| misc. information | Registered Oct. 2, 1843, born free in Botetourt. A Remonstrance was filed Jan. 12, 1856, by RC citizens in response to a petition Reuben filed to stay in the state longer than the law allows. The citizens objected because he had been going to free states to beg money, and brought back abolition tracts that he distributed to slaves. He was not living with Milly in 1860, so may have left the state, and returned by 1870. She was emancipated in 1863, along with their children. A death certificate for a Reuben Howard who died in 1916, about 100. May be a different Reuben Howard. Buried in Goshen. |