TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Horton, E.H.  (Everett)  1898

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obituary from Butler Herald Jul 5, 1898
reprinted in Taylor County Tracer Jul 1998

DEATH OF MR. E.H. HORTON

On the 10th of Jun 1898, the gentle spirit of Mr E.H. Horton,
better known as "Uncle Everett Horton," peacefully passed
from earth to heaven. He had been sick but a few hours and
all that loving hands could do availed but little, for the
time of his departure was at hand, and as a sheaf of wheat
fully ripe unto the harvest, he was gathered by God. To say
that Uncle Everett was ready for his Master's call - the
habits of his life were such that no one had room to doubt
his fitness for heaven. In early life he professed to the
reality of a living faith in the blood of Jesus to cleanse
from sin and acting upon his convictions he joined the
Methodist Church and tried every day to follow the commands
of his Saviour. Uncle Everett was a sufferer from the worst
of all afflictions, being totally blind. At the age of four
years by accident and from treatment for sore eyes he lost
his sight which deprived him of much of the joys and
pleasures of life and his parents being unable to educate him
he was forced to battle with the hardships of life as best he
could, but the poor boy soon learned to lean upon the strong
arm of Jesus and to take Him as his guide and ever found the
Lord true to His promise. He was born in South Carolina, in
1827 and when about six years of age his parents moved to
Georgia and settled in Taylor County. When he reached the
years of maturity he won the heart and hand of Miss Mary A.
Windham, daughter of Able Windham and niece of Mr. Jack
Windham, whom he married in 1857 or 1858 and who still
survives him. She was ever true and devoted to him while he
lived. No sacrifice was too severe to give comfort and peace
to him whom she loved most dear. Uncle Everett was blessed
with a strong mind, a cheerful and gentle disposition and a
gentleman of most remarkable ingenuity. His sense of touch
and hearing was very acute as he never forgot a voice, a name
or the touch of a human form. Besides this he loved music and
being endowed with natural power, he taught sacred music and
sang the old songs with a melody that charmed his hearers. He
was blessed with a strong, sweet voice and for many years he
was the chorister of Crowell Church. No task was too
difficult for him to undertake in repairing clocks and
watches, and in many instances he was known to perform some
very difficult tasks which would seem almost creditable for
us to state. He took the Bible as the man of his council and
lived in the full enjoymnet of its privileges, and when
called was found ready. He was a kind husband and father,
uncomplaining as his lot in life and by his ever genial
disposition he made long and lasting friends. Mr. Horton
raised five devoted children - three sons and two daughters
who still survive to honor the memory of a kind and loving
father. He was 71 years of age and had lived most of his life
where he died in the Panhandle District of Taylor County. On
the 11th day of June his remains were laid peacefully to rest
in the cemetery at Crowell Church. In heaven may his vision
ever be bright to behold the King in His beauty, and with the
holy angles sing praises unto God.

NOTE: Everett House Horton was born in Lancaster SC. His
parents are buried in the old section of Crowell cemetery
(across the road from the church)- Sterling and Mary
(Truesdale) Horton. My husband Walter Gerald Horton (Jerry to
his friends) descends through Everett's son George Oscar and
his son Lester Terrell and his son Walter Terrell Horton who
is Jerry's father. Jackie Horton