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Isaac W. A. Horton was born December 17, 1822, in Tennessee, the eldest child of William Horton and America Cheek.
Isaac's father died about 1836, in Wayne County, Tennessee, when Isaac was only about 14 years old. Isaac appears on the 1840 Wayne County census with his mother and siblings.
Isaac married Lucinda Heffington about 1840/41, in Tennessee. Lucinda was born September 28, 1821.
Isaac applied for guardianship of his minor siblings in 1848. He was granted guardianship.
Isaac and Lucinda appear in Wayne County on the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census. Isaac's family remained in Tennessee, when several members of the Horton family moved to Searcy County, Arkansas about 1851, and then when more family members migrated to Searcy County between 1880 and 1884.
Lucinda died in Wayne County on April 28, 1888. Isaac died there on January 14, 1904. They are buried in the Horton Cemetery on Butler Creek, in Wayne County.
Children of Isaac Horton and Lucinda Heffington
1. America E. Horton, b. abt 1841, Wayne Co, TN
2. William Henry Horton, b. May 30, 1842, Wayne Co, TN; m. Charlotte F. Holden on Mar 11, 1872, Wayne Co, TN
3. Matilda Jane Horton, b. abt 1844, Wayne Co, TN; d. Feb 21, 1918; bur. Horton Cem. on Butler Creek with her parents
4. George W. Horton, b. abt 1846, Wayne Co, TN; d. Dec 1, 1869; m. Mary Elizabeth Forrest on July 29, 1866, Perry Co, TN
5. Willis Zachariah Taylor Horton, b. abt 1849, Wayne Co, TN
6. Margaret Horton, b. abt 1852, Wayne Co, TN; d. abt 1862, Wayne Co.
7. Isaac W. Horton, Jr., b. abt 1854, Wayne Co, TN
8. Mary H. Horton, b. abt 1864, Wayne Co, TN