Mr. Thompson is well preserved; has lived a long life of usefulness; an able and efficient farmer; an upright Christian man; began the world with little; is now wealthy. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
VII. Lydia, daughter of [Jeremiah Horton, Esq., and Mary Goldsmith], born in Blooming Grove, 24 April, 1799; married 1. by Rev. Mr. Arbuckle, in Blooming Grove, to Albert Gallatin Hildreth, son of John Hildreth, of Southampton, L. I.; had one son, died in infancy. Mr. Hildreth died. She married 2. Edward Strong, of Blooming Grove, and had Mary Bethia, born 20 May, 1840, who married, 20 May, 1863, Dr. George Hudson Thompson, a dentist, of Newburgh, and they have Edward Brewster Thompson, born in Newburgh, 9 March, 1844. Edward Strong died, and Lydia, his wife, moved to Newburgh, where she owns property and is very pleasantly situated. She has long been a professor of Christianity, and lived in harmony with its teachings.
IX. Amy, daughter of [Jeremiah Horton, Esq., and Mary Goldsmith], born in Blooming Grove, 17 November, 1803; married Palmer Williamson.
Children:
1. Mary. 2. Susan. 3. Horton. 4. Jennie. 5. Marietta, dead. 6. Oscar. 7. Julia. 8. Harrison.
X. Benjamin Goldsmith, son of [Jeremiah Horton, Esq., and Mary Goldsmith], born in Blooming Grove, 28 Aug., 1807; married 14 Feb., 1832, to Sarah Jane Stuart, born in Blooming Grove, about 1809. She died 13 May, 1847.
Children:
1. [Sarah Maria], born 23 Jan., 1833. 2. Anna F., born 1 Sept., 1835. 3. John W., born 27 May, 1837; dead. 4. [Carrie S.], born 30 Nov., 1840. 5. Phebe N., born 30 Aug., 1842; dead. 6. [Jeremiah Henry], born 20 Dec., 1844. Anna F. remains unmarried. John W. and Phebe N. died unmarried.
Benjamin G. Horton married 2. in the Presbyterian Church, Merry All, Pa., 23 January, 1853, by Rev. Dr. S. F. Colt, to Anna Pamela Ingham, daughter of Thomas Ingham, Esq., and Eunice Horton, and born at Sugar Run, Bradford Co., Pa., 4 May, 1818.
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