Re: Alice E. Horton (Gates) & Claude(?) Horton
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Re: Alice E. Horton (Gates) & Claude(?) Horton
Deen Horton 1/07/10
Sorry, I wasn't clear in labeling my dates. The 1894 was the birth year for Alice Etta (West) Gates. I actually found a bio my grandmother wrote for Clear Creek Echoes 1878-1978, a book published about the Clear Creek/ Westerville area in 1977. Claude married Alice in Westerville on Nov 26, 1922. he died in Boulder, CO, and while the text doesn't say what year, he died when my grandmother was about 2yrs old, making his death somewhere around 1929, since she was born in 1927. His body was returned to Westerville for burial.
Also, Claude apparently arrived in Westerville initially with his foster father, J. W. Zimmer.
And, according to the info I have on Roy, he moved to Table Rock, NE, with his parents in 1894, and after his mother died, he was put into an orphanage, where he lived for a year before being taken by a farm family to help on their farm. He married Kate Land in 1926, and had 3 kids, Bernice, Leroy and Vita.