JESSE HORTON AND SARAH ELIZABETH CHAMBLEE

Submitted by Myra Hester Warren

Jesse Horton was born January 7, 1773 in Wake County, North Carolina.  He died on August 2, 1850 in Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.  He is the son of Captain Amos Horton Jr. and Jean Peebles of Wake County, North Carolina and the grandson of Amos Horton, Sr. and Sarah Peebles of Lancaster, South Carolina.  Jesse’s father, Captain Amos Horton, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War under General Francis Marion.

Jesse married Sarah Elizabeth Chamblee on March 15, 1799 in Wake County, North Carolina.  She is the daughter of Issac Chamblee and Lucretia Jones.  They had ten children and all were born in Wake County, North Carolina except the last one.  Jesse and Sarah led a group of settlers to Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama in 1822, where they lived the rest of their lives.  Jesse owned the patent to the land in Pleasant Ridge.

(1)     Jane Emeline Horton was born in 1800 and died January 1830 and is buried in the Jones Cemetery, Franklin County, Alabama.  She married Jesse Jones on December 25, 1818 in Wake County, North Carolina.  Jane and Jesse had four children: Emoline Elizabeth, Dianah, Sarah, and William L.

(2)     Elizabeth Marcia Horton was born January 17, 1802 and died December 16, 1864 in Leake County, Mississippi.  She was married first to John Madison Henry on July 4, 1840 in Greene County, Alabama.  John Madison died in 1840 in Neshoba County, Mississippi.  A year later, Elizabeth married John William Slaughter in Leake County, Mississippi.  These two marriages produced two children: George Washington Horton and Marcia Slaughter.

(3)     Therza Horton was born in 1804.  She was married first to William Carpenter January 26, 1825 in Greene County, Alabama. When William died in 1839, Therza married John Bridges in 1840 in Madison County, Mississippi and moved to Ashley County, Arkansas where she is buried. Therza and William had six children: James, William C, John D, Susan, Candace, and Jesse.

(4)     Maria Horton was born in 1806 and died before 1870.  She is buried in Greene County, Alabama.  She married Henry Edwards about 1831 in Greene County, Alabama and they had nine children: Jessie Horton, Candice M, James, Melissa D, John E, Marion, Eliza A, Henry H, and Charles N.

(5)     Molsey Horton was born July 4, 1808 and died June 21, 1881 in Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.  She married Littleberry King on January 22, 1828 in Greene County. They are both buried in the Horton Cemetery, Greene County, Alabama.  Molsey and Littleberry had eleven children: Nancy Jane, Alexander, Elizabeth Jelina, Mandy Ellen, Mary Ann, Sidney Randolph, Berry Simpson, Miranda F, John F, Sarah Elizabeth, and William Riley.

(6)     William Horton was born October 8, 1812 and died September 5, 1881 at Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.  He married Marcia L. Ford (daughter of John Ford and Jennie Kirkpatrick) on May 9, 1838 in Greene County, Alabama.  Marcia died October 5, 1852 in Greene County, Alabama and is buried in the Horton Cemetery at Pleasant Ridge.  William and Marcia had six children: Sarah Ford, James Wiliam, Henry A, Jessie, Amos III, and Martha Jane.  (Amos Horton III was a cadet at the University of Alabama when it was burned by the Union Army.  He was in the engagement with General Coxton at Tuscaloosa in April 1865.  This Amos also served in the Alabama Senate, 1898 to 1902.)  William married Mary Emily Kirkland Tillman on December 27, 1853 in Gainesville, Sumpter County, Alabama.  William and Mary are both buried at Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.  They had eight children: Rufus Kenneth, Robert Lionel (Bob), Moses Bettus, William Manassas, John Randolph, Fred, Mary Emily, and Clarence Leslie.

(7)     John D. (Jack) Horton was born May 1, 1814 and died October 17, 1882 in Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.  He married Mary Coleman on March 6, 1835 in Greene County, Alabama.  Mary died on November 29, 1843 and is buried in the Horton Cemetery, Greene County, Alabama.  John D. and Mary had six children: Alonza, Elizabeth Jane, Hollis Tresvant, William Coleman, Leonidas A, and Jesse Habbard.  John D. married Julia Holley on June 19, 1845 in Greene County, Alabama.  They had ten children: Laura Amelia, Adam A, Adeline Ophelia, Lewis Dunkin, George Algernon, John A, Anna C, Julia Suber, Robert L, and Lillie.  (Jack had five sons that fought in the Civil War and of those five, three lost their lives.  Jack was an ardent Southern sympathizer.)

(8)     Candice Horton was born 1817 and died before 1862 in Monticello, Drew County, Arkansas.  She married George W. Rives on December 7, 1837 in Greene County, Alabama.  They had four children: Virginia, Sarah, Mary, and John L.

(9)     Mary Ann Rebecca Horton was born October 13, 1821 and died March 14, 1859 in Noxubee County, Mississippi.  She married John Raleigh Brewer on June 18, 1838 and they had nine children: William, Jesse S, Mildred F, Sarah, Raleigh, Burrell Langdon, George Belton, Alice, and John T.

(10) Eliza Horton was born in 1823.  She married William Buntin on February 27, 1845.  Eliza and William had one child: Jesse C.