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Note: !DEATH: from Mass. vitals 1924, Vol. 18, Pg. 354, #15 (in poss. of Edith
Frampton); buried at Pine Hill Cemetery; Lot 8,9,10; Sec. B
!TWINS: twin to Martha M. Horton
!RESIDENCE: 14 Mill Street, South Lancaster, Worcester Co., Mass.; 1920 - Center Street, Easton, Bristol Co., Mass.
1850 federal census, Windham County, Connecticut, Woodstock township; FHLC#0,442,883, page 283, upper left-hand corner says 56, enumerated Sept. 28, 1850line 24, dwelling number 556, household number 643:
William Horton, 38, m, farmer, $1600 value real estate, b. N.H.
Elisa N. Horton, 38, f, b. R.I.
James B. Horton, 15, m, b. Conn, attended school within year
Frances J. Horton, 12, f, b. Conn, cripple
Clarissa D. Horton, 10, f, b. Conn, attended school within year
Eliza Horton, 9, f, b. Conn., attended school within year
William J. Horton, 6, m, b. R.I., attended school within year
Benjamin B. Horton, 4, m, b. R.I.
Marcus A. Horton, 1, m, twin, b. Conn
Martha M. Horton, 1, f, twin, b. Conn
1860 federal census, Worcester County, Sutton township, Massachusetts; FHLC#0,803,531, page 198, enumerated on the ninth of July, 1860, line 6, dwelling number 1163, household number 1640:
William Horton, 54, male, physician, b. N.H.
Elisa Horton, 54, female, b. R.I.
James B. Horton, 24, male, b. Conn.
Clarissa Collins, 20, female, weaver, b. Conn.
Eliza Horton, 18, female, weaver, b. Conn.
Marcus A. Horton, 11, male, b. Conn.
Martha M. Horton, 11, female, b. Conn.
Jacob Heill, 70, male, painter, b. N.H.
1874 Gazetteer of Massachusets. Sutton - an agricultural and manufacturing town of 2,699. The town contains six villages -- Wilkinsonville, Sutton Centre, West Sutton, and Manchaug, which have post offices, and East and South Sutton, which do not. The town has many beautiful ponds and brooks. There are eight saw-mills, large quantities of lumber, shingles, and box-boards for market. Sutton has two cotton, and several boot and shoe manufactories. The three churches are Congregational, Baptist, and Episcopal.
1874 Gazetteer of Massachusets. Lancaster - the oldest and one of the most beautiful towns in Worcester County. Generally flat terrain, the principal village of Lancaster is delightfuly situated on a gentle swell of land above the confluence of the north and south branches of the Nashua River. It is a flourishing towns. The streets are well shaded with majestic elms, and an air of elegance and affluence pervades the place. The town has a public library of 7,000 volumes. The State Industrial School for Girls has 121 pupils.
1870 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster; FHLC#552,152, enumerated on the 20th of July 1870, page 37 (sheet 215), dwelling number 295, household number 313, line 10 (enumerated with the family of Stevens H. and Betsey Turner, farmer:
Marcus Horton, 24, male, white, wheelwright, b. Rhode Island
(Emma and the Sweets are on the preceding page)
1880 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster; FHLC#1,254,563, enumerated on the 21st of June, 1880, enumeration district 813, page 37, sheet 312A, line 10, dwelling number 281, household number 314:
Horton, Marcus A., w,m, 31, married, occ Wheelwright, b. Conn, father b. Conn, mother b. Rhode Island
Horton, Emma, w,f, 27, wife, married, keeping house, b. Mass., father b. Mass., mother b. New Hampshire
Horton, Clara B., w,f, 4, dau, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
Horton, Henry, w,m, 2, son, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
Horton, Harold, w,m, 7/12, b. Oct, son, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass.
1900 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster town; FHLC#1,240,692, enumerated on the 8th & 9th of June, 1900, enumeration district 1640, sheet 4B, line 72, dwelling number 79, household number 94:
Horton, Marcus A., head, w,m, b. June 1849, 50, married 27 years, b. Conn, father b. New Hampshire, mother b. Rhode Island, occ wheelwright, unemployed 8 months this year, can r/w, can speak English, owns mortgaged home
Horton, Emma F., wife, w, f, b. apr 1853, 47, married 27 years, has had 4 children, all still living, b. Mass., father b. Mass., mother b. New Hampshire, can r/w, can speak English
Horton, Henry N., son, w,m, b. Nov. 1877, 22, single, b. Mass, father b. Conn, mother b. Mass., can r/w, can speak English
Horton, Rena E., dau, w,f, b. Dec. 1883, 16, single, b. Mass., father b. Conn, mother b. Mass, at school, attended school 10 months this year, can r/w, can speak English
1910 federal census Worcester County, Massachusetts, Lancaster; sheet 194B, page 8B, enumerated on the 26th and 27th of April 1910, Mill Street
Marcus A. Horton, self-employed wheelwright, owns home with mortgage
Emma F. Horton, married 27 years,
Henry N. Horton, 32, single, employed as a bookkeeper for a florist.
1914 - After the death of their daugther Rena Cogswell, they took her child (abandoned by its father) and moved with their son Henry to Springfield, Mass. Henry had attended the Stratton Business College in Boston and was employed as a bookkeeper with the Springfield Foundry.
1920 federal census, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Easton township; FHLC#1,820,682, enumeration district 23, sheet number 4, dwelling number 76, household number 76, line 38, (no house number) Center Street:
Horton, Marcus, head, rental, married, white, 69, married, can r/w, b. Connecticut, father b. U.S., mother b. U.S., can speak English, occ: none
Horton, Emma, wife, female, white, 65, married, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Massachusetts, mother b. New Hampshire, can speak English, occ: none
Horton, Henry N., son, male, white, 41 single, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Connecticut, mother b. Massachusetts, can speak English, occ: bookkeeper in shoe factory, earns a wage
Cogswell, Harold, grandson, male, white, 7, single, attends school, can r/w, b. Massachusetts, father b. Massachusetts, mother b. Massachusetts,
In East Bridgewater they lived at the Forge Pond end of Union Street, down the hill, near the high school. A problem was that Marcus was losing his eyesight to cataracts. He had difficulty dealing with the young Harold Cogswell who threw sand in his eyes. So it ended up that Marcus was invited to live with his daughter Blanche on Summer Street. Marcus' wife Emma, son Henry, and Harold Cogswell lived in North Easton in a stone house on Center Street.
Death certificate indicates he died at home, 73 Summer St, East
Bridgewater, MA. He was 74 years, 8 months, and 27 days old when he died
of chronic myocarditis and cardial asthma. Worked as a wheelwright. Personal
information was supplied by Mrs. Albert B. Frost (daughter).
Twin to Martha Horton. From Marjorie DeMayo/Chuck DeMayo's records. Built rocking chair, blind in later life with catnags. Lived on Summer Street with Blanche & Albert Frost. Liked to walk. Believed in walking. Died quietly at Summer St one night. Easy going pleasant person. Came to visit for a week. When it was time to go home Blanche told him he didn't have to go if he didn't want to. He unpacked and never left. Conflicting information says he died of pnumonia. Had problem with feet. Walked every morning with his cane. Walked 2 phone poles and then came back. Lived about 7 years with the Frosts. Fingers on right hand missing according to William Frost. Not very communicative.
From Book: Thomas Horton of Milton & Rehoboth, Massachusetts
On the birth certificate of their son, Harold Marcus, the surname was spelled "Hawton". MA VR 306:285.
They lived in Lancaster, Clinton, Leominister, Springfield, and Easton MA. In 1800 Marcus was living in Lancaster, MA with 3 children. They were still there in 1900 when he was listed a wheelwright. They had been married 27 years and Emma said she had 4 children and they were all alive. Their son Harold was a student at Williams College, Williamstown, MA in 1900, while Henry N. and Rene E. were still at home.
Their big house was at 14 Mill Street, Lancaster. Marcus A. kept an order book (in the possession of Wm. Frost) in which he had drawings of some of the wagons and sleighs he built, including a curved front sleigh and a pung, a bread cart with a cracker rack, a low sled, a doctor's covered sleigh, a fish cart, several wagon bodies, a coal cart for the Biglow Carpet Co. Clinton, Mass., a wagon with a ten foot long body; a market wagon to be used in concord Mass; a milk wagon, an undertakers wagon, a farm wagon in 1897, many express wagons, a two-horse wagon for Bolton, Mass., butcher's carts, Edwards or carpenter's wagons and an open buggy. He also made repairs and supplied parts. In the back of the notebook was a list of birthdays of his siblings and children. Also listed were Eddie A. Mason b. 11 Sept. 1874 and Edith K. Mason b. 28 May 1878 (prob. a nephew and niece).
In his last years Marcus was blind "but could tell coins by feeling them." William Frost, his grandson, remembers that Marcus died quietly in his sleep. There was a big snow storm and when the hearse with the body left the house, it got stuck at the corner of Summer Pleasant Streets and had to be shoveled out. Marcus and Emma were buried in the Pine Hill Cemetery, West Bridgewater.
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