Re: HELLO HOWDESHELL COUSINS!!!!!!!!!!
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HELLO HOWDESHELL COUSINS!!!!!!!!!!
Christopher Mitchell 8/28/01
Hello Tina,
Thanks for providing a great amount of Houndshell family information.My ggg grandfather is Hiram Houndshell born in Ky or Tn around 1798.I'm not sure where he died, maybe Giles Co. Tennessee.He married Mary Polly Gibson daughter of John Gibson and Hannah Unknown in Sumner county TN May 31, 1826.
Jacob, Hiram's father married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of James Wilson of Sumner and Williamson Counties TN.I haven't found James Wilson's wife yet.
Hiram and Mary / Polly's daughter Mary Jane Hounshell married Martin Waldrop / Waldroup and lived in Giles County.They are my gg grandparents.
One strange thing I found on ... I believe the 1880 census of Giles Co. isMary Jane Hounshell Waldrop lists her father as having been born in Holland. She may have not known her father Hiram was b. in Ky ... and her grandfather Jacob was born in VA., but perhaps had been told through oral family history that the Houndeshelt family had come from Holland or were of Dutch ancestry....not sure how this would fit in with the family having come from France though.
Anyway thanks very much for your posting.I would like to hear from you concerning any information you may have on our Houndshells orGibsons and Wilsons.
Thanks again! Bill Pittillo
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Re: Jacob Howdeshell and Elizabeth Wilson
Tina Wells 2/19/06