After four months of planning, the grave of Isaac Horton, an Arkansas pioneer, veteran of the War of 1812, and the ancestor to most of the residents in and around Wiley's Cove, Searcy County, was marked.
Horton is also the ancestor of Donna Kay Beavers McGee, of Texas. McGee contacted the Arkansas Society United States Daughters of 1812 (U.S.D. 1812) State Markers Chair Sheila Beatty and requested guidance and assistance in marking Horton's grave and preparing for the dedication ceremony.
"My roots are from Searcy County, Ark., as is my patriot, Isaac Horton, Jr. He is buried in Watts Cemetery out in the country between Leslie and Marshall. When he moved there in the late 1840s, he started an exodus from Wayne County, Tenn.," Beavers said.
U.S.D. members from Bella Vista, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs Village and Clinton assisted in the ceremony. About 125 attended the ceremony. U.S.D. 1812 has marked four graves of Veterans of the War of 1812 this year and plans are to mark four more before the year's end.
Society on 10/13/2018