Robert Mills Horton enlisted in the Union Service at Hillsboro, Ill., 1 August, 1861, and died for his country at Memphis, Tenn., 8 Sept., 1862.
V. Francis Newell, son of [George Horton and Sabra Mills], was born at Brownsville, N. Y., 29 June, 1838. Enlisted in the Union Service at Hillsboro, Ill., 1 August, 1861, Co. D, 126 Ill. Volunteers; died a martyr to freedom at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas, 12 Dec., 1862; unmarried.
VI. Andrew Marcus, son of [George Horton and Sabra Mills], born at Brownsville, N. Y., 31 Dec., 1840; enlisted in the Union Service, Co. E, 6. Reg. N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, 10 Sept., 1861; was orderly-sergeant; re-enlisted in Dec., 1863; served through the war, and was honorably discharged at Elmira, N. Y., 22 August, 1865, and is now (1873), editor of the "Algona Republican," Algona, Iowa; unmarried.
VII. Martha Maria, daughter of [George Horton and Sabra Mills], born at Brownsville, N. Y., 10 April, 1842; married at Chaumont, N. Y., 18 June, 1867, to Peter Van Doren, a farmer, and born 21 June, 1839. Children:
1. Leah Elizabeth, born at Chaumont in 1873.
III. Joseph Strang, son of [Benjamin Horton and Hannah Strang] (Joseph, Stephen, Daniel, David, Joseph I.), born at Sommers, 24 Feb., 1812; married 23 Jan., 1839, in Putnam Valley, N. Y., to Ann Eliza Dusenbury, daughter of Charles Dusenbury and Elizabeth Hadden, and born in 1814.
Children:
1. Benjamin, born at Yorktown, N. Y., 13 Oct., 1839.
2. Charles, born at Yorktown, 29 August, 1841; married Mercy Williams of Roundout.
3. Theodore F., born at Yorktown, 23 Nov., 1843; married Isabel Smith, Kingston, N. Y.