Grandmother of director Howard Hawks.
Married Charles W. "C.W." Howard.
Children:
1. A child, died in infancy
2. Helen L., b. March 10, 1872. Married Frank Winchester Hawks, June 5, 1895, in Neenah, WI.
3. Emily, b. and d. 1873
4. [Edith] Bernice, b. 1876.
5. [Charles] Neil, b. 1879, Drowned in Lake Winnebago sometime in 1883-1884.
Euphemia and her husband C.W. were originally buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, WI beside their son Neil. However, as author Todd McCarthy noted in his biography of Charles and Euphemia's famous grandson, film director Howard Hawks ("Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood"):
"The story of C. W. Howard had a bizarre postscript. Some years later, after his daughter Helen had become a confirmed, perhaps even fanatic, Christian Scientist and adherent of cremation, she returned to Neenah. She had her father, mother, and brother Neil dug up and cremated (in Milwaukee, as no one closer by would do it). After mixing the ashes in an urn, she went out to Riverside Park and threw it in the river, where it was discovered decades later, with the names and dates still legible, by scuba divers. The grave marker, a big red marble ball six feet in diameter that C.W. had bought for himself at the 1896 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Helen sold to the family of Fred W. Abendschein, whose grave it still marks today."
Married Charles W. "C.W." Howard.
Children:
1. A child, died in infancy
2. Helen L., b. March 10, 1872. Married Frank Winchester Hawks, June 5, 1895, in Neenah, WI.
3. Emily, b. and d. 1873
4. [Edith] Bernice, b. 1876.
5. [Charles] Neil, b. 1879, Drowned in Lake Winnebago sometime in 1883-1884.
Euphemia and her husband C.W. were originally buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, WI beside their son Neil. However, as author Todd McCarthy noted in his biography of Charles and Euphemia's famous grandson, film director Howard Hawks ("Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood"):
"The story of C. W. Howard had a bizarre postscript. Some years later, after his daughter Helen had become a confirmed, perhaps even fanatic, Christian Scientist and adherent of cremation, she returned to Neenah. She had her father, mother, and brother Neil dug up and cremated (in Milwaukee, as no one closer by would do it). After mixing the ashes in an urn, she went out to Riverside Park and threw it in the river, where it was discovered decades later, with the names and dates still legible, by scuba divers. The grave marker, a big red marble ball six feet in diameter that C.W. had bought for himself at the 1896 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Helen sold to the family of Fred W. Abendschein, whose grave it still marks today."
Grandmother of director Howard Hawks.
Married Charles W. "C.W." Howard.
Children:
1. A child, died in infancy
2. Helen L., b. March 10, 1872. Married Frank Winchester Hawks, June 5, 1895, in Neenah, WI.
3. Emily, b. and d. 1873
4. [Edith] Bernice, b. 1876.
5. [Charles] Neil, b. 1879, Drowned in Lake Winnebago sometime in 1883-1884.
Euphemia and her husband C.W. were originally buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, WI beside their son Neil. However, as author Todd McCarthy noted in his biography of Charles and Euphemia's famous grandson, film director Howard Hawks ("Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood"):
"The story of C. W. Howard had a bizarre postscript. Some years later, after his daughter Helen had become a confirmed, perhaps even fanatic, Christian Scientist and adherent of cremation, she returned to Neenah. She had her father, mother, and brother Neil dug up and cremated (in Milwaukee, as no one closer by would do it). After mixing the ashes in an urn, she went out to Riverside Park and threw it in the river, where it was discovered decades later, with the names and dates still legible, by scuba divers. The grave marker, a big red marble ball six feet in diameter that C.W. had bought for himself at the 1896 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Helen sold to the family of Fred W. Abendschein, whose grave it still marks today."
Married Charles W. "C.W." Howard.
Children:
1. A child, died in infancy
2. Helen L., b. March 10, 1872. Married Frank Winchester Hawks, June 5, 1895, in Neenah, WI.
3. Emily, b. and d. 1873
4. [Edith] Bernice, b. 1876.
5. [Charles] Neil, b. 1879, Drowned in Lake Winnebago sometime in 1883-1884.
Euphemia and her husband C.W. were originally buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, WI beside their son Neil. However, as author Todd McCarthy noted in his biography of Charles and Euphemia's famous grandson, film director Howard Hawks ("Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood"):
"The story of C. W. Howard had a bizarre postscript. Some years later, after his daughter Helen had become a confirmed, perhaps even fanatic, Christian Scientist and adherent of cremation, she returned to Neenah. She had her father, mother, and brother Neil dug up and cremated (in Milwaukee, as no one closer by would do it). After mixing the ashes in an urn, she went out to Riverside Park and threw it in the river, where it was discovered decades later, with the names and dates still legible, by scuba divers. The grave marker, a big red marble ball six feet in diameter that C.W. had bought for himself at the 1896 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Helen sold to the family of Fred W. Abendschein, whose grave it still marks today."
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