When John English Horton was born on 4 April 1836, in Lutts, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, James William Horton, was 26 and his mother, Rachel Cynthia Atkinson, was 24. He married Othie Catherine Cromwell on 10 August 1858, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 8, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 4, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 11 December 1927, in Collinwood, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Horton Cemetery # 3, Cromwell Crossroads, Wayne, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
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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