Perry W. Howard (Holmes County)
State House: 1872-1875
Born: c. 1843 in South Carolina
Died: February 7, 1907 in Ebenezer, MS
Also served on the county board of supervisors. Howard is listed on the 1870, 1880, and 1900 census in Holmes County, working as a blacksmith, with wife Sarah and children. Sarah is a widow on the 1910 census.
Sarah’s 1923 obituary in the Chicago Defender notes that “The cemetery in which she was buried was the gift of her husband, who is buried there, to the people of Ebenezer, as was also the church, the school and the land upon which is built the parsonage.”
His son, Perry Wilbon Howard (1877-1961), was a professor of mathematics, a lawyer, president of the National Negro Bar Association, and a long-standing delegate to the Republican national convention.
Elmer Elsworth Howard (b. 1879), was a doctor in Meridian and Chicago; Wesley F. Howard was also a doctor. Andrew Jackson Howard (1863-1938) was a professor of mathematics and interim president at Alcorn University and a merchant in Holmes County. Daughters Eva and Sarah were teachers.
This page was last updated on April 24, 2026.