His parents were Walter Andrew Howell and Annie Rose Finnegan.He was born in SUNNY LANE, TEXAS. Sunny Lane was on Rocky Creek fourteen miles northeast of Burnet in northern Burnet County. According to local tradition, the community took its name from a "sunny dirt lane" that was often used as a courting lane. A post office was established in the settlement in 1881 with John T. Berry as postmaster. By 1884 the community had two churches, a school, and fifty-five residents; principal shipments from the area included cotton, hides, and farm produce. Sunny Lane also had daily stages to Lampasas and Burnet. The post office was discontinued in 1910, and mail was sent to Lake Victor. A few widely scattered houses appeared on county highway maps of the area in the 1940s, but the community was not marked by name.
At the time of the 1900 census, their large family lived in Falls County, Texas where his father farmed a rented farm. By 1910 they had moved into Hoover's Valley, Burnet County where all the boys helped their father farm a rented farm. Isaac married Effie Hoover on Jan. 21, 1912. When Isaac registered for the WWI draft on 5 Jun 1917, he was a farm laborer for R. Hoover, in Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas. He had a wife and child and claimed an exemption for a lame leg. He was farming a general farm (rented) in Burnet County, Texas. His first Child, Ruby Mae was born Oct. 27, 1912 in Hoover's Valley. His second child, Mamie Elizabeth "Beth", was born Dec. 14, 1919 in Fairland, Burnet Co., Texas. He moved to Mills Co., Tex. where he purchased a farm in the Pleasant Grove area of Mills Co. He remained on this farm until his death in 1976. Besides being a farmer he raised a few head of cattle and sheep, he did carpenter work also and not many homes in the community that he didn't do some type of work on, laying rock was his specialty and his work can still be seen today. Although he was crippled and used a cane to walk, he could still make a person hump up to stay with him at whatever work he was doing. He and his wife were Church of Christ and there were few Sundays that they weren't in Church at Star, Texas.
At the time of the 1900 census, their large family lived in Falls County, Texas where his father farmed a rented farm. By 1910 they had moved into Hoover's Valley, Burnet County where all the boys helped their father farm a rented farm. Isaac married Effie Hoover on Jan. 21, 1912. When Isaac registered for the WWI draft on 5 Jun 1917, he was a farm laborer for R. Hoover, in Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas. He had a wife and child and claimed an exemption for a lame leg. He was farming a general farm (rented) in Burnet County, Texas. His first Child, Ruby Mae was born Oct. 27, 1912 in Hoover's Valley. His second child, Mamie Elizabeth "Beth", was born Dec. 14, 1919 in Fairland, Burnet Co., Texas. He moved to Mills Co., Tex. where he purchased a farm in the Pleasant Grove area of Mills Co. He remained on this farm until his death in 1976. Besides being a farmer he raised a few head of cattle and sheep, he did carpenter work also and not many homes in the community that he didn't do some type of work on, laying rock was his specialty and his work can still be seen today. Although he was crippled and used a cane to walk, he could still make a person hump up to stay with him at whatever work he was doing. He and his wife were Church of Christ and there were few Sundays that they weren't in Church at Star, Texas.
His parents were Walter Andrew Howell and Annie Rose Finnegan.He was born in SUNNY LANE, TEXAS. Sunny Lane was on Rocky Creek fourteen miles northeast of Burnet in northern Burnet County. According to local tradition, the community took its name from a "sunny dirt lane" that was often used as a courting lane. A post office was established in the settlement in 1881 with John T. Berry as postmaster. By 1884 the community had two churches, a school, and fifty-five residents; principal shipments from the area included cotton, hides, and farm produce. Sunny Lane also had daily stages to Lampasas and Burnet. The post office was discontinued in 1910, and mail was sent to Lake Victor. A few widely scattered houses appeared on county highway maps of the area in the 1940s, but the community was not marked by name.
At the time of the 1900 census, their large family lived in Falls County, Texas where his father farmed a rented farm. By 1910 they had moved into Hoover's Valley, Burnet County where all the boys helped their father farm a rented farm. Isaac married Effie Hoover on Jan. 21, 1912. When Isaac registered for the WWI draft on 5 Jun 1917, he was a farm laborer for R. Hoover, in Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas. He had a wife and child and claimed an exemption for a lame leg. He was farming a general farm (rented) in Burnet County, Texas. His first Child, Ruby Mae was born Oct. 27, 1912 in Hoover's Valley. His second child, Mamie Elizabeth "Beth", was born Dec. 14, 1919 in Fairland, Burnet Co., Texas. He moved to Mills Co., Tex. where he purchased a farm in the Pleasant Grove area of Mills Co. He remained on this farm until his death in 1976. Besides being a farmer he raised a few head of cattle and sheep, he did carpenter work also and not many homes in the community that he didn't do some type of work on, laying rock was his specialty and his work can still be seen today. Although he was crippled and used a cane to walk, he could still make a person hump up to stay with him at whatever work he was doing. He and his wife were Church of Christ and there were few Sundays that they weren't in Church at Star, Texas.
At the time of the 1900 census, their large family lived in Falls County, Texas where his father farmed a rented farm. By 1910 they had moved into Hoover's Valley, Burnet County where all the boys helped their father farm a rented farm. Isaac married Effie Hoover on Jan. 21, 1912. When Isaac registered for the WWI draft on 5 Jun 1917, he was a farm laborer for R. Hoover, in Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas. He had a wife and child and claimed an exemption for a lame leg. He was farming a general farm (rented) in Burnet County, Texas. His first Child, Ruby Mae was born Oct. 27, 1912 in Hoover's Valley. His second child, Mamie Elizabeth "Beth", was born Dec. 14, 1919 in Fairland, Burnet Co., Texas. He moved to Mills Co., Tex. where he purchased a farm in the Pleasant Grove area of Mills Co. He remained on this farm until his death in 1976. Besides being a farmer he raised a few head of cattle and sheep, he did carpenter work also and not many homes in the community that he didn't do some type of work on, laying rock was his specialty and his work can still be seen today. Although he was crippled and used a cane to walk, he could still make a person hump up to stay with him at whatever work he was doing. He and his wife were Church of Christ and there were few Sundays that they weren't in Church at Star, Texas.
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