Nancy Ella Howell

1867-1926 · Goliad TX

Born 1867, Goliad, Goliad County, Texas

Died 1926

Father: Theodore Freelen Howell

Mother: Nancy Elizabeth Sellers

Children include Freelan

Nancy Ella Howell was born on 17 January 1867 at Goliad, Texas. She was a daughter of Theodore Freelen Howell, a Confederate veteran of the 8th Texas Infantry, and his second wife, Nancy Elizabeth Sellers. Her brothers included Isaac Green Howell, Robert Theodore Howell and Dr. Asa William Richard Howell, a physician at Burnet. Her sister was Martha Jane Howell, later Watson.

She married Finis Richmond Keele, a grocer and Church of Christ preacher, and lived with him in Burnet County. Their children were Pansie Maude, Freelan Ganaway and Bettye Annie. When her mother died at Christmas 1904, the obituary named her among the survivors as "Mrs. Ella Keele of Burnet." In about 1906 the family moved to Schleicher County, near Eldorado.

In April 1926 she fell seriously ill. Her brother Dr. A. Howell and his wife hurried from Burnet to Eldorado. The Burnet Bulletin reported that she "lived but a short time after they reached her bedside," and added: "With her husband Mrs. Keele formerly lived in Burnet, and many of our older citizens were friends of the family and will deeply regret to learn of Mrs. Keele's death. She was a good woman, highly regarded by all who knew her." She is buried in Eldorado Cemetery. Her stone reads "N. Ella."

Parents

Nancy Elizabeth Sellers 1837-1904 Theodore Freelen Howell 1832-1918

Children

Freelan Ganaway Keele 1897-1970

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 128109538, stone photograph.

The Burnet Bulletin, Burnet, Texas, 22 April 1926, page 6; Portal to Texas History, ark:/67531/metapth1883233.

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, Burnet County, Texas, December 1904; transcription on Find a Grave memorial 33053804.

Texas Department of Health, certificate of death, Concho County, state file no. 39969, 1970; FamilySearch image ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y14-3TFH.

Schleicher County, Texas, Probate Minutes, 1919 to 1938, p. 179; FamilySearch image ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9HC-TD7.

Burnet County, Texas, District Court minutes, May term 1920, cause no. 2321, p. 123; FamilySearch image ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V38H-FQ6J.

Burnet Bulletin, 22 April 1926, page 6 (Portal to Texas History, ark:/67531/metapth1883233); obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, 1904, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 33053804; Find a Grave memorial 128109604; Schleicher County, Texas, Probate Minutes 1919 to 1938, p. 179 (FamilySearch image 3:1:3QSQ-G9HC-TD7); Burnet County District Court minutes, May term 1920, cause no. 2321 (3:1:3QHV-V38H-FQ6J)

Texas Department of Health, certificate of death, Concho County, state file no. 39969, 1970; FamilySearch, Texas Deaths 1890-1977, image ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y14-3TFH.

Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, standard certificate of death no. 28607, Tom Green County, 1937; FamilySearch, Texas Deaths 1890-1977, image ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9B9Z-93DV.

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