Lord Viscount Nelson Howlett
b. 6 May 1809, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, to William and Susan [–?–] Howlett
d. 5 August 1851, Malheur County, Oregon
m. 28 April 1829, Indiana
Lydia Ann Taylor
b. 14 October 1812, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
d. 26 March 1899, Eagle Creek, Clackamas County, Oregon
Children with Lydia Ann Taylor:
- William Jackson
- Susannah Jane
- Catherine
- Mary Ann
- Louisa
- Rufus
- Wright
- Lucinda
- John Nelson
Nelson Howlett immigrated to Indiana about 1820 with his father and stepmother. Nelson’s father, William, was a Revolutionary War soldier and sailor.
He had extensive holdings in Jennings County, Indiana, which he sold to join a wagon train
traveling to Oregon in the spring of 1851. Somewhere in eastern Oregon, he died of a “bite of a buffalo gnat” and was buried along the Oregon Trail at the Birch Creek Crossing, now in Malheur County, Oregon, not far from Huntington. His widow and children became pioneers in Oregon, where Lydia Howlett married a man from the same wagon train who had also been widowed on the Oregon Trail.
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“Anonymous”