He was married to Maria Weaver Hege WFT Est. 1873-1909.^(11525)

He was married to Susanna Huber WFT Est. 1810-1842. ^(12515) Children were: Levi , Sr. Horst .

He was married to Elizabeth Wenger Martin WFT Est. 1873-1909. ^(12518)

He was married to Fannie S. Lesher WFT Est. 1864-1897.^(12521)

He was married to Susanna S. Lesher WFT Est. 1864-1897.^(12522)

He was married to Maria Frey WFT Est. 1873-1906. ⁽⁸⁷⁷⁰⁾

He was married to Anna W. Weber WFT Est. 1810-1842. ^(12527) Children were: David W. Horst .

She was married to Jacob W. Lehman WFT Est. 1871-1905. ^(12530)

He was married to Anna Lehman on 5 Oct 1843. ^(12533) Children were: Catherine Horst , Aaron L. Horst, Henry L. Horst, Jacob L. Horst, Leah Horst, Levi L. , Jr. Horst, Sarah Horst.

He was married to Susan M. Kuhns WFT Est. 1873-1909. ^(12536)

She was married to Peter Hess WFT Est. 1870-1902. ^(11821)

She was married to Samuel L. Weaver WFT Est. 1866-1901. ^(12541)

She was married to Laban Wenger on 1 Jan 1915.^(12544) Children were: Martha Mabel Wenger, Henry H. Wenger, Nancy Wenger, Orpha Wenger, Amos Wenger.

She was married to John B. Martin WFT Est. 1827-1859.^(12547) Children were: Fanny Martin.

He was married to Elizabeth Detwiler WFT Est. 1854-1889. ⁽⁶¹⁴³⁾

He was married to Leah Rife WFT Est. 1879-1907. ^(12552)

He was married to Susanna Detwiler WFT Est. 1854-1889. ⁽⁶²⁵⁰⁾

She Private-Begin Private. Children were: Margaret Kathleen "Markie" Rountree .

She was married to Hezekiah Lincoln WFT Est. 1698-1730.

He was married to *Harriet (Horton) in 1806. The Horton family is said to have been in Rhode Island in the days of Roger Williams. They were a very solemn family. Malvina never saw her mother smile but once, and that was when a chicken got into the house, and jumped in the fire, and then out. One of the daughters sang, "We're passing through the fire, Lord, we're passing through the fire".

It is possible that Joseph Horton was son of David Horton of Riverhead, Long Island, New York. This is a guess based upon "Ancestry of Horace Ebenezer Horton, 1920", which shows a Luther Horton, born Nov. 12, 1777 at Riverhead, L.I. He had brothers Joseph, Jerry, David, and five sisters. Luther's wife, Clarissa Forsyth, was born April 1, 1788 at Williamstown, Massachusetts, which puts this family into the same geographical region as our Joseph Horton. Perhaps David Horton and family moved to Williamstown and our Joseph was born and/or raised there.

Joseph Horton is not found in the 1790 or 1800 census for Vermont, but he is found in the 1810, 1820, and 1830 censuses for Pownal, Vermont, so he probably moved to Vermont between 1800 and 1810 from Rhode Island. His widow Harriet is found in Pownal in the 1840 and 1850 censuses. Children were: Russel Norice Horton, Mary Horton, Hiram B. Horton, Harriet Horton, Loisa Horton, Eleanor Horton, *Malvina D. Horton, Salem H. Horton, Aurelia B. Horton, Joseph Horton.

She was married to *Seymour Alfred Keyes on 27 Jan 1842 in prob Vermont. Family tradition is that Seymour was named after his father, even though his mother was never married until after Seymour's birth.

From manuscript written by Effie Carlisle Farrell, Hampshire, Illinois, 1931:

"Grandfather Keyes brought his family from Massachusetts to this locality in 1850 and my mother began her schooling the following year. Those first few years in their new home were very homesick times for the children and many a time did mother and her oldest sister hide out by the corner of the house behind the rain-water barrel and shed bitter tears. They hid because if their father found them crying, he would whip them. He was not homesick and he thought it foolish for others to be. Perhaps one thing that made them long so much for their old home was the absence of apples and other fruits here. They had come from a place where such things grew in abundance and they lived here four years before they saw an apple. they were nearly starved for fruit. One day some of the men had to go to "Big Woods" somewhere to the southwest of here, on the Kishwaukee River and they told the children that they would bring home some apples. so the youngsters sat up until late in the evening to wait for the return of the men. Their mouths were watering and their tongues fairly hanging out in anticipation. The men returned and brought those poor children some miserable, puckery, sour, green little wild crab apples. They tried in vain to eat them and then crept off to bed to cry themselves to sleep. Never, as long as they lived, did one of those children forget the bitterness of that disappointment, nor forgive the men who caused it....

"Grandfather Keyes took a weekly newspaper called the New York Gazette in which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in installments before it was issued in book form. This paper was loaned far and near....

Seymour and Malvina are buried in Hampshire, Illinois.

From "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kane County", edited by Gen. John S. Wilcox, 1904, page 834:

"Seymour A. Keyes (deceased), Hampshire, Ill., farmer, was born in Pownal, Mass., Nov. 1, 1822, and died Dec. 8, 1879. When a young man he taught school in Rensselaer County, N.Y., and coming to Hampshire, Ill. in 1851, bought an 30-acre tract of land, on which the east half of Hampshire is now located. When the line of the Chicago & Pacific Railway was being laid out he gave the right of way through the village. In politics he was a Republican, and in religion proved himself a very active factor. Mr. Keyes was married Jan. 27, 1842, to Miss Malvina D. Horton and their children were as follows..."


From a letter from Effie C. Farrell to Merilyn Divine, October 31, 1954:

"Dear Cousin Merilyn:

I think it will be a good idea for me to share some of the family stories that my mother told to me so many times. Grandpa and Grandma Keyes were Seymour Alfred Keyes and Malvina Horton Keyes, and Grandpa's mother was Betsey Field Jepson.

Grandpa & Grandma Keyes lived a half mile from her parents, Joseph and Harriet Horton, but they, the Keyes, lived in Massachusetts and the Hortons lived in Vermont. Grandpa K. thought that a man raising a family coud do better in the West, so West they came. They had at that time three little girls, Martha 7, Mary 4 (my mother), and Betsy 2 1/2 and another child was expected, so they moved to Troy, New York, where they awaited the birth of this child, Edwin, and started for the West in the early spring of 1850. They travelled through the Erie Canal and hence on the Great Lakes and the trip took them six weeks. With them came grandma's sister, Mary, wife of Heman Morse & her husband and a little daughter, named Mary Jane. Later they (the Morses) settled in Mechanicsville, Iowa. Also came a sister, named Louisa (pronounced Lo-Y'-sa) who married Smith Carlisle, brother of my grandfather, Dennison Carlisle, who was the father of Nate & Luman & Emma.

Smith Carlisle & Louisa, his wife, had heirs as follows: Hirman, who died of measels in the Civil War and is buried in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and twins Smith & Salem, also Marcella & Susan, and Winfield - they may not be given in order, but the two youngest were Abe & Frank.

The Keyes came to his mother, Betsy Field Jepson who with her husband, Francis, had settled here in 1841. They had brought much nursery stock and most of the first apples here were grown from this stock. The Keyes, at first lived in a near-by log house. When Aunt Betsy first saw it she cried and said, "We aint a going to live in that hog pen." They came from a place filled with an abundance of all kinds of home fruit and they lived here three years before before they even saw an apple. They were nearly starved for fruit. Uncle Sam Hawley's parents had the first apples. They came here in 1832 when Uncle Sam was four years old and his mother brought apple seeds from Connecticut.

The Hawley's were one of the first three families to settle in the township.

Grandpa Keyes soon bought a farm about a mile and a half from his mother's farm (or hers & Mr. Jepson's). He bought it of a man named Thomas Jullock and the log cabin was there on the farm, also a little log smoke house and a thatched roof stable and a well. I know the boundary's of it, but I can not tell you how many acres except it was 1/4 of a mile from east to west. They settled in this house and Martha & Mary used to hide behind the rain barrell and cry because they were so homesick. They did not dare cry before their father or he would whip them. He was not homesick and he thought no one else should be. Here was born in due time Aunt Ella, who was named elinor, after a sister of Grandma, then Willis Howard, then Eda and Addie. A family of eight altogether.

Great Grandmother Jepson was a large framed person and had a good sized nose. I can remember seeing her when I was five years old. She sat in our kitchen with her feet in the oven and she was smoking a clay pipe. She had dark auburn hari which was parted in the middle and was waved so pretty on each side. She had a brother who lived in Hampshire and his name was Havillah Field, a "smallish" man with red hair & whiskers. He must have passed away when I was eight of nine years old. He was married although I don't remember anything about his wife. I have heard tell that she wasn't overly bright. I don't remember her name. They had children as follows: Eliza, Julia, Malvina, James - who lived in California, and Roselle. Once Mrs. Field invited the Keyes all over for Sunday dinner, but early Sunday morning, she came over to Keyes and she said, "Malviny, Malviny, which would you rather do? Go visiting or have company?" "We are all going to come over here for dinner." Well, Grandma sent some kids to catch chickens and some to pick wild strawberries so I guess they "made out". Mrs. Field also borrowed Grandma's wedding dress to wear to Henpeck to church, until she wore it all out. I've been told it was light blue made princess and buttoned in the back and Grandma outgrew it, so Mrs. F. borrowed it & carried her shoes & stockings & walked five miles to Henpeck to church.

The railroad was finished thru here in May 1875. My father hitched up a team to a wagon and took a number of women to see the first train go thru. Mrs. Field was one of the women. The railroad cut Grandfather Keyes' farm in two. The part of the farm south of the railroad track, he sold to two men, C. A. Fassett and Dr. A. J. Willing, and these men laid it out into town lots and blocks and soon Dr. Willing built a large, square, white brick house on the site of the Keyes' log cabin home. Grandpa and Grandma went across the railroad to the north east corner of their farm and built a large white house and a red barn. They did not wish to live in town, but would rather live in the country.

The two stores in Henpeck moved to the new town. Also the Methodists built a new church and discontinued their services in the Henpeck school house, and a new village sprang up almost like a mushroom.

When Addie Keyes was a tiny child, she visited school one day and was asked to "speak a piece" and she did as follows:

"Peter Plug catched a bug
"Pulled his wing.
"And made him sing."

Francis Jepson died in 1858 and in the East, Harriet Horton died the same year. Grandma Keyes visited her old home with Aunt Martha and Uncle Nate years afterward, maybe about 1885, but of course she found many changes had taken place while she had been away.

Seymour Alfred Keyes was, for many years, a victim of rheumatism. The year before Will Keyes was born, Grandpa Keyes lay in bed most of the time and if a child ran toward the bed, he would scream, because if they jarred the bed, it would cause him such pain. He had red hair and whiskers. He died the day Fred Keyes was a year old, on December 8, 1879, from a stroke of apoplexy. Grandmother Keyes was about five feet two in height. She had rosy cheeks and dark hair & black eyes and everyone loved her. She was of Welch descent. She died May 20, 1897, of diabetes.

I am sorry that I can not write as well as I used to, but this osteo arthritis has made my hand and wrist stiff.

Effie C. Farrell. Children were: Martha M. Keyes, Mary M. Keyes, Harriet B. "Betsey" Keyes, Seymour Edwin "Ed" Keyes, Elinor "Ella" Keyes , Willis Howard Keyes, Eda Louise Keyes, *Addie J. Keyes.

He was married to Judith Chase WFT Est. 1731-1766.⁽⁴⁴⁹⁸⁾

He was married to Mary Chase WFT Est. 1723-1757.⁽⁴⁵¹⁹⁾

He was married WFT Est. 1609-1662. Children were: Joseph Horton.

He was married WFT Est. 1680-1712. Children were: Phebe Horton.

She was married to Horton Carlisle WFT Est. 1839-1916.

She was married to Chauncey Jillson on 20 Nov 1838 in Brattleboro, Vt.. Children were: John Sylvester Jillson, Herbert C. Jillson , George S. Jillson, Julia E. Jillson, Luther C. Jillson.

He was married to Catherine Nelson in 1781 in Fauquier Co., Va. Children were: Mary Catherine Horton.

She was married to Reese Millard about 1826. Children were: Mary Bowman Millard, Francis Lewis Millard, Mordecai Millard, Reese John Millard.

He was married to Lucinda Case WFT Est. 1824-1857.

She was married to Robert Faulkner Jillson Private. Children were: Wynne Jillson, Deborah Jillson, Margaret Jillson.

He was married to Judith Unknown WFT Est. 1653-1710. Children were: George , Jr. Horton , John Horton.

He was married to Betty Unknown WFT Est. 1683-1746.

She was married to Romaine Gifford WFT Est. 1883-1926. Children were: Eva Diadama Gifford.

He was married to Electa WFT Est. 1791-1834. Children were: Electa Horton.

He was married to Abigail Vail WFT Est. 1658-1691 in Southold, Long Island, N.Y..

She was married to Smith Carlisle WFT Est. 1842-1879. Children were: Hirman Carlisle, Smith , Jr. Carlisle, Salem Carlisle, Marcella Carlisle, Susan Carlisle, Winfield Carlisle, Abe Carlisle, Frank Carlisle.

She was married to John Hutchings WFT Est. 1649-1707. Children were: Nancy Hutchings .

She was married to Uriah Angell WFT Est. 1632-1684.

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