Category: My father’s ancestors
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10 Robert Pepper McCoun, 1860-1940
Robert Pepper McCoun was born on 8 May1860 in Salvisa, Mercer County, Kentucky, the same year in which the only Kentucky-born president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected. Rob’s father was Joseph Eccles “Joe” McCoun (1825-1897). Joe was the son of Esther Eccles (1792-1881) and Joseph McCoun (1784-1829), who built the house in which Joe and Rob…
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5 Ethel McCoun, 1896-1985
Lucy Ethel McCoun was born in Wolfe County, Kentucky, on 15 September 1896. The fourth child of Syrene Cockerham (1868-1962) and Robert Pepper McCoun (1860-1940), she always went by “Ethel.” On 1 January 1914, 17-year-old Ethel married Herbert Hilary Horton. They had seven children, including the author’s father, Raymond Thomas Horton, the eldest. Herbert tragically…
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2 Raymond Thomas Horton, 1914-1987
Raymond Thomas Horton was born on 15 November 1914, in Campton, Kentucky. His father, Herbert Hilary Horton, was 21 and his mother, Lucy Ethel McCoun Horton, who went by “Ethel,” was 18. Herbert died in 1931 when Raymond was 16. Raymond attended Berea Academy from 1931-1934, graduating in 1934, and Berea College for one year.…
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4 Herbert Hilary Horton, 1893-1931
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…
Horton and Bryan Family History 