... He was married to Miss Marion Howard Smith, the daughter of the Rev. J. Howard Smith, the rector of the Episcopal Church at Knoxville, and subsequently pastor of the Reformed Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Four children have been born to them:
- Eleanor, the wife of Professor A. H. Patterson of Athens, Georgia;
- Eben, a physician of Knoxville, Tennessee;
- John Howard, who died in 1899 while a student at the University of North Carolina, and
- Margaret McClung. ...
