Civil War veteran

1st Lieutenant

Company A
22nd Virginia Cavalry
Confederate States of America

Enlisted on 8/4/62 in Scott County. Served until 12/31/64.
Filed claim for killed or captured horse January,1905. He also served in the Scott County Militia.

The 22nd Virginia Cavalry, also known as Bowen's(Colonel Henry S. Bowen)Regiment Virginia Mounted Riflemen, was involved in 115 engagements in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Company A and B were the first of ten companies to be formed. Company A: Captain Abram Fuller's Company, was formerly Captain Henry F. Kendrick's Company, was made up of men from Scott, Washington, and Russell counties, Virginia.

Possible Date of Birth September 1831 (1900 Fed. Census[William P Horton appears to be the census taker])-KMS

Possible occupation: Merchant

Possible 1st wife: Eleanor (Ellen) M. Ewing b: 1831
(her mother : Elizabeth (Wood) Ewing b:1797-1882 buried in this, Ewing family cemetery, shown as living with her daughter and son-in-law in 1880)

Possible daughter : Sarah (Lulia) E b.1859 Tennessee
Possible daughter : Virginius b: June 1860 Va
Possible daughter : Lucinda B. b: 1862 Va
Possible daughter : Flora L. b: 1864 Va
Possible son : James M. b: 1865 Va
Possible son : Guy E b: July 1869 Va
Possible burial of the two sons at Cory Cemetery, Delta, Delta County, Colorado


Possible 2nd wife : Martha (Mattie) E Ferguson Horton. b: December 1855, (Two (2) children born and living in 1900) Possible Occupation: Milliner

Possible Date of Marriage: 1894 or November 29, 1893

Possible daughter : Lois b: October 1894

Possible son: Charles

Possible father Thomas Horton, Scott county, Virginia B:1799/1800-KMS

Possible mother Patsey Horton, Scott county, Virginia-KMS