Hilon enlisted as a private for Civil War service in Company D, 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 9, 1862, in Cleveland, Ohio(Cuyahoga County) for a term of 3 years. He resided at 100 Seneca Street, Cleveland, OH.
He claimed no dependents. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, June 28, 1865, by Order of the U.S. War Department. His name is on Panel #14 in the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Cleveland, Ohio. See: www.soldiersandsailors.com.
His wife's name was M. E. Horton, born in Ohio in 1843. She apparently has been married a first time to a man with the surname of Cross. In 1880, Hilon, his wife, and stepson, George Cross, born in Illinois in 1861(employed as a factory worker), resided in St. Louis, Missouri. Hilon was employed as a millwright.
Hilon's death notice appeared in the JOURNAL of Coffeyville, Kansas, March 2, 1894: "W. H. Horton, an old gentleman, a millwright by trade, who came here from St. Louis to assist in placing gthe machinery in the new mill and who was taken down with typhoid pneumonia about two weeks ago, died this morning at 10:50 o'clock at his room at the Gate City House." (Note that he was erroneously whown as being "H. W Horton" instead of Hilon R. Horton.)
Later, in the JOURNAL of August 17, 1894: "A chest full of carpenter's tools belonging to the late H.R. Horton, was sold at public auction Monday afternoon by Thomas Scurr, Jr., administrator, to pay funeral expenses of the deceased. They brought $28, which is about one fourth their value."
There is no further information about his wife or stepson.
He claimed no dependents. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, June 28, 1865, by Order of the U.S. War Department. His name is on Panel #14 in the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Cleveland, Ohio. See: www.soldiersandsailors.com.
His wife's name was M. E. Horton, born in Ohio in 1843. She apparently has been married a first time to a man with the surname of Cross. In 1880, Hilon, his wife, and stepson, George Cross, born in Illinois in 1861(employed as a factory worker), resided in St. Louis, Missouri. Hilon was employed as a millwright.
Hilon's death notice appeared in the JOURNAL of Coffeyville, Kansas, March 2, 1894: "W. H. Horton, an old gentleman, a millwright by trade, who came here from St. Louis to assist in placing gthe machinery in the new mill and who was taken down with typhoid pneumonia about two weeks ago, died this morning at 10:50 o'clock at his room at the Gate City House." (Note that he was erroneously whown as being "H. W Horton" instead of Hilon R. Horton.)
Later, in the JOURNAL of August 17, 1894: "A chest full of carpenter's tools belonging to the late H.R. Horton, was sold at public auction Monday afternoon by Thomas Scurr, Jr., administrator, to pay funeral expenses of the deceased. They brought $28, which is about one fourth their value."
There is no further information about his wife or stepson.
Hilon enlisted as a private for Civil War service in Company D, 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 9, 1862, in Cleveland, Ohio(Cuyahoga County) for a term of 3 years. He resided at 100 Seneca Street, Cleveland, OH.
He claimed no dependents. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, June 28, 1865, by Order of the U.S. War Department. His name is on Panel #14 in the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Cleveland, Ohio. See: www.soldiersandsailors.com.
His wife's name was M. E. Horton, born in Ohio in 1843. She apparently has been married a first time to a man with the surname of Cross. In 1880, Hilon, his wife, and stepson, George Cross, born in Illinois in 1861(employed as a factory worker), resided in St. Louis, Missouri. Hilon was employed as a millwright.
Hilon's death notice appeared in the JOURNAL of Coffeyville, Kansas, March 2, 1894: "W. H. Horton, an old gentleman, a millwright by trade, who came here from St. Louis to assist in placing gthe machinery in the new mill and who was taken down with typhoid pneumonia about two weeks ago, died this morning at 10:50 o'clock at his room at the Gate City House." (Note that he was erroneously whown as being "H. W Horton" instead of Hilon R. Horton.)
Later, in the JOURNAL of August 17, 1894: "A chest full of carpenter's tools belonging to the late H.R. Horton, was sold at public auction Monday afternoon by Thomas Scurr, Jr., administrator, to pay funeral expenses of the deceased. They brought $28, which is about one fourth their value."
There is no further information about his wife or stepson.
He claimed no dependents. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, June 28, 1865, by Order of the U.S. War Department. His name is on Panel #14 in the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Cleveland, Ohio. See: www.soldiersandsailors.com.
His wife's name was M. E. Horton, born in Ohio in 1843. She apparently has been married a first time to a man with the surname of Cross. In 1880, Hilon, his wife, and stepson, George Cross, born in Illinois in 1861(employed as a factory worker), resided in St. Louis, Missouri. Hilon was employed as a millwright.
Hilon's death notice appeared in the JOURNAL of Coffeyville, Kansas, March 2, 1894: "W. H. Horton, an old gentleman, a millwright by trade, who came here from St. Louis to assist in placing gthe machinery in the new mill and who was taken down with typhoid pneumonia about two weeks ago, died this morning at 10:50 o'clock at his room at the Gate City House." (Note that he was erroneously whown as being "H. W Horton" instead of Hilon R. Horton.)
Later, in the JOURNAL of August 17, 1894: "A chest full of carpenter's tools belonging to the late H.R. Horton, was sold at public auction Monday afternoon by Thomas Scurr, Jr., administrator, to pay funeral expenses of the deceased. They brought $28, which is about one fourth their value."
There is no further information about his wife or stepson.
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A new headstone from the Veterans Adminstration was set over his grave December 17, 2009.
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