This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Horton, Love Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/286.507.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello list, I continue to post messages regarding my husband's Horton family in the hopes that the updated information will help me make a connection with another researcher or elicit suggestions as to how I can pursue this family further. My husband's gr-gr-gr grandfather, Charles Horton, of Gerry was either married three times or married twice and had an illegitimate child with a third woman. My theory is that Charles Horton first married Charlotte Shepardson, and they had two children together, Thomas and Daniel. It seems likely that Charlotte passed away as a result of childbirth in 1838 given that's also Daniel's year of birth. Charles then married Philetta (maiden name unknown), and they had seven more children together...Ellen, Edwin, Eurette, Lucious, Charlotte, Frank, and Charles. I did not know about the three youngest children until I came across Philetta living in Otiscounty Township, Waseca County, Minnesota per the 1860 U.S. Federal Census. I believe my husband's gr-gr grandfather Emery Horton was the result of Charles' third relationship with a woman named Margaret Love. I can't say if the couple ever married because Emery's birth would have occurred *before* the births of the children Frank and Charles. Emery and his mother Margaret are living with Reuben and Roxy Shepardson on the 1860 Census in Clymer. What's so tidy about the whole thing is that the daughter Charlotte was 9 years old on the 1860 Census and then Frank was 5 and Charles was 3...Emery fell right in the gap at age 7 years as of 1860. I realize the civil registration of these events was not required in New York, but I'm wondering if there are some Chautauqua Co. records which may have pre-dated the legal requirements, or if not, church records in the town of Gerry where most of these events would have occurred. Can anyone advise me of where to go next? As always, any reply is much appreciated. Lisa Hopp