HORTON, Julia Ann 1842- ?

HORTON, WALLER

Posted By: Kathy Gerkins (email)
Date: 9/11/2013 at 18:49:05

Horton, Julia Ann (Waller)
Julia Ann Waller was born one of four children, to William and Caroline Waller, near Alton, Ill., on February 2, 1842.
In early childhood she moved with her parents to northern Illinois and spent her girlhood near the present site of Durand.
She was educated in the public schools and a Young Ladies' Seminary that was conducted at that time in Durand.
She was married to James Harvey Norton on March 2, 1865, and spent four years in that vicinity before moving to Charles City, which location has been her home for the past 63 years. The children of this union who live to call her blessed are five daughters, and one son; also one granddaughter.
They are Mrs. Josephine Hunt, Miss Mary E. Norton, and Mrs. Myrtle Fletcher of Charles City; Miss Addie Smack of Des Moines (at present living at Riceville, Iowa, where her husband is caring for his mother and her interests); Mrs. Nettie McCauley of Humboldt, Iowa, and one son, Robert L. Norton, of Jenkins Minn. Ason one granddaughter, Dorothy McCauley.
Her husband passed from this life December 28, 1918. Two sons, Wilbur E., and Burton E., and one grandson, Norton F. Smack, have gone on before.
She also took into her home and heart the four orphaned children of her husband's brother, three of whom survive.
She experienced the rigors of pioneer life in both Illinois and Iowa, also living through trying time of the Civil war in her girlhood. She remained sweet through it all. She was a kind and loving wife and mother, a faithful daughter and sister, a useful and considerate neighbor. The range of her loving interest was bounded only by her acquaintance. A woman whose lips spoke no guile, who spoke no unkind word of any, a God fearing and truly Christian woman. To know her was to love her.
The funeral services were held at her home, 207 Eighth Avenue, Thursday, June 4, conducted by Rev. E. T. Gough at 2:30 p.m. and interment was made in Riverside cemetery.

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