I am researching information on the Howlett family of central Missouri.My closest relatives live in Pulaski County, Missouri in the areas of Richland and Waynesville.I am particularly interested in finding information about Robert Epsie Howlett who was a doctor in the U.S. Civil War.He lived in Otterville, MO. He was my great,great,grandfather.He had a son named Robert Eugene Howlett who was born January 15, 1870 in Otterville.He was also a doctor and practiced in Otterville. He later moved to Richland, MO. He was married to Margaret Reed.A short excerpt from an article dictated by Robert Epsie Howlett follows.
"The Howlett family is of Welsh descent. There were three brothers who came to America at the first settlement of Jamestown. Later one of the brothers went up the Delaware River and another brother went up the Potomac, nothing was known afterward of their fate. At that time there were many Indians but very few whites in this new country and no means of communication.
The brother who remained in Jamestown married, and was the father of three children, two girls and one boy. During a massacre by the Indians, the mother and the three children were supposed to have been slain; but the son was found later and although he had been struck on the head by a tomahawk, was not yet dead; by performing a surgical operation, a portion of the skull was removed and a silver plate inserted. He recovered and the Howlett families of Virginia are his descendents.
John Howlett of Richmond, Virginia, was a private in the Revolutionary War and later held a United States Government position in Richmond. He married and was the father of six children, five boys and one girl, the names of the children were Edwin, Robert, Thomas, William, Martha, and James Madison. The oldest child, Edwin, migrated to Alabama, Robert went to Tennessee. Thomas never married, he lived and died in Chesterfield, Va., William also died in Chesterfield. Martha, the daughter, was married in Chesterfield to a man by the name of Hatcher. She afterwards died in Chesterfield. James Madison, the youngest son, married Harriet Hatcher of Chesterfield County in the year 1824.
James Madison Howlett was the father of nine children; their names were Patrick Henry (1825), Thomas Thadeus (1827), James Archibald (1829), Anne Boissou (1832), John Marion (1834), Robert Epsie (1836), Daniel Hatcher (1838), and. Martha (1841). Harriet Hatcher Howlett, the wife and mother, died in 1842 and was buried in a cemetery on the banks of the James River, in sight of Richmond. James Madison Howlett and his children, with the exception of the two eldest who remained in Virginia, moved to Missouri in 1843 the year after the mother's death."
James Madison Howlett died in May 1873 and was buried in the cemetery in Nevada, Mo.
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
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