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John Howard Pyle

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John Howard Pyle

9th Governor of Arizona


    Thurza Howard

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    • 2nd Great-grandmother of John Howard Pyle — 5th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 31 
    • Birth Date:
    • 6 Nov 1803 
    • Birth Location:
    • North Carolina 
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    • Death Date:
    • ABT 1834 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Tennessee 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 21 Feb 1821 
    • Marriage Location:
    • North Carolina 
    • Children:

    • Eliza Ann Chase

      Theresa Chase (Ahnentafel No:15 )

      William H. Chase

      George H. Chase

    • Notes: 
    • Thurza Howard's given name is also seen as Thyrza and Theresa.

      Thurza is said to have gotten sick and died in Tennessee during a wagon train trip from North Carolina to Missouri sometime in 1834. Evidence is needed to confirm this. Her husband Elisha remarried in 1837 which supports the story that she died during the trip west.

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  • Sources for Thurza Howard

    • 3 Hall, Virginius Cornick, Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society, University Press of Virginia (1981), 48.
    • 5 Luther, Leslie L., The Luther Family in America: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Captain John Luther of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Moravia, New York: Chronicle Guidance Publications, Inc. (1976), 184.
    • 6 Padgett, Dora A., The Howard Family of Ocracoke Island, N. C., Washington, D.C.: typed manuscript (1900), 18.
    • 7 Padgett, Dora A., The Howard Family of Ocracoke Island, N. C., Washington, D.C.: typed manuscript (1900), 18, 25.