Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Horton, James E. 1833 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JAMES E. HORTON, Judge of Probate, Limestone County, Ala., was born near
Huntsville, this State, May 20, 1833. His parents, Rodah and Lucy (Otey) Horton.
natives of Virginia and England, were married in Madison County, this State,
where their three sons and three daughters were born. Of the six children, Judge
Horton and a brother only are now living. The others all moved South, where it
seems their lives were materially shortened.

    The senior Mr. Horton died in 1846, at the age of fifty-four years. He was
an extensive planter, and represented Madison County once or twice in the State
Legislature.

    The subject of this sketch was educated at the University of Alabama, and
the University of Virginia. He came into Limestone County in 1857, settled on
the Elk River, and engaged in farming. At Bardstown. Ky., in the fall of 1862,
as aid-de-camp to Gen. Daniel S. Donelson, he entered the Confederate service.
He was with General Donelson until the death of that gentleman, which occurred
at Knoxville, Tenn., in the latter part of 1863. From that time to the close of
the war, Major Horton was Acting General Quartermaster, and was on the Florida
coast when the war closed.

    Returning to Limestone County at the close of the war, he resumed his
planting operations, which he followed up to August, 1886, when he was elected
Judge of Probate. Sometime before this he had served one term as county
commissioner, which appears to be the sum of his office holding. He was married
in Tennessee, near the "Hermitage," October 18, 1860, to Miss Emily Donelson,
the accomplished daughter of Daniel S. Donelson, a nephew of Mrs. Gen. Andrew
Jackson. To this union four daughters and a son have been born, the eldest of
the former is now the wife of John B. Tanner, of Athens.

    Judge Horton's family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is of
the Masonic fraternity.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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