At Aunt Beckie's death the home place passed into the hands of Sallie Howison, who lived her life out there.

Margaret Ann [Howison], eldest daughter of George and Mary Howison, was born at Maple Springs, November 11, 1856, married H. Lee Howison on August 13, 1874. Hancock Lee Howison, third son of John and Ann Lee Howison of Fredericksburg, Va., was born Oct. 13, 1847, was with Mosby's men in the Civil War, was captured, and sent to Union Prison in Elmira, New York. After the war studied medicine in Richmond, Va., and not having fully recovered from the confinement of prison, decided to try a more outdoor life, so went to California, but was not satisfied to locate there and came to St. Louis, Mo., on his return to Virginia, and while visiting his brother met Albert W. Howison of Callaway County, Mo.

Albert, with a younger brother had lived in Maple Springs before the war, and had left their brother George's home to go to the war as Confederate soldiers. The younger brother, Lucien, was killed at Pineville, Mo., as the soldiers were breaking camp, by the accidental discharge of a musket. After the war closed Albert, or Ab as he was called, opened the first store in Maple Springs, this in 1865. He had returned to Missouri to live when he met Lee in St. Louis, and told him of the opportunity for young men in Texas. Lee decided to try Texas and joined George Howison at Maple Springs. Farmed, taught school for a term or so, after