Silas Danes Horton was a farmer, upright, honest, and a man of more than ordinary mental capacity. He was a deacon of the Old School Baptist Church at the time of his death, and for many years before. He wrote frequently on religious subjects, and many of his articles appeared in the "Signs of the Times" a religious paper edited and published by the Rev. G. Beebee, of Middletown, N. Y.
Dea. Horton was one of the pillars of the church, greatly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, and his death, which occurred 21 Sept., 1850, was deeply lamented.
II. Barnabas, son of [Silas Horton and Mary Danes], born in Wallkill, in 1780; married about 1804, Jerusha Wheat; she died and he married 2.
Children, born in Wallkill, and all by his first wife:
1. Loton, married Adeline Horton. 2. Harrison, married Prudence Warner. 3. Anna, married Alanson Beeks. 4. Milicent, married Chauncey Horton, son of Gilbert, son of Frederick. 5. Alfred M., married Adaline Wheat, they were double cousins; had Silas Danes, and others. 6. Gabriel C., married 1. Mary Ann Slawon; 2. Elizabeth Thompson; he had Loton, by his 1st wife, and Horace and Gilbert, by 2d wife.
Barnabas Horton died in 1867.
I. Jason, son of [Israel Horton and Anna Van Devort] (Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born in Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., 23 Feb., 1781; married in Lansing, Tompkins Co., N. Y., 9 Oct., 1805, Sally Miller; she was born in Lansing, in 1787.
Children:
1. Ursula, born in Lansing, N. Y., 15 July, 1806; died in Williamston, Mich., Feb., 1868; unmarried. 2. [Ann], born in Lansing, N. Y., 11 Aug., 1808; married Daniel Sutton. 3. [Phebe], born in Phelps, N. Y., 11 May, 1811; married David Beeman. 4. Joseph, born in Phelps, N. Y., 25 Sept., 1812; died at Constantine, St. Joseph Co., Mich., 16 Sept., 1866. 5. [Israel], born in Lansing, N. Y., 29 Jan., 1815. 6. Mary Ann, born in Lansing, N. Y., 20 Feb., 1817, married —— Smith. 7. [Minor Thomas], born in Phelps, 2 June, 1816. 8. Eleanor, born in Lansing, N. Y., 22 Nov., 1821; married Samuel Barker, in Phelps, where she now lives.