Horton and Bryan Family History

Herbert Hilary Horton was born on 11 January 1893, in Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky, when his father, Thomas Richmond Horton (1845-1907), was 47 and his mother, Anna Barron Tyler Horton (1855-1924), was 37. He was the tenth of 12 children, all but two of whom lived to adulthood, married, and had children.

Herbert married Lucy Ethel McCoun on 1 January 1914, in their hometown. She always went by “Ethel.” They had seven children in 16 years. He died on 20 July 1931, in Campton, at age 38. For more than ten years, Herbert had worked as a laborer and driller in Kentucky oil fields. The cause of his death was typhoid fever due to his consuming contaminated water while working in oil fields in the western part of the state.  After a long bus ride home, Herbert at last reached Campton and home, where he died. He was buried in the Horton-White Cemetery in Bear Pen Hollow.