Ancestry of
Howard Fuller Isham

(1889–1965)

Christiana Towne Messer

View famous kin of Christiana Towne Messer

• • Grandmother of Howard Fuller Isham — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Draper Messer 
  • Mother:
  • Betsey Towne   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jun 1831 
  • Birth Location:
  • Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Mar 1882 
  • Death Location:
  • Titusville, Crawford, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Henry Isham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Oct 1853 
  • Marriage Location:
  • East Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  James Henry Isham (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Christiana Towne Messer

  • ¹ Federal Census, NH, Cheshire County, 1850, Alstead, Image 31 of 34.
  • ² Iowa, U.S., Death Records, 1880-1972, Death certificate for son James H Isham.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982, Probate file for father Nathaniel Messer.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982, 27 JUN 1866, Will of mother Betsey Messer.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Births M to 1901, p. 20258, Birth record for Christiana T Messer.
  • ⁶ Brainard, Homer Worthington, A Survey of the Ishams in England and America: Eight Hundred and Fifty Years of History and Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1938), 303, 430, incorrectly gives Christiana's birth date as 06 JAN 1831.