Myrtle M Horton

Brief Life History of Myrtle M

When Myrtle M Horton was born on 31 August 1908, in Raven, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, John Henry Horton, was 46 and her mother, Margaret Louise Mutter, was 37. She married John Daily Herndon on 25 December 1922. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 23 August 1979, in her hometown, at the age of 70, and was buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle, Henry, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Daily Herndon
1903–1979
Myrtle M Horton
1908–1979
Marriage: 25 December 1922
Linford Parson Herndon
1923–2004
Dorothy Helen Herndon
1926–2009

Sources (21)

  • Myrtle Horton in household of John Horton, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Myrtle Horton, "Virginia, Birth Certificates, 1912-1913"
  • Myrtle May Horton Herndon, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

World Events (8)

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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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