The Horton family were farmers and grew the usual crops of cotton, grain sorgum, oats, wheat, and barley.  We also ran a few cows and sold the calves. We usually milked four or five cows and used part of the milk and sold the rest in cream and butter.  We sold the cream and butter to the merchants in Coleman and Santa Anna.  We kept about 100 laying hens and sold the eggs.  We raised about 100 turkeys each year and sold them.  We would kill four or five meat hogs in the wintertime and sugar cure them and hang them in the smoke house for food for our family.  Ma and Pa always planted a big garden each year and canned up a lot of beans and corn and other things for food.  Just about all we had to buy from the stores was flour and sugar, as we tried to be self-supporting as much as we could.  Pa, or “Little Claud” was born October 10, 1884, and died April 7, 1947.  Ma, or Ethel March, was born March 1, 1887, and died December 19, 1961.  Both are buried in Santa Anna.

(1) Hozea, December 7, 1904 - January 4, 1913 at the age of 9, from blood poisoning as a result of a shoe rubbing a blister on his heel.

(2) W. T. (Bunt) September 23, 1907, lives in Collin as a retired barber.  He married Mural Lewis in Collin County and they had two children, Ann and Linda.  Bunt likes to hunt and fish; this he does a lot of, in his spare time.

(3) Clarence, August 25, 1910 - December 23, 1978, was a disabled veteran and a former prisoner of war.  He escaped from the Germans after being held eleven months in Italy.  He was sent back to the states after escaping the Germans.  He volunteered and went back over seas and fought in Germany again, until the war was over.  He was never married and died in the Veterans Hospital in Temple.

(4) Archie, February 18, 1913, is a retired school teacher and living in Brownwood.  He married Vertis Smith in Coleman and they have no children.  They are very active in their church.  They love to travel and do a lot of it when they can.  Archie was a Navy Veteran and Vertis is a retired teacher.

 (5) Clifford, December 12, 1915 - January 27, 1925, at age 10, from blood poisoning from a blood blister on his heel buried in Santa Anna.  There was no cure for blood poisoning in those days.

 (6) Rondoe, August 8, 1919, lives in Santa Anna, a WWII veteran and served overseas for 37 months and 6 days.  He has over 700 combat days on his service record and discharged from the service September 23, 1945 as a Tec. Sgt. with an honorable discharge.  Rondoe worked in Coleman for some 25 years as an automobile mechanic before taking a job as Deputy Sheriff in Santa Anna.  Later he was Office Deputy in Coleman serving over 5 years for Sheriff Corky Chapman.  Rondoe was elected and served as Coleman County Treasurer before resigning to be a candidate for sheriff of Coleman County.  Rondoe was elected as Constable of Coleman County Precinct 1, in November 1980 and is still serving in this capacity at this time.  He is a stock farmer and Security officer for Superior Cable Corp. of Brownwood.  He is a graduate of Mozelle High School, class of 1939, married Fredna Slayton (see J. W. Slayton) of Coleman and they have one daughter, Debra Dian, who married Rodney W. Dean of Santa Anna (see Rodney Dean).  Rondoe is a born again Christian and a Master Mason.

 (7) Leman, December 18, 1921, lives at Lake Brownwood.  He is a retired Santa Fe Railroad employee.  He is married to the former Francis Cozart and they had two children, a son, Ronnie Lee, and a daughter, Romona Fran, now deceased.  Leman also owns and operates a small stock farm in Brown County; raising mules.  Leman is a graduate of Mozelle High School, where he was a star football player.

 (8) L. C. (Little Clem), December 12, 1923, lives at Mansfield, married Shirley Rumfield and they have a son, Mike, and a daughter, Marilyn.  L. C. and Shirley run their own business; they are barbers and hair stylists in north Fort Worth.  L. C. graduated from Mozelle High School (see Larkin Mayes Graham).

 (9) Christell, June 8, 1926, married Marvin McDonald.  They live in Houston.  They have six children, two boys, James Wayne and Paul Allen; and four girls, Rita, Connie Sue, Angela and Sheila.  Christell graduated from Buffalo High School.  World War II came along and took its toll on the Horton family; breaking up the family unit for the first time.  There were five of us boys in the service and all overseas at the same time.  Rondoe and Clarence in the Army; Archie and L. C. in the Navy; and Leman in the Marines.  All of us survived the war and made it back home.