Hiram H. Howard

FAMILY TREE

From the Buhl Herald Oct. 25, 1928:

PIONEER IS TAKEN

"Hiram Howard, familiarly known as "Hy" died very suddenly Saturday evening about five o'clock at his home a mile south of Deep Creek school house. He was stacking hay and had said to the boys working with him that they would rake up around the stock and call It a day. They observed that he fell to the hay as he was about to step on the ladder to come down from the stack. They climbed up to him and found that his heart had ceased functioning.

Mr. Howard was born in Missouri In 1869 and when he was nineteen years of age he was married to Mary Elizabeth Davidson. After two years the young couple moved to the state of Washington where they lived until 1906 when the opening of this tract induced them to come to Idaho. They and their children arrived here before the water was turned into the canals and more than a year before the railroad was in operation. They helped clear the sagebrush from the town-site and farm land and he has farmed on the tract since. Mrs. Howard died In January, 1926, and was buried in Buhl cemetery. 

The children surviving are Roy Howard, Twin, Falls; Oval Howard, Blackfoot; Ernest Howard and Mrs. Wesley Flynn, Longview, Washington; Mrs. Jack Thomson, Lucerne district, Buhl and Mrs. Lloyd Smith who lives north of Snake River. All of the children except Oval were present for the funeral on Wednesday. In 1927 Mr. Howard was married to Mrs. Rowenah Wilson and she survives him. A large relationship of the Howard family live in this community, Including seven families of cousins.

Funeral services were held from the Baptist church on Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock and were largely attended. Rev. Lathrop officiated. Interment was made beside the mother in Buhl cemetery."