References
Revised November 4th, 1998
Some people aren't satisfied with conclusions. They want to know the
facts they were based on. So here are our sources (excepting the
genealogy), and you can now draw your own inferences from them.
Censuses The census data were all taken from microfilm at
the Denver Public Library. Here are the families of interest (not
all are related), along with what data were thought relevant.
Unfortunately, these are not completely reliable. Many frames were
illegible, or nearly so, because of bad exposure, and the usual run
of scratches didn't help. And only a few of these have been triple
checked.
The entries are listed in the same order as they appear in the
microfilm.
Alabama, Limestone Co.
1820
Kentucky, Trigg Co.
1850
1870
Mississippi, Tippah Co.
1850
Missouri, Stoddard Co.
1840 – No Howells or Riddles in the County
1850
1860
1870
North Carolina
Tennessee, Hardin Co.
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
Books
Goodspeed's History of Southeast
Missouri
This book contains a brief biography of
Joseph3 Howell (son of Levi2 and
Elexy2), the only one in the family
mentioned. It contains several inaccuracies.
Irish, George E, 1991. John Irish, His Life and Ancestors
1086-1677. Baltimore, Gateway Press.
This is an extension of Irish & Irish, 1964,
with much detail about John Irish and where he came from.
But see Irish 1993 for various corrections.
-----, 1993. Supplement to John Irish, His Life and Ancestors
1086-1677. Melbourne Beach, Florida, John Irish.
Further research lead to these
corrections to Irish, 1991.
Irish, Willis Luther, and Stella Bertha (Putnam) Irish,
1964. Descendants of John Irish The Immigrant 1629-1963 and
Allied Families. Freeport, Maine, The Dingley Press.
This is a huge compilations of the descendants
of a member of the Plymouth Colony. George8 Irish
is #2889 on p. 115. See Irish 1991 for important addenda.
Web Links
The Hardin County Historical Society has a site with
some of the early history of the county.
Pam Miller has a Web site
Hearts Knit Together with much information
about various Howells and Riddles, though it doesn't go past
Eppinetus2 Howell. Her site has many interesting
links.
Although it doesn't have and maps of Hardin or Stoddard
counties, John Robertson has a Web site with links to
old maps and other arcane information.
The Bureau of Land Management maintains The
Official Land Patent Records Site with General Land
Office records for the eastern states. This has Federal (not
state) land grants, including land sales and grants under the
Homestead Act, and has TIFF images of the grants.
Maps
Davis, George B., Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, &
Calvin D. Cowles, 1891-1895. Atlas to Accompany the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Washington, Government Printing Office (Reprinted 1985,
New York, Gramercy Books).
Though the focus of this book is on the
campaigns and battles of the Civil War, it includes a set
of maps of the country from central Pennsylvania to the Gulf
Coast, and from Kansas to the Atlantic. While these don't
have the counties outlined, they do show the roads,
railroads, and rivers as they existed then. Its extensive
index is useful in finding towns that have disappeared or
changed their names.
Androit, John, 1977. Township Atlas of the United States.
McClean, Virginia, Androit Associates.
Townships of the counties of some of the states.
Stoddard County is on p. 280.
-----, 1987. Township Atlas of the United States. McClean,
Virginia, Documents Index, Inc.
More county townships. Trigg County is on p. 233
and Hardin County is on p. 603.
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