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Submitted by: John Burnett
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Husband: James C. HOWINGTON
Birth date: 1824
Birth place: North Carolina
Death date: Bef. 1880
Place of death: Newton County, Mississippi
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Father: Nimrod HOWINGTON
Mother: Milbery BRADLEY

Marriage date: 24 September 1843
Marriage place: Sumter County, Alabama

Wife: Amelia Ann Elizabeth "Betty" SMITH
Birth date: 1827
Birth place: Alabama
Death date: 1909
Place of death: Newton County, Mississippi
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Father:
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: James HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: 1844
Birth place: Alabama
Death date: Bef. 1860
Place of death: Mississippi?
Burial: Unknown
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Unknown?

Child No. 2: Millery E. HOWINGTON
Sex: Female
Birth date: 4 September 1846
Birth place: Alabama
Death date: 08 March 1884
Place of death: Newton County, Mississippi
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Marriage date: Circa 1861
Marriage place: Mississippi
Spouse's name: George L. NELSON

Child No. 3: Louis McElroy HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: 17 April 1849
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: 17 April 1930
Place of death: Mississippi
Burial: Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi
Marriage date: Circa 1870
Marriage place: Mississippi
Spouse's name: Susan S. TINGLE

Child No. 4: Nancy Adaline HOWINGTON
Sex: Female
Birth date: 27 May 1851
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: 29 October 1909
Place of death: Mississippi
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Marriage date:  31 July 1875
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Nathan Obediah BRELAND

Child No. 5: John T. HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: 27 March 1853
Birth place: Newton County, Mississippi
Death date: 28 May 1913
Place of death: Mississippi
Marriage date:  (1st) 06 April 1880 (2nd) 01 August 1892)
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: (1st) Ellen Rayner (2nd) Florence Smith

Child No. 6: Benjamin D. HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: January 1855
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: Bef. 1950
Place of death: Mississippi?
Burial: Unknown
Marriage date: 01 January 1878
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Cannie Baker

Child No. 7: Amanda J. HOWINGTON
Sex: Female
Birth date: 11 March 1857
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: 15 August 1938
Place of death: Mississippi
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Marriage date: 09 December 1877
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: William NELSON

Child No. 8: Sarah A. "Sally" HOWINGTON
Sex: Female
Birth date: 1858
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: After 1933?
Place of death: Mississippi?
Burial: Unknown
Marriage date: 24 December 1877
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Edward Lee TINGLE

Child No. 9: James Redding HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: 08 March 1861
Birth place: Duffee, Newton County, Mississippi
Death date: 15 January 1933
Place of death: Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas
Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas
Marriage date: (1st) 01 November 1883 (2nd) 15 February 1917
Marriage place: Franklin Parish, Louisiana
Spouse's name: (1st) Amanda Garner (2nd) Mary Baum Johnson

Child No. 10: Arminta E. HOWINGTON
Sex: Female
Birth date: 1867
Birth place: Mississippi
Death date: After 1933?
Place of death: Mississippi?
Burial: Unknown
Marriage date: 11 March 1884
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Zack GOFORTH

Child No. 11: William W HOWINGTON
Sex: Male
Birth date: 08 March 1871
Birth place: Newton Co., Mississippi
Death date: 15 December 1905
Place of death: Mississippi
Burial:  Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi
Marriage date: 23 January 1891
Marriage place: Newton County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Eversilla R. Cooksey
 

Documentation:
James C. Howington served in the Confederate Army as a
Private in Company A, 5th Mississippi Infantry.  He also served in Co. E,
40th Mississippi Infantry.  He enlisted in 1982 at Decatur, Mississippi.
He took the oath of allegiance October 31, 1864 and was released from
Rock Island, Illinois and returned home. Sources:  Research of John
Burnett of Reno, NV.  1870 Census for Newton County, Mississippi.  Newton
County Mississippi Marriage Records.  Cemetery Record of Pleasant Grove
Cemetery, near Duffee, Newton County, Mississippi.  1933 Obituary of
James Redding Howington of Corpus Christi, Texas, which listed two sister
surviving him.  Mississippi Confederate Military Records of James C.
Howington.