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
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.
Children, born in Terrytown:
1. Abigail Horton, born 12 March, 1863.
2. George Horton, born 6 Nov., 1868.
They reside at the parsonage in Wyalusing, Pa.
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.
Children, born at Terrytown:
1. Charles Beardsley, born 13 April, 1872.
2. Nancy Terry, born 15 May, 1873.
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.
John B. Horton is a farmer and merchant at Terrytown.
[Illustration: As Ever Yours
Debbie E. H. Hillis]
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.
VII. NANCY TERRY, daughter of Geo. F. Horton and Abigail Terry, born
at Terrytown, 15 July, 1846; _vide_ obituary:
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