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| Fristus Haywood Howell 3-gen pedigree from Ancestry.com |
Fristus Haywood Howell 1872 - 1950 was born 12 years after the War Between the States (aka Civil War) ended. I don't have an actual birth certificate, since they weren't kept before 1913. Instead of this primary source which doesn't exist, we will use secondary sources. The 6 Federal Censuses in which Fristus was enumerated (under so many variations -- I'll have to list them below) all give the approximate birth year, which we calculate subtracting the age from that particular year. The 1900 census actually gives us a month (May) as well as the year.
Enough of this, already! We are here to celebrate the union between two people ....
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| Fristus and Katie Howell 1912 marriage index |
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| Fristus and Katie Howell 1912 marriage index |
Fristus married Katie Elizabeth Watkins 22 December 1912 in Johnston North Carolina. I don't know how they met and fell in love. That story is always a great story to hear. These are the only secondary sources available. They are indexes, not the actual legal document. It shows that somewhere these documents exist, but are not available to me online. Below is the best that it gets.
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| Fristus and Katie Watkins Howell 1912 Marriage index from Ancestry.com |
They married in December. Why that month, I wonder. The first of their 13 children was born ten months later.
His mother and father had both died by this time, and most of his 10 siblings were still alive. By the time he and Katie married, the Wright Brothers had already made their first flight at Kittyhawk North Carolina.
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| https://www.reference.com/history/did-wright-brothers-invent-eb7b4e7b7ee382ee |
Names under which we find Fristus Haywood Howell are below. I list this because we will discuss these names and why I am certain this particular spelling is my Fristus Howell (as if there are that many out there, right?)
- Pristus H. Howell -- 1880 census
- Foistus H. Howell -- 1900 census
- Cris Nawell -- 1910 census
- Friss H Howell -- 1912 marriage index
- Frrist Howell -- 1920 census
- Forst H. Howell -- 1930 census
- Frist Howell -- 1940 census
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