Horton Genealogy: or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.Horton, Geo. F. (George Firman)
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Horton Genealogy: or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.
Horton, Geo. F. (George Firman)
Horton family
3. Charles Carroll.
4. Eugene Francis.
5. Susan Amelia.
6. Henry Clay.
Nathaniel Coe was an honest lawyer and an upright politician. He
possessed a superior intellect, and always commanded the respect
and esteem of his fellow men. He was long a magistrate, and for
four years in succession he represented Livingston and Alleghany
Counties in the Legislature of the State of New York. He was often
an arbitrator, both in the Church and out of it. In religion he was
what was then called, by way of reproach, a _radical_. In 1829 he
went to Nevada. In 1851 he was appointed U. S. Mail Agent for Oregon.
He finally settled at Hood River, where, on the 10th Oct., 1868, he
died. For several years before his death, he carried on an extensive
business in raising fruit, and became quite rich. He was a thoroughly
anti-slavery man, and while the Liberty party was in existence, he
was its firm and warm supporter. Mrs. Coe resides at Hood River, and
her son Charles, who was a superior young man, noted for his piety
and sound moral and Christian character, carried on successfully his
father's business until his death, which occurred 24 Dec., 1874. His
mother said of him, "My heart's beloved has left me, nothing can fill
the void. He not only filled his father's place on the farm, but also
at the family altar, and notwithstanding his youth, older men came to
him for advice on matters temporal as well as religious."
Mrs. Coe is an educated, refined and talented Christian lady--an able
and finished writer, and the author of many very pretty verses and
poems, and though aged, and having suffered much from ill health,
yet her penmanship is neat, and her thoughts and words fresh, warm
and vigorous. Speaking of her deceased little infant, Susan Amelia,
she says, "To whom, like a dew-drop, kissed off by the sun's morning
beam, a beauteous existence was given, whose soul seemed to come down
to earth in a dream, only to wake up when it ascended to Heaven." She
has kindly given much valuable information in regard to the Hortons
of New Jersey and their connections, only a small part of which can
appear in the "Chronicles." Mrs. Coe's ancestors, both on her father
and mother's side, were originally from England.
RACHEL BENNET, daughter of David Bennet and Mary Coe, and
grand-daughter of Huldah Horton, is a maiden lady, intelligent, well
educated and possesses good social qualities; she is a successful
teacher. We are indebted to her for many interesting letters, giving
genealogical data of members of the Horton family. Her residence was
in Chicago, where she was a teacher a few years ago.
II. JOHN SEWARD, son of Edward Horton and Charlotte Seward (_David_,
_Nathaniel_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Randolph,
Morris Co., N. J., 24 Oct., 1801; married 13 March, 1823, by Elder
Hough, of Port Byron, N. Y., to PAULINA CARRIER, daughter of Amziah
Carrier and Wealthy Hatch, and born in Brutus, N. Y., 29 Sept., 1804.
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