Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Horatio Britton    
                Born: May- 3-1820          in Monongalia Co, (W)VA  1,2
                Died: Feb-14-1897           
              Buried:                      in Toll Gate Baptist Church Cemetery, Toll Gate, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1880                 in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV   (see note 1)
              Census: 1870                 in Green District, Wetzel Co, WV  
             Resided: 1869                 in Tyler Co, WV  3
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Monongalia Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      school teacher  1
          Occupation:                      farmer  4,5,3
            Military: (enlisted 1864)      Pvt, Co E, 17th W.Va. Inf, Civil War  6,7,8
              Father: Wilson Britton   (1765 - 1851) 
              Mother: Jane Wade   (1787 - 1849) 
Other spouse 1
                Wife: Martha J. Milburn     
             Married: Oct- 7-1869          in Wetzel Co, WV  9
           Separated: bef 1880              10
                Born: Mar-27-1836          in Tyler Co, (W)VA  3,11 (see note 2)
                Died: Jun-23-1908           11
              Buried:                      in Milburn Cemetery, 8 Mile Rd, Reader, Wetzel Co, WV  11
              Census: 1900                 in Green District, Wetzel Co, WV  
             Resided: 1890                 in Reader, Wetzel Co, WV  12
              Census: 1870, 1880           in Green District, Wetzel Co, WV  
             Resided: 1869                 in Wetzel Co, WV  3
              Census: 1860                 in Wetzel Co, (W)VA  
              Father: John H. Milburn   (1786 - 1866) 
              Mother: Hannah ___   (1795 - 1870) 
Other spouse 1
Notes 
           F Child 1: Viola V. Britton      
                Born: Nov-  -1870          in Wetzel Co, WV  3
                Died: Mar-27-1909          in Allister, Wetzel Co, WV  13
      Cause of death:                      consumption (tuberculosis)  13
              Census: 1880, 1900           in Green District, Wetzel Co, WV  
             Husband: Robert Ignatius Cosgray  b. Aug-  -1862  
             Married: Oct- 4-1890          in Wetzel Co, WV  3

Sources:
(1) Franklin Marion Brand, The Wade Family, Monongalia County, Virginia, now West Virginia (1927), p. 387. 
(2) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(3) Wetzel County Marriage Records, New Martinsville, WV. 
(4) 1850 Census, Monongalia County (W)VA. 
(5) 1870 Census, Wetzel County, WV. 
(6) U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database online], National Park Service , 
Ancestry.com. 
(7) U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(8) Franklin Marion Brand, The Wade Family, Monongalia County, Virginia, now West Virginia (1927). At the opening of the 
Civil War, Horatio Britton organized a company of home guards and became its captain.  In 1864, he residgned as captain 
of the guards and enlisted in the Union Army, Co E, 7th WVa Infantry, and served until the end of the war. p. 
387. 
(9) Wetzel County Marriage Records, New Martinsville, WV, Identified as Horatio Britton, widowed, 43, farmer, b. Monongalia 
Co, res. Tyler Co, son of Wilson & Jane Britton; and Martha J. Malsed, widowed, 34, b. Tyler Co, res. Wetzel Co, dau of 
John H. & Hannah Milburn.  Married Oct 7 1869 "at Martha Jane 
Malsed."
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11592
876&Type=Marriage
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx
?Id=11593222&Type=Marriage. 
(10) 1880 Census. 
(11) Findagrave.com. 
(12) 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online], Ancestry.com and National Archives & Records Administration. 
(13) Wetzel County Death Records, New Martinsville, WV. 

Event Notes
Note (1) In household of son John Wilson Britton.
Note (2) Birth date given in 1900 Census as March 1835.







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