VII. Josephine Deborah, daughter of [Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett], born at Belvale, 17 July, 1834. She is an accomplished maiden lady, and a successful teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a lady of marked piety and much beloved.
VIII. Emma Alma, daughter of [Milton Horton and Lydia Bennett], born in Milan, Ohio, 4 Sept., 1836; married at West Salem, by Rev. Mr. Clark, to William Upton, about 1866. One child—Lucius.
II. Capt. Benjamin Jason, son of [Nicholas Townsend Horton and Sarah Van Orden] (Benjamin, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born in New York City, 13 Feb., 1831; moved with his father to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1832, and here he grew up to manhood, and was married on the 18 April, 1858, by the Rev. Chauncey Giles, to Virginia Yeatman, daughter of Walker M. Yeatman and Eva Ammon, and born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 8 Feb., 1835. Eva Ammon is a sister of Gen. Jacob Ammon, formerly of the U. S. Regular Army, and also of Commodore Daniel Ammon, of the U. S. Navy.
Children:
1. Eva, born at Glendale, Ohio, 16 Nov., 1861. 2. Alice Yeatman, born in Glendale, Ohio, 12 Dec., 1863. 3. Richard Scott, born in Glendale, Ohio, 21 Feb., 1866. 4. Thomas Yeatman, born in Cincinnati, 7 March, 1868. 5. Benjamin Yeatman, born in Lawrence, Kansas, 8 Sept., 1872.
Capt. B. J. Horton graduated at Yale College, in 1852; read law with the Hon. Timothy Walker, of Cincinnati, closing up with a six months' term at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in 1854. At the breaking out of the great Rebellion he volunteered in the service of his country, and entered the army as 1st Lieutenant of Co. "I," 24th Ohio Vol. Inf., and was placed on the staff of Col. Nelson; and after Gen. Nelson's death, he was on the staff of Maj. Gen. Gilbert. He was in the action at the taking of Nashville; at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, also at the taking of Corinth, and went as far as Athens, Alabama; then came to Kentucky with Gen. Nelson, and was at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, and at the battle of Perryville, on the staff of Gen. Gilbert, and subsequently in command of Co. "I," 24th Ohio Vol. Inf., at Stone River, where he lost his left leg, and received several other wounds. He was honorably discharged from the service in August, 1863. He is now engaged in the practice of law at Lawrence, Kansas.
VIII. The Hon. Dexter Horton, [son of Henry W. Horton and Adah Jennings] (Joseph, Israel, Israel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Groveland, 24 June, 1836; married 25 April, 1861, by O. H. P. Green, Esq., to Lavinia Loseel.
Children, all born at Fenton, Mich., except Mary A., born at Groveland:
1. Glen L., born 21 June, 1863. 2. Mary A., born 1 Sept., 1864. 3. Maybell, born 5 June, 1866. 4. Byron D., born 28 Sept., 1871. 5. Elmira, born 12 June, 1873.
Maj. D. Horton is an extensive dealer in flour, grain and wool, and also in farming implements. He was Postmaster at Fenton, in 1861, which office he resigned in 1863, to accept an appointment from President Lincoln as Captain and Commissary of Subsistence in the United States Volunteers, and remained with the armies of Tennessee and Georgia until they were disbanded. While in the army he was promoted to the rank of Major by President Lincoln, for meritorious services. In 1869 he was a member of the Legislature of Michigan.