Children:
1. Edgar Clayton, born at Clifton Springs, N. Y., 9 Feb., 1864; died 29 March, 1872. He was a wonderfully intellectual little boy. He seemed to pass through childhood and youth in a few months, and become, as it were, a man in intellect at the age of seven years. He died of scarlatina. On the third day, knowing that his sickness would prove fatal, he said, "Oh dear, I wish it would not be so long," and then added, "Methusalah only lived 969 years." At another time, when his father was fixing the pillow under his head, he said, "I would rather have a stone for my pillow, for Jacob, when he had a stone for his pillow, saw a ladder whose top reached to Heaven, and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon it." Just before he died he repeated the Lord's prayer, and then said, "I am ready to die and go to Heaven," and in a solemn tone, added, "I go down into deep water," and soon after, in a cheerful tone, exclaimed, "but I got into the Ark." On the evening of the third day of his sickness, without a struggle or a groan, "He neared the tide,—sunk as to cradle-rest and died." 2. Minerva Inez, born in Arcadia, N. Y., 6 Sept., 1866. 3. Carlton, born in Parma, Mich., 28 Oct., 1872.
IV. Peter Davis, son of [John Horton and Rachael Hiler], born at Phelps, N. Y., 17 April, 1826; married in Arcadia, Wayne Co., N. Y., 8 Jan., 1855, by Edwin Pultz, Esq., to Mary Sophia Aiken, daughter of William Burr Aiken and Mary Marinda Clark, and born in Arcadia, 3 Jan., 1836. They have one son, an only child:
George, born in Arcadia, 11 Oct., 1857; he graduated at Marshall College in June, 1874, with high honors. For his graduating thesis, he wrote a very pretty poem, which was published. He, also, during the last year of his college course, made a translation of a portion of Virgil, remarkable for its smooth versification, and also for retaining the sublimity of the original.
Mr. P. D. Horton is one of the best masters of penmanship in the country, is widely known as a teacher, and much respected; he resides in Marshall, Michigan.
V. William Person, son of [John Horton and Rachael Hiler], born at Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., 26 Dec., 1821; married by E. Jones, Esq., in Huron, Wayne Co., N. Y., 4 March, 1845, to Phebe Ann Brink, daughter of John Brink and Catherine Brink; she was born in Huron, Wayne Co., N. Y., 1 July, 1831.
Children:
1. John Marshall, born at Huron, Wayne Co., N. Y., 4 Dec., 1845. 2. Eunico De Maris, born at Huron, Wayne Co., N. Y., 6 Jan., 1847. 3. Hiler Hossmer, born at Barton, Washington Co., Wis., 22 June, 1858.
VI. Eunice, daughter of [John Horton and Rachael Hiler], born in Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., 13 Sept., 1833; married in Phelps, 21 July, 1859, by Rev. John Brown, to Edgar Phineas Lake, of Shelburn, Vermont, son of Hazleton Lake and Deborah Miller. He died 13 April, 1867.