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Joshua Calvin “Josh” Howard

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Joshua Calvin “Josh” Howard

Birth
Tennessee, USA
Death
30 Sep 1938 (aged 88)
Montague County, Texas, USA
Burial
Saint Jo, Montague County, Texas, USA
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Joshua Calvin "Josh" Howard
Josh Howard born 15 March 1850, was the 6th child of 14 born to Pleasant and Abigail Wright Howard in pre-Civil War Tennessee. Josh always said that he was born in Overton County, Tennessee but the 1850 census of Morgan County, Tennessee shows Pleasant and his family with Josh being 7 months old on 25th of November, so I think he was born in Morgan County but grew up in Overton County. His father joined the Confederate cause on 10 August 1861 in Murry's 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. After the Civil War Pleasant was killed as a result of the discontent of the post war era. According to family lore George W. Howard witnessed his father's killing and later killed the men responsible, then left for Montague County.
In 1870 Josh and others left Tennessee and settled in Denton County at Pilot Point. His wife to be Nancy Langford, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Langford, was also from Overton County and they had come to Pilot Point with nine wagons and 15 people.. About 1871 they married and lived in Pilot Point until about 1878 when they decided to move on to Bonita in Montague County. Here they joined people from Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and other states to form a town. Josh settled ¼ mile West of Bonita and lived there for over 58 years. His house had a porch all the way around it and had a separate building that was called the summer kitchen so that it would not heat up the house.

Taken from the internet story of Family of Calvin Joshua "Josh" "Mr. Bonita" written by Max Brown and posted with permission.

Son of Pleasant and Abigail Wright Howard born in pre-Civil War Tennessee
Joshua Calvin "Josh" Howard
Josh Howard born 15 March 1850, was the 6th child of 14 born to Pleasant and Abigail Wright Howard in pre-Civil War Tennessee. Josh always said that he was born in Overton County, Tennessee but the 1850 census of Morgan County, Tennessee shows Pleasant and his family with Josh being 7 months old on 25th of November, so I think he was born in Morgan County but grew up in Overton County. His father joined the Confederate cause on 10 August 1861 in Murry's 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. After the Civil War Pleasant was killed as a result of the discontent of the post war era. According to family lore George W. Howard witnessed his father's killing and later killed the men responsible, then left for Montague County.
In 1870 Josh and others left Tennessee and settled in Denton County at Pilot Point. His wife to be Nancy Langford, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Langford, was also from Overton County and they had come to Pilot Point with nine wagons and 15 people.. About 1871 they married and lived in Pilot Point until about 1878 when they decided to move on to Bonita in Montague County. Here they joined people from Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and other states to form a town. Josh settled ¼ mile West of Bonita and lived there for over 58 years. His house had a porch all the way around it and had a separate building that was called the summer kitchen so that it would not heat up the house.

Taken from the internet story of Family of Calvin Joshua "Josh" "Mr. Bonita" written by Max Brown and posted with permission.

Son of Pleasant and Abigail Wright Howard born in pre-Civil War Tennessee

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