OBITUARY: Gustave D. Horton, 8 Feb 1889 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 7 December 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 28, 1889, p. 7, c. 4 HORTON.—Gustave D. Horton was born in Shelby county, Ala., Aug. 10, 1861; was baptized by T. Toody, July 26, 1862; moved with his parents to Texas in 1867, and to this, Smith county, in 1869. He professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the year 1885, at White House, on Larissa circuit. He died of pneumonia Feb. 8, 1889. Gustave was one of our very best members; was a steward in our church last year, took the ADVOCATE, always paid his preacher; in fact was a model young man. May God bless his father and four brothers, and help them meet him in heaven. C. H. SMITH