Posted on: Tioga Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Tioga/10245 Surname: Horton ------------------------- Am too searching for information on the Horton family: Delos J. Horton, who appeared in the 1860 NY Census, Candor Township, Tioga County. Unfortunately, all I know about this individual is that he was born in New York state between 1830-1838, married and had one child, Hannah, by his first wife. He fought in the Civil War. While he was gone, his wife, name unknown, volunteered as a nurse, caught a fever/infection and died when her daughter, born in 1861, was an infant. I believe relatives of her mother cared for baby Hannah while her father was at war. The 1870 IA Census, Leroy Township, Bremer County lists Delos J. and Melissa Horton, his second wife, with two sons, John and James O., but no daughter Hannah. (Perhaps she was still with her mother's family.) The 1880 census shows the family still in Leroy. An additional clue from 1880 is that Delos' parents were born in Pennsylvania. If it helps: Other children born to his second wife were: Harry, Frank, Charles, Bernice, Durwood, and Mary. Would love to find out more...