Eliza Horton

Please do not merge with her sister, Elizabeth Hart Holliday Croom.

The Catchings and Holliday Families: And Various Related Families... by Thomas Clendinen Catchings, Mary Clendinen Catchings Torrey, Charles Robert Churchill

(a) Thomas Holladay, born in 1776, died 1818. (Called Gen. Holladay, but I have never found any proof of military services, though it may have been in war of 1812). He married Elizabeth Hart. The record of their tombstones in the family burying ground in Greene Co., is "Gen. Thos. Holladay died Dec. 14, 1818, aged 42 years and 7 months. His wife, Elizabeth Hart Holliday died Dec. 17, 1818, aged 39 years and 3 months." Their children were as follows:

3rd Generation....

5. Eliza Holliday, married Gov. Horton of Texas and had children, one of them named 'Texas Horton."

https://archive.org/stream/catchingshollida00catc/catchingshollida0...

Census records:

Residence • 1850

Household of AC Horton, Wharton county, Wharton, Texas, United States

Residence • 1860

Household of AC Horton, Matagorda, Matagorda, Texas, United States

Residence • 1870

Household of RJ Horton, Matagorda Island, Calhoun, Texas, United States

Residence • 1880

Household of RJ Horton, Precinct 2, Goliad, Texas, United States

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