Julia Maria Howe

Monday, March 22, 1869, New York Herald STOCKWELL-on Sunday morning, March 21, JULIA E. wife of Alden B. Stockwell and youngest daughter of the late Elias Howe, Jr., aged 23 years 1 month and 23 days. Funeral from residence, No. 16 East Twenty-ninth street, Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Part of an article I found in the Springfield Republican, Springfield, MA. dated: Sunday, November 15, 1931 It was in the sixties that Julia E. Howe married Alden B. Stockwell in Paris, a few years after her marriage, she died and her clothes were packed away, not to be unearthed till recently when her daughter, Mrs. Julia Howe Stockwell Smith of Plainesville, O. decided to present them to a museum. A trip to various museums finally liked her to Springfield and the Pynchon Memorial, with results now will be seen in the glass case aforementioned., It is a lesson in changing fashion, a warning against pinning too much faith on an ostrich plume.