Giles Chapman Horton

Brief Life History of Giles Chapman

When Giles Chapman Horton was born on 14 May 1848, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Horton, was 20 and his mother, Barsheba Dickerson, was 26. He married Mary Ann Martin on 9 September 1869, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Laurel Fork, Carroll, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 20 March 1927, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Carroll, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Giles Chapman Horton
1848–1927
Mary Ann Martin
1841–1928
Marriage: 9 September 1869
Luemma Horton
1870–1952
Isaac B. Horton
1871–
Isaac Lee Horton
1872–1957
Nancy R. Horton
1873–1903
William Alexander Horton
1876–1948
Elizabeth A. Horton
1879–1880
Virginia Horton
1881–1883

Sources (60)

  • Jiles C Horten in household of Andrew Horten, "United States Census, 1850"
  • G C, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Giles C. Horton, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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