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Notes for Benjamin Franklin Harwood or Howard
Source #1: Oath of Indentity, Concrete, DeWitt County, TX, July 9, 1874. Shows his named spelled as B. F. Harwood. He was a private in Captain Reads Company . He enlisted on June 4, for 3 months, and was discharged at DeLeon's Ranche (7 miles from Texana) on September 4, 1836. He was given 320 acres for his service.
On Pension Claim No. 382, filed July 15, 1874, B. F. Harwood is listed as being 67 years of age. Thus estimating his birth year as abt 1807.
His son George Washington Howard was an only child of B. F. Howard and Elizabeth Muse. Source: Affidavit of Heirship of George W. (Wash) Howard: Travis County, TX by Tommie Bobbitt Cochran. No. 10,001 Filed March 27, 1967 in San Augustine County, TX.
Family Interview with Mr. Bobbit, friend of M. L. Howard, by Juanita Howard & Sally Shirley (date unknown).
--Ben Franklin Howard left San Augustine in 1836. The word got back that he was dead, so his "widow", Elizabeth (Muse) Howard married Wood. But it turns out that Ben Franklin Howard had not died. Last report shows Ben was a guard at Rusk, TX Military Prison about 1865.
--The Wood original land grant was on the Attoyac Bayou west of San Augustine. He traded this land for part of the SHIPP survey down near the Wood Cemetery.
--Serepta Williams married again after the death of George Washington Howard. After the war she and her husband and her children went to Brownsville. They started to return to East Texas. Serepta became very ill and died 2 days after leaving the King Ranch headquarters.
--Napoleon Bonepart Howard went to live with his grandmother Elizabeth Muse Howard Wood.
--Serepta William's father was Henry Williams whose Spanish Land Grant was north of the Wood Cemetery.
--Elizabeth Muse Howard Wood lost her sons George W. Howard & Frank Wood and a son-in-law in the Civil War.
--George Washington Howard died on Galveston Island in 1863 or 1864.
--Ben Franklin Howard and his brother John were in the Army together in the 1848 war.
--Ben Franklin Howard came to Texas sometime before 1836.
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