History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, By Merton E. Krug, Page 475 - Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Mortimer.
Eli Davidson and Ann Eliza (Sherman) Horton. He was born in Oswego, N.Y., Nov. 27, 1834, son of Gurden and Lucy (Davidson) Horton, and was a lineal descendant of Barnabas Horton, an English immigrant who came to Americia buring the early 1600's. Eli Horton, at an early age, entered the Oneida Community, which was a Shaker Sect, of nineteen, in 1853, he came to Fort Atkinson, where he married, March 28, 1858, Ann Eliza Sherman. She was born April 7, 1838, in Oswego, N. Y., daughter of Leonard and Anne (Whitford) Sherman. On Aug. 15, 1862. Eli Horton enlisted in the Union Army; was wounded June 10, 1864, at Burnt Hickory, Ga.; and mustered out April 8, 1865. Coming to Woodland in 1867, they ever after resided there. He died Feb. 8, 1917; his wife, May 3, 1908.
Birth-History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley-by Merton E. Krug, page's 474-475 and History of Valton by Gilbert Mortimer. Marriage-History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley-by Merton E. Krug, page's 474-475 and History of Valton by Gilbert Mortimer. Death-History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley-by Merton E. Krug, page's 474-475 and History of Valton by Gilbert Mortimer. Buried- History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley-by Merton E. Krug, page's 474-475 Other-Marilyn Horton Steiner; Della's marriage certificate (2); Loren's marriage certificate; 1881 Sauk County Business Directory page 4; History of Valton by Gilbert Mortimer page's 6, 12 and 13.
