1. Of Sarah Howell, another writer has said:
“Another prominent Methodist in the neighborhood at that time was Aunt Sallie Howell, mother of the late Jacob and Thomas Howell, who was left a widow with seven boys and one daughter, who were dependent upon her for their daily bread and religious instruction. Her house was open to the preaching of the Gospel. Father John Scripps of Rushville occasionally preached at her house, which was on what is now the Ed Davis homestead. She used to ride horseback to Rushville on Sunday to attend church, until she got a church near home. She was a leading mover in organizing the Sunday school at Sugar Grove, which she hoped would help her religiously to instruct those seven boys.” [48]

1. John and Sarah were married in the Friends Meeting at Deep River, and began housekeeping on a farm of 160 acres nearby, which he had previously bought of his father, paying the same $50. In an indenture dated March 23, 1821, he sold the farm to David Linsey, of Guilford county, consideration $500. In 1829 John Howell, in company with his wife and five children migrated to Illinois and located on a farm in section 36, Woodstock township, Schuyler county. On this farm three more children were born: John (known as little John), Jacob, and Robert. Robert died in infancy. [48]