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The names of Wylie Horton's parents have not been learned. One Lancaster Co, SC, genealogist, Perry Belle Hough, made a note that one Wylie Horton, whose wife was named Delilah, was found in an 1808 record, at which time the future Rev Horton was about eight years old.
There is a Lancaster Co, SC, deed dated 21 July 1804 (F, 205-206) for which Wyly Horton was proving witness, as second name of two, after Robert Gaston, from John Love (wife Jane) to Burel Clark for land on Little Lynches Creek granted to John Williams in 1790 and sold by the sheriff to Daniel Clark who sold to John Love. This could not have been the Wylie Horton born 1800. The latest he could have been born to be at least 21 was 21 July 1783. (That would put Wylie and Delilah in the same generation as the parents of Elizabeth Cauthen who married Wylie Horton on 18 Jan 1820.)
Presumably the Wylie Horton born 1800 was the one who witnessed a deed of 17 Feb 1834 from James M Ingrem to Thomas Cauthen for land on Hanging Rock Creek below Thomas Cauthen's mill (C&E, 243-244). Witnesses also included Chapman L Rallings and Mic(hae)l T Horton.
Later Wylie Horton was the proving withess for a deed made 11 March 1834 from Alfred J Williams to John Truesdell for land adjoining land of Thomas Cauthen and others (C&E, 230-231). Eli Williams was first witness and Thomas Cauthen the third.
Supposedly, Wylie Horton's mother was said in a note found in the Wylie Horton bible to have been a "Miss Cole". She used photostats in 1962 which were in the DAR Library in DC, as S C Bible Records, Vol I. The bible was owned by I P Mason of Stockton, Alabama.
However, I have been told that she was actually a Cato, and the "Cole" detail is an error. I surmise that whoever she was, she would have been born in the later half of the 18th century.
There were no Coles in Lancaster County when the 1790 census was taken. There had been Coles with land on Hanging Rock Creek where they lived until the Rev War when Mark Cole picked the losing team and lost everything. They left the county. (Oddly, their land was the site of an American victory.) Mark Cole's youngest brother, Baptist, apparently came back from Georgia and lived below the Great Falls on the Catawba River. He did name a son Henry H Cole [2 Sept 1792 or 1793-6 Aug 1870], and I have always wondered to myself about the middle initial "H" and whether Henry H Cole was named Henry Horton Cole. There were not many Henry H--'s after whom he could have been named. One Henry Horton lived near Baptist Cole in 1800. The Coles were Methodists. However, that's obvious speculation. And I'm not sure what it would mean.
As long as I am digressing, one Henry Horton was the brother of one Daniel Horton. These Hortons were early settlers in the Hanging Rock Creek area (Kershaw and Lancaster counties in modern terms). Since Daniel had a daughter in 1761, that's the only one I know about, then I'd guestimate Daniel and Henry as being born about the 1730s. Anyway, back to Wylie . . . .
Wylie Horton [13 Feb 1800-17 Aug 1875] married Elizabeth Cauthen (24 July 1804-18 May 1880), daughter of Thomas Cauthen (junior) [1780-1872] and Nancy (Stevens) Cauthen.
The Hortons moved to Alabama around 1844 when Horton transferred from the S C Conference to the Alabama Conference (Methodist). He had joined the Methodist church at Hanging Rock, SC, 16 Aug 1816. Ordained a deacon at Camden, SC, 22 Jan 1832 by Bishop Heddings. Ordained an elder 14 Jan 1838 at Columbia, SC, by Bishop Morris.
Horton fathered 13 children, First eleven born at Hanging Rock, SC. Several had middle names that were also surnames: Cauthen, Powell, Cole, Ingram, Hill, Kennedy, VanLandingham, Marion, and Taylor.
Henry Cauthen b 23 Aug 1821, d 12 June 1881 (married 18 Feb 1840 Sarah Tabitha Douglas at Hanging Rock Methodist Church, SC)
Thomas b 9 Aug 1823, d 1862 (CSA) (married 1 Feb 1849 to Melvina Powell in Shelby Co, AL)
Irvin Cole b 1 May 1825 (17 Feb 1848 to Mary Wilder in Shelby Co, AL)
Mial Ingram b 13 April 1827 (m 11 Aug 1847 to Angelina Wilder in Shelby Co, AL)[Miles was transcribed as Mial]
Margaret Matilda b 8 Nov 1828, d 31 Jan 1908 (married 16 Oct 1845 to Isaac Wyatt Edwards in Shelby Co, AL)
Wylie Hill b 17 Oct 1830
William Kennedy b 9 Sept 1832, d 20 Aug 1910
Cyntia Ann b 17 Aug 1834
Eliza Missouri b 25 Dec 1837
Nancy Louiza b 5 April 1839, d 17 Aug 1919
Elizabeth VanLandingham b 1841, d 12 March 1928
Lewis Marion b 28 April 1844, d 12 Feb 1931
Sarah Drusilla b 15 Oct 1847, d 6 Aug 1924 Shelby Co, AL
Marsden Taylor b 8 Feb 1850 Shelby Co, AL
So, apart from scraps gathered here and there, which may or may not lead anywhere, I am unable to clear up the mystery. The answer is no doubt "out there" somewhere, but my own very limited efforts have met with no success.
All best,
Don Maring
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