Charles Henry Howe was a Civil War veteran and a member of Co. G, 25^th Michigan Infantry. He enlisted as private from Lockport, Michigan in Co. G, 25^th Michigan Infantry on September 11, 1862, and transferred out on April 1, 1865.

MI Death Certificate, Seeking Michigan

Charles Howe was born June 1, 1838, son of Amos Howe and Mary J. Smith. He died in Clark Memorial Home in Grand Rapids on August 30, 1917, age 79-2-29. He was a retired minister of the M. E. Church.

Charles is buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Lamont, Michigan, next to his second wife, Lily Howe, born 1854 in Lamont. Lily was the daughter of William M. Blakeney and Sarah Matilda Angell.

1880 U. S. Federal Census, Cannonsburg, Kent, Michigan

Charles Howe, age about 42, born in Indiana, clergyman

Eunice Howe, age about 39, wife

Frank Howe, age about 14,

Anna Howe, age about 12

Charles Howe, age about 8

Jenne Howe, age about 4

1900 U. S. Federal Census, Ellsworth Lakes, MI

Charles Howe, born June 1838, furniture and undertaking

Lily Howe, wife, born May 1854, father born in Vermont, mother born in New York

1910 U. S. Federal Census, Tallmadge, Ottawa Michigan

Charles Howe, born about 1839 in Indiana, age 71

Lily Howe, wife, age 56