Joseph N. Howe and Elizabeth Morrill

Husband

Joseph N. Howe

Born: ABT 1784 at Boston, Mass.
Married: 17 JUN 1831^[1] at Cambridge, Mass.

Wife

Elizabeth Morrill

Born: 20 JAN 1796 at Boston, Mass.
Father: James Morrill
Mother: Mary Glover

Children

Ann J. Howe1834 – 1900

Born: EST 1834^[2]
Died: 31 MAY 1900^[3] · Boston, Suffolk, Mass.
Buried: ^[5] · Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.

needs independent verification: birth year 1834 is estimated (back-calculated from age 66 at a 1900 death) — no birth or christening record has been located for this person. The two Massachusetts death-index citations above (Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, and State Vital Records) are two indexings of the same underlying 1900 Boston death record, not independent corroboration of each other; burial place ‘Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts’ is taken from the state index’s ‘Burial Place: Cambridge’ field, since her own cited extract does not name Mt. Auburn Cemetery specifically.^[6]

Eliza Howe1833 – 1905

Born: EST 1833^[7]
Died: 23 SEP 1905^[8] · Boston, Suffolk, Mass.
Buried: ^[10] · Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

needs independent verification: birth year 1833 is estimated (back-calculated from age 72 at a 1905 death) — no birth or christening record has been located for this person. A third Massachusetts death index for this same 1905 event (FamilySearch ark 1:1:NWV3-V82, Source Details 298) gives death place as Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, conflicting with the Boston, Suffolk place given by both cited indexes above; Brookline appears in her own record only as her residence (a residence fact), so the two cited Boston-place indexes are preferred as the death place and the third index’s differing place is noted here rather than silently discarded.^[11]

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, MA, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: [Wright & Potter Print Co.] 1915), 2: 276.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZS-R4M (accessed 2026-09-23), cn 5335. Ann J. Howe, Female, Age 66 years, Birth Year (Estimated) 1834, Event Type Death, Event Date 31 May 1900, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Page Number cn 5335. Spouses and Children of Joseph N. Howe: Eliza Morrill (Wife), Ann J. Howe (Daughter, 66 years).
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZS-R4M (accessed 2026-09-23), cn 5335. Ann J. Howe, Female, Age 66 years, Birth Year (Estimated) 1834, Event Type Death, Event Date 31 May 1900, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Page Number cn 5335. Spouses and Children of Joseph N. Howe: Eliza Morrill (Wife), Ann J. Howe (Daughter, 66 years). See also Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7FX-228 (accessed 2026-09-23), v 507 p 283. Ann J. Howe, Female, Age 66, Birth Year (Estimated) 1834, Birthplace Boston, Residence Place Boston, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 1900, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Source Details v 507 p 283. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother, Boston).
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7FX-228 (accessed 2026-09-23), v 507 p 283. Ann J. Howe, Female, Age 66, Birth Year (Estimated) 1834, Birthplace Boston, Residence Place Boston, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 1900, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Source Details v 507 p 283. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother, Boston).
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7FX-228 (accessed 2026-09-23), v 507 p 283. Ann J. Howe, Female, Age 66, Birth Year (Estimated) 1834, Birthplace Boston, Residence Place Boston, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 1900, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Source Details v 507 p 283. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother, Boston).
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH4K-34J (accessed 2026-09-23), 8176. Eliza Howe, Female, Age 72 years, Birth Year (Estimated) 1833, Event Type Death, Event Date 23 September 1905, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Parents and Siblings: Joseph N. Howe (Father), Eliza Morrill (Mother).
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH4K-34J (accessed 2026-09-23), 8176. Eliza Howe, Female, Age 72 years, Birth Year (Estimated) 1833, Event Type Death, Event Date 23 September 1905, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Parents and Siblings: Joseph N. Howe (Father), Eliza Morrill (Mother). See also Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWJX-SQS (accessed 2026-09-23), v 19 cn 468. Eliza Howe, Female, Age 72, Birth Year (Estimated) 1833, Birthplace Boston, Ma, Residence Place Brookline, Massachusetts, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 23 Sep 1905, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Cemetery Mt. Auburn, Source Details v 19 cn 468. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother).
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWJX-SQS (accessed 2026-09-23), v 19 cn 468. Eliza Howe, Female, Age 72, Birth Year (Estimated) 1833, Birthplace Boston, Ma, Residence Place Brookline, Massachusetts, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 23 Sep 1905, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Cemetery Mt. Auburn, Source Details v 19 cn 468. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother).
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWJX-SQS (accessed 2026-09-23), v 19 cn 468. Eliza Howe, Female, Age 72, Birth Year (Estimated) 1833, Birthplace Boston, Ma, Residence Place Brookline, Massachusetts, Burial Place Cambridge, Marital Status Single, Race White, Event Type Death, Event Date 23 Sep 1905, Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Cemetery Mt. Auburn, Source Details v 19 cn 468. Joseph N. Howe (Father, subject of this index entry), Eliza Morrill (Wife/mother).