Tom and Alice Horton and their five children
At the top of the Horton family tree on Days of Our Lives stand Dr. Tom Horton and his wife Alice. The show was created by Ted Corday and Betty Corday, and it began on NBC on 8 November 1965 with the Hortons as one of its two central families, beside the Bradys.2 Frances Reid played Alice from that first episode until December 2007, and Macdonald Carey played Tom.3
NBC’s own account of the early years describes the show as the story of Dr. Tom Horton, his wife and their five children and grandchildren.1 Tommy, Mickey and Bill are the sons, and Addie and Marie the daughters.3 Tommy is the eldest son, Mickey the middle son and Bill the youngest.15
Tommy has one of the oldest stories on the show. He was presumed dead in Korea, and Dr. Mark Brooks, who arrives in Salem in 1967, turns out to be Tommy, who had lost his memory and undergone reconstructive surgery.3 NBC dates his return to 1968 and adds that he nearly married his own sister Marie before the truth came out.1 The two sources differ by a year, and the chart keeps the earlier date. The chart keeps that as a state on Tommy. His and Marie’s own families stay off the chart, because the sources opened for this page do not set out their children.
Tom dies in his sleep in 1994, the year Macdonald Carey died.3 Alice remains part of the story after Frances Reid’s last appearance, until her death on the show on 23 June 2010.3 Their marriage line turns to a widowhood in the 1994 story point, and Alice’s cross appears in 2010.
Addie, Julie, Steven and Hope
Addie first married Ben Olson, a wealthy banker, and had two children with him, Julie and Steven Olson.4 Their marriage is dated 1948 to 1971.4
Her second marriage is one of the soap’s famous turns. After Ben died, Addie disapproved of Julie’s fiancé, Doug Williams, and then married him herself on the night he was meant to marry Julie.41 Addie learned that she had leukaemia while she was pregnant and kept the baby. When her daughter Hope was nine days old, a car spun toward them, and Addie pushed the pram to safety and was struck herself.4
Tom and Alice raised Hope until Doug could care for her.6 She grew up to marry Bo Brady in 1985, which joins the two central families of the show. Their children on the chart are Shawn-Douglas, born in 1987, and Ciara.6 A third child, Zack, was born in 2000 and killed in 2006, and stays in this text to keep the bottom row readable.6 Bo later dies of a brain tumour in Hope’s arms.6
Mickey, Laura and Maggie
Mickey Horton was played by John Clarke from the first episode in 1965 until January 2004.5 He married Laura Spencer in 1967, and in November 1968 their son Mike was born. Mickey believed he was the father. The father was his brother Bill, who had assaulted Laura and who later married her.51
Mickey and Laura parted, and in 1974 he married Maggie Simmons. They divorced in 1984 and married again in 1986, and the marriage lasted until Mickey died of a heart attack on 8 January 2010, while packing for a cruise with Maggie.5 The couple adopted a daughter, Melissa, and Mickey was the legal father of a second daughter, Sarah, whose father turned out to be another man.5 The chart draws Melissa with the dotted line of an adoption and leaves Sarah in this text.
The chart has to show Mike twice over. He hangs from Bill and Laura, his parents by blood, and a green dashed arrow from Mickey marks the man who raised him as his son.
Bill, Jennifer, Lucas and their children
Dr. Bill Horton is the father of three of Tom and Alice’s grandchildren. With Laura he has Mike and Jennifer, who are full brother and sister.7 With Kate Roberts he has a son, Lucas, who learns only later that Bill is his father.8 Lucas is therefore half-brother to Mike and Jennifer.8
Jennifer married Jack Deveraux three times, in 1991, in 2003 and again in 2019, and the pair is counted among the great supercouples of the soaps.7 Their children are Abigail and J.J. Deveraux.7
Lucas has two children with Sami Brady, a son, Will, and a daughter, Allie. He did not know at first that Will was his son, and a second DNA test showed that Allie was his daughter.8 The chart joins Lucas and Sami with the line of a couple of unknown status, since the sources opened describe their children and not their marriages.
What this Horton family tree leaves out
Days of Our Lives has passed 15,000 episodes and has been renewed into a 63rd season, so no single chart holds every Horton.2 This chart keeps to the core. It shows Tom and Alice, all five of their children, the grandchildren of Addie, Mickey and Bill, and the children of Hope, Jennifer and Lucas.
It leaves out the families of Tommy and Marie, the foster and legal grandchildren, Julie’s son, the children of Mike and Steven, and every generation after the great-grandchildren. It stops in 2019, the year Jennifer and Jack married for the third time. It does not follow the move from NBC to Peacock in September 2022, or any story since.2
Soaps rewrite their own past, and Days of Our Lives is no exception. The chart follows the account of each character’s article as read on 10 November 2026. Where a later story changed a parent, as with Mike and Lucas, the chart draws the version the show settled on and says in words what the characters first believed.
The Horton family tree on Days of Our Lives, by era
Each card gives the changes to the chart in one span of years. Read each card in order, since the later cards name deaths.
1965 to 1974
The first decade
Spoiler note. Addie dies.
- Tommy comes home as Dr. Mark Brooks, and Mickey marries Laura.
- Mike is born, Addie dies saving Hope, and Mickey marries Maggie.
1975 to 1994
Hope and Bo, Jennifer and Jack
Spoiler note. Tom dies.
- Hope marries Bo in 1985, and Shawn-Douglas is born in 1987.
- Jennifer marries Jack in 1991, and Tom dies in 1994.
1995 to 2010
A new generation
Spoiler note. Mickey and Alice die.
- Lucas learns that Bill is his father and that Will and Allie are his children.
- Mickey dies in January 2010, and Alice in June 2010.
2011 to 2019
Where the chart stops
Spoiler note. Bo dies.
- Bo dies of a brain tumour in Hope’s arms.
- Jennifer and Jack marry for the third time in 2019.
How to read this Horton family tree
A square is a man and a circle is a woman. A double line is a marriage, and a dotted child line is an adoption. Tom and Alice stand at the top, and their five children run across the second row with their partners beside them.
Read this way, the Horton chart has three full branches. The gold outline marked A holds Addie and her line down to Hope’s children. The blue outline marked M holds Mickey and Melissa. The red outline marked B holds Bill and his line, which is the largest on the chart. Spouses who married in stand outside the outlines.
To build a family tree of your own soap, open this chart in the editor or start from the story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.
Questions about the Horton family tree
Who is Mike Horton’s real father
Bill Horton. Mickey raised Mike believing he was his own son.5
How is Hope related to Alice Horton
Hope is Alice’s granddaughter, the daughter of Addie and Doug Williams, and Tom and Alice raised her as a baby.6
Is Lucas a Horton
Yes. Lucas is the son of Bill Horton and Kate Roberts, so he is a grandson of Tom and Alice.8
People and sources
A page of its own lists all 28 characters on the chart, each with a short note and the sources for it, and the eight numbered sources this article cites. It also gives this page as a reference in the APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles, ready to copy.