Biography

"Widow, age 57, of the noted political figure Thomas Y. How(e). Born c.1808-1809 to John Whitfield Hulbert, a US Congressman who represented Massachusetts, and the former Sally Hubbard, Mrs. How was named after her mother. Like that lady, she also became the wife of a US Congressman whose surname began with H: Thomas Yardley How, a Representative from the State of New York, who during the 1850's had also served as mayor of his native Auburn. The couple were parishioners of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in this city, and its churchyard was the original burial site of three of their sons who had died in early childhood: Thomas, George, and Charles. The children's remains were later transferred to Fort Hill, most probably during the summer of 1860, when Mrs. How suffered both the loss of her husband and their 15-year-old son Edward. Also predeceased by their 20-year-old daughter, Sarah, who died three years later during the summer of 1863, Mrs. How had been widowed for six years when she joined them in the family plot in 1866. Her parents, who had come to reside in Auburn many years earlier, are interred in North Street Cemetery, a local burial ground which predates Fort Hill."