Macinda Belle <I>Cook</I> Howard

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Macinda Belle Cook Howard

Birth
Boydsville, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
Death
Aug 1896 (aged 42)
Jefferson County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Macinda Belle was the fourth of ten children born to G.W. Cook and wife Louisa A. Brown Browder. Macinda was named for her grand mother Macinda Wheeler Brown. George and Louisa lived next house to the Philip Howards as shown in the 1860 Kentucky census. Two of their children Macinda Belle Cook and Wilson Campbell Howard were married by 1871. Five children were born in Kentucky to Macinda Bell and Wilson before they left for "the West". One of their daughters tells of walking beside the wagon sometimes, as they traveled to a new home.

Wilson Howard practiced medicine and newspaper articles from Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, referred to him as "Doc Howard". Five more children were born to the couple after they arrived in "Indian Territory" before it became a State of Oklahoma. Macinda Belle died in 1896 and was buried in Ryan Cemetery. It has been said she was buried next to a grandchild. Macinda Belle's gravesite is unmarked. Possibly it has crumbled with time. The child's stone still stands, that of R. Snellings. One grandson remembers when his father took him to the site beside a child, so that he would know where his grandmother was buried.

Wilson was shown in the 1900 census with the six small children still at home. His youngest daughter was a small child when her mother died, and tells that the only thing she could remember of her Mother, was she was "always sickly".

Most of the children of Macinda Belle and Wilson lived to be 90+ years of age; two of the daughters lived to be 100+.
Macinda Belle was the fourth of ten children born to G.W. Cook and wife Louisa A. Brown Browder. Macinda was named for her grand mother Macinda Wheeler Brown. George and Louisa lived next house to the Philip Howards as shown in the 1860 Kentucky census. Two of their children Macinda Belle Cook and Wilson Campbell Howard were married by 1871. Five children were born in Kentucky to Macinda Bell and Wilson before they left for "the West". One of their daughters tells of walking beside the wagon sometimes, as they traveled to a new home.

Wilson Howard practiced medicine and newspaper articles from Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, referred to him as "Doc Howard". Five more children were born to the couple after they arrived in "Indian Territory" before it became a State of Oklahoma. Macinda Belle died in 1896 and was buried in Ryan Cemetery. It has been said she was buried next to a grandchild. Macinda Belle's gravesite is unmarked. Possibly it has crumbled with time. The child's stone still stands, that of R. Snellings. One grandson remembers when his father took him to the site beside a child, so that he would know where his grandmother was buried.

Wilson was shown in the 1900 census with the six small children still at home. His youngest daughter was a small child when her mother died, and tells that the only thing she could remember of her Mother, was she was "always sickly".

Most of the children of Macinda Belle and Wilson lived to be 90+ years of age; two of the daughters lived to be 100+.

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