News that she was fatally ill caused her son Robert E. Howard to commit suicide. They were buried on the same day. Her mother was Sarah Jane Martin Ervin, who died in 1874, most likely in Denton Co., Texas. Whereabouts of Sarah's grave is unknown, but an infant daughter Lizzie, born that same year, died one day after her mother. Hester misrepresented the year of her birth as 1874, but family bible and census records prove it was 1870.
News that she was fatally ill caused her son Robert E. Howard to commit suicide. They were buried on the same day. Her mother was Sarah Jane Martin Ervin, who died in 1874, most likely in Denton Co., Texas. Whereabouts of Sarah's grave is unknown, but an infant daughter Lizzie, born that same year, died one day after her mother. Hester misrepresented the year of her birth as 1874, but family bible and census records prove it was 1870.
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