'Mr. [Philo] Howard was born in New York April 6, 1820, and came to Illinois in 1851, ... March 2, 1838, he married Anna K. Colvin, a native of Jefferson County, N. Y. ... Mr. Howard died January 25, 1869. At the time of his death he was a presiding elder in the church [of Latter-Day Saints, implied] of which he was a member.'