Life History

Notes

• Isaac and Mary Ann are reported to have moved at some unspecified timeto Hall County, Georgia, then Gwinnett County, Georgia.
  -- Glenda Pool, William Green Genealogy
  
  Family Data Collection - Births
  Isaac Horton
  Father: Abram Abraham Horton
  Mother: Martha Brissell
  Birth Date: 1763
  Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  
  1840 Federal Census, Revolutionary Pensioners List, Gwinnett County,Georgia, page 145, Hse/Fam #935
  Isaac Horton 81 M  [b abt 1759]
  
  US Government Pension
  Isaac Horton Private $20 per mo Twice yearly March 1949-Sept 1854
  (Thus death occurred between Sept 1854 and Mar 1855)
  
  Age variations are to be expected in sources of this era, and we finda variation of age in the 1850 census for what seems to be this IsaacHorton.  We know from family sources that Isaac and Mary Ann moved toGwinnett County, Georgia, and we find an entry in the 1850 census forthem, strongly supported by the report of birth in Pennsylvania forIsaac.  His age here is 96, which would be birth in the year 1854,earlier than the age reported in the pension chart, and much earlierthan the birth year of 1763 commonly reported, as in the Family DataCollection record above.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 25 September, SugarHill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #935
  Isaac Horton 96 M  R T (Retired?) Farmer $100 Real Estate bPennsylvania Cannot read or write [b abt 1754]
  Mary An [sic] Horton 88 F  b NC [b abt 1762]
  
  On one side of them in House # 936 is an Abram Horton, only 26 yearsold, married also to a Mary An.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 25 September, SugarHill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #936
  Abram Horton 26 M  R T Farmer $100 Real Estate b GA [b abt 1824]
  Mary An [sic] Horton 29 F  b NC Cannot read or write [b abt 1821]
  Thomas Horton 5 M  R T b GA [b abt 1845]
  Isaac N Horton 4 M  R T b GA [b abt 1846]
  Nancy L Horton 1 F  b NC [b abt 1849]
  
  This Abram (Abraham) is probably old Isaac's grandson, who moved laterwith his brother Isaac to Blount County, Alabama.
  
  "Abraham Horton, Sr. moved his family from Bucks County, Pennsylvaniato Surry County, North Carolina in 1767 where he died on 16 January1816. Some branches of the family moved to South Carolina about 1800.From South Carolina, Isaac moved to Hall County, Georgia where hedied. Two of Isaac's grandsons, Abraham and Isaac migrated to BlountCounty, Alabama and established the town of Horton which is now inMarshall County. They built a mill complex on the Little WarriorRiver."
  --  The Horton Connection, by Arnold Horton Wilson and Bonnie Imogene(Rains) Wilson, Copyright 1995, First Edition, pages 2, as quoted inhttp://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/l/Hayley-K-Malone/GENE5-0017.html#ENDNOTEREF143
  
  On the other side of old Isaac is a Thomas Horton, age 51, and hiswife Nicy (probably Eunice).
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 25 September, SugarHill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #934
  Thomas Horton 51 M  R T Farmer $700 Real Estate b South Carolina [babt 181799]
  Nicy Horton 46 F  b South Carolina Cannot read or write [b abt 1804]
  Jane Horton 24 F  R T b GA [b abt 1826]
  Martha C Horton 17 F  R T b GA [b abt 1833]
  Eliza A Horton 15 F  b NC [b abt 1835]
  Emily E Horton 13 F  b NC [b abt 1837]
  
  Family sources confirm that this Thomas is Isaac and Nancy's son.  Hisage in the census entry above matches that in the genealogy reportbelow.  The young Abram above would be Thomas' son.
  
  Children of Isaac Horton and Mary Green are:
  120 i.   Daniel Horton, born 1796 in Pendleton, South Carolina; died1860 in Marshall, Alabama; married (1) Mary "Polly" East; married (2)Malinda Aft. 1854.
  ii.   Thomas G. Horton, born November 14, 1799; died 1859.
  iii.   Francis M. Horton, born 1800; died 1860.
  iv.   Jesse D. Horton, born November 16, 1802; died February 13, 1874.
  v.   Susanna Horton, born 1807; died Unknown.
  vi.   Lucy Horton, born 1810; died 1870.
  --  Ancestors of Janet Lee Jinkins,http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/u/l/Janet-J-Culp/GENE1-0013.html
  
  Another of Thomas' sons lives a little farther down the road and isenumerated a couple of pages later.  This is Daniel, married to Mary(Polly) East, whose parents are living a few doors down from them.There is also on the same page a 28-year-old Jeffrey Horton, whom Ihave not identified, but suspect is another grandson of old Isaac, andprobably a son of Daniel and Mary.  He is born in South Carolina, asare both Daniel and Mary.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 25 September, page 389,Hse/Fam #939
  Daniel Horton 54 M  Farmer $250 Real Estate b SC [b abt 1796]
  Mary Horton 60 F  b SC [b abt 1790]
  F Marion Horton 18 M  Farmer b GA [b abt 1832]
  Elizabeth Horton 20 F  b GA [b abt 1830]
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 25 September, page 389,Hse/Fam #943
  Jeffrey Horton 28 M  Farmer $250 Real Estate b SC [b abt 1796]
  Elizabeth G Horton 27 F  b SC [b abt 1790]
  George R Horton 5 M  b GA [b abt 1845]
  Martha J Horton 3 F  b GA [b abt 1847]
  Mary C Horton 2 F  b GA [b abt 1848]
  Marion T Horton 1 M  b GA [b abt 1849]
  Infant Horton 1mo M  b GA [b abt July 1850]
  
  His military grave marker reads as follows:
  Isaac Horton  Continental Line  Revolutionary War  1763 (correctedfrom other sources to 1754)  1854
  --  Gravestone of Isaac Horton, Sugar Hill Baptist Church CemeteryRegister,http://www.oldplaces.org/gwinnettga/cemeteries/sugar_hill_3.html
  
  The date of birth is 1754, going by his reported age of 96 in the 1850census.  A family source has also annotated the photo of his gravemarker with a corrected date of birth of 1754.  Note also that theregister of the cemetery has recorded his date of death as 1853, eventhought eh marker says 1854.  the latter is the correct year, asreported by his Military pension records, which stopped afterSeptember 1854.
  
  "A Gwinnett County delegation Friday held a memorial service forRevoluitonary War veteran Isaac Horton, who died in the Sugar Hillarea of Gwinnett County in 1854.  The ceremony took place at the SugarHill Baptist Church where a government marker was placed to honorHorton, whose real burial site is unknown."
  --  Gwinnett (Georgia) Daily News, 20 February 1982

Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 25 September, Sugar Hill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #935
• 2. Gravestone of Isaac Horton, Sugar Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, SugarHill, Gwinnett, Georgia
  • Registry:
• 3. Gwinnett (Georgia) Daily News, 20 February 1982
• 4. US Government Pension
• 5. Glenda Pool, William Green Genealogy
  • Name: private, received through Green-Bearden family channels;
• 6. Family Data Collection - Births
• 7. 1840 Federal Census, Revolutionary Pensioners List
  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, page 145, Hse/Fam #935
• 8. Sheri Horton, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 20 October 2010
• 9. Bolt American
  • as quoted in Grigg & Fuhriman,
• 10. Ancestors of Janet Lee Jinkins, Isaac Horton
  • Location:http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/u/l/Janet-J-Culp/GENE1-0013.html;
• 11. 1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 25 September, page 389, Hse/Fam #939
• 12. 1860 Federal Census, Marshall County, Alabama
  • 14 July, Eastern Division, PO Big Spring, pae 30, Hse/Fam #199
• 13. 1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 25 September, Sugar Hill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #934
• 14. 1860 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 11 July, District 550, PO Caines, page 79 (scan 641), Hse/Fam #479
• 15. 1860 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 11 July, District 550, PO Caines, page 79 (scan 641), Hse/Fam #478
• 16. York County South Carolina -- Official Records
• 17. Ancestors of Janet Lee Jinkins, Daniel Horton
  • Location:http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/u/l/Janet-J-Culp/GENE1-0011.html#CHILD131331;
• 18. Ancestry Trees
  • Gillespie Parham,