York's Fentress County Tennessee
Name: Pleasant Howard
Surname: Howard
Given Name: Pleasant
Sex: M
Birth: 1817/1818 in , , Kentucky
Death: ABT 1863 in , Fentress, Tennessee
_UID: CF2F70C89F339243AD68415C4DC78C7FAE5F
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It is thought that he is the son of Portman Howard who was in Wayne Co, Kentucky in1810 and 1820 to fit with Pleasant's birth and the family name of Portman that has been passed down.
1848 Morgan Co, TN tax roll.
1850 Morgan Co, TN census Pleasant Howard 32 KY b. 1817-1818; farmer; page 628 line 22 #565/565; 25 Nov 1850.
1860 Cumberland Co, TN census Pleasant Howard 42 KY b. 1817-1818; 52-516.
According to Civil War records Pleasant Howard joined for duty and enrolled in the Confederate Army on August 10,1861 at Camp McGinnis, Overton Co, TN as a private by A.B. Hardcastle enlisting for a period of 12 months. Pleasant's horse had a valuation of $110 and he was present for duty at Camp Myers Tennessee on October 1,1861. This was Captain W.S. Bledsoe's Company "F" of Cavalry in Murray's 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment later became Spiller's Battalion in August 1862 and disbanded January 23,1863 into other companies. It is not known how long Pleasant served in the military but he was around home enough to father Martha Tennessee Howard who was born in 1864.
Pleasant was killed as a result of the discontent of the post Civil War era. Allegedly two neighboring "friends," Yankee sympathizers, came to see the father in the field, shook hands with him, and then shot him, cold-blooded murder. This area of Tennessee was in the part of the state that was mixed in their support for the war. That is to say, as many people supported the Union as the Confederate armies. The roving bands of soldiers and or other gangs stole everything the Howards had. In 1874, Abigail and the children sold their 500 acres for $100 to John C. Wright, a nephew of hers, and went to Livingston, Overton County, Tennessee to live.
1870 Overton Co, TN census Abigill Howard 45 TN b. 1824-1825; farmer; page 353 line 46 #77/77; 13 Aug 1870.
1880 Overton Co, TN census Abigail Howard 48 TN; Volume 25, ED 86, sheet 2, line 21, dist.3. Grandson George Andrew Howard 4 TN living with Abigail.

1850 1860 1870 1880
Pleasant Howard 32 KY 42 KY 1817-1818
Abigill Howard 30 TN 36 TN 45 TN 48 TN 1819-1820
Nathan Perry Howard 9 TN 18 TN 1840-1841
Sarah Jane Howard
George D. Howard 6 TN 15 TN 1843-1844
Ellender Howard 4 TN 1845-1846
Alexander P. Howard 2 TN 13 TN 23 TN 1847-1848
Joshua C. Howard 7/12 TN 12 TN 21 TN 1850
James F. Howard 10 TN 21 TN 1850; Jonas F./Jonah Frost
John M. Howard 8 TN 16 TN 1851-1852; John C.
Rachel Catherine Howard
James A. Howard 5 TN 14 TN 1854-1855; Anse
Elizabeth Howard 3 TN 12 TN 1856-1857
Buckhanon Howard 1 TN 10 TN 19 TN 1858-1859
Amandy Howard 8 TN 1861-1862
Martha Howard 6 TN 15 TN 1863-1864
George Andrew Howard 4 TN 1875-1876; grandson to Abigail

It is thought that he is the son of Portman Howard who was in Wayne Co, Kentucky in 1810 and 1820 to fit with Pleasant's birth and the family name of Portman that has been passed down.

Pleasant and Anderson show up on the 1848 tax rolls of Morgan Co, Tennessee in the 8th district. Then in the 1876 tax roll of Morgan Co. a William Howard with 650 acres and a Nathan Howard with 900 acres show up these may be brothers of Pleasant and Anderson Howard.Find A Grave Memorial# 40745460 with links to his family.
Anyone with more info contact me [email protected]∼Born in Kentucky and died in Lubbock, Texas. Married to Abigail Wright born in 1824 and died in 1900