Jack County, TX - Obituaries - Major Henderson Horton ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Jacksboro Gazette September 25 1890 In Memoriam Died at Midland, Texas, on Monday, September 22, 1890, Major Henderson Horton, aged almost 70 years. The subject of this sketch was born in what is now Missouri and thence, about the close of the late war to this state, residing in Dallas, Wise and Jack Counties, moving to the latter in 1867 or 1868. Major Horton was a man that left the impress of the community he lived in and sharing the fifteen years that he resided in Jack county was a foremost and leading citizen in every enterprise that lended to the upbuilding of his town and county.