Bio: Howden, Sam and Hester
Contact:  joan charette

----Sources: Family Records

In response to bio of Samuel and Hester Howden. Marian Howden was my mother. Samuel and Hester were my mothers grandparents. I have a old photograph of them in my home and have learned over the years by being in contact with my mothers family, that my grandfather William Moses Howden One of Sam and Hesters Youngest sons moved with his family to North dakota and to Montana and then to Washington State. Hester was not Irish at all. She was an Iroquois Indian woman Most likely of the tribe Of Oneida that left New York to Wisconsin and was married very young to Samuel. Several of their daughters married Cummins cousins when they relocated to Washington State. You will find Cummins cousins living on the reservations mostly in Pierce county Washington where my grandfather William was killed in an accident in the woods in Evansville, Washington. I believe one of the sisters married a John Cummins who was a sheriff on the reservation They had a daughter named Eileen, My mothers first cousin. this was hidden I was told by my mothers 90 year old aunt because of the Klan's activity in the 1920s and 1930s. there is more history to this but I feel that this is only the business of those of us who are directly related to Hester and Sam. You will not find Howdens in Northern Ireland but more in England and Scotland. I have written to Northern Ireland and was told the Howden family never was there.