♀Lydia Howard

Lydia Howard (born 20 March 1793) was a daughter of Uriah Howard (1763–1845) and Lydia Royce (1767–1851), and she shared her mother’s name. She was the third great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Sybil Howard (1784–1864), Nancy Jane’s third great-grandmother.

Early life

Lydia was the sixth of the thirteen children of Uriah and Lydia Howard, born between 1784 and 1811. The Phillips town record, as indexed, gives her birth date and names Uriah as her father, and the same date stands in the list of the children’s births that Uriah wrote into the family Bible. Neither record says where she was born. Her father swore in 1832 that his home had been at Lyme, New Hampshire, through the Revolution and that he had moved from there to Winthrop, Maine, in 1797 and two years later to Phillips, so she was probably born at Lyme, a child of four when the family left New Hampshire and about six when it settled at Phillips.

Marriage

The Bible leaf records that Lydia married on 10 November 1812, when she was nineteen. Her sister Sybil sent the leaf to the pension office in February 1846 for the file on Uriah’s service, and its entry for Lydia names no husband and no place of marriage. A FamilySearch family tree gives her death as 31 July 1871. No husband or children are named.