Biography of Ruth Griffin Horton, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Twenty eight years of faithful and conscientious service as Executive Secretary
of the St. Francis County Chapter of the American Red Cross is indeed
exceptional and deserving praise by the people of this county. That is the
record of Mrs. Clyde (Ruth Griffin) Horton, who also has been local Registrar of
the Bureau of Vtial Statistics, State Board of Health, since 1946. Mrs. Horton
is the daughter of Mrs. C. D. Henson of Toccoa, Ga., and the late W. V. Griffin.
She was born in Newport and later lived in Augusta before coming to Forrest City
thirty four years ago. Her maternal great-great-grandfather Robbin Davis was a
pioneer of Georgia and her paternal great-great-grandfather, Thadius Griffin,
were among the earliest settlers of Alabama. On June 30, 1919, in Augusta she
became the bride of Clyde D. Horton, son of the late Haveas A. and Cora
(Anderson) Horton, widely-known pioneers of the Newcastle community in St.
Francis, and to this union has been born a daughterand a granddaughter. Mr.
Horton since retirement in 1950 from the Forrest City Wholesale Grocery Co. is a
planter with farming interests in St. Francis and Cross counties. His
grandfather, Asbury Horton, came to St. Francis County in 1875 from New Albany,
Miss. A graduate of the Augusta High School, she later attended Peabody College
in Nashville and there acquired a thorough understanding of higher mathematics
which she won a complete Crosley Kitchen, valued at $2300 for her prize-winning
entry in a nationwide "Plan-Your-Kitchen" Contest. Mrs. Horton belongs to the
First Baptist Church, the Cosmos Club, Business and Professional Women's Club,
and the American Legion Auxilliary. He husband, a World War I Veterean, is
Secretary of the Lions Club.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas