886I have found, at the St. Charles County Historical Society, a microfilm record(Box 106, file# 4414) of a petition for divorce filed by Larkin Howell in 1863.
Patsey's answering contest states that in the 1850s , he ran off to Texas with her niece, Mary Ann Clare. Daughter of Judith Baugh Clare.
He came back after a year.
She then states that he moved in with a neighbor lady (widow), Martha Ann Lemmons Harrold, in 1862 or 63.
Larkin Howell married Martha Ann Harrold o7/31/1864, in Calhoun County, Illlinois.
When he died Nov. 16, 1865, in Pike county Illinois, he left to his "beloved second wife, Martha Ann" everything except a dollar for each of his children!
Wow!
I just had to tell somebody.
Your some sort of cousin,
Didi Muir