Jesse Vivian Horton

Brief Life History of Jesse Vivian

When Jesse Vivian Horton was born on 29 August 1891, in Perrin, Clinton, Missouri, United States, his father, William O Horton, was 27 and his mother, Talitha Miles Bogart, was 32. He married Hazel Hester Gifford in March 1911, in Perrin, Clinton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Washington, Washington County, District of Columbia, United States in 1950 and Prairie Village, Butler, Kansas, United States in 1966. He died on 24 July 1966, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Johnson County Chapel and Memorial Gardens, Overland Park, Johnson, Kansas, United States.

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Jesse Vivian Horton
1891–1966
Hazel Hester Gifford
1892–1914
Marriage: March 1911
Hester Iris Horton
1914–2003

Sources (17)

  • Jesse V Horton, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Jesse V. Horton, "Kansas, Marriages, 1811-1911"
  • Jesse Vivian Horton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1905

Historical Boundaries: 1905: Johnson, Kansas, United States

1912 · The Girl Scouts

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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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