Mary B. Hamel1

F, #56341, b. 18 August 1887, d. 7 February 1962

Family: Charles David Houghton

Biography

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Corresponded with authorN
BirthAug 18, 1887Germany, age 21 in 1910 census; age 31 in 1920 census; age 42 in 1930 census; age 51 in 1940 census2
Immigration18921890 in 1920 census3
Naturalization18964
Note19103 children born, 2 living
1910 Census1910Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA, USA, age 22, house plumber5,3
1920 Census1920Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA, USA, age 34, boiler works pipe fitter4
1950 US Census1950Lancaster, PA, USA, age 63, widow
DeathFeb 7, 1962
ObituaryFeb 8, 1962Mrs. Houghton Dies at Age 74
Mrs. Mary B. Houghton, seventy-four. 1220 St Joseph St. died at Fairview Manor Nursing Home, Columbia, at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday after a prolonged illness She had been at the home for the past four weeks. The widow of Charles David Houghton, she was born in Germany, a daughter of the late Leonard and Marie Hammel. A resident of Lancaster most of her life, she was a member of Memorial Presbyterian Church. Surviving are these children: Miss Maude C. and Harry, both at home; Marie B., wife of Raymond J. Kunkle, and Anna, wife of Cyrus Ames, both of Lancaster. Also surviving are five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1308] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, online http://content.ancestry.com, 1893477.
  2. [S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll 2057; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 63; line 7, dwl 551-2-2.
  3. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Lancaster Ward 7, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1354; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 85;
    line 19,dwl 551-255-258.
  4. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Lancaster Ward 7, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1584; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 73; line 40, dwl 546-100-100.
  5. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 133, V.N. 85, Ln. 258.

Maude Caroline Houghton1

F, #56342, b. circa 1908

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1908PA, USA, age 3 in 1910 census; age 12 in 1920 census; age 22 in 1930 census; age 32 in 1940 census1
Occupationbetween 1940 and 1950Hamilton watch co., spring balancer
1950 US Census1950Lancaster, PA, USA, age 63, widow
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 133, V.N. 85, Ln. 258.

John F. Houghton1

M, #56343, b. circa 1910

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1910PA, USA, age 2/12 in 1910 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 133, V.N. 85, Ln. 258.

Charles Haughton1

M, #56344, b. circa 1885

Family: May (?)

  • Marriage*: Charles Haughton married May (?)1

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1885PA, USA, age 25 in 1910 census1
Marriage1
Census1910Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, USA1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 123, V.N. 66, Ln. 117.

May (?)1

F, #56345, b. circa 1882

Family: Charles Haughton

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1882PA, USA, age 28 in 1910 census1
Marriage1
Census1910Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, USA1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 123, V.N. 66, Ln. 117.

Sarah Marie Farrell

F, #56346

Family: Steven Joseph Vella

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
MedicalTrigeminal Neuralgia; Lyme's disease
MarriageOct 13, 2001San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, USA, at the City Club
Divorce
Pedigree

Murray Haughton1

M, #56347, b. circa 1902

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1902PA, USA, age 8 in 1910 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 123, V.N. 66, Ln. 117.

William Haughton1

M, #56348, b. circa 1904

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1904PA, USA, age 6 in 1910 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 123, V.N. 66, Ln. 117.

Helen L. Houghton1

F, #56349, b. circa 1904

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1904PA, USA, age 6 in 1910 census; age 16 in 1920 census; age 25 in 1930 census1
Occupation1930stenographer for NYC RR
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 169, V.N. 45, Ln. 716.

Elizabeth Anne Learoyd1,2

F, #56350, b. circa 1881, d. 1931

Family: Clyde Arthur Houghton

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1881MA, USA, age 29 in 1910 census; age 37 in 1920 census; age 49 in 1930 census1
Marriagecirca 1905age 25 and 25; mar 5 y in 1910 census1,3
1910 Census1910Zelienople, Butler Co., PA, USA, age 29, power house chief engineer1,3
1920 Census1920Lower Merion, Montgomery Co., PA, USA, age 37, ship yard superintendent; and mother in law Esther Learoyd, 69, widow4
1930 Census1930Lower Merion, Montgomery Co., PA, USA, age 49, construction engineer5
Death19312
ParentsDEsther Leroyd, parents born in MA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Butler Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 67, V.N. 90, Ln. 348.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Mary Edith Houghton, Jun. 7, 2002.
  3. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Zelienople, Butler, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1321; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 90;
    line 30, dwl 328-348.
  4. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1606; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 110; line 60, dwl 132-31-38.
  5. [S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Lower Merion, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; Roll: T626_2082; Enumeration District: 69; page 235, sheet 4A, line 44, dwl 132-9-44.

George Melvin Houghton1

M, #56351, b. 17 October 1907, d. 18 January 1977

Family: Rita Anne Snyder

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthOct 17, 1907Schenectady, NY, USA, age 2 in 1910 census; age 12 in 1920 census; age 22 in 1930 census1
Occupation1930building construction time keeper
Mil. Draft1940Llanerch, Delaware Co., PA, USA, age 33, Occupation: Baily Vibrator Co
1940 Census1940Haverford, Delaware Co., PA, USA, age 32, concrete vibrator salesman; living with and son in law of Charles & Hazel Michener2
Research
Mil. Enlsfrom Feb 15, 1944 to Aug, 1945Bucks Co., PA, USA, US Navy, WWII
Marriage1947Philadelphia, PA, USA
1950 US Census1950Philadelphia, PA, USA, age 43, private family chauffer
DeathJan 18, 1977Morrisville, PA, USA
BurialWestminster Cemetery, Philadelphia Co., PA, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Butler Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 67, V.N. 90, Ln. 348.
  2. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania; Roll: T627_3492; Page: 63A; Enumeration District: 23-96; line 5, dwl 104.

Mary C. (?)1

F, #56352, b. circa 1891

Family: Dennis Houghton

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1891PA, USA, age 19 in 1910 census2
Marriagecirca 1909mar 1 y in 1910 census2
1910 Census1910Chester, Delaware Co., PA, USA, age 25, worsted mill foreman2,3
ParentsDparents born in PA
DuplicateChester, Delaware Co., PA, USA, both divorced before 1930
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1308] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, online http://content.ancestry.com, 1877947.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Delaware Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 102, V.N. 104, Ln. 140.
  3. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Chester Ward 4, Delaware, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1339; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 104;
    line 87, dwl 912-132-140.

Eliza B. (?)1

F, #56354, b. circa 1843

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1843PA, USA, age 67 in 1910 census1
PensionInxDec, 1910PA, USA, as a widow
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Allegheny Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 14, V.N. 170, Ln. 123.

Henry Rimer1,2

M, #56355, b. circa 1875

Family: Lillian Sweet

  • Marriage*: Henry Rimer married Lillian Sweet on circa 1900 mar 10 y in 1910 census.2

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1875IL, USA, age 35 in 1910 census2
Marriagecirca 1900mar 10 y in 1910 census2
1910 Census1910Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, USA, age 35, wholesale fish manager1,3
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 37, V.N. 546, Ln. 184.
  2. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsburgh Ward 19, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1307; Page: 254A; Enumeration District: 546; line 12, dwl 702-169-184.
  3. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsburgh Ward 19, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1307; Page: ??A; Enumeration District: 546; line 12, dwl 702-169-184.

Emma Houghton1,2

F, #56356, b. circa 1880

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1880PA, USA, age 30 in 1910 census1,2
Divorce1910
1910 Census1910Berks Co., PA, USA, age 65, widow1,2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Berks Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 53, V.N. 83, Ln. 27.
  2. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Reading Ward 11, Berks, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1314; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 83;
    line 91, dwl 1017-26-27.

Emma Krick1

F, #56357, b. circa 1845

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1845PA, USA, age 45 in 1910 census2
1910 Census1910Berks Co., PA, USA, age 65, widow1,2
ParentsDparents born in PA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Berks Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 53, V.N. 83, Ln. 27.
  2. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Reading Ward 11, Berks, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1314; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 83;
    line 91, dwl 1017-26-27.

Harold Eugene Houghton1,2,3

M, #56358, b. 16 November 1896, d. 27 May 1918

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthNov 16, 1896Chautauqua Co., NY, USA, Nov 1896, age 3 in 1900 census; age 13 in 1910 census1
Research1917
Mil. EnlsMay, 1918in the US Army2
DeathMay 27, 1918Erie, PA, USA, in a railroad accident.2
BiographyHarold was a servant for the Kingsley family in Ripley, Chautauqua, NY in 1915. Harold was a railroad brakeman and died tragically when he was run over by a railroad engine.
He is buried in the Quincy Rural Cemetery in Ripley, Chautauqua, NY
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Erie Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 110, V.N. 124, Ln. 234.
  2. [S1152] John P., and Fenwick Y. Hedley Downs, Chautauqua Co. NY Hx 3, p. 387.
  3. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://fp.enter.net/~mkuhn/b172.htm#P5853, 2009.

Hazel Houghton1

F, #56359, b. 3 March 1898, d. 10 March 1958

Family 1: Harry Swab

Family 2: Ellis Dillard

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMar 3, 1898Ripley, Chautauqua Co., NY, USA, Mar 1898, age 2 in 1900 census; age 12 in 1910 census1,2
Marriage2
Marriage3
DeathMar 10, 1958GS: 19503,4
BurialQuincy Rural Cemetery, Ripley, Chautauqua Co., NY, USA
BiographyShe grew up in Ripley, Chautauqua, NY and Mill Creek, Erie, PA. Hazel married 1) Harry Daniel/David Schwab (1890 – 1956). They lived in Erie, Erie, PA in 1920 where Harry was a machinist. They lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH in 1930 where Harry was an odd job laborer. They lived in Erie, Erie, PA in 1935 and 1941, when Harry was listed as a driver.
Harry registered for the draft in WW2. In 1942, it is possible the Harry was put in prison at the Pennsylvania Western State Penitentiary. Hazel married 2) Ellis Dillard.
HSP says Hazel died in 1958 but her headstone says 1950. She is buried in the Quincy Rural Cemetery in Ripley, Chautauqua, NY.4
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1910 Soundex, Erie Co., PA, Reel 523, Vol. 186, E.D. 110, V.N. 124, Ln. 234.
  2. [S1152] John P., and Fenwick Y. Hedley Downs, Chautauqua Co. NY Hx 3, p. 387.
  3. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://fp.enter.net/~mkuhn/b172.htm#P5853, 2009.
  4. [S415] E-mail from Gail Clarke, Oct. 9, 2020.

Alice Josephine Houghton1,2

F, #56360, b. 27 January 1853, d. 26 December 1923

Family: William Tate Dalrymple

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectY
BirthJan 27, 1853Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 8 in 1860 census; age 16 in 1870 census; age 26 in 1880 census1,2
MarriageFeb 22, 1872Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA2,3
1880 Census1880Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 33, lawyer4
1900 Census1900Llano Co., TX, USA, Allie Dalrymple (head, July 1854, 46, widow, 5 children all living, b. TX, father
b. GA, mother b. IND, dressmaker); Eugene (son, b. Dec. 1872, b. TX, lawyer); Willie (son, b. Oct.
1874, b. TX); Sebe (son, b. July 1888, b. TX, at school); Archie (son, b. July 1894, age 5, b. TX5
1910 Census1910Llano, Llano Co., TX, USA, Alice J. Dalrymple (head, age 57, widow, 5 children all living, b.
TX, father b. GA, mother b. IN, dressmaker); Willie T. (son, age 29, single, b. TX, parents b. TX,
laborer insane asylum); Sebe H. (son, age 21, b. TX, laborer, gen, farm); Archie D. (son, age 15, b.
TX); Clara Townsend (dau., age 35, widow, b. TX, artist, landscape painter); Ellen Gillespie
(boarder, teacher)5
Newspaperbetween 1914 and 1923The Llano News-Friday, 31 July 1914-”Mrs. Alice Dalrymple returned home from San Saba
Wednesday, where she has been with her sister, Mrs. Jas. Flack.”
The Llano News-Thursday, 16 June 1921-”Mrs. Alice Dalrymple and Mrs. Gussie Townsend left
Tuesday for Menard, Brownwood and other places where they will visit. They will spend a good
portion of the summer with Mrs. Jas. Flack and other relatives.”
The Llano News-6 Sept. 1923-”Mrs. Alice Dalrymple left today for Anadarko, Okla., where she
goes to spend the winter with her son A. D. Dalrymple, who is editor of the American Democrat,
one of the state’s leading weekly papers published at that place. Mrs. Dalrymple will in all
probability be away from Llano for several months.”5
1920 Census1920Llano, Llano Co., TX, USA, Alice Dalrymple (head, age 65, widow, b. TX, father b. GA,
mother b. IND); Sebe H. (son, age 30, b. TX, stock farmer); Gussie Townsend (dau., age 44, wid.,
b. TX)5
DeathDec 26, 1923Anadarko, Caddo Co., OK, USA2,3
BurialLlano City Cemetery, Llano, Llano Co., TX, USA6
ObituaryJan 2, 1924The Llano News-Thursday, 2 Jan. 1924-”Mrs. Alice Dalrymple-A pioneer citizen of Llano went to
her final rest at high noon last Wednesday, December 26, 1923, when Mrs. Alice Dalrymple died at
the home of her son Mr. Archie Dalrymple in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon...Burial was in the Llano cemetery. Mrs. Dalrymple was 70 years 10 months and
24 days old. She was born in Georgetown, Texas January 27, 1853, daughter of Judge and Mrs.
Joel A. Houghton, early Texas settlers. She spent her childhood days and early womanhood in the
old Williamson county town. On February 22, 1872, she was married to William Tate Dalrymple, a
son of Colonel W.C. Dalrymple, veteran frontiersman and Indian fighter of early Texas days. Ten
years after their marriage, on February 22, 1882, Mr. and Mrs. Dalrymple came to Llano to make
their home. In Llano, they moved into the family residence on Bridge Street, which has been Mrs.
Dalrymple’s home throughout the intervening years. She was left a widow on September 18, 1896,
when her husband died at the family home. Five children, one daughter and four boys, had been
born to the matron. With courage, characteristic of the woman, she faced life alone with her
children and reared her younger boys to manhood without the aid of a father...” (rest of article very
hard to read)5
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Louise Fair Henderson, Oct. 7, 2001.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  4. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Georgetown, Williamson, Texas; Roll: 1332; Family History Film: 1255332; Page: 436D; Enumeration District: 156; line 1, dwl 230.
  5. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  6. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Oct. 7, 2001.

Seberon Jeremiah Houghton1

M, #56361, b. 3 May 1858, d. 13 March 1939

Family: Manetta Thomas Halliburton

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMay 3, 1858Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 2 in 1860 census; age 12 in 1870 census; age 20 in 1880 census; age 42 in 1900 census; age 52 in 1910 census; age 62 in 1920 census2,3,1,4
Marriagecirca 1891mar 9 years in 1900 census; 2nd mar for both3
1900 Census1900Cameron, Milam Co., TX, USA, age 42, traveling salesman; 3 children born, 3 living5,6
1910 Census1910Crowley, Acadia Parish, LA, USA, age 52, plow company traveling salesman7
1920 Census1920Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, age 62, stock broker8
Occupation1928retired from investments and securities1
DeathMar 13, 1939Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, of hybostatic pneumonia and Parkinsonism;
Death certif: Seberon Jeremiah Houghton-b. 3 May 1858 in Georgetown, TX; d. 13 Mar. 1939 in Dallas, Dallas
Co., TX; occupation: retired inventments and securities; father: Joel A. Houghton b. Augusta, GA;
mother: Katherine Ogle b. Richmond, VA; informant: S.J. Houghton, 2809 Ross, Dallas, TX;
burial: Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, TX
Obituary:
Dallas1
ObituaryMar 14, 1939Dallas Morning News-14 Mar. 1939-”S.J. Houghton, 80, Succumbs-S.J. Houghton Sr., 80, of 2909
Ross, resident of Dallas County for seventy years, died in a convalescent home Monday.
Survivors are four children, S.J. Houghton Jr. and Mrs. Jack G. Smith of Dallas, Halliburton
Houghton of the Belgian Congo, and Mrs. Jeanne Halliburton of Beverly Hills, Calif. and two
sisters, Mrs. L.C. McBride Sr. and Mrs. Ben McInnis, both of Dallas...Burial will be in Grove Hill
Cemetery with Ralph McBride, Clifford McBride, Logan Ford, Miller McCraw, Jack G. Smith, O.J.
Moore Jr., James Mendenhall and S.J. Houghton III as pallbearers.”
Dallas Morning News-15 March 1939-”Funeral Wednesday For S.J. Houghton-S.J. Houghton, 80,
former broker who died in a convalescent home here Monday, will be buried in Grove Hill
Cemetery following funeral services Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the George A. Brewer Funeral
Chapel. The son of Judge Joel Houghton, a descendent of the noble Houghton famly of England,
Mr. Houghton was born in Georgetown May 3, 1858. He was graduated from Southwestern
University at Georgetown. During his business career, he once was associated with Henry Ford at
Detroit. Mr. Houghton was an Episcopalian. Survivors include four children, S.J. Houghton Jr.,
Mrs. Jack Smith, Halliburton Houghton and Mrs. Jeanne Halliburton, and two sisters, Mrs. L.C.
McBride Sr. and Mrs. H.R. McInnis. Two grandsons and six nephews will be pallbearers.”9
BurialMar 15, 1939Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA1,4
BiographyResidency Information:
Seberon J. Houghton-Dallas City Directories (These records are on microfilm in the downtown
Dallas Library, Dallas, TX; also accessed some through Ancestry.com):
1901-Houghton, Sebe J., trav agt Texas Moline Plow Co
1904-Houghton, Seaborn J., trav. agent, John Deere Plow Co., r. 555 Ross av.
1907-Houghton, Seaborn J., trav. slsman, r. 312 Routh
1909-Houghton, Seaborn J., slsmn, r 610 Fairmount
1912-Houghton, Sebron J., broker, r 3212 Fairmount; Houghton, Sebron J. Jr., h 3212 Fairmount
(his son)
1913-Houghton, Seberon J., broker, r 3523 Cedar Springs; Houghton, Seberon J. Jr., trav slsmn, h
3523 Cedar Springs

Newspaper Articles:

Dallas Weekly Herald-26 Oct. 1882-McGregor-Special to the Herald-McGregor, October 20-This
morning S.J. Houghton, of Houston, on business for W.D. Cleveland & Co., being late for the
south-bound train, then about to leave, rushed into the telegraph office and snatched up his pistol,
navy size, which he had left in the office for safe keeping, and moved rapidly for the train. Before
he had reached the office door, his pistol dropped out of the holster, falling upon the floor and
discharging, the cartridge from which struck the unfortunate man in the left ankle and ranging
upwards lodged near the knee joint, from which it was extracted by Drs. Burnham and Burger. The
wounded man received prompt and ample attention and left on the east-bound train for Waco. The
wound is considered painful but not dangerous.Dallas Morning News-28 Feb. 1886-
"Hotel Arrival-S.J. Houghton, St. Louis..." Dallas Morning News-25 Mar. 1897-
"Ft. Worth, TX-Personal Mention-S.J. Houghton, New Orleans
"
Dallas Morning News-Sun., Dec. 2, 1928-"Recalls Time Deer Roamed Around Home-S.J.
Houghton's Father Sought Fortune in Early Texas-Wild Horse Herds-Large Crowd Present to See
First Cotton in State-by W.S. Adair-"In my boyhood days Texas looked very much as it must have
appeared to the first white man who saw it, and have had much in common with some regions and
aspects of South Africa today," said S.J. Houghton, 2702 Hodd street. "My father, Joel A.
Houghton, a native of Georgia, having been graduated from a law school in 18__ , decided to
seek his fortune and, along with it, all kinds of adventure, in Texas. With a party made up of young
Georgians and Kentuckians, he set out for the new State, then but five years old, and still the talk
of the country. They traveled, as traveled everybody coming to Texas in those early days, some
on horseback and some in covered wagons, the moving tents of the nomad from the remotest
times. Having traversed the wilderness of Arkansas, they stopped for a few weeks at Marshall,
then a flourishing town, and, to their surprise, resembling in essential details any good town in
Georgia or Alabama, for the leading men were slave owners who had emigrated from the old
cotton States and brought with them their chattels and moveables, their habits and customs.
While at Marshall, they visited Jefferson, the emporium and wonder of the Southwest, then in its
zenith, a city of 25,000 or 30,000 population, but appearing to have the explosive force of an
ordinary city of 100,000. From Marshall the party made their way over the old Mexican Trail to
Williamson county. At the time there were many more Comanche and Tonkawa Indians in the
county than white men and negroes combined. In fact, the white man had as yet made next to no
impression on that region. The settlers up and down the country reveled in three styles of
architecture, the log cabin, the Indian tepee and the Mexican adobe hut. A settler named Stroud,
panting for still greater variety, employed Mexican teamsters to haul the lumber from Houston, with
which he built the first frame house in the county. Father rented the house and occupied it for
several years.
Lived in Peace.-From infancy I was familiar with the sight of herds of wild horses and cattle,
bunches of deer, black patches of turkeys, prairie chickens numerous as grasshoppers, swarms of
quail and rabbit and squirrels running and climbing everywhere, and looked out on a landscape of
native grasses waist high, broken by wandering streams, high hills and long reaches of timber. I
knew how the howl of the wolf sounded when it came along on the nightly breezes, and I still
shudder when I think of the far-away scream of the panther. The white settlers, the Indians and the
wild animals got along very well together. At night we put our cows in a pen and the deer, which
liked to be near cattle, would come and lie down outside the fence, and run away with a start when
we began to stir about the house in the morning. The does hid their young in the tall grass while
they grazed and kept a lookout. If you found a fawn thus lying, it made no attempt to escape and
was so tame that if you picked it up and set it down it would follow you like Mary's little lamb. Often
I had one follow me to the house, and I would bring it up on a bottle and have a pet deer.
A settler could step out with his old flintlock gun and in a few minutes kill a deer. We got turkeys by
visiting the roost at night or early in the morning and shooting them from the trees. They were so
numerous that they made the trees black when they went to roost. We trapped quail and killed
prairie chickens with arrows and even sticks. Wild fowl were so plentiful and easily bagged that
nobody thought of raising poultry. Both birds and beasts waxed rolling fat on the acorns which
grew on the extensive forests of post oak and live oak trees. I once killed a turkey gobbler that
weighed twenty-one pounds. He must have been 4 years old, an age meat was in such high favor
with settlers and Indians and beast and birds of prey.
It seemed to me that deer, turkeys and prairie chickens were not so wild as the horses and cattle.
Deer lying under a tree would not stir until you got very close to them. The buck would usually by a
kind of courtesy and oversight of the does come to his feet first and decide on whether to run or
not. Turkeys, feeding on grasshoppers in the grass or acorns in the woods would shy off a little on
the approach of a human being. Prairie chickens would let you come very near and seem
surprised and grieved when you molested them. They all seemed to feel that neither settler,
Indian, panther nor wolf would bother them except when impelled by hunger, and to be resigned
to Indian, panther nor wolf would bother them except when impelled by hunger, and to be resigned to
their fate when the time of some of them came. Slaughtering wild animals and fowl for the mere
delight of taking life and seeing something die was a thrill unknown to the savage and barbarian,
and came as a refinement of civilized man.
Every reputable settler had a wild hog claim in the woods, and he worked it for a supply of hams,
bacon and sides of cured meat for the year. With dogs and rifles the men would be ready when a
norther came to invade the woods. The dogs would bring the hogs to bay, and while the old males
were churning the foam, whetting their tusks and making savage rushes at the dogs, the men
would shoot down as many as they could before the drove stampeded and scattered in wild
confusion. Then they would load the carcasses in wagons and haul them to the kettles of boiling
water down on the creek and dress them. The killing would usually wind up with a feast of fresh
hog meat and a following dance at night.
Indians Cleanly Folk-Neither the Comanches nor the Tonkawas gave us any trouble, though the
Comanches would steal horses unless we penned them up at night. Father kept on good terms
with them by giving them a beef every week or two. Some Kiowas had a village on the creek near
us. They would move their tepees once or twice a month for sanitary purposes and, contrary to
common report, they were a cleanly folk. When father gave them a beef, the bucks would kill it
with arrows and leave it to the women to skin the carcass. They wasted nothing, but ate every bit
of the meat clean to the bones, including the intestines and hide. The Tonkawas, once cannibals
and the fiercest tribe of the Southwest, were on their last legs when the white man came. They
long were the terror of the Comanches, and even ate them. But the Comanches eventually got the
upper hand and took grisly vengance. The Tonkawas never got guns, but at the end of the Civil
War, the Comanches began to acquire old English rifles, but how nobody knows.
This put them more on a footing with the white man, and from that time out they made trouble, as
the white man encroached more and more on what they considered their preserve. But before
they got hold of guns the Comanches had begun to use steel in place of flint for their arrow points.
The arrows, twenty-eight or thirty inches in length, were made of bois d'arc timber, with steel at the
point, a feather on the other end to make it go straight and two grooves along it to let the blood flow
from the wound. The Comanche watched carefully where his arrows went so that he could recover
them. When one struck in the limb of a tree he climbed up and got it, for he had no more industry
about making arrows than he had about other matters. Once the Comanches attacked Buft Coffey,
who carried the mail. They fell upon him between Burnet and Georgetown. But he had a good
horse and soon ran out of reach of them, and entered Georgetown at top speed with two arrows
sticking in his saddle. The soldiers at Burnet went in pursuit of the Indians, but did not come up
with them. Coffey was a son of Col. John Coffey, one of Quantrell's men, who had come to Texas
from Missouri at the close of the Civil War.
Buffalo Stampede-There were no buffaloes near Williamson County. When i was about 12 years
old I went on a surveying expedition with Colonel Dalrymple, who was for four years engaged in
locating Spanish land grants. We were in camp near the point where the Texas & Pacific Railroad
crosses the Pecos River. I was alone in the camp with the cook. All at once I noticed a countless
number of buffaloes in wild stampede, apparently headed for our camp. But the river turned them
and saved the camp. The Indians had got among them higher upon the plains. When our men
returned I told them about the buffaloes and they went in pursuit. They killed a yearling, brought it
in and I got the hide. The buffaloes in that immense herd were the only wild ones I ever saw.
Father was Judge of the District Court, and the district comprised several counties, of which he
made the circuit two or three times a year. When he held court at Georgetown he conisidered it no
more than common politeness to invite the lawyers, the witnesses, the members of the jury, the
litigants and the hangers-on of the court home to dinner with him. For some time before the
courthouse was built he held court under the shelter of a tree. From the time I was a small boy I
personally knew every man in the county as well as many men living in the adjoining counties.
It was long considered beneath the dignity of a cattleman to engage in farming, especially in
growing corn. John Knight planted the first cotton raised in the county, about 1870. The cotton
plant was something new to the settlers and they assembled from far and near to see what itplant was something new to the settlers and they assembled from far and near to see what it looked like. As a small boy, I ran and roped cattle, but I never made a trip over the trail. My
brother, who several times traversed the trail, once came home with a wild tale that he had seen a
railroad with trains of cars on it at Baxter Springs, Kan. Soon after that the railroad was completed
to Austin, and strangers began to trickle into the country, who confirmed brother's story. I was
among the five students to enter the Southwestern University at Georgetown, under Prof. F.A.
Mood, the first regent. John V. Hughes and Leslie B. Clark of Dallas were in my class. Gov. Jack
Hamilton, while at the helm of the State, often visited Georgetown. A gentleman of the old school,
wearing a beaver hat and Prince Albert coat, he traveled in a most spectacular way, in a flashing
chariot, behind four prancing yellow horses, driven by a livaried negro."
Dallas Morning News-28 June 1931-Introduction of Barb Wire Remembered by Pioneer-by W.S.
Adair, in Dallas News-"I knew frontier life almost at its rawest," said S.J. Houghton, 418 Marvin
Building. My father, Judge Joel A. Houghton migrated from Augusta, Ga., to Texas, and settled at
Georgetown in 1848, three years after Texas was annexed. He declared his intention of locating
permanently by building the first frame house that was erected in Williamson County. The lumber
for the house was toilsomely dragged on Mexican ox wagons all the way from Houston. The
structure, a rambling two-story, after the colonial style of architecture, occupied the middle of an
eight acre yard or park, and shed quite an aristoractic influence. Father and Sam Houston were
close friends, and the members of General Houston's family were among our first visitors.
The Comanches and the buffaloes were still in Williamson County, and deer and wolves were, I
suppose, as thick in that region as they had ever been. Some of the Tonkawa Indians, once the
dominent tribe of Texas, but later all but exterminated by the fierce Comanches, lived in a village
across the river from Georgetown. The Government was supposed to take care of the Indians, but
fell down on the job, and, when pressed by hunger, the Indians were compelled to forage.
Settlers, understanding the situation, kept peace with them by giving them beeves or by pretending
not to be looking when they ran off with a steer. Father regularly gave the Tonkawas a beef every
week. It was understood that the Comanches could not resist the temptation to steal any saddle
horse they could get their hands on. We kept our horse at night in a corral of thick log walls and
secured by padlocks. Often on moonlight nights, my brother and I from the window of our sleeping
room in the second story of our mansion watched the Indians prowling around the corral.
It is but justice to the Comanches to say that after making peace they acted in much better faith
than the whites did. So long as the Government fed them they bothered nobody, and when forced
by necessity to steal they never attacked settlers, except for revenge. Once a settler up about
Packsaddle, in Burnet County, fired on them when they were running off his cattle, killing one or
two. A few nights later the Indians returned and murdered this settler and his family and burned his
shack. Indians had the feud idea big-an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, to be exacted by
the next kin. Ordinarily it was perfectly safe for a person to venture alone into any part of the
wilderness. When as a boy I went hunting I often came across bands of Comanches, but did not
let on that I saw them, while on their part they pretended not to see me that was proper form. The
Comanches have never had justice. The pioneers banded them down to aftertimes as sneaking,
low-grade beings whereas, the truth is they were the very aristocracy of the aborigines, not
forgetting Cooper's specimens.
In those days the native grasses stood knee-high everywhere, and, in the spring and early
summer, the landscape was glorified with flowers. Every settler owned as many cattle as he could
clap his brand on, there being no fences to cut one man's stock from another's. There was a
regular season for branding and those who began to heat their irons earlier than that were
regarded as outlaws, and, if caught up with, subject to all the penalties of frontier outlawry. Father
had twelve milch cows which he kept in a pen at night and turned the calves out. One morning the
calves came up wearing the fresh brand of our nearest neighbor who explained that some new
cowboys he had employed had done it through mistake, and he squared it by giving father a dollar
apiece for the disfigured calves. With this first flush of grass in the spring cattle bagan to start over
the trail, and it was long my grief that I never got to accompany a herd to Kansas. I once started
with an outfit under the management of Capt. J.C.S. Morrow, General Houston's son-in-law, and
actually went as far as Fort Worth, where my brother, E.L. Houghton, persuaded me that such
work actually went as far as Fort Worth, where my brother, E.L. Houghton, persuaded me
that such work was too heavy for a boy of 13, and sent me back home.
The year before starting over the trail I accompanied Col. W.C. Dalrymple on a surveying
expedition to the Pecos country, where he was long engaged in locating lands. The buffaloes and
Indians still held all that region. I soon got enough of following the men and watching them sight
the compass, and made myself at home with the cook in the camp. One afternoon, when
everything was as still as solitude could make it, the cook and I were bound by a strange roaring
sound and shaking of the earth, such as may precede the general breaking up of things. But we
were not long in suspense-here came a black cloud of buffaloes in wild stampede, with their hoofs
cutting the grass, weeds and cactus fine as chops and kneading the detritus with the soil. With the
speed of airplanes the cook and I made for the cover of the chaparrel. Our surveying party coming
from another direction, reached camp just as the buffaloes passed, and killed a tender young one
of them for our evening meal. These buffaloes were running from the Indians, who had fallen to
slaughtering them higher up the country. When cattle stampede they hold their heads up, whereas
buffaloes hold their heads ready to butt all obstacles out of their way.
Father was a District Judge when, instead of having ten or a dozen district courts in one county,
there were half a dozen or more counties in one district. He held court in Llano, San Saba, Burnet,
Coleman and Brown Counties. The counties beyond Coleman and Brown had not been organized.
For some time after Coleman and Brown were organized he held court under the shade of the
trees, while the grand jury, similarly sheltered, held forth just out of hearing of the court. The court,
the Sheriff, clerk and the attorneys for both the prosecution and defense traveled horseback or on
wagons from county seat to county seat, camping at night. They once came upon the dead body
of a white man, full of arrows. Father brought some of the arrows home with him and he gave me
two of them. At that time the strong bars of the State were those of Austin, Georgetown and Tyler.
Some of the big lawyers were Charles West, Buck Walton, Judge Shelly, Joseph Lee, A.W. Terrell,
A. Dalrymple.
Father designed me to follow in his professional footsteps, and actually set me to the study of the
law. But in a book smacked so much of my old occupation of going to school that I made a break
for the wild lawlessness of the playgrounds. I went out as a drummer for the firm of W.D.
Cleveland & Co., of Houston, with the western counties as my territory. I traveled in a two-horse
wagon, with a negro for driver and cook, for we often had to camp. At that time there was not a
foot of railroad west of Austin, and not a bank, except the private one of Smith & Steffins at
Brownwood. Bill Harelson, who went in a wagon behind four horses, representing Leon & H. Blum
of Galveston, covered the same territory, and we, much of the time, traveled together. Once when
we stopped for dinner at a little hotel at Paint Rock, Bill began his meal by gulping down a cup of
coffee, and then, reaching for his sixshooter, shot a hole in the dining-room floor. Where upon the
girl waiter placidly entered from the kitchen. Holding out his cup and saucer at arm's length toward
her, Bill smilingly said, "Another cup, please." It appeared that I was the only one to sense
anything extraordinary about this mode of calling a waiter.
We got over our territory once a month. That is to say, our customers stocked up for thirty days.
They bought fifty barrels of sugar, and twenty bags of coffee, and flour, bacon and tobacco by the
wagon load. There were no fluctuations in the market in those days-prices remained the same
from January to January. The merchant simply told the drummer how much of each commodity he
wanted, and that was all there was to it. All the merchandise going into that territory was freighted
out by wagon from Austin, which was a boom town. The drummer made his own collections, and
carried the money in his wagon. It would have been an easy matter for an alert hijacker to inform
himself in regard to our way of doing business, but the hijacker knew better than to ply his trade on
the frontier. We often carried from $10,000 to $20,000 with us.
I remember when John W. Gates, as a very young man, came to Texas to introduce barb wire for
making fences. Cattlemen as a rule laughed at him. It was the unanimous opinion of cowboys that
a steer would run over such a fence. But Gates knew his business. He singled out Col. Ike Pryor,
big cattleman of Austin, and induced him to witness a demonstration. He fenced a ten-acre lot,
and asked that the wildest steers be turned into it. Then he challenged the cowboys to make them
break out. When it was proved that not a steer could get through, under or over the fence, Colonel
Pryor ordered a trainload of wire. Then all of the cattlemen wanted wire, and Gates and hisPryor ordered a trainload of wire. Then all of the cattlemen wanted wire, and Gates and his factories were snowed under with orders. Gates, who had the exclusive right ot sell wire in Texas,
made a fortune out of it.”9
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S5] Death Certificate, http://www.footnote.com: Texas Death Records, Houghton surnames.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  3. [S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex, Cameron Co., TX, Reel 108, V. 79, E.D. 66, S. 5, Ln. 1?
  4. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  5. [S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex, Cameron [Milam] Co., TX, Reel 108, V. 79, E.D. 66, S. 5, Ln. 1?
  6. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Cameron, Milam Co., Texas; Roll:T623; Enumeration District 66; Sheet: 5A; line 31, dwl 84.
  7. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Crowley Ward 4, Acadia, Louisiana; Roll: T624_507; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 11; line 91, dwl 821-112-112.
  8. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Dallas Precinct 26, Dallas, Texas; Roll: T625_1793; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 51; line 75, dwl 3523-11-11.
  9. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.

Ben Anna Roberta Houghton1,2

F, #56362, b. 22 October 1860, d. 25 June 1945

Family 1: George G. Winder

Family 2: Henry Russell McInnis

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthOct 22, 1860Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 10 in 1870 census; age 19 in 1880 census1,2
MarriageFeb 11, 1876Milam Co., TX, USA3
Marriage18974
1910 Census1910Llano, Llano Co., TX, USA, Russell H. McInnis (head, age 68, married 13 years, b. MS,
parents b. MS, agent life insurance); Ben Anna (wife, age 49, b. TX, father b. GA, mother b. IN, 1
child living); Ella (dau., age 35, single, b. MS, parents b. MS); Carrie (dau., age 32, single, b. MS,
parents b. MS, operator telephone); Nettie (dau., age 12, b. TX, father b. MS, mother b. TX)3
DeathJun 25, 1945Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, Mrs. Anna McInnis-b. 22 Oct. 1860 in TX; d. 25 June 1945 in Dallas (Highland Park), Dallas Co.,
TX; widowed; occupation: housework; father: Joel H. Houlton, b. GA; mother: Catherine
Oglehoughton b. IN; informant: Mrs. L.C. McBride; burial Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, Dallas
Co., TX
Note: Both the father's and mother's surnames were misspelled on the certificate.4
ObituaryJun 26, 1945Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, Dallas Morning News-26 Jun 1945-"Death Takes Mrs. McInnis, Dallas Writer-Mrs. Ben Anna
Houghton McInnis died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Mendenhall, 4537
Bordeaux. Born in Georgetown, she was the daughter of the late Judge Joel A. Houghton, pioneer
Texas lawyer. A writer of short stories and poems, Mrs. McInnis was a leader in literary clubs in
Llano. She was also a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Presbyterian
church. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. James N. Mendenhall, Dallas; a stepdaughter, Miss Carrie
McInnis, Llano; a sister, Mrs. L.C. McBride, Dallas, and three nieces, Mrs. James A. Brown, Mrs.
Miller McCraw and Mrs. Jack Smith, all of Dallas. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at
Welland's Chapel, Live Oak and Liberty, with Robert H. Coleman, assistant to Dr. W.A. Criswell,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be at Restland Memorial Park."3
BurialRestland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA3
Biography"Christmas in Dallas-1932-1967" written by Nancy Kate McCraw Curry (1977)
"Aunt Anna (Benn Anna Roberta Houghton McInnis) had lived with my grandmother Antony also.
She had married when she was 14, but the man either died or my grandfather Antony got her a
divorce and made her go to work. (There is a conflict of reports here. I think she was really
married twice.) She never forgave him for making her work! She also is the one that named my
mother "Beryl" from a character in a book she was reading."3
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  4. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 20, 2011.

Katherine Dale Houghton1

F, #56363, b. 5 June 1862, d. 13 September 1935

Family: James Flack

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJun 5, 1862TX, USA, age 7 in 1870 census; age 16 in 1880 census2,3
1900 Census1900Llano Co., TX, USA, James Flack (head, b. TX, age 39, ); Kate
D. (wife, age 36, married 5 years, 3 children all living, b. TX); Joe P. (son, age 11, b. TX, at school);
Kate (daughter, b. Dec.. b. TX, at school); Frank (son, b. TX)4
1930 Census1930Menard, Menard Co., TX, USA, Kate D. Flack (head, age 66, widow, b. TX, father b. MS,
mother b. IN); Joe P. (son, age 44, divorced, b. TX, lawyer general practice); Minnie Crowder
(servant)4
DeathSep 13, 1935Brady, McCulloch Co., TX, USA, Kate Houghton Flack-b. 5 June 1862 in Georgetown, TX; d. 13 Sept. 1935 in Brady, McCulloch
Co., TX; residence: Menard, Texas; occupation: housewife; widowed; father James Houghton b.
LA; mother unknown b. unknown; informant Mrs. Joe Flack; burial Menard, Texas
Note: The father's name and place is incorrect.1
BurialPioneer Rest Cemetery, Menard, Menard Co., TX, USA4
ObituarySep 17, 1935Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, Dallas Morning News-17 Sept. 1935-"Sister of Dallasites Dies Following Fall-Mrs. L.C. McBride
and son, Clifford, 5306 Gaston, returned Monday from Menard, Menard County, where they
attended the funeral Sunday of Mrs. McBride's sister, Mrs. James Flack, wife of the late Judge
James Flack of Menard. Mrs. Flack died in a hospital at Brady from injuries sustained from a fall
Friday. She was the daughter of the late Judge Joel A. Houghton of Georgetown. Mrs. Flack lived
in Dallas a short time in her early girlhood and spent the last winter here visiting relatives and
friends. She is survived by Mrs. McBride4
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 20, 2011.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  4. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  5. [S97] Marriage Certificate, Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Houghton Surname Search.

Joel Alexander Houghton Jr1,2

M, #56364, b. circa 1868, d. May 1901

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1868Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 2 in 1870 census; age 11 in 1880 census1,3
DeathMay, 1901Waco, McLennan Co., TX, USA2
BiographyElizabeth Randall, 2011: I have two newpaper articles about the death of Joe Houghton/Joel A. Houghton in
the Cameron Herald. These articles were given to me in some family papers. I
suspect that they both are about Joel A. Houghton, Jr. and not his father. At first, I
hoped that the second one I listed below was about his father, Joel A. Houghton,
Sr., since I have not been able to prove his death date of 1882 yet. But after
looking at many family articles, I feel that Joel Sr. probably did die somewhere in
the 1880's and not later. Also, the two articles listed different places of death. For
this record, I chose to list the Waco place of death since that article was more
detailed. To date, I have not been able to find any other mention of Joel A.
Houghton, Jr. (Jan. 2010)
Cameron Herald-Vol. XIX, No. 47 (Whole No. 983)-Thur., May 23, 1901-"Death-Mr.
& Mrs. L.C. McBride went to Waco last week, where Mrs. McBride's brother, Joe
Houghton died. The remains were interred at Llano."
Cameron Herald-Vol. XIX, No. 49 (Whole No. 985)-Thur., Jun 6, 1901-"Death-Joel
A. Houghton died a few days ago in Austin."4
DuplicateTX, USA5
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 20, 2011.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  4. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  5. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Justice Precinct 4, Robertson, Texas; Roll: T623_1666; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 118; line 76, dwl 76-76.

Idda Houghton1

F, #56365, b. circa 1854

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1854TX, USA, age 16 in 1870 census1
Research1870 census lists infant daughter; I have assumed it was Idda's
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 379b, Ln. 9, dwl 105-105.

(?) Houghton1

F, #56366, b. circa 1870

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1870TX, USA, age 8/12 in 1870 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 379b, Ln. 9, dwl 105-105.

Alida Ann Houghton1,2

F, #56367, b. November 1864, d. 30 June 1931

Family: James Peter Stryker

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthNov, 1864New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, USA, age 6 in 1870 census1,2
Marriage3
Children+between 1883 and 1901Edith Catherine Stryker
1883 –

Florence Stryker
1885 – 1964

James Clarence Stryker
1886 –

Grace Austen
1889 – 1916

Hazel Stryker
1898 – 1970

Mildred Marie Stryker
1901 – 1980
DeathJun 30, 1931New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, USA2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, Reel 873, Sh. 169, Ln. 32, dwl 774-1165.
  2. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51374864/person/13189779771
  3. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51374864/person/13190548147

John Houghton1

M, #56368, b. circa 1866

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1866NJ, USA, age 4 in 1870 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, Reel 873, Sh. 169, Ln. 32, dwl 774-1165.

Silas Houghton1

M, #56369, b. May 1867, d. 1902

Family: Lillian Frances Gray

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMay, 1867NJ, USA, age 2 in 1870 census; age 13 in 1880 census; age 32 in 1900 census1,2
Marriagecirca 1892mar 8 years in 1900 census2
1900 Census1900New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, USA, age 32, proprietor barber shop2
Death1902
BurialVan Liew Cemetery, New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, Reel 873, Sh. 169, Ln. 32, dwl 774-1165.
  2. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , New Brunswick, Ward 4, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; Roll:T623; Enumeration District 42; Sheet: 3B; line 86, dwl 175-63-69.

Charles Houghton1

M, #56370, b. April 1868

Family: Ada Marie (?)

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr, 1868NJ, USA, age 1 in 1870 census; age 11 in 1880 census; age 32 in 1900 census1
Adoptionbefore 1871by William Henry Whithead
Marriage
Children+1890Walter H Whitehead

1890–
Charles H Whitehead

1891–
Clifford Whitehead

1893–
Herbert L Whitehead

1905–
Ada M Whitehead

1908–
Private
1910 Census1910Jersey City, NJ, USA, age 41, railroad clerk
1920 Census1920Jersey City, NJ, USA, age 50, railroad time clerk2
ProblemHe is listed as living with mother in 1900 and 1910.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ, Reel 873, Sh. 169, Ln. 32, dwl 774-1165.
  2. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Jersey City Ward 10, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1047; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 221.