Tidwell revisited

[Susan Higginbotham]

(11-22-2020 02:04 PM)McCastle Wrote:  Hello Susan,

Although I haven't purchased your book yet, I do look forward to reading it soon.

After a quick revisit to the burial certificates for Congressional Cemetery, I found there are two separate burials for site 124/26. One is for Gustavus Howell, who died from Billious Typhus in 1836. This certificate also notes "the estate of Gustavus Howell" paid for the burial of his son, Gustavus the 2nd, in the same site 124/26.

Thirty-three years later in 1869 when Junior died, the burial certificate shows Mrs. Howell paid a small fee of $2 of his internment above his fathers grave.

Lacking age and date of birth on the certificate makes it somewhat difficult to determine if this is "the Augustus Spencer Howell, tied to the assassination, Are you aware of any obituary or newspapers that mentioned Howell Jr's death in 1869? I not sure, but I think the Howells buried at Congressional lived near Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Joe

I don't think I've found any obit. Jim Garrett and Richard Smyth in "Where Are They Now?" identify Augustus Spencer Howell as being buried in the 124/26 plot, so they might have some information. In the confession by Atzerodt published in the Baltimore American on January 18, 1869, Howell is named as "Gustavus Howell."