From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print.
This pioneer was born 11 March 1799 and the tombstone states Rockbridge, Virginia. It is believed he married Rebecca, who according to 1860 census, was born in Tennessee. They appear in Dallas County, family #782, living next door to their son-in-law and daughter, John and Clarinda Young Horton, in Eagle Ford, Texas, western Dallas County.
Three other children were at home in 1860: Eliza J., who married 7 July 1867 to John Langley and lived to a ripe old age; A. B. (Andrew), who married and moved to Coleman, Texas; no other data on this son nor on Sally R., who was 14 in June 1860 when the census taker enumerated this family.
Thomas J. Young died 7 April 1875 at the age of 76, and he is buried in the old James Horton Cemetery in Arcadia Park in western Oak Cliff. Since their first child reported she was born in Tennessee, and her younger siblings were born in Missouri, we can guess that this family migrated to Texas from Tennessee through Missouri, stopping in Missouri for several years, but arriving in Texas sometime after 1850.
Clarinda Young, eldest daughter, married John Horton, who was widowed with a small daughter living next door to her parents; Clarinda was 20 years younger than Mr. Horton. After Horton died, Clarinda married Marion C. Dill. A daughter, Josephine, was born of this union. The marriage did not last and was much opposed by her older Horton children.
By Margaret Horton, Dallas
