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Descendants of James Howard

11. HETTIE VIRGINIA⁵ HOWARD (JAMES THOMAS⁴, MALEKIAH³, MYRICK², JAMES¹) was born May 12, 1874, and died March 03, 1947. She married MARTIN LUTHER TUCKER. He was born November 19, 1869, and died November 28, 1935.

Children of HETTIE HOWARD and MARTIN TUCKER are:

	i.		JANE ELIZABETH⁶ TUCKER.
	ii.		MARY ESTER LILLIAN TUCKER.
	iii.		MADGE IRENE TUCKER.
	iv.		PAUL ADDERSON TUCKER.
	v.		COLLIE HUBERT TUCKER.
	vi.		RUBEN ADERSON TUCKER.
	vii.		LYDIA REBECCA TUCKER.

12. ROBERT FRANKLIN⁵ HOWARD (JAMES THOMAS⁴, MALEKIAH³, MYRICK², JAMES¹) was born June 25, 1876, and died June 18, 1959. He married SOPHRONIA REGINA LITTLE February 28, 1907. She was born June 26, 1877, and died May 21, 1957.

Children of ROBERT HOWARD and SOPHRONIA LITTLE are:

26.	i.	BLANCHE HELEN⁶ HOWARD, b. January 30, 1908; d. March 14, 2002.
27.	ii.	CARLIE COLUMBUS HOWARD, b. August 28, 1909; d. June 30, 1979.
28.	iii.	CRAVEN JAMES HOWARD, b. June 22, 1911; d. June 06, 1986.
29.	iv.	ORA LILLIE HOWARD, b. March 27, 1913; d. October 10, 1987.
30.	v.	KESLER LEE HOWARD, b. March 21, 1915; d. June 25, 2002.
31.	vi.	VIRGIL PRATHA HOWARD, b. April 12, 1917.
32.	vii.	THETUS ALMA HOWARD, b. March 23, 1920.

13. THOMAS ARTHUR⁵ HOWARD (JAMES THOMAS⁴, MALEKIAH³, MYRICK², JAMES¹) was born December 10, 1879 in Union County, NC, and died January 07, 1951 in Union County, NC. He married MOLLIE R. PARKER, daughter of HARTSWELL PARKER and SOPHRONIA ALLEN. She was born October 30, 1881 in Anson County, NC, and died July 25, 1965 in Union County, NC.

Notes for THOMAS ARTHUR HOWARD:

Thomas Arthur Howard was born December 10, 1879 in Anson County, NC and died January 7, 1951 in Union County, NC. He married Mollie R.Parker, born October 30, 1881 in Anson County, NC and died July 25 1965 in Union County, NC. She was the daughter of Hartswell Parker and Sophronia Allen. Hartswell and Sophronia are buried in the Rocky Mount Baptist Church Cemetery, Burnsville Township, Anson County NC.

Thomas and Mollie raised 5 children, three boys and two girls. The youngest daughter, Frannie was adopted as an infant in Richmond County, NC. They bought a farm on Highway 205 approximately three miles east of New Salem, NC and raised their family at this location. Thomas was a farmer and Mollie a homemaker. All indications are that he was an excellent provider for his family. He had many fruit trees and grape vines on the farm and made cider and wine every year.

For reasons not completely clear they moved their family and all their belongings to Richmond County, North Carolina during the fall of 1916. My father, Fulton Martin Howard was a young boy of 6 years old at the time of this move. He remembered many of the things that happened during the trip and he relayed them to me. They encountered many hardships but the thing that stands out most in my mind was the story about the mules refusing to cross the PeeDee River Bridge. The bridge across this large river did not have a solid floor. As soon as the mules pulling the wagon started to cross they could see through the cracks and this scared them so much they refused to cross. They tried blindfolding them and this did not work either. Apparently they remembered where they were and again they refused to enter. After much thought and delay they decided to take the wagons back up the road for a mile and camp for the night. Before daylight they set out again. They walked in front of the mules' carrying a lantern, holding it in a position to blind them. This time they crossed the bridge and the mules never knew when it happened. The trip was only about 50 miles but moving all the household furniture, farming equipment, canned food and food for the livestock made it a real challenge. They moved to the small community of Eagle Springs, NC. I suspect Thomas had relatives that lived in that area because there are a lot of Howards living in Stanly and Richmond Counties. They stayed there for only one year and then returned back to their home on Highway 205, in Union County.

Grandfather Tom's death was sudden; he left their home on the morning of January 7, 1951 going to visit friends who lived in the Pleasant Hill Church area. When he did not return home in several hours his wife Mollie got worried and went looking for him. She found him lying on the edge of their clover field about 150 yards from the house. It looked as if he sat down to rest and then lay back and went to sleep. The area where he was found was not disturbed as if he had struggled with pain. Soon after his death Mollie sold the farm and built a house across the road from her daughter, Beatrice Howard Brooks on Highway 218, two miles south of New Salem, NC. After her husband's death she lived for 14 years 6 months and 18 days and died July 25, 1965. They are both buried in the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church cemetery, Union County, NC.

Thomas A. Howard and his wife Mollie Parker Howard are buried in the Pleasant Hill Baptist church cemetery.

Children of THOMAS HOWARD and MOLLIE PARKER are:

33.	i.	BEATRICE LILLIAN⁶ HOWARD, b. September 25, 1902, Union County, NC; d. October 19, 1985, Union County, NC.
34.	ii.	JESSIE EARL HOWARD, b. June 29, 1904, Union County, NC; d. December 07, 1957, Union County, NC.
35.	iii.	JAMES HART HOWARD, b. January 27, 1907, Union County NC; d. February 24, 1988, Union County NC.
36.	iv.	FULTON MARTIN HOWARD, b. February 24, 1909, Union County, NC; d. October 23, 1964, Union County, NC.
	v.	INFANT DAUGHTER HOWARD, b. December 20, 1915, Union County, NC; d. December 20, 1915, Union County, NC.

Notes for INFANT DAUGHTER HOWARD:
Tom and Mollie had infant Daughter who died at birth and is buried beside them at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, New Salem,Union County, NC.

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FRANNIE ELIZABETH HOWARD, b. January 25, 1917, Richmond County, NC; d. November 21, 1996, Concord, NC.

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