Drakes Fork Cemetery, Cravens, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA [1]
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↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 March 2019), memorial page for Hesikiah Howard (10 Sep 1854–14 Jun 1938), Find A Grave: Memorial #8729504, citing Drakes Fork Cemetery, Cravens, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MPBX-KDQ : 29 October 2015), Hesikiah Howard, Police Jury Ward 4, Vernon, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 148, sheet 28A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,546.
"Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FS1S-CRC : 12 December 2014), Hezekiah Howard in entry for Zellar Johnson, 31 Mar 1951; citing De Ridder, Beauregard, Louisiana, certificate number 4380, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 1,418,607.
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K345-PN8 : 5 December 2014), Hezekiah Howard in entry for Mary Sidona Johnson, 07 May 1960; citing certificate number 37115, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,268.
According to the 1867 Voters Registration from Vernon Parish, his father was Wesley Howard. The 1880 census from Vernon Parish, dated 06-19-1880, family #264, he was born in Louisiana, 25yrs and a farmer. His wife, Anna, 22yrs, housekeeper, born in Louisiana, daughter Mary S., 4yrs, born Louisiana and mother, Martha, 60yrs born in Mississippi. The 1930 census from Vernon Parish, shows that His father was born in Texas and his mother in Mississippi.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hesikiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Mary Hall :
Mitochondrial DNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup V
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hesikiah: