History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 952, Woodland Township
James J. Horton, farmer and stock-trader, sec. 10; P. O.,
Summum; was born in Coshocton Co., O., March 6, 1836; his father, Ezra
Horton, was born in the same county, and lived there for upwards of 43
years, and where he was united in marriage to Mrs. Eliza Roney, by whom
he had 9 children. In 1859 Ezra Horton located in this tp.; he died May
22, 1863; Mrs. Horton survived her husband but one year. James, who had
attained his 21st year shortly after the family arrived in Fulton Co.,
has followed farming and stock-raising from boyhood, and he is the
owner of the homestead property; March 29, '59, he married Mrs. Martha
J. Horton, a daughter of J. B. Horton, of Ohio, who now resides at
Muscatine, Iowa; 10 children were born of this marriage; 8 are living,
- Dora, Esther, Willie, Sadie, Ella, Artie, Lydia and Matilda; Ida L.,
and James I. deceased.
