Alice Narcissa Spencer

(Picture taken May 2, 1940)

Alton Kinsley Haughton

Born in North Carolina June 10, 1879
Died in Canton, NC, in 1940
Parents of Retha Kinsley Haughton Born February 23, 1876
Died in Canton, NC, December 1971
Married June 4, 1894, six days before Alice's 15th birthday. Alton was 18.
Their first child, Evora was born December 14, 1894
Their second child, Retha Kinsley, was born in Roper, NC, on March 15, 1898.
Chester O'Neal was born January 2, 1901.
Bernice Awilda was born October 4, 1904.
Marion Decima, born April 18, 1915, was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 16, on September 8, 1931, in Statesville, NC.

Great Grandfather Haughton stopped by for a short visit at least once when we lived in Valdosta (at 516 East Rogers Street). Probably in the late fifties. He had only one eye (the result of a carpentry accident?).

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