From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print.
A member of a large pioneer family, Robert A. Horton was the son of John and Clarinda Young Horton who came to Dallas from Virginia by way of Missouri, arriving in Eagle Ford, five miles west of Dallas, on 22 November 1844. John must have been born in Virginia about 1812, for he married (1) 27 March 1849 Elin Margaret Hopkins of Tennessee. One daughter, Orlenia, (married C. A. Bast in Dallas in 1868) was their only child. Elin died in 1853.
John married (2) Clarinda Young 30 March 1854 in Dallas. To them were born 10 children: 1) Mary M. who married A. A. Cameron; 2) Emma Alice who married (1) W. B. Dill, married (2) Dallas Dalton; 3) James H.; 4) Robert Alexander born 12 December 1858 at Eagle Ford, married 5 January 1886 to Mary Elizabeth Goetsell; 5) Elijah J. died young; 6) John T. died 1913, buried at Old Horton Cemetery in Arcadia Park, west of Chalk Hill and north of Highway 80; 7) Laura L. married J. C. Dunn; 8) Andrew Y.; 9) Martha E. (Aunt Matt) married Isaac C. Bowman and lived on West Eighth Street in 1930; and 10) Enoch I. born 1870, the same year John Horton died. John’s father, Enoch, died 1851, his wife Martha (Stinson) Horton died in 1850.
Robert A. Horton and Mary Elizabeth Goetsell had six children who reached maturity: 1) Robert (Bob) James Horton who married Johnnie Jackson, daughter of John Dryden Jackson, another pioneer family; 2) John P.; 3) Stella; 4) Eula; 5) Frank and 6) Clara. Robert Alexander Horton died in 1925.
By Margaret Ann Horton, Dallas
