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- (Note from Roz. I originally had her name as "Ada P. Hoar" but that has now been corrected with Julie's info below. Please, only contact me if you should find a "Hoar or Horr" connection to this family, otherwise please contact Julie. Thanks, Roz)
Postem Dec 8, 2006
From Julie Otto: ottojh203(at)aol.com
Adeline Penniman "Ada" Howe was born in Burlington, Vermont 2 June 1862, daughter of Henry Harrison Howe and his wife Mary E. Moody (1833-1920) and granddaughter of Dr. Robert Moody (1801-1841), an immigrant from Ireland to Vermont, and his second wife Adelia Augusta (Penniman) (Harrington) Moody (1801-1884). Mrs. Moody was a daughter of (Hon.) Jabez Penniman (1764-1841) of Colchester, Vermont, and his first wife Frances "Fanny" ("Montezuma"/"Montresor" alias Brush) (Buchanan) (Allen) Penniman, widow of Gen. Ethan Allen. Ada P. Howe had an older brother, Henry Gordon Howe, and a younger sister, Bessie Ingraham Howe. I descend from a sister of Ada's mother, Mary E. (Moody) Howe. These two sisters with their families are buried in adjacent plots in Lake View Cem., Burlington.
Material on Ada and her mother Mary Moody appears in Orlin Peer Allen, THE ALLEN MEMORIAL: DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL ALLEN OF WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT (Palmer, Mass., 1907), p. 266, where Mary Moody's middle name is given as "Meech," which may be (perhaps) a clue to the maiden name of Dr. Moody's first wife (d. 1829, childless). However, she was Mary E. Moody in the record of her marriage (by Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Episcopal Bishop of Vermont) 3 Jan. 1856, at Burlington, to Henry Harrison Howe, who (according to the Allen genealogy) was born at Chester, Vermont, 13 Aug. 1825 (this birth is not in the card index to VT VRs). I did not find this Henry Harrison Howe in the two volumes of Daniel Wait Howe's 1929 Howe genealogy, but suspect he is likely related in some way to John and/or Ezekiel "How," who were heads-of-household at Chester in 1830.
O. P. Allen differs from your database in that he gives (p. 266) Ada Howe's marriage date to William G. Brackett as 5 April 1886. The marriage is not found in VT VRs, surprising since she is listed as a stenographer in the Burlington directory for 1886-87. Your database gives a marriage of 4 April 1888 in Iowa, where several of her maternal cousins lived. She is living with William G. Brackett and their daughter Mary at Minneapolis on 12 June 1900, but according to Allen (p. 266) she married in 1902 one Basil A. Hooper of Joplin, Missouri. I didn't find them in 1910 but did run down "Baril" (an Ancestry mistranscription, pretty clearly Basil) A. Hooper and his Virginia (!!)-born wife Ada P. Hooper at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1920. I don't know when or where she or either of her husbands died.
My mother has an old photo (albumin print, carte-de-visite size) of Ada (Howe) (Brackett) Hooper taken in the mid-1860s as a toddler (about 2-3 yrs. old) in a plaid dress, with "Ada Howe" written on the back. She was a very pretty child.
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Henry H. Howe
Home in 1880: Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont
Age: 50
Estimated birth year: abt 1830
Birthplace: Vermont
Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head)
Spouse's name: Mary E.
Father's birthplace: VT
Mother's birthplace: VT
Occupation: Rail Road Clerk
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Henry H. Howe 50 (Head)
Mary E. Howe 40 (Wife) born VT, both parents born Ireland
*Ada Howe 18 (Daughter) single, born VT
Bessie I. Howe 10 (Daughter) single, born VT
Samuel A. Drew 40 (Other) married, book-keeper, born MA
Mina E. L. Drew 40 (Other) married, born OH
Catherine Payn 20 (Other) servant, born VT
Mary Hazard 34 (Other) servant, born NY
Silas H. Perry 40 (Other) cloth cutter, born NY
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