Winfield Scott Howell

 

WINFIELD SCOTT HOWELL first appeared in the old Curry bible where it was recorded he married Eliza Jane Curry, daughter of Allen Howell Curry and Francis E. Farnell in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana (I have a great deal of information on the Curry line). W.S. and Eliza had six children one of whom was my grandmother, Iva Elizabeth. Iva was born in 1879 and died in 1905 of typhoid fever. She left four young children, one of which was my mother, Gladys Jane Humphries.

Both Humphries and Howell grandparents were farmers in Caldwell Parish and mother lived on both farms until her father, William Scott Humphries remarried.

One of the stories my mother told me as a child was about the conch shell that was used for communication. It had a string through a hole and was hung on the back porch to blow codes to the men in the fields as to when it was time to come eat, emergencies etc. I have this shell in my living room and when I blow it the pets take cover.

Winfield and Eliza were born in 1850; she died in 1917 and he followed in 1928. Both are buried at Old Bethel Cemetary in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. As a child the "graveyard workings" once a year was where I got to know my great aunts and uncles and their families. This is where Winfield's children became close family to me. Many of them had still been at home when their sister died and therefore, helped raise the nieces and nephew which included my mother.
Winfield had two sons, William Ernest and Homer H., neither of which had a son.

 

Submitted by Mary Duke Franks [25Dec01]

 

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