | Martha Elizabeth Garrison, born November 28, 1885. | |||
| vii. | James Knox Garrison, born May 07, 1887 in Corsicana, Missouri; died April 29, 1939 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri; married Nora Pearl Howerton. |
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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! |
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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 |
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More About Nora Pearl Howerton: Fact 1: Buried at Clark Cemetary, SW of Purdy, MO |
| viii. | Zula Right Garrison, born June 17, 1888 in Barry County, Missouri; married James A. Higgs July 30, 1905 in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri. |
| i. | Annie Vassar, married Perry Wells. | |||
| ii. | Nora S. Vassar, born March 26, 1877; died September 22, 1906; married John Thomas Linebarger December 09, 1904. | |||
| 7 | iii. | Mary Etta Vassar, born July 27, 1879 in Exeter, Missouri; died October 13, 1961 in Monett, Missouri; married Ira Lee Garrison January 01, 1905 in Exeter, Missouri. | ||
| iv. | Ora Vassar, born July 24, 1892 in Barry County, MO; died August 03, 1893 in Barry County, MO. |
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More About Ora Vassar: Fact 1: Buried at New Site Cemetary, SW of Monett, MO |
| v. | Herbert Vassar, born September 24, 1895 in Barry County, MO; died July 15, 1896 in Barry County, MO. |
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More About Herbert Vassar: Fact 1: Buried at New Site Cemetary, SW of Monett, MO |