V. Phineas, son of Colonel [Nathan Horton and Elizabeth Eagles], born at New River, Watauga Co., N. C., 9 Jan., 1795; married about 1827, Rebecca Councill, daughter of Jordan Councill and Sarah Howard, of Ashe Co., N. C, and born 20 Feb., 1802.
Children, all born at New River:
1. [William], born 8 March, 1828. 2. [Nathan], born 22 March, 1829. 3. [Jonathan Fillmore], born 3 March, 1836. 4. [James Harrison], born 27 May, 1841.
Phineas Horton was a volunteer in the war of 1812. He served as a magistrate over 30 years. He was County Treasurer for several years. He is yet living, and remains upon the same place where he first settled at New River, five miles east of Boone. He has a considerable quantity of land, and at the time Emancipation was proclaimed, he owned six negroes. He has no inclination for anything but farming, and although in his 81st year, he is well preserved, and does a good deal of farm work.
Rebecca Councill, his wife, died of cancer of the breast, 12 August, 1863.
IX. Col. Jonathan, son of Col. [Nathan Horton and Elizabeth Eagles], born on New River, 26 Feb., 1806; married 11 Jan., 1841, at Richland, Ashe Co., N. C., to Melinda Hartzag, daughter of Jacob Hartzag and Rebecca Coloway, and born at Richland, 10 May, 1824. She is a distant relative of the celebrated Daniel Boone, the bold old pioneer of the West, of former days.
The Colonel resides at the old homestead of his father, Col. Nathan, owns good lands, and is an excellent farmer. He lost heavily by Emancipation. He has been a very prominent man all his life—firm, intelligent and generous. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1832-'33-'34 and '35. He was a member of the Electoral College of North Carolina, on the Henry Clay ticket, in 1844. He was again elected to the State Legislature from Watauga County, in 1854. He was a volunteer in the service of the Confederate States, in 1861, and was elected Captain of Co. B., 37th Regiment North Carolina troops, infantry, and he was in the seven days' fight near Richmond, Va., towards the close of which the command of the regiment devolved on him. Soon after this, health failing, he resigned and came home, and in 1864 he was elected to the State Senate. He says, and no doubt truly, that his house was robbed, in the spring of 1865, eighteen times in fourteen days, by men professing to be, and wearing the garb of, Union soldiers.
The Colonel has never had any children.
I. Nathan, son of [Zephaniah Horton, Esq., and Jane McCurry] (Capt. Nathan, Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Wilkes Co., N. C., 24 Jan., 1789; married 29 May, 1817, Mary Young, born in Burke Co., N. C., about 1794; died 19 May, 1875. He was Col. Commander in the 15th Brigade, 9th Division, North Carolina Militia, for about 20 years—was offered the position of Brigadier General, but declined.
Children, all born in Buncombe County, except Mary I., born in Yancey Co., N. C.: