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. Edwin, born 1 Sept., 1817; died 6 July, 1818.
3. Joseph Osborn, born 24 Aug., 1819; died in New York, in 1858.
4. Edmund Bani, born 5 October, 1821.
5. Jerusha Conklin, born 14 June, 1824; married Orrin Case;
died in 1874.
6. Deborah, born 7 Sept., 1828; married Charles Van Devort.
7. Catherine Conover, born 25 Dec., 1830; married Jonas Gulick.
Jonathan Bani married 2. in 1838, JERUSHA EDWARDS, she died, and
he married 3. JERUSHA PEORNEY, she died, and he married 4. HANNAH
BLONVETTE, she died in 1870; he died in New York, 19 Feb., 1871, and
was buried at Cutchogue, L. I. Mr. Horton was emphatically a servant
of God. We here re-produce a portion of his obituary, which appeared
in the Presbyterian, of Philadelphia, shortly after his decease:
"Mr. Horton has been for forty years the indefatigable and
successful Tract Missionary of the Seventh Ward, New York
City. When he first assumed the important task of laboring
for the spiritual interests of this portion of the city, it
was known as one of the most wicked and wretched wards. The
'Sailor Boarding-houses' of olden times, with their numerous
'land-sharks,' and temptations to sinful indulgence, swarmed
here.... In process of time, the greater part of this territory
was occupied by dwellings of opulent merchants. Then after
another period of years, a new generation found the older
inhabitants of the Seventh Ward crowded out, and their former
homes became filled with a population of the dregs of old
country emigrants, or gave place to shops and manufactories.
Mr. Horton adapted himself and modified his work to meet
these successive changes, and calling to his help a faithful
band of distributors, teachers and visitors, made a Christian
influence to be felt, increasing its power by every available
means. A great multitude of conversions from year to year were
the result of his faithful labors. Admonished by the approach
of old age, he resigned his position as missionary, made all
arrangements as to his worldly affairs, wrote farewell letters,
and quietly looked forward to the close of his earthly career."
_Seventh Generation.--Caleb I._
I. HULDAH, daughter of Dea. Nathaniel Horton and Rebecca Robinson
(_Nathaniel_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Chester, N.
J., 14 Jan., 1762; married in 1781, to JOEL COE, of Middletown, Conn.
Moved to Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y., where they settled. He died 23
Sept., 1846, aged 88 years, 4 months. She died 13 Dec., 1803. After
her death he married Widow HEPZIBAH SMITH.
Children, probably, all born in Scipio:
1. Mary C., born 8 Sept., 1782; married David Bennet; had Joel
Coe, Mary Jane, Charles David, Emily, Nathaniel Curtis, and
Rachel.
2. Joseph, born 12 Nov., 1784; married 1st 12 Jan., 1816,
Pallas Wales, she died 4 Feb., 1822; he married 2d Sophia
Harwood; he died in Ohio, 17 Oct., 1854.
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