FOURTH GENERATION

129. Anna Eliza Rutledge was born on 20 Mar 1849 in Washington County, Texas. She died on 3 Oct 1917 in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas.⁽³³⁵⁾ She was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas.
From the San Angelo Daily Standard, October 4, 1917, p. 5

AGED WOMAN DIES AT HER ANGELO HOME

Mrs. Annie E. Houghton, age sixty seven years, six months and thirteen days, died Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock at her home, 24 West Seventh street. Surviving are a son, F. C. Houghton, a daughter and another son. Mr. Houghton, husband of the deceased, died here about thirteen months ago.

Interment will be made in Fairmount cemetery Thursday afternoon, after services at the house at 5 o'clock conducted by Rev. W. H. Wrye, minister of the Church of Christ.

Mrs. Houghton was born in Washington, Texas, in 1840 and had resided here for a number of years.

She was married to Theodore Mortimer Houghton (son of William Mortimer Houghton and Mary F. Doney) on 23 Jun 1867 in Williamson County, Texas.⁽³³⁶⁾ Theodore Mortimer Houghton was born on 11 Mar 1844 in Sumter County, Georgia. He appeared on the census in 1870 in P. O. Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.⁽³³⁷⁾ He appeared on the census on 4 Jun 1880 in JP #2, Williamson County, Texas. ⁽³³⁸⁾ He appeared on the census on 26 Jun 1900 in Precinct #8, Williamson County, Texas.⁽³³⁹⁾ He appeared on the census on 18 Apr 1910 in 24 West 7th Street, Precinct #1, San Angelo, Tom Green Co., TX.⁽³⁴⁰⁾ He died on 4 Sep 1916 in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties
Chicago, Lewis, 1893
R976.43 H673

Page 546-547


T. M. HOUGHTON, a prominent farmer of Williamson county, is a son of' W. M. S. and Mary F. (Doney) Houghton, of Scotch-Irish descent. The paternal family came to this country before the Revolutionary war, in which the great-grandfather of our subject was a soldier. He is said to have been wounded in the side by a band of Tories, but succeeded in escaping, having hid in a thicket and staunched the wound with a silk handkerchief. He lived many years afterward. The grandfather, Lucius L., was a merchant of Sumter county, Georgia, for many years and died in Liverpool, England, while there to buy goods. W. M. S. Houghton, the father of our subject, was born in Sumter county, Georgia, February 28, 1800; was reared to manhood there; was engaged in the mercantile business in different towns in Georgia for twenty-five years; in 1846 located on a farm in Titus county, Texas, and in 1863 came to Florence, Williamson county, where he died in 1868. He was a member of the Legislature in both Georgia and Texas, and, although not a public speaker, was a good writer of articles on State questions. Mr. Houghton was not a member of any church. He was first married to a Miss Mayo, and they had two children, both now deceased. In 1840, in Dooly county, Georgia, he married Mary F. Doney. They were the parents of seven children, viz.: Theodore M., the subject of this sketch; Ann L., wife of James F. Robinson, of Williamson county; Laura A., wife of Jones Webb, of Runnels county, Texas; Pamelia H., now Mrs. J. J. Robinson, and a resident of Georgetown; Dora D., wife of William Smith, of Jones county, this State; John H., of Austin; and Fannie O., wife of William Pfaeffle, of Fort Worth, Texas. The wife and mother died in 1860, and the father afterward married Mary Standifer. They had two children.

T. M. Houghton, our subject, was born in Sumter county, Georgia, March 11, 1844. In 1862 he left school in Titus county to enlist in the late war, entering Company D., Eleventh Texas Infantry, served three years in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and took part in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. After the close of hostilities he returned to his father's home in Williamson county, Texas, and shortly afterward located in the same neighborhood on his present farm consisting of 204 acres, with fifty acres under cultivation. He is independent in his political views, but votes principally with the Democratic party.

Mr. Houghton was married in this county, June 23, 1867, to Anna E. Rutledge, a native of Washington county, Texas, who came to Williamson county when eight years of age. She is a daughter of' Captain W. P. Rutledge, an old Texas pioneer, who commanded a company in the Mexican war. He resided in Williamson county from 1858 to his death, which occurred April 26, 1890. Mr. Rutledge was a well-read and intelligent gentleman, and was respected by all who knew him; and was a prominent fruitgrower. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton have had eight children, namely: William M., a teacher in Williamson county; Annie D., wife of J. W. Johnson, Hembrie, Crockett county, Texas; Louis E., at home; Theodore F., a teacher in this county; and Irene, Edna, Jesse T. and Freddie, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton are both members of the Christian Church.



From the San Angelo Daily Standard, Tuesday, September 5, 1916, p. 6:

MORTUARY - T. M. HOUGHTON

T. M. Houghton, age 72 years, 5 months and 24 days, died Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at his residence, 38 West Sixth street. Funeral services were to have been conducted at the home this Tuesday, afternoon at 4 o'cock by Rev. Jewell Matthews, minister of the Church of Christ. Interment will be made in Fairmount Cemetery.

Mr. Houghton came to San Angelo from Williamson county in 1903, and until his health failed him, he was connected with the Elk Horn Feed & Wagon Yard.

Surviving are the wife, three sons and two daughters, as follows: Dr. W. M. Houghton of Blanco county, T. F. Houghton of Floydada, Tex.; Fred C. Houghton of Maryneal, Tex.; Mrs. C. R. Robinson of Lioan Flat, and Mrs. A. D. Johnson, who resides two miles north of town.
Anna Eliza Rutledge and Theodore Mortimer Houghton had the following children:

+505 i. William Mortimer Houghton.
+506 ii. Annie Dee Houghton.
507 iii. Louis Eugene Houghton was born on 27 May 1873 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas. He died on 20 Jun 1894 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas. He was buried in Pond Springs Cemetery, Williamson County, Texas.
+508 iv. Theodore Franklin Houghton.
+509 v. Irene Susan Houghton.
510 vi. Edna Houghton was born in 1881 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas. She died in 1894 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.
511 vii. Jesse Toliver Houghton was born in 1883 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas. He died in 1895 in Pond Springs, Williamson County, Texas.
+512 viii. Frederick Camp Houghton.