Clay Roe Horton was the only child of Jesse and Alice Surelda (Williams)Horton Lamb. Shortly after the death of Clay Roe, Jesse deserted Alice. Alice later would tell her granddaughter that Jesse left with another woman and she was a "grasswidow" from about 1908 until 1912. She did secure a divorce from Jesse and would later marry Arthur Allen Lamb in 1912, they would have three children and be married for over 56 years.
This is from a newspaper clipping found in the Bible of Clay Roe's mother, Alice S (Williams) Horton Lamb
OBITUARY
Clay Roe Horton, the only child of Jesse Horton and his wife, was born Feb 7, 1906, and died in Goree July the 8, 1907. For seventeen months and one day it lived to be the chief joy of their home but death came and the hand of the great Father transferred it to a home beyond this veil where pain and anxiety does not come.
May the parents and relatives ever submit to be led by the hand of him who said: "Suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." J. B. Curry
This is from a newspaper clipping found in the Bible of Clay Roe's mother, Alice S (Williams) Horton Lamb
OBITUARY
Clay Roe Horton, the only child of Jesse Horton and his wife, was born Feb 7, 1906, and died in Goree July the 8, 1907. For seventeen months and one day it lived to be the chief joy of their home but death came and the hand of the great Father transferred it to a home beyond this veil where pain and anxiety does not come.
May the parents and relatives ever submit to be led by the hand of him who said: "Suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." J. B. Curry
Clay Roe Horton was the only child of Jesse and Alice Surelda (Williams)Horton Lamb. Shortly after the death of Clay Roe, Jesse deserted Alice. Alice later would tell her granddaughter that Jesse left with another woman and she was a "grasswidow" from about 1908 until 1912. She did secure a divorce from Jesse and would later marry Arthur Allen Lamb in 1912, they would have three children and be married for over 56 years.
This is from a newspaper clipping found in the Bible of Clay Roe's mother, Alice S (Williams) Horton Lamb
OBITUARY
Clay Roe Horton, the only child of Jesse Horton and his wife, was born Feb 7, 1906, and died in Goree July the 8, 1907. For seventeen months and one day it lived to be the chief joy of their home but death came and the hand of the great Father transferred it to a home beyond this veil where pain and anxiety does not come.
May the parents and relatives ever submit to be led by the hand of him who said: "Suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." J. B. Curry
This is from a newspaper clipping found in the Bible of Clay Roe's mother, Alice S (Williams) Horton Lamb
OBITUARY
Clay Roe Horton, the only child of Jesse Horton and his wife, was born Feb 7, 1906, and died in Goree July the 8, 1907. For seventeen months and one day it lived to be the chief joy of their home but death came and the hand of the great Father transferred it to a home beyond this veil where pain and anxiety does not come.
May the parents and relatives ever submit to be led by the hand of him who said: "Suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." J. B. Curry
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