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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 241
PEARL LIVINIA HORTON HIGGENBOTHAM
First interview November 17, 1999, further contact by phone and visit in 2000.
Pearl Horton in about 1935.
Pearl said, “My mother had a racehorse that you raced with the cart around the fairground. His name was Jacktop.”
Pearl Cowan Horton and her oldest son, Frank Horton, with Jacktop.
Pearl Livinia Horton was born on February 18 in 1919. Her father was Yancy Horton Jr. (born in 1887), the son of Yancy Horton Sr. (born in 1861), who was the son of Jack Horton (a White plantation owner) and Amanda Jacobs. Pearl said that both her father and her grandfather were called “Savoy.”
Pearl Horton's mother (for whom she was named) was Pearl Cowan Horton. Pearl's father, Yancy (Savoy), Jr. had a son, Archer (Archie) with Kate Weeden prior to marrying Pearl Cowan. Yancy Jr. and Pearl then had seven children.
Archer Horton. He was born in about 1910.
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