Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameMartha Jane “Mattie” Howe 
Birth1 Jan 1871, Buda, Hays Co TX
Death11 Sep 1956, Victoria Co TX Age: 85
BurialKyle, TX
FatherThomas Howe
Spouses
1James William “Jim” Adair 
, GG Uncle
, GG UncleBirth15 Feb 1866, Marshall Co MS
Death30 Mar 1933, Austwell, TX Age: 67
BurialKyle, TX
Birth15 Feb 1866, Mississippi
FatherAndrew Jackson Adair (1831-1911)
MotherFrances Ann Gannt (1839-1882)
Marriage6 Nov 1894, Buda, TX
ChildrenMary Frances (1895-1974)
Pearl Irene (1897-1923)
Albert Judson (1900-1982)
Lena Elizabeth (1904-1999)
James Ernest (1907-1923)
Notes for Martha Jane “Mattie” Howe
Mattie Howe died of high blood pressure.331
Mrs. Martha Adair332
Mrs. Martha Jane Adair, 85, longtime resident of Austwell, died in a Victoria hospital Tuesday at 6 a.m. Funeral srevices will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Duckett-Richardson chapel with the Rev. Marshall Durham, pastor of Austwell Baptist Church, and the Rev. O. O. Moore, pastor of Austwell Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Kyle, Texas, Cemetery, near Mrs. Adair's birthplace. She. was born in Mountain City and moved' to Austwell in 1919. She was a member of Austwil Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Albert J. Adair of Austin; two daughters, Mrs. B. E. Bluhn of Austwell and Miss Elizabeth Adair of San Antonio; seven brothers, J. R. of Buda, G. T. of Austin. A. C. of Nixon, W. A. of Roscoe, Fred D. of Midland, B. D. of Shamrock, and Charles Howe of Los Angeles, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
Mrs. Martha Adair332
Mrs. Martha Jane Adair, 85, longtime resident of Austwell, died in a Victoria hospital Tuesday at 6 a.m. Funeral srevices will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Duckett-Richardson chapel with the Rev. Marshall Durham, pastor of Austwell Baptist Church, and the Rev. O. O. Moore, pastor of Austwell Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Kyle, Texas, Cemetery, near Mrs. Adair's birthplace. She. was born in Mountain City and moved' to Austwell in 1919. She was a member of Austwil Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Albert J. Adair of Austin; two daughters, Mrs. B. E. Bluhn of Austwell and Miss Elizabeth Adair of San Antonio; seven brothers, J. R. of Buda, G. T. of Austin. A. C. of Nixon, W. A. of Roscoe, Fred D. of Midland, B. D. of Shamrock, and Charles Howe of Los Angeles, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
Notes for Martha Jane “Mattie” Howe
The following essay, written by Albert Adair, was obtained from Nell Lewis:
(The following was written for the Buda Centennial Oct. 3, 1981)
HISTORY OF THE HOWE - ADAIR CLANS
By Albert ‘Al’ J. Adair
At this late hour I feel like a derelict or, more precisely, like an old buffalo having been horned from the herd and left by the wayside for the coyotes to devour.
Now in my dotage, yet with a vivid memory, I am attempting to write the story of my forebears who came to Hays County when the prairies were unfenced and the region was open range. Few acres had been put to the plow and the cattle were herded during the day and placed in the corrals at nighttime.
THE HOWES
Thomas Howe, my grandfather, was an Irish immigrant who arrived in America in the late 1840's. He joined the Western Movement and in the early 1860's was in Union, Franklin County, Missouri.
Benjamin Tucker Williams, my great-grandfather, and Rebecca Rachel Hobson Williams, my great-grandmother also lived in Union in the early 1860's. Their oldest daughter was Sara, born in Columbus, Ohio in 1842. She and Thomas Howe were married in Union, Missouri, August 6, 1863. Benjamin T.. Williams, Sarah’s father died in 1864.
Four children were born to Thomas and Sara Howe in Missouri. One daughter, Mary Ann, died in 1868 and was buried near her grandfather in Union. When the Howes left Missouri in 1869, they were accompanied by two sons, Davis Claxton and Benjamin Franklin, and an infant daughter, Sarah Elizabeth.
They arrived in Mountain City, Hays County, Texas, in the fall of 1870. Also in the caravan were several members of the Williams family. They traveled by covered wagons. The long journey from Missouri surely must have been a trying one for Grandmother Howe. She was nursing her infant daughter Elizabeth while pregnant with another child, Martha ‘Mattie’ Jane Howe, my mother, born in Mountain City, January l, 1871.
Mountain City was a small village and a relay station for the stage line that ran between Austin and San Antonio. When the International & Great Northern R.R. reached San Antonio, the stage line ceased to operate and the village of Mountain City began to crumble.
After the short sojourn in Mountain City, grandfather Thomas Howe bought land in the Science Hall Community.
Others who bought land about the same time were: J.L. and Whit Andrews, John and Lewis Franks, P. Allen, Jimmie Goforth, the Lynches, and D.A. Porter, a Baptist minister.
Realizing the value of education, they established the first school in the community. Mrs. Andrews, wife of Whit Andrews, named the school Science Hall. She later established a boarding school for girls and named her school Science Hall Institute. Young ladies from a wide area in Texas attended Mrs. Andrews’ Institute.
After the school was established at Science Hall, the little hamlet developed into a small village with a mercantile store, a blacksmith shop and several residences. The school was used for a place of worship on Sunday, for school plays, social functions and other community activities. A cotton gin was erected on the nearby Tremble land.
As a lad Grandfather Howe had learned the stone mason’s trade in Ireland and that is the occupation he followed after coming to America. He helped to lay the stone in the old rock building. The Howes were a prominent family in early Buda where Grandfather Howe owned a mercantile store for a number of years.
The Howes and Williams who died before 1900 are buried in Barton Cemetery enclosed within an iron fence.
The first burial within the enclosure was that of Rachel Rebecca (Hobson) Williams born in Chillicothe, Ohio January 21, 1817 and died in Buda, Texas February 18, 1879. The last was that of George Thomas Howe born in Buda, Texas, April 20, 18723 and died in Austin, December 24, 1958
(The following was written for the Buda Centennial Oct. 3, 1981)
HISTORY OF THE HOWE - ADAIR CLANS
By Albert ‘Al’ J. Adair
At this late hour I feel like a derelict or, more precisely, like an old buffalo having been horned from the herd and left by the wayside for the coyotes to devour.
Now in my dotage, yet with a vivid memory, I am attempting to write the story of my forebears who came to Hays County when the prairies were unfenced and the region was open range. Few acres had been put to the plow and the cattle were herded during the day and placed in the corrals at nighttime.
THE HOWES
Thomas Howe, my grandfather, was an Irish immigrant who arrived in America in the late 1840's. He joined the Western Movement and in the early 1860's was in Union, Franklin County, Missouri.
Benjamin Tucker Williams, my great-grandfather, and Rebecca Rachel Hobson Williams, my great-grandmother also lived in Union in the early 1860's. Their oldest daughter was Sara, born in Columbus, Ohio in 1842. She and Thomas Howe were married in Union, Missouri, August 6, 1863. Benjamin T.. Williams, Sarah’s father died in 1864.
Four children were born to Thomas and Sara Howe in Missouri. One daughter, Mary Ann, died in 1868 and was buried near her grandfather in Union. When the Howes left Missouri in 1869, they were accompanied by two sons, Davis Claxton and Benjamin Franklin, and an infant daughter, Sarah Elizabeth.
They arrived in Mountain City, Hays County, Texas, in the fall of 1870. Also in the caravan were several members of the Williams family. They traveled by covered wagons. The long journey from Missouri surely must have been a trying one for Grandmother Howe. She was nursing her infant daughter Elizabeth while pregnant with another child, Martha ‘Mattie’ Jane Howe, my mother, born in Mountain City, January l, 1871.
Mountain City was a small village and a relay station for the stage line that ran between Austin and San Antonio. When the International & Great Northern R.R. reached San Antonio, the stage line ceased to operate and the village of Mountain City began to crumble.
After the short sojourn in Mountain City, grandfather Thomas Howe bought land in the Science Hall Community.
Others who bought land about the same time were: J.L. and Whit Andrews, John and Lewis Franks, P. Allen, Jimmie Goforth, the Lynches, and D.A. Porter, a Baptist minister.
Realizing the value of education, they established the first school in the community. Mrs. Andrews, wife of Whit Andrews, named the school Science Hall. She later established a boarding school for girls and named her school Science Hall Institute. Young ladies from a wide area in Texas attended Mrs. Andrews’ Institute.
After the school was established at Science Hall, the little hamlet developed into a small village with a mercantile store, a blacksmith shop and several residences. The school was used for a place of worship on Sunday, for school plays, social functions and other community activities. A cotton gin was erected on the nearby Tremble land.
As a lad Grandfather Howe had learned the stone mason’s trade in Ireland and that is the occupation he followed after coming to America. He helped to lay the stone in the old rock building. The Howes were a prominent family in early Buda where Grandfather Howe owned a mercantile store for a number of years.
The Howes and Williams who died before 1900 are buried in Barton Cemetery enclosed within an iron fence.
The first burial within the enclosure was that of Rachel Rebecca (Hobson) Williams born in Chillicothe, Ohio January 21, 1817 and died in Buda, Texas February 18, 1879. The last was that of George Thomas Howe born in Buda, Texas, April 20, 18723 and died in Austin, December 24, 1958
Notes for James William “Jim” (Spouse 1)
Jim Adair came to Texas in 1886. He was a farmer and lived in Hays, Bee, and Refugio Counties, Texas. He died of pneumonia in 1933.331
1910 Census of Justice Pct 5, Hays Co TX
Name Age
James W Adair 44
Mattie J Adair 39
Mary Adair 14
Irene Adair 12
Albert J Adair 9
Lizzie Adair 5
Earnest Adair 2
Andrew J Adair 78
1920 Census of Justice Pct 8, Refugio TX
Name Age
J W Adair 53
Mattie Adair 49
Mary Adair 24
Albert Adair 19
Elizabeth Adair 14
Ernest Adair 12
1910 Census of Justice Pct 5, Hays Co TX
Name Age
James W Adair 44
Mattie J Adair 39
Mary Adair 14
Irene Adair 12
Albert J Adair 9
Lizzie Adair 5
Earnest Adair 2
Andrew J Adair 78
1920 Census of Justice Pct 8, Refugio TX
Name Age
J W Adair 53
Mattie Adair 49
Mary Adair 24
Albert Adair 19
Elizabeth Adair 14
Ernest Adair 12