Litchfield
County, Connecticut
It
seems so fitting that my 4th great-grandfather, Ichabod Howe, lived
at Cornwall Hollow in the town of Cornwall, Litchfield County,
Connecticut. He was the son of John Howe and John's second wife,
Lydia Norton. John married
his first wife, Mary Wadhams, in 1756 and they had 4 children before
Mary died in 1765. So Ichabod had 4 older half-siblings as he was
growing up. John's 2 marriages and the births of the 4 older children
were recorded in Goshen vital records. The Howe Genealogies published
in 1929 state that the family moved to Canaan Connecticut in 1766,
apparently after John and Lydia's marriage 15 Apr 1766. Ichabod was
born on 5 Jun 1769, the 2nd of 7 children born to Lydia. At least 3
of these children died young.
Ichabod
was in the town of Cornwall by the 1800 census. The censuses before
1850 only name the head of household and give numbers for the
various age categories, so it is difficult to know who the members of
the household were. Tomorrow (6 Jun 2017) I will plan to write about
some of my conclusions about the census entries for Ichabod's family.
As
his father did, Ichabod also had two wives. His first wife, Irene
Scovill, died in 1813 and his second wife, Lucy ? , died in 1841.
Both are buried in the Cornwall Hollow Cemetery. I have not found a
record for Ichabod's burial after his death 30 Apr 1857.
The
town meeting minutes for Cornwall mention Ichabod Howe as one of the
surveyors of highways in 1803, 1811, 1821 and 1822. In Theodore S.
Gold's book of Historical
Records of the Town of Cornwall..., there
is a section on ecclesiastical history. Ichabod was named as one of
those "brought into this fold of Christ" in a revival held
in 1795. By 1822 he was listed as one of the deacons on the committee
"to settle difficulties between brothers." In a historical
address given in 1865, the following was written about him as one of
the prominent laymen of the church: "Ichabod Howe will be
remembered as a man of Pauline gentleness, and Christlike spirit of
self-sacrifice for his brother's good. To a life of rectitude and
consecration he added a very fitting closing chapter, by giving
himself almost wholly to visitation of the parish and prayerful
lay-labors for the conversion of men to his dear Lord. He died in
1857." It makes me feel good that he had this good reputation.
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