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
2. Georgia Ann, born 25 Sept., 1846; resides in Troy, is
employed in preparing for the press, the Transactions of the
Homœopathic Society of the State of New York. In 1865, she
was a clerk in one of the Census Bureaus at Albany, occupying
the same place her father had held in 1855. She is educated,
intelligent, and pious, and possesses fine social qualities.
3. Annie, born 17 April, 1848; married, 1 June, 1866, to Alfred
E. Field, a clerk in the New York Post-Office, have one child,
Harriet Van Rantz Field, born at Glen Cove, L. I., 17 October,
1867.
4. Judson A., born 13 March, 1850.
5. Willet S., born 11 June, 1853.
6. Eva A., born 25 May, 1855.
7. Theodore, born 20 November, 1860; died 24 March, 1861.
C. Van Rantz Horton died at Lyme, 3 September, 1862. He was mostly
self-educated, possessed a good literary taste, was a good writer,
and left an interesting diary.
VII. WILLIAM HENRY, son of James Horton and Martha White, born on
Point Salubrious, N. Y., 24 January, 1814; married 20 November, 1851,
to HARRIET WRIGHT, born 16 August, 1824.
Children all born on Point Salubrious:
1. William Wirt, born 26 October, 1852.
2. Lucy Lavina, born 3 December, 1853.
3. Darwin D., born 22 August, 1855; died 8 September, 1865.
4. Beulah A. G., born 2 November, 1856; died 4 February, 1858.
5. Jessie M., born 2 March, 1859; died 11 August, 1865.
6. Winfield Scott, born 15 September, 1861; died 21 January, 1862.
7. Abraham Lincoln, born 9 September, 1863; died 31 August, 1865.
William Henry occupies the old homestead of his father on Point
Salubrious, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
VII. SARAH MARIA, daughter of James Horton and Martha White, born
on Point Salubrious, N. Y., 10 August, 1817; she is an interesting
and intelligent lady, engaged heartily in the work of the Horton
Genealogy, and has done more than any other one in looking up the
descendants of the first Joseph. She resides at Chaumont, and is a
worthy member of the Baptist Church, is much esteemed and highly
respected in the community. Her health is somewhat impaired,
nevertheless she is active in every benevolent work, and she has been
unwearied in her efforts to ferret out the genealogical data of her
branch of the family. She possesses genuine piety, a mild and affable
disposition, and never forgets her friends, and even if she has
enemies she remembers them only to do good to them, by teaching them
by her words and deeds to have a better mind.
I. HOMER, son of Isaac Horton and Prudence Knapp (_Hon. William_,
_Stephen_, _Daniel_, _David_, _Joseph I._), born at Colchester,
N. Y., 29 June, 1809; married, at Liberty Corners, N. Y., to JANE
DAVIDGE.
Children all born in Sullivan Co., N. Y.:
1. Walter married, lives at Sheffield, Pa., has one child.
2. Lucien, born 14 December, 1836; married Hattie Burr.
3. Elizabeth married ---- McNair, has three children.
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