Person Sheet


Name Philo Howard
Birth 5 April 1819, Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York37,38,39,40
Death 25 January 1869, Blackberry Twp, Kane County, Illinois35,27,41,42,43
Burial Sugar Grove Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois44
Occupation Farmer
Religion Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints-Batavia, IL Branch45,46
Father Joseph Howard (1789-1852)
Mother Purley Franklin (1794-1859)
Spouses
1 Anna K. Colvin
Birth 12 March 1820, Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York37,47,40
Death 11 September 1861, Blackberry Twp, Kane County, Illinois48,49,50,51,52,53
Burial Sugar Grove Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois44
Religion RLDS54
Father William Colvin (1778-1827)
Mother Lydia Sherman (1785-1843)
Marriage 2 March 1838, Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York37,27
Children Melvin "Mim" (1839-1905)
Orrin P. "Uncle Line" (1841-)
Austin Daniel (1843-1907)
Lydia A. (1845-1883)
Mariah Jane "Jane" (1847-1902)
Philo J. (Died as Child) (1855-)
Anna K. (Died as Child) (1858-1860)
2 Casendana Jones55
Birth 23 August 1830, Peru, Clinton County, New York37,27,56,57
Death 3 March 1895, Blackberry Twp, Kane County, Illinois58,59,60,57
Burial 4 March 1895, Sugar Grove Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois58
Religion Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints-Marengo, IL Branch45,46
Father Rev. Ahira G. Jones (1800-1870)
Mother Eunice A. Lobdell (1805-1864)
Marriage 24 August 1862, Marengo, Illinois by Charles H. Jones, Elder of Church of LDS37,61,62
Children Emerson Ahira (1864-1913)
Zaidee (1867-1953)
Notes for Philo Howard
Kane County Circuit Clerk, Probate Record Box#5

Assessed $393.00 on the 1848 Personal Property Tax List (listed in Blackberrry Township).63
On the 1860 Kane County, Illinois Census, name listed as Phil born Ireland (either transcribed wrong or written down wrong by the census taker).64

At the annual RLDS conference of 1862, Philo was appointed with Israel Rogers, William Aldrich, and J. D. Heywood to procure a printing press and printing materials.65

http://www.centerplace.org/history/ch/v3ch17.htm
CHAPTER 17. 1864.
At the conference at Batavia George W. Ewing was baptized by Elder Philo Howard, and ordained an elder, and Nelson Castleman a priest.

Present at the Annual conference of 1865 at Plano, Illinois. Listed as Elder.66

Ordained a high priest at the Annual Conference of April 6-13, 1866 at Plano, IL. Ordained 9 April 1866.67

http://www.centerplace.org/history/ch/v3ch24.htm
-The Saints' Herald, vol. 11, pp. 140-142.
"The authorities of the church were then sustained, as follows: Joseph Smith as President of the Church, with William Marks as his Counselor. The Quorum of the Twelve. The Quorum of the High Priests. Seventies, Elders, Priests, Teachers, Deacons. The High Council. The Bishopric, with Israel L. Rogers as Presiding Bishop and William Aldrich and P. Howard as his counselors. . . .


http://www.centerplace.org/history/ch/v3ch28.htm
Vol. 3 Chapter 28- 1869
January 25, 1869, Elder Philo Howard, counselor to Bishop Rogers, died near Batavia, Illinois. Of him the editor of the Herald wrote:-
"It is with sorrow that we chronicle the death of Bro. Philo Howard, a counselor to the Bishop. He was a faithful and fearless witness for Christ, loved by all, respected for his many sterling qualities. About a year ago he was taken with some kind of disorder of the throat, by which his speech was injured. He thought that it would soon wear off; but it continued to grow worse; until, notwithstanding his great personal worth, the fervent prayers of the saints, the frequent administration of the ordinance for the healing of the sick, and the remedies which skill prescribed, he gave up the contest, and has gone to rest, his body to the grave, his spirit to the paradise of God. Two strong pillars were taken when Dimic and Philo Howard laid down the weapons of their earthly warfare."- The Saints' Herald, vol. 15, p. 83.

Obituary:

"At the Batavia Branch, in Blackberry Township, Kane County, Ill., Bro. Philo Howard, in the forty-ninth year of his age. He was born at Ellisburgh, N. York April 6, 1819 and died Jan. 25, 1869."42
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