Phillips Horton, born 24 Aug., 1872.
Rev. William Horton Thompson, son of William Thompson and Catherine Ingals, and grandson of the Rev. Calvin Ingals and Mary Horton (Rev. Ezra, Dea. James, Jonathan I.), born at West Stafford, Ct., 7 July, 1818. He fitted for college at Morison Academy, Mass., in 1840, under the care of Rev. Charles Hammond. Entered Amherst College, and remained there three years. In 1844, he entered the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., whence he graduated, in 1847. Settled first in the ministry at Atlanta, Ga. In 1849, he had charge of a mission church in Augusta, Ga. He was settled in Chattanooga in 1851, and in Bolivar, West Tennessee, for twelve years. In 1865, he was settled in Columbus, Kentucky, and in July, 1873, he moved to Lexington, Miss., where he is now engaged in the ministry.
He married 11 May, 1852, Mary Jane Safford, daughter of Rev. Henry Safford, of Greenboro, Georgia, and Eliza Burr, daughter of Dr. William Burr, of Philadelphia, who was a nephew of President Burr, of Princeton College, N. J. The Safford family is large, and includes many persons of distinction. The Hon. A. B. Safford, of Cairo, has written the history of the family, and says he has written to every penitentiary in the United States, and not a Safford can be found on their records.
Children:
1. William Henry, born in Bolivar, Tenn., 14 Dec., 1855. 2. Mary Eliza, born in Bolivar, Tenn., 11 Jan., 1857. 3. Catherine Alethea, born in Bolivar, Tenn., 20 Jan., 1860.
I. Susan Bailey, daughter of Gilbert Horton and Lydia Bailey (Maj. Gilbert, Capt. Barnabas, Dea. James, Jonathan I.), born at Bay View, Southold Township, 11 July, 1820; married at Bay View, 12 Dec., 1839, by the Rev. Ralph Smith, to Hiram Terry, son of Jesse Terry and Hannah ——, and born in Southold.
Children, all born in Southold:
1. Marietta A., born 4 April, 1841; died 19 April, 1865. 2. Charles E., born 4 Dec., 1843. 3. George I., born 9 August, 1850; died 28 August, 1868. 4. Lydia Bailey, born 18 Nov., 1854; died 27 Nov., 1869.
II. Gilbert Wilson, son of Gilbert Horton and Lydia Bailey, born at Bay View, 31 March, 1824; married in Cutchogue, L. I., 13 Dec., 1848, by the Rev. Ezra Youngs, to Phebe Ann Youngs, daughter of Richard Youngs and Deborah Tuthill. She died 27 Nov., 1858, without issue, and he married 2. in Bridge Hampton, L. I., 12 Nov., 1862, by the Rev. Thomas Gray, to Janie Maria Halsey, daughter of Daniel S. Halsey and Amanda Smith, and born in Bridge Hampton, about 1826.