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About Joseph Charles Howton, Jr.
Youngest Son Warned
From http://hendersonkyhistory.com/MiscObits.htm
About midnight last Sunday night a crowd of eight men went to the house of Joseph HOWTON, seven miles north of Princeton, and demanded that he open the door of his house. The old man refused to do so until they told their mission, whereupon they opened fire on him, and fatally wounded him.
The went in the house, took Hewlett HOWTON by force and carried him a short distance from the house and killed him.
The crowd then went back to the house and took Berry, a younger son, and told him if he ever divulged any of their names they would kill him.
The old man is about seventy-five years old, very fleshy, and will probably die from his injuries.
The cause of the disturbance is unknown, and it is claimed the mob was composed of citizens from Hopkins county, but we don't believe there is anything in this. Our people are not of that kind
Hewlett HOWTON was a witness in the circuit court against one William McELROY, who was convicted and sentenced to a term in jail. His time has just expired. The sheriff has sent his deputies to the scene to secure all the facts. (Source: Madisonville Hustler, Fri., July 12, 1895)
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Joseph C. must have survived his wounds as we find him on the 1900 census, however he had moved back to Hopkins County, and was living in the Charleston area.
Hewlett Howton Hanged & Shot
From http://kykinfolk.com/hopkins/lore/co-wyo-trip.html
"The Creekmurs and the Howtons had a family feud going on..." (pp. 1-4). This was no doubt part of, or connected with, the following incident, recorded in Clauscine Baker's The History of Caldwell County, 1936, p. 147: "July 8, 1895, a number of men went to Hewlett Howton's house, four miles west of Dawson, on the Princeton and Dawson road. They called him and he walked out the door into the yard. One of the men attempted to put a rope around his neck while another man held a pistol on him. Hewlett said: "Gentlemen you can't do that," and knocked the rope away and grabbed the pistol from the man that had him covered and began shooting. Glenn Staffy got his thumb shot off, Russel was shot through the body and several more were wounded. Hewlett was shot and then turned and walked into the house. He looked at himself in the mirror and then laid down upon the bed and died. The mob took Berry, his brother, out to the barn and started to hang him, but one of the mob went to school with him when they were boys and he caused them to let Berry go. "
the feud was because ...
From http://kykinfolk.com/hopkins/lore/co-wyo-trip.html
The Creekmurs and the Howtons had a family feud going on. The year before, Joe Howton had come out to Idaho, and when he got back, he told them he had seen a thousand head of sheep in one herd, and 100 acres in flax. Now back there the biggest farm was three or four acres. The people didn't believe him. They said that "Anybody that would lie, would steal." Some of the Creekmurs had lost some hogs, they laid it onto Joe Howton and his two boys. The Creekmurs got together to go over there and give them a lickin.' Joe Howton and his boys put up quite a fight, but Joe and one of the boys got killed (SIC: apparently Joe survived). The sheriff got Weatherspoon (Witherspoon?) one of the Creekmur girls' husband, tried him and hung him. They caught two more and gave them life in prison. The rest got away and hid out in the woods, and would come home now and then. Lit Creekmur was hid under the house. One day he saw someone coming on horseback down the road, he thought it was the law, and he shot himself, while under the house. He lived about 1/4 to 1/2 mile from Uncle Sant's.
- 1850: United States Federal Census, District 2, Caldwell, Kentucky
- 1870: United States Federal Census, Bucksnort, Caldwell, Kentucky
- 1880: United States Federal Census, Bucksnort, Caldwell, Kentucky (listed as Joseph Honten)
- 1900: United States Federal Census, Hopkins, Kentucky
Civil War Service
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Name: J Howton Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Arkansas Service Record: Enlisted as a Private. Enlisted in Company B, 27th Infantry Regiment Arkansas.
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Joseph Charles Howton, Jr.'s Timeline
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1835
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1864 |
1864
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Caldwell County, KY, United States
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1866
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Caldwell County, KY, United States
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1868
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1873 |
1873
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Kentucky, United States
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1900
Age 65
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Charleston, Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States
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