The genealogy of the Howell family of Gibson county, TN. 

As near as Thomas Charles Davis Howell can remember this is his family.

Grand father was Archibald Howell born in Wayne county, NC
Grand mother was Elizabeth Howell born in Wayne county, NC
Father was Caleb Howell born in Wayne county NC
Mother was Celia Boyet Howell born in Wayne county, NC
I, Thomas Charles Davis Howell was born in Wayne county, NC on 22 February 1814.
I was married to Sarah Stewart (Stuart) on 5 July 1835 in Gibson county TN. 
Her father was Samuel Stewart Jr., who was missing in the battle of New Orleans
in 1815.  Her mother was Ann Wallace of North Carolina.
Caleb and Celia Howell had 8 children as follows:
1. Elizabeth, married John Holloman
5. Caleb, married Mariah Hobbs
2. Ann, married Jerdan Dickson		
6. Jethro, married Elizabeth Needham
3. Chella, married Robert Johnson
7. Robert, married Tempy Flowers
4. Thomas C. D., married Sarah Stewart
8.  Salina, died young.

Sarah Stewart had 5 brothers and sisters, also 4 half- brothers and sisters as
follows:
1. Mary (Polly), died young
Half brothers and sisters
2. Matilda, married John Miller Park
1. Unk
3. Cynithia, married James McClellan
2 David McCall, died young
4. Elizabeth, married William S. May
3. Amanda McCall, died young
5. Sarah, married Thomas C. D. Howell
4. Salina McCall, died John

The Howell family came to Gibson county in 1824. There were not many settlers
in this part of the country at that kind. The court house in Trenton, the
county seat, was being built of poplar logs. The Park and McCall  families
came some time after 1826. John Miller Park was the baby brother of the Park
sisters who had married the Reed brothers and John Porter. John M. Park and
is wife' s mother and step- father, James Armstrong McCall, came from Bedford
County before 1828, when Sarah Ann Park was born in Yorkville.

The Thomas C. D. Howell family had three boys (Jason Elihu, Henry Nelson, and
William Jasper) born in Yorkville and the John M. Park family had 7 more
children born, for a total of 9 children when they all left with the L D S
Church in 1844 and 45. They all met in Iowa in 1846 before going on to Utah.

Two letters written by Thomas Charles Davis Howell to his brother Jethro survive.
Copies of which are available.