Joseph L. Horton and his wife were very pious people, both worthy members of the Baptist Church, beloved and respected in the community. He was a farmer and shoemaker. He had feeble health for several years before his death, wasting away gradually by consumption. He was a very patient and industrious man, and towards the close of his life, suffering from the ravages of disease, and much enfeebled, he would still work at his occupation, making sometimes one shoe in a day, and at others only half a one, according as he had strength and breath. His end was peace.
Children:
1. [Samuel Todd], born at Owego, N. Y., 27 July, 1792. 2. Catharine, born at Owego, N. Y., 21 May, 1794; married Geo. Spinner; he died without issue. 3. [Henry Wisner], born at Owego, N. Y., 31 May, 1797. 4. [Sarah Parshall], born at Owego, N. Y., 28 May, 1799. 5. [James Parshall], born at Owego, N. Y., 5 April, 1801. 6. Millie Ann, born at Palmyra, N. Y., 20 July, 1803; died 7 Oct., 1818. 7. [Lewis Beers], born at Palmyra, N. Y., 24 May, 1806. 8. [Anna], born at Palmyra, N. Y., 5 July, 1808. 9. [Durfee Delano], born at Palmyra, N. Y., 25 July, 1813. 10. [Wilson Osborn], born at Palmyra, N. Y., 26 April, 1815.
VII. Mary, daughter of Lieut. [Israel Horton and Sarah Lee], born near Goshen, N. Y., about 1767; married John Clark. Settled in Spencer, N. Y.
Children:
John, Benjamin, Ann, Sally, and others.
VIII. Samuel, son of Lieut. [Israel Horton and Sarah Lee], born in the township of Goshen, N. Y., in the year 1770. He was a master builder in the city of New York, when quite a young man. He was said to possess a mind peculiarly adapted to mechanical pursuits, and he engaged in them before his majority. When about 23 years of age, he took the small-pox, in New York, went home to his father's, in Orange County, where he died in a few days.
IX. Benjamin, youngest child of Lieut. [Israel Horton and Sarah Lee], was born at Sugar Loaf, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1772. He was married in Belvale, Orange Co., N. Y., 29 Jan., 1795, by the Rev. Mr. Stevens, to Hannah Vance. She was born in Belvale, N. Y., 28 March, 1777. He bought a farm and settled there, but by indorsing for a friend, he lost his farm and all that he had. He then, about 1822, removed to New York, and entered largely into the business of a master builder. In 1834 he moved to Milan, Ohio, where, on the 18th Feb., 1856, he died, of congestion of the lungs. His wife died at the same place, 25 June, 1860. He and his wife were both members of the M. E. Church.
Children:
1. [Margaret Vance], born 9 Dec., 1796. 2. [Milton], born 7 April, 1799. 3. Julia Ann E., born 12 May, 1800; died of consumption, in Ohio, 27 Nov., 1839; unmarried. 4. Samuel, born 28 July, 1802; died 21 Nov., 1841, of epilepsy and consumption; unmarried. 5. [Nicholas Townsend], born in Belvale, 20 Jan., 1805; married Sarah Van Orden. 6. [Sarah Jane], born in Belvale, 2 May, 1807; married Matthew Mead, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa. 7. Eliza, born in Belvale, 19 March, 1809; died of lock-jaw, 18 July, 1815. 8. [Hannah Maria], born in Belvale, 7 May, 1811; married James Galloway Horton. 9. [Catharine D.], born in Belvale, 13 Aug., 1813; married Enoch Nichols. 10. [Elizabeth R.], born in Belvale, 3 Oct., 1815; married Smith Conley. 11. Eunice, born in Belvale, 6 Oct., 1817; died 8 Oct., 1826, of dysentery. 12. Eloise, born in Belvale, 19 May, 1822; died 2 Oct., 1843, of consumption; unmarried.