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P. N. Howell, during the war, joined Company K of Col. Dick Pinson’s regiment, in 1861, in the Mississippi Cavalry, serving in General Forrest’s command. He took part in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg and a number of others, and was captured at Vicksburg in 1863, being taken on board of a boat bound for the Northern prisons, but escaping, he rejoined his command. After the war he engaged in the grocery business at Memphis, and in 1868 was married to Miss Martha E. Wadsworth, daughter of W. P. and Julia C. Wadsworth, natives of North and South Carolina, respectively. In 1878 Mr. Howell went to Marshall County, Miss., where he remained until 1881, the time of his removal to Arkansas. Locating in this county, he embarked in farming on his present farm of 160 acres, about three miles from Crockett’s Bluff, where he has about sixty-five acres under cultivation. His wife died in 1876, and in 1881 he married his second and present companion, Miss E. L. Jansen, daughter of Rev. Lewis Jansen, an Episcopal minister of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Howell is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Anson County, N.C., in 1835, as the son of Abner and Phebe B. (Ingram) Howell. Abner Howell came originally from North Carolina. His father, Samuel Howell, who was born in Georgia, was of Scotch descent. Mr. Howell moved to Alabama in 1858, where he died in 1876, his wife surviving him two years.