The Colonel resides at the old homestead of his father, Col. Nathan, owns good lands, and is an excellent farmer. He lost heavily by Emancipation. He has been a very prominent man all his life--firm, intelligent and generous. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1832-'33-'34 and '35. He was a member of the Electoral College of North Carolina, on the Henry Clay ticket, in 1844. He was again elected to the State Legislature from Watauga County, in 1854. He was a volunteer in the service of the Confederate States, in 1861, and was elected Captain of Co. B., 37th Regiment North Carolina troops, infantry, and he was in the seven days' fight near Richmond, Va., towards the close of which the command of the regiment devolved on him. Soon after this, health failing, he resigned and came home, and in 1864 he was elected to the State Senate. He says, and no doubt truly, that his house was robbed, in the spring of 1865, eighteen times in fourteen days, by men professing to be, and wearing the garb of, Union soldiers. The Colonel has never had any children. I. NATHAN, son of Zephaniah Horton, Esq., and Jane McCurry (_Capt. Nathan_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Wilkes Co., N. C., 24 Jan., 1789; married 29 May, 1817, MARY YOUNG, born in Burke Co., N. C., about 1794; died 19 May, 1875. He was Col. Commander in the 15th Brigade, 9th Division, North Carolina Militia, for about 20 years--was offered the position of Brigadier General, but declined. Children, all born in Buncombe County, except Mary I., born in Yancey Co., N. C.: 1. Zephaniah, born 20 Feb., 1818. 2. Martha E., born 16 Sept., 1819. 3. Malcolm, born 9 Feb., 1822. 4. Lucky, born 27 Dec., 1823. 5. Joshua, born 21 Oct., 1825. 6. Jesse, born 11 Nov., 1828. 7. Nathan Youngs, born 21 March, 1831. 8. Naomi A., born 10 Dec., 1832. 9. Mary I., born 14 April, 1835. III. SARAH, daughter of Zephaniah Horton, Esq., and Jane McCurry, born 30 June, 1794; married in 1815, THOMAS YOUNG, of Buncombe County, and born 16 Jan., 1792. Children (the 1 to 7, inclusive, born in Buncombe; 8, 9, and 10 born in Yancey County): 1. Elizabeth E., born 9 March, 1816. 2. Martha E., born 25 May, 1818. 3. Nathan, born 23 April, 1820. 4. Strawbridge, born 25 Jan., 1822; died 10 Nov., 1843. 5. Zephaniah, born 19 Oct., 1823. 6. Thomas, born 29 Sept., 1830. 7. Josiah, born 11 March, 1833. 8. Sarah I., born 12 Sept., 1835. 9. Mary A., born 12 Aug., 1837. 10. Tilman H., born 4 Oct., 1839. IV. MALCOLM, son of Zephaniah Horton, Esq., and Jane McCurry, born 15 Nov., 1799; married 29 Feb., 1832, MARGARET A. DENHAM, of Virginia. He was for several years Col. Commander in the 15th Brigade, 9th Division, North Carolina Militia. He settled in Maryland and died there, 10 Aug., 1870. Children: 1. Jane E., born 20 July, 1833. 2. Amos O., born 18 Aug., 1835. 3. David D., born 18 Dec., 1837.