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Horton - Joiner Cemetery, 87-1 Summary Report, page 3
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<<*•■"? "? I 1900 Madison Counts'* Alabama Federal Census, F-D. 107, Sheet 21. Whitesburg Precinct 6. OPHIF.I.A HORTON, dau. ofSOPHA & YANCY HORTON. Ophicla was bom February l"?92. died in 1902.
Since the 1900 census gives month and year of birth, it is known that Ophelia was born in February 1892. Since she died at 10 years of age (according to the tombstone inscription), she passed away in 1902, and the tombstone was erected 23 years later. Her marker showed that she was not forgotten over the years, but it is unusual that there are no markers for any of the rest of her family - not even for the person who erected the monument to Ophelia. It was probably Sophia that erected the monument, since it only mentions her and not the father, Yancy Horton. However, it could be that Yancy emplaced the monument on the occasion of his wife's passing, but then one would expect that he would have set up monuments for both of them. (However, one source has indicated that there was a Sophie Horton buried in the Sam Moore Cemetery, 46-1. This could be where Ophelia's mother rests, without a marker there, either.)
With these enigmas in mind, searches of other records and census years led to additional information about the family:
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