Summary of Part One – The Family That Stopped at the Falls In Part One, we began the story of Thomas Howard by tracing his family’s roots back to Grafton, Vermont, where the descendants of Ziba and Mary (Stickney) Howard formed one branch of the extended Howard family. Through a combination of traditional genealogical researchContinue reading “Thomas Howard – Part Two”
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Thomas Howard – Part One
Part One – The Family That Stopped at the Falls In the late 1850s, a branch of the Howard family bound for the Iowa frontier unexpectedly stopped at Howard Falls for several years. What began as a temporary pause along America’s westward migration would eventually end in tragedy on the Iowa prairie. In previous blogs,Continue reading “Thomas Howard – Part One”