~Howard Cemetery~

Howard Cemetery - Childress, Montgomery County
Located in Childress (off Hwy 600 take 177 to Piney Woods Road-first driveway on the right.)
Lee Myers 4/30/1863   7/2/1922
Hannah P. Howard 1738-1810
William Howard 1727-1815
    unmarked grave at his foot also larger unmarked with writing that can not be read and 2 more unmarked beside this one
Vivian Howard 2/3/1836?   3/24/1896?
    Inscription but can't read it.  It is buried in the ground.  Unmarked at her foot and baby beside her
Clyde Howard 5/10/1833    5/11/1839
Anderson Howard died 12/21/1887 age 72  Unmarked grave at his foot
Stephen Childress 4/30/1822      2/22/1900
R.C. Lucas 1/23/1879    9/12/1903
Sophia Wife of Stephen Childress (broken stone) 12/25/1819   12/18/1886
    Not certain on the death month and day
"Howard" Catherine Adams Howard 5/19/1829      6/5/1904
    (she's buried beside William) slate stone beside her and small unmarked on other side of her
Thomas Stratton Howard(at her head) 7/30/1870    7/18/1942
Grace Palmer Howard 12/18/1873      4/13/1962
    (funeral home marker Mrs. Grace P. Howard-Richardson Funeral Home)  Unmarked grave at her head and side
John W. Lucas 3/14/1831      11/6/1906
Katherine Lucas 2/16/1841         9/9/1938
Lots of little sandstone unmarked graves in corner
Milton W. Reed 8/3/1867     2/11/1926
2 sandstones beside him
General Shafter Buckner 8/17/1915       1/18/1934
2 unmarked beside him and a caved in grave
Lolaa McAlexander 3/24/1826       7/10/1908
F.P. Howard 4/14/1885       1/20/1906 "M.W.A." on top of his marker
Lacy Anderson Howard 5/14/1867       7/1/1904
    (possible the O is incorrect)  On her marker is an emblem with initials FCB
R.M. Howard 6/5/1851       12/14/1917
Josephine Lucas Howard 2/14/1855       3/7/1943
(Back row)
"our sister" Myrtle J. Pelter 12/18/1875      8/31/1930
"our brother" Wilbur P. Pelter 4/1/1884    10/13/1928
"In loving remembrance of our brave gentle and noble mother" Emily Josephine Pelter 12/6/1850        9/10/1920
Johnnie A. Pelter 12/22/1877 (possible day is wrong) 1/20/1907
Mattie Ammen Palmer 12/28/1836    11/18/1906 age 70
Samuel Granville Palmer 5/19/1828     5/16/1912
Pearl Palmer 2/6/1870    9/19/1895
Annie Mae Belle Palmer 11/21/1905     8/2/1906 daughter of R.A. and Annie E. Palmer
Lucile C. Palmer 1900-1983
Ross Stratton Palmer 10/4/1902    12/7/1947
Stell Lois Slenker Palmer 8/7/1894     8/16/1900
Homer Hanford Palmer 2/18/1890      3/26/1959
Lucy Palmer 10/28/1867   3/30/1951
Watt Bullard Palmer 2/9/1866   11/20/1881
Unmarked baby beside Lucy and Watt
Recorded in 1990
Contributed by Rhonda Smith