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. Welles, born 19 July, 1854.
Mrs. Horton and her sons live very comfortably near the old homestead
of William Horton in Sheshequin.
I. REV. GEORGE DINSMORE, son of George Horton and Sabra Mills
(_James_, _Hon. William_, _Daniel_, _David_, _Joseph I._), born at
Chaumont, N. Y.; graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in the Class
of 1857; graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1860. He is
now (1875), pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Coventryville,
N. Y. Commenced his ministry at Dexter, Jefferson Co., N. Y., and
was ordained there. He was married (1.) at Constantia, by Rev. Mr.
Williams, to CARRIE INGERSOLL, on the 1 August, 1860; she was the
daughter of Deacon Daniel W. Ingersoll, and was born at Constantia,
Oswego Co., N. Y., 23 September, 1837; she died 24 July, 1868,
leaving four children:
1. Carrie Elizabeth, born in Dexter, N. Y., 24 May, 1861.
2. George Ingersoll, born in Dexter, N. Y., 24 Sept., 1862.
3. James Mills, born in Dexter, N. Y., 16 June, 1864.
4. Mary Louisa, born in Dexter, N. Y., 28 Jan., 1867.
He was married (2.) at Coventryville, N. Y., 23 June, 1869, by Rev.
A. Crocker, to WEALTHY ARCENCE BLAKE; she is the daughter of Deacon
Othniel Blake, and was born at Coventry on the 28 Feb., 1830; has
no children by 2 wife. He is a faithful minister, well-drilled in
theological lore, and an able and earnest expounder of the Scriptures.
II. ANN ELIZABETH, daughter of George Horton and Sabra Mills, born in
Adams Centre, N. Y., 30 Dec., 1831; married at Chaumont, N. Y., 20
April, 1856, to ABRAM VAN DOREN, a farmer, and born 13 August, 1827.
She died at Chaumont, 19 Feb., 1859.
Children:
1. James Israel, born 17 March, 1857.
2. George Hanford, born 8 July, 1858.
III. JAMES WHITE, a sea captain, son of George Horton and Sabra
Mills, born at Brownsville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., 6 March, 1834;
married at Cape Vincent, N. Y., 11 January, 1858, to MARY JANE MARKS,
born 8 August, 1838.
Children, all born at Dexter, N. Y.:
1. Nelia Maria, born 21 Oct., 1858.
2. George Clinton, born 26 April, 1860; died 10 May, 1862.
3. Reuben E., born 24 July, 1865; died 10 August, 1865.
IV. ROBERT MILLS, son of George Horton and Sabra Mills, born at
Brownsville, N. Y., 3 July, 1836; married at Chaumont, 14 June, 1857,
to LAURA JANE CROSS, born 9 July, 1836.
Children:
1. Eva Estelle, born at Hillsboro, Ill., 18 June, 1858.
2. Helen Agnes, born at Hillsboro, Ill., 14 August, 1860.
3. Gertrude Elizabeth, born at Chaumont, 23 April, 1863.
Robert Mills Horton enlisted in the Union Service at Hillsboro, Ill.,
1 August, 1861, and died for his country at Memphis, Tenn., 8 Sept.,
1862.
V. FRANCIS NEWELL, son of George Horton and Sabra Mills, was born at
Brownsville, N. Y., 29 June, 1838. Enlisted in the Union Service at
Hillsboro, Ill., 1 August, 1861, Co. D, 126 Ill. Volunteers; died
a martyr to freedom at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas, 12 Dec., 1862;
unmarried.
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