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Enoch Horton

22 Mar 1786 – 20 Mar 1852

Birth22 Mar 1786
Death20 Mar 1852
CemeteryHorton Family Cemetery
Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20823827

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(Probable - This family cemetery was already established when he died) Peter's Colony settler - 1844 Father: John Horton (1749-1817) Mother: Isabelle Kendrick (1754-1822) Married Martha Stinson on 22 Mar 1797 in Russell Co., Virginia ∼ ENOCH HORTON , deceased, was born in Russell county, Virginia, March 22, 1777, a son of John Horton, a native of Ireland. When a young man, the latter came with his father's family, which included the father, mother, three sons and two daughters, to Virginia, first settling in the eastern part of the State, and later removed to Russell county. John Horton was married in that State to Isabelle Kendrick, a native of England, and they reared a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom our subject was the third son. The parents passed their days in Russell county, the father dying at the age of sixty years, and the mother lived to an advanced age. Enoch, our subject, was reared to farm life, and received but five days' schooling, but by his own exertions, he has attained a good education. After his marriage, he settled on a farm which his father had taken up under the squatter's sovereignty act, where he followed farming until he came to the frontier of civilization in Dallas county, Texas. In the spring of 1845, the family emigrated with horse teams to Springfield, Missouri, but the same year, came to Dallas county, first locating near Eagle Ford, Precinct No. 7, where they were both deceased. Mr. Horton was married in Russell county, Virginia, March 22, 1797, to Miss Martha Stinson, a native of that county, and daughter of John and Jane (Stewart) Stinson, natives of Virginia and of English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Horton were the parents of nine children who lived to be grown, and all but one came to Texas, namely: Mary, deceased, was the wife of Martin Thompson; Jane, deceased, was the wife of William Bradshaw; John died in Texas; James also died in this State; Sarah, now Mrs. Cockrell, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume; Enoch, who died in Dallas county; Robert, deceased in California; Martha, deceased, was the wife of William Horton; Rachel, deceased, was the wife of Joseph Read. Mr. and Mrs. Horton were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The father's death occurred March 21, 1851, and was buried on the same day of the month of his birth and marriage. His estimable wife departed this life April 7, 1850. Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County Dallas, Texas Copyrighted in 1892 by John Henry Brown p. 996. Transcribed from my book

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