The Project Gutenberg eBook of Horton Genealogy, by George F. Horton.

N. T. Horton is a farmer and lumber dealer, was Captain of a militia company in 1835.

III. Julia, daughter of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Wilmot, Pa., 6 Oct., 1810; married in Wilmot, 21 Nov., 1833, by Thomas Ingham, Esq., to Samuel E. Miller, son of John Miller and Lydia Gilbert, and born at Frenchtown, Pa., in 1808.

IV. Eunice, daughter of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Asylum, now Wilmot, Pa., 7 Sept., 1812; married at the old homestead, 6 July, 1837, by Ephraim Beeman, Esq., to James Horace Turrell, son of Beebe H. Turrell and Olive Turrell, and born 1 Nov., 1809; died in Wilmot, 3 Sept., 1863. She is still living, and has been a worthy member of the Baptist Church for about fifty years.

Mr. James H. Turrell was a farmer and lumber manufacturer. He was a prompt business man—a Justice of the Peace for five years, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who knew him. He began the world with nothing, but at the time of his death he was worth a fine property.

VI. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Wilmot, 4 April, 1817; married in Terry, to Ellen Minerva Crandall, daughter of Josias G. Crandall and Olive Burdick, and born in Grafton, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., 18 Oct., 1823.

Ebenezer Horton's residence was in Albany, Pa., but he died at his father's old residence in Wilmot, where he had gone to spend the closing days of his life with his mother and her family. He was an industrious, upright farmer, esteemed by all who knew him. His widow and family still occupy his old homestead, and live comfortably.

VII. Adela, daughter of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Asylum, now Wilmot, Penn'a, 13 April, 1819; married in Towanda, by Elhanan Smith, Esq., 5 Feb., 1840, to Chester Schoonover, son of Joseph Schoonover and Rachel Corsaw, and born near where the city of Binghamton now stands, 17 April, 1817.

Adela Horton Schoonover died March, 1844, and he married 2. in Sussex Co., N. J., by the Rev. Mr. Bookstaver, to Eliza Hornbeck, daughter of Cornelius Hornbeck. They live in Terry. He has for many years been a preacher of the Old School Baptist Church.

VIII. Jane, daughter of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Asylum, now Wilmot, Penn'a, 22 July, 1821; married Lehman Turrell, brother of J. H. Turrell. They reside in West Webster, Monroe Co., N. Y., no children. They are both worthy members of the M. E. Church. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade.

IX. Lydia Ann, daughter of Ebenezer Horton and Mary Terry, born in Wilmot, 4 February, 1825; married in Wilmot, 27 Feb., 1851, by Henry Gaylord, Esq., to Moses Thompson Slotery, son of Daniel Slotery and Elizabeth Firman, and born in Allentown, Pa., 22 July, 1829.

Elmore Horton and family reside at Sugar Run, Bradford Co., Pa. He is a farmer and lumberman; was an engineer on the Pennsylvania canal when a young man; has some part of his life been engaged in mercantile business. His son is now one of the partners in carrying on a general country store and doing a fair business.

II. Mary, daughter of Maj. John Horton, Jr., and Nancy Miller, born at Terrytown, 19 Nov., 1818; married at Terrytown, 15 June, 1841, by Rev. Geo. Printz, to Dr. Nathan Wells, son of Nathan Wells and Sarah Coleman, and born in Orange Co., N. Y., 15 Oct., 1815. Dr. Wells and wife are esteemed members of the Presbyterian Church. They settled at Meshoppen, Wyoming Co., Pa., soon after their marriage, where they reside at the present time. The Doctor is a first class physician, has done a large business, has accumulated a fine property, and is universally esteemed, both as a physician and worthy citizen. He was Associate Judge of Wyoming Co. for one term of five years.

III. Orice Miller, daughter of Maj. John Horton, Jr., and Nancy Miller, born at Terrytown, 16 Jan., 1821; married at Terrytown, 1 Sept., 1840, by Rev. Geo. Printz, to Austin Stalford, son of Benjamin Stalford and Urania Turrell, and born in Wyalusing, Pa., 15 Dec., 1812. He settled first in Browntown, Pa., remained there until 1852, when he moved to Rochelle, Ill. He carried on a large farming business. They were both members of the Presbyterian Church, and he was a ruling elder. He died suddenly whilst harnessing his horse to go to the meeting of the Presbytery in Chicago, on the 14 Oct., 1868.

Children: 1, 2, 3, born in Wyalusing; 4, born at Elkhorn, Ill.; 5, born at Rochelle.

The widow and family, except Rowena, reside near the village of Rochelle; are well-to do farmers. Charles L.'s wife is a lady of refinement and education, is a teacher and writer; many of her poetical lines are excellent, and some of them have been published.

John M. Horton was a shoemaker and hotel-keeper, a very industrious and public spirited man. He built the Terrytown Hotel, and kept it in such a manner as to make it superior to most of the country hotels. He died suddenly in the midst of his usefulness, 24 April, 1861, greatly lamented by all who knew him.

In boyhood Joseph possessed a person of rare physical beauty, and evinced a bright and happy disposition. He was frank spoken, open, genial and social. His native industry, all through his childhood and youth, displayed great aptitude for business. In all these respects, as was the boy so is the man.

After availing himself of the schools of his native town, in his 16th year he entered upon the English and the commercial courses of study, in the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, at Towanda, remaining there through 1858 and 1859. He then continued as an efficient clerk in his father's store until August, 1862.

The war for the Union had burst upon the nation. His heart was ablaze with enthusiasm for the Constitution and the Union. His father was proud of the valor and patriotism of his young son. Joseph had become as his right hand, and was his main-stay in business. The fond father hesitated to spare a son so dear to his heart, and so essential to the success of his affairs. At length, like tens of thousands of other fathers, he made the sacrifice for his country, consented, and allowed Joseph to enlist on the 7th of August, 1862, at Wyalusing, under Captain George W. Jackson, in Company "A," of the 141st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Joseph was a week afterwards (August 14th,) elected 1st Lieutenant of this Company.

In September his Regiment was assigned to the 1st Brigade of Birney's (formerly Kearney's) Division in the 3d Army Corps. It was almost immediately put into most active service. Five days after his first battle (that of Fredericksburg,) Lieut. Horton was made Captain of his Company, viz.: on the 18th of December.

On the 4th day of the following May (1863) Captain Horton was engaged with his Regiment in the battle of Chancellorville, Virginia. The Regiment went into this engagement with 419 men, and during the fight had 234 killed or wounded; and for its firm constancy and bravery was warmly complimented, both by General Birney and General Graham.

At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July, 1863, this Regiment was again actively engaged. And of Capt. Horton, Gen. Madill, in his report says: "Capt. Horton, though severely stunned by concussion of shell, remained in the field, and I am greatly indebted to him for his services, as he was the only Captain left with the Regiment." On the 3d of July, at Gettysburg, Capt. Horton commanded the Regiment. At the morning roll-call of this fearful day, 198 men answered to their names; of this number, 136 were either killed or wounded. On the 31st of the following January (1864) Captain Horton was commissioned Major, commanding his Regiment. And on the 28th of the next month (February, 1864,) he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding his Regiment until Lee's surrender, April 9th, 1865.

On the 12th of May, Col. Horton was wounded, during the engagement at Spottsylvania, Virginia, by a gun-shot through his left forearm and in his left hip.

During his wounded condition, he was visited by his uncle, Hon. George F. Horton, M. D., and was tenderly nursed by his sister Louisa, wife of Hon. Uriah Terry. While convalescing, and not yet well enough to take the field, he was appointed on several Courts-Martial, and also had charge of several convoys of new men, conducting them to posts along the southern sea-board.

With his Regiment, he was honorably mustered out of the service at the close of the war, May 28th, 1865.

Of Col. Horton's old Company "A," consisting of 117 members, there were killed, 16; died, 9; discharged for disability, 20; discharged for wounds, 15; transferred to veteran corps for wounds, 7; transferred to 57th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, for unexpired term of service, 14; absent in hospital, wounded, 4; dishonorably discharged, 1; leaving, at the mustering out of the Regiment, of the whole 117, only 31.

Col. Horton was engaged in the following battles, namely: Fredericksburg, Cedars, Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, White-Oak Road, Sailors' Creek, and at Lee's surrender; besides participating in many small skirmishes.

Honorably freed from his military service by the happy close of the war, Col. Horton hasted home to be the business stay of his aged father, and was actively engaged in mercantile pursuits up to 1871.

In October (24th) 1866, he was married, at Worcester, Massachusetts, to Abby H. Newcomb, only daughter of Charles and Lucy R. Newcomb, of that city. Miss Lucy Sanderson Horton is their only child; she was born December 18th, 1872.

Since 1871, Col. Horton has been living at Birch Creek (formerly Bernice Colliery), Sullivan County, Pa., and is Superintendent of "The Sullivan Anthracite Coal Company's" works, located at that place.

The high appreciation in which he is held by the Company, is shared by the community under his employ, who have several times combined in tendering to him, as their Superintendent and considerate friend, testimonials of large intrinsic value, but still more valuable as evidences of their cordial and grateful esteem.

The Republicans of his County unanimously urged him as their nominee for Congress in the fall of 1874, but were overruled by the other Counties of the District.

II. Julia, daughter of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry (John, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Terrytown, Bradford Co., Pa., 24 Oct., 1834; married at Terrytown, 11 June, 1861, by Rev. D. Cook, of the Presbyterian Church, to Charles Stevens Homet, son of Charles Homet and Lucy Stevens, and grandson of Frederick Nicholas Charles Homet and Maria Theresa Scheilenger, who were born in France, the former being one of the commissaries of the household of Louis XVI., the latter one of the chambermaids of the Queen. At the fall of Louis they made their escape and came to America. They had never had any acquaintance with each other until they found themselves passengers on the same ship to this country. Their acquaintance on the ship soon ripened into a mutual attachment, and on their arrival in New York they were married. After tarrying awhile at Bottle Hill, now Madison, in New Jersey, where Charley, the 1st child, was born, they came to Asylum, settling for two years away back in the wilderness, but at length on the Susquehanna River, where Francis X. Homet, Esq., now resides.

C. S. Homet was born in Asylum 20 May, 1830; settled in Wyalusing in 1861, where he now resides, and is a successful farmer. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is one of the elders.

III. Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born at Terrytown, 6 June, 1837; married at Terrytown, 11 June, 1861, by Rev. D. Cook, to Rev. David Craft, son of William Craft and Phebe Baker, and born in Carmel, Putnam Co., N. Y., 3 Oct., 1832.

He graduated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in the class of 1857, was Principal of the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute at Towanda during the years 1857-'58-'59; spent some six months in Princeton Theological Seminary in 1859 and '60; commenced his ministry in Terrytown, 1860, was ordained by the Susquehanna Presbytery, in August, 1862, and went into the army as chaplain of the 141st Pa. Volunteers in August, 1862, served for about a year, and then resigned on account of ill-health, and returned to Bradford Co., was installed pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church, Wyalusing, 28 Feb., 1866, and also installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Terrytown, 1st March, 1866.

IV. William Terry, son of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born at Terrytown, 9 April, 1839; married at Auburn, Susquehanna Co., 14 June, 1871, by Rev. G. Greenfield, to Prudence Beardsley, daughter of John Beach Beardsley and Lucy S. Kasson, and born in Auburn, 27 Oct., 1842.

W. T. Horton is a farmer and merchant at Terrytown. He volunteered in the service of his country in July, 1862, assisted in raising Co. A, 141 Regiment Pa. Volunteers, Infantry, and was chosen 2d Lieutenant. He was honorably discharged per order of the Secretary of War, by reason of chronic diarrhœa, in Dec., 1862. He shortly afterwards engaged in the service again as clerk in the Quarter Master's department, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he remained until the close of the war.

V. John Burleigh, son of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born at Terrytown, 8 Jan., 1842; married at West Danby, Tompkins Co., N. Y., 24 Feb., 1875, by Rev. Wm. Sharp, to Eva Lamira Tupper, daughter of James Sturdevant Tupper and Lamira Truesdell, and born in Rush, Susquehanna Co., Pa., 12 April, 1851.

VI. Debbie Emily, daughter of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born at Terrytown, 7 Nov., 1843; married at Terrytown, 30 June, 1868, by Rev. D. Craft, to William James Hillis, M. D., son of Richard Hillis and Margaret Nesbit, and born in Herrick, Bradford Co., Pa., in 1841. He commenced the practice of medicine at Barclay, Bradford Co., Pa., where he commenced housekeeping, but his wife's health failing, she returned to Terrytown, where she died from tuberculosis; vide obituary.

Hillis.—On Friday, March 26th, 1869, at the residence of her father, Dr. G. F. Horton, in Terrytown, Mrs. Deborah E., wife of Dr. W. J. Hillis, of Barclay. She was born Nov., 1844, born again Feb., 1866, and has passed from earth to heaven.

The following lines were written by a lady in the West, on the death of Mrs. Hillis:

LINES ON THE DEATH OF COUSIN DEBBIE.

She faded away in the early spring-time,

Ere Nature put on her robe of green,

And with a peaceful look in her clear blue eyes,

She calmly passed to the land unseen.

Oh, she has gone from us; so young and so fair,

Wearing all the charms of youthful bloom,

And around our hearts there comes a deep sadness,

O'ershadowing us in midnight gloom,

Earth's tenderest ties were twined around her,

And fain would we have had her stay;

But angels around the throne were beckoning

As if to hasten her flight away.

No fear of death could blanch her marble cheek,

Nor dim the pure lustre of her eye;

Through faith she looked above this fleeting world,

Where joys immortal ne'er fade or die.

Her face was radiant with heavenly glory

As she murmured a parting prayer,

And then we knew, by her saint-like beauty,

That the seal of death was written there.

We miss her, yes, we miss the cheerful sunshine

That she cast on every side,

And we mourn the crushed and blighted hopes,

Of a fond and loving bride.

But there's a light to lure us homeward,

In this sorrowing world of ours;

And we'll strive to meet the dearly loved one

Where forever bloom unfading flowers.

E. I. P. S.

Rochelle, Ill., May, 1869.

Horton.—In Terrytown, Jan. 7, 1872, Miss Nancy T., daughter of Dr. G. F. and Abigail Horton, aged 25 years.

Decided in her convictions, yet with charity for all, amiable in disposition and warm in her affections, she won a large circle of friends, who sympathize with her immediate relatives in this bereavement. She availed herself of every advantage afforded to store her mind with useful knowledge. Diligent as a pupil, she was successful as a teacher, exhibiting unflagging energy and patience in the school room, she surpassed most in securing the love and advancement of her pupils. She was sustained through a long and painful illness by an unfaltering trust in her covenant keeping Saviour, and with her feet firmly set on the Rock of Ages by a living faith, fearlessly entered the dark valley, fearing no evil.

Truly Yours
Nancy T. Horton

She referred to the following stanzas, as expressing her own hopes when near the close of her earthly existence, and which are inserted for this as well as for their exquisite beauty:

NEARER HOME.

BY ALICE CARY.

One sweetly solemn thought

Comes to me o'er and o'er—

I'm nearer to my home to-day

Than I have been before.

Nearer my Father's house,

Where the many mansions be,

Nearer the great white throne,

Nearer the crystal sea.

Nearer the bound of life,

Where we lay our burdens down,

Nearer leaving the cross,

Nearer gaining the crown!

But lying darkly between,

Winding down through the night,

Is the silent, unknown stream

That leads at last to the light.

Closer and closer my steps

Come to the dread abysm;

Closer Death to my lips

Presses the awful chrism.

Oh! if my mortal feet

Have almost gained the brink;

If it be I am nearer home,

Even to-day, than I think;

Father, perfect my trust,

Let my spirit feel in death

That her feet are firmly set

On the rock of a living faith.

[From the Presbyterian.]

In Terrytown, Pa., on the 7th inst., Miss Nancy T. daughter of Dr. G. F. and Abigail Horton, aged twenty-five years. Born of pious parents, from infancy she enjoyed the advantages of religious culture. In early life she made profession of faith in Christ, and ever after adorned that profession with a consecrated life and godly deportment. She was among the first to unite with the then recently organized Presbyterian church at Terrytown, which she loved with the ardor of a sanctified affection. Possessed of unusual decision of character and strong convictions of the truth of her opinions, she nevertheless exercised a broad charity for those whom she thought conscientiously differed from her. Her amiability, intelligence, purity, and warm affection won her a large circle of friends, over whom she had great influence. Her end was peace, and in full assurance of a blessed immortality. One incident, among many others, may be given as illustrating the ground of her confidence. Shortly before her death, clasping her arms around her brother's neck, she whispered:

"Nothing in my hand I bring,

Simply to the cross I cling."

This simple clinging to the cross was her support through the long months of wasting sickness, the secret of her patience in suffering, and the staff of her strength through the valley of the shadow of death.

Com.

VIII. Mary Eliza, daughter of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born at Terrytown, 24, April, 1850, married at Terrytown, 1 Oct., 1873, by Rev. D. Craft, to William Ross Sutton, son of Oliver C. Sutton and Harriet Maria Ross, and grandson of Robert Blaine Sutton and Juliette Bradley, and born in Lyons, 27 Nov., 1850. He is a farmer, and also engaged in the manufacture and sale of an improved forcing pump. They reside in Lyons, N. Y.

I. James Galloway, son of Samuel Todd Horton and Mary Galloway (Joseph Lee, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Palmyra, N. Y., 23 Feb., 1813; married 26 Jan., 1832, by the Rev. Mr. Allen, to Hannah Maria Horton, daughter of Benjamin Horton and Hannah Vance, and born at Belvale, Orange Co., N. Y., 7 May, 1811. She died at Atlas, Mich., 19 April, 1847, leaving four children, all born in Atlas, viz.:

1. Samuel Townsend, born 25 Nov., 1835, the first white male child ever born in Atlas. 2. Milton Augustus, born 27 Oct., 1838. 3. William Henry, born 1 April, 1842; he was a Union soldier, served three years, and was honorably discharged; died in Flint, Mich., 10 June, 1867. 4. Maria Eloise, born 29 Oct., 1844; died 29 August, 1845.

Married 2. in Atlas, 16 July, 1848, to Adaline Susan Dorr Baldwin, daughter of Dr. Cyrus Baldwin, of Berkshire, Mass., and Susan Dorr, of Boston. Susan Dorr was a daughter of Joseph Dorr, made historic from the fact that he was a prominent man of the party who threw the tea overboard in Boston Harbor. Dr. Baldwin was the founder of the village of Baldwinsville, N. Y. J. G. Horton, in a letter of August 26, 1874, says: "We moved from Palmyra to Michigan when it was yet a territory. We were three miles from any white settlers, but we had plenty of Indians. Where the city of Flint now stands, it was then all a dense wilderness, and when the town of Atlas was organized, forty years ago, we had seventeen votes all told. The county of Genesee has now twelve flourishing villages besides the city of Flint, which has a population of about eleven thousand."

By his 2. wife he has one daughter, Mary Susan, born in Atlas, 22 May, 1851. They moved from Atlas to Flint in 1859, where they now reside. He is a farmer and surveyor.

Benj^m Fisk Horton.
St. Louis.

III. Ira Joseph, son of Samuel Todd Horton and Mary Galloway, born 1 April, 1815, in Palmyra, N. Y.; married in Palmyra, 21 April, 1836, by Rev. H. V. Jones (Baptist) to Ruth Howard Spear, daughter of Lemuel Spear and Sarah Rogers, and born in Mendon, N. Y., 23 June, 1815.

Children, all born in Atlas, Genesee Co., Mich.:

1. Newman Norris, born 29 July, 1838. 2. Carlton Ira, born 3 Sept., 1841; married Marietta Frost. 3. Mary Ann, born 7 Nov., 1844; died Dec. 9, 1863. 4. Marvin Julius, born 30 Nov., 1848. 5. Charlie Albert, born 13 August, 1857.

Lemuel Spear was born in Conn., died in Macedon, N. Y. Sarah Rogers was born in Vermont, died in Palmyra, N. Y.

Cynthia E., daughter of Samuel Todd Horton and Mary Galloway, born in Palmyra, N. Y., 27 Feb., 1818; married in Palmyra, 12 Jan., 1837, to Abram Norris, born in Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 28 April, 1809. He died.

Children: They have had six children,—one son and five daughters. Three daughters are dead. The son and two daughters living. Names and dates not given. Mrs. Norris resides in Buffalo, N. Y. A more full account was promised, but it has never been received.

I. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett (Benjamin, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Belvale, N. Y., 10 Aug., 1822; married about 1842, to Nelson Brown; died 24 March, 1864.

Children:

1. Milton. 2. Edith. 3. Jessie.

II. Benjamin, son of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale. N. Y., 19 Dec., 1823; married 1 Sept., 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio, by the Rev. J. W. Weakly, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to Carrie Hart, daughter of William and Mary C. Hart, and born in Cincinnati, 6 Feb., 1833.

Children:

1. William Milton, born in Cincinnati, 26 Jan., 1854. 2. Carrie Ben, born in Cincinnati, 11 April, 1856. 3. Cornelius Comegzes, born in Cincinnati, 18 March, 1858; died in Feb., 1870. 4. Mary Kate, born in St. Louis, Mo., 1 May, 1860. 5. Benjamin Fisk, born in St. Louis, Mo., 25 Jan., 1862. 6. Augustus George, born in St. Louis, Mo., 21 Dec., 1865; died in Nov., 1866. 7. Monroe, born in St. Louis, Mo., 5 Oct., 1869.

Benjamin Horton went to Cincinnati in early life, and remained there until 1859, when he moved to St. Louis, where he now resides. He is principal of the firm of "B. Horton & Co., Importers and Jobbers of Tin Plate, Metals, &c.," of St. Louis. He is a prominent and much respected citizen, and highly esteemed by all who know him. He and his wife are both active and worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they have been connected for twenty-six years.

III. Townsend Nicholas, son of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale, 8 March, 1826. In 1835 he moved with his father to Milan, Ohio, remained there until 1855, when he went to La Crosse, and was one of the early founders of the city, assisting the early settlers in surveying and laying it out. He shared the confidence of the community, was elected a member of the Legislature, and gave promise of future usefulness as a statesman. He met with success as a merchant at West Salem. On his way to New York for goods he was killed, at the dreadful disaster on the Erie Railway, at Carr's Rock, fourteen miles west of Port Jervis, which occurred on the 13 April, 1868. He lived forty-eight hours after the accident. His sudden and shocking death cast a deep gloom over all the village where he lived. He was buried in West Salem.

IV. Eunice Lucada, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale, 27 Dec., 1827; married in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Caleb Evans.

Children:

1. Kate. 2. Lydia. 3. Susie. 4. Jesse. 5. Lucella. 6. Carrie.

V. Hannah, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale, 19 Aug., 1829; married at Milan, Ohio, by Rev. Mr. Barret, to Caleb Oakes.

Children:

1. Lydia. 2. Emma. 3. Milton. 4. Burton. 5. Benjamin.

VI. Sarah Delia, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale, 3 June, 1831; married at Milan, by Rev. Alfred Wheeler, to A. G. Smith; died 15 July, 1859. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and greatly beloved by her Christian friends. She had one child—Dudley; he also died.

VII. Josephine Deborah, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born at Belvale, 17 July, 1834. She is an accomplished maiden lady, and a successful teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a lady of marked piety and much beloved.

VIII. Emma Alma, daughter of Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett, born in Milan, Ohio, 4 Sept., 1836; married at West Salem, by Rev. Mr. Clark, to William Upton, about 1866. One child—Lucius.

II. Capt. Benjamin Jason, son of Nicholas Townsend Horton and Sarah Van Orden (Benjamin, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born in New York City, 13 Feb., 1831; moved with his father to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1832, and here he grew up to manhood, and was married on the 18 April, 1858, by the Rev. Chauncey Giles, to Virginia Yeatman, daughter of Walker M. Yeatman and Eva Ammon, and born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 8 Feb., 1835. Eva Ammon is a sister of Gen. Jacob Ammon, formerly of the U. S. Regular Army, and also of Commodore Daniel Ammon, of the U. S. Navy.

Children:

1. Eva, born at Glendale, Ohio, 16 Nov., 1861. 2. Alice Yeatman, born in Glendale, Ohio, 12 Dec., 1863. 3. Richard Scott, born in Glendale, Ohio, 21 Feb., 1866. 4. Thomas Yeatman, born in Cincinnati, 7 March, 1868. 5. Benjamin Yeatman, born in Lawrence, Kansas, 8 Sept., 1872.

Capt. B. J. Horton graduated at Yale College, in 1852; read law with the Hon. Timothy Walker, of Cincinnati, closing up with a six months' term at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in 1854. At the breaking out of the great Rebellion he volunteered in the service of his country, and entered the army as 1st Lieutenant of Co. "I," 24th Ohio Vol. Inf., and was placed on the staff of Col. Nelson; and after Gen. Nelson's death, he was on the staff of Maj. Gen. Gilbert. He was in the action at the taking of Nashville; at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, also at the taking of Corinth, and went as far as Athens, Alabama; then came to Kentucky with Gen. Nelson, and was at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, and at the battle of Perryville, on the staff of Gen. Gilbert, and subsequently in command of Co. "I," 24th Ohio Vol. Inf., at Stone River, where he lost his left leg, and received several other wounds. He was honorably discharged from the service in August, 1863. He is now engaged in the practice of law at Lawrence, Kansas.

VIII. The Hon. Dexter Horton, son of Henry W. Horton and Adah Jennings (Joseph, Israel, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Groveland, 24 June, 1836; married 25 April, 1861, by O. H. P. Green, Esq., to Lavinia Loseel.

Children, all born at Fenton, Mich., except Mary A., born at Groveland: