Fredwin Dustin Houghton was born the 10th of September, 1870, in Mayfield, Michigan. He was the third son born to Joseph and Mary Jane (Duffy) Houghton. His father farmed about 160 acres there, but in 1875 they sold out and left family and friends and move to Texas. Fred was just five years old. The family rented a farm in Johnson County and raised cotton. In November of 1879, Mary Jane died from typhoid fever, and from then on her boys grew up without a mother, until 1884 when Joseph re-married to Mary Mooney. By then Fred was 13 years old. He doesn’t show up in records again until March 15, 1899. This was his marriage to Miss Demie Ellen Holibaugh of Cleburne, Texas. The service was conducted by D. W. McKay.         

In the 1900 census, Fred is 29 years old and is listed as living with Mark Page, who he is employed as a farm hand. Then in the 1910 census, Mark Page is listed as living with Fred’s family, as a uncle. So Mark must have been an uncle to Demie. Fred and Demie had four children: Myrtie, Jodie, Paul, and Mamie. Mamie recalls her father as the kindest man she ever knew. To her knowledge he never lost his temper, was loving and honest as the day is long.    

Fred raised cotton, hay, corn, and cattle on a farm they rented outside of Cleburne. He paid one third of the feed and one fourth of the cotton he raised for the rent. All went well until about 1922 when Fred suffered from a severe heat stroke which nearly took his life, and the effects from which he never really recovered. He passed away In May of 1924.  Fred was buried in the Buchanan Cemetery near his home. Demie never remarried. She lived around Godley most of her life where she died 23 May 1971, at the age of 91. She is buried in the Godley Cemetery.