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This website provides a series of nine reports on the lineal descendants of William Horn of Nansemond to the author, along with a tenth report considering possible earlier ancestors in the Jamestown and Norfolk area. (See the sidebar.) The author, Robert Gordon Horn, born in 1931, and most or all the Horn males buried in the Powell Cemetery at Lafayette, KY, are proven descendants of Henry Horn, a Quaker, born in 1716 in northeastern North Carolina or nearby Virginia. This Henry Horn is thought to be a son of William Horn of Nansemond County, Virginia who died in about 1754 in Edgecomb County, North Carolina. From results of yDNA genetic marker studies comparing the yDNA patterns found in cell specimens obtained from me and from a distant cousin, Etheldred Phillips Horn, now deceased, each of us being well documented to have descended from separate sons of Henry Horn, the Quaker, our male parentage back to Henry the Quaker is established. During the past twenty years, I have collected, assembled, and analyzed a large volume of data previously assembled by numerous individuals interested in this family group. A substantial proportion of that data has been entered into a large database, using the genealogical software called FamilyTreeMaker, the 2005 version, at this site: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/r/Robert-GHorn/index.html

I have published much of that data in book form, in two books, William Horn of Nansemond, and Henry Horn of Contentnea Creek. Both of those books are available for about $25 each at www.lulu.com.
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Another group of Horns appear to be descended from a certain Richard Horne who appeared in Northampton County, NC in the early 1700's, living just a few miles east of William Horn "of Nansemond". The proximity of these families seemed to suggest that Richard Horne and William Horn were related, perhaps closely, but specific indication of such a relationship has not been forthcoming. On a separate website, www.drbobhorn.com/genealogy, I have provided extensive information about the family and descendants of Richard Horne of Northampton, and in the process I have attempted to clarify areas of major uncertainty regarding the identity of a number of Horn individuals whose ancestry, whether from Richard or William or others, is uncertain. In the same website, I have included some information on other earlier Horns in Virginia in the 1600's who may have been ancestors of William and/or Richard Horn(e). The present website contains relatively short individual biographies of each of my direct lineal Horn ancestors, from William Horn of Nansemond to my grandfather, Robert Lee Horn, 1861-1949, and my father, Wiley Weathers Horn, Sr., 1909 - 1988. In these biographical sketches, it may be of interest to note that, in many ways, more can be learned about the "Englishmen" in the colonial North Carolina period than we can conveniently know about those who crossed the mountains and came west, starting about 1800, into the relatively uncivilized frontier, after our independence was obtained. I can only speculate that it may have been necessary, from time to time, to burn pages from the Family Bible to get a fire started.

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The following notes are from my earlier essay, Antecedents and Peers, considering the possibilities that 1) the Horn families considered in this work were descended from one or the other of the two Horn citizens, documented to be residents of Jamestown, Virginia in 1623, and/or 2) that a Thomas Horn, and his son, Thomas,citizens living near Norfolk, in southeastern Virginia, in the latter 3/4 of the 1600's, were the immediate ancestors of William Horn of Nansemond.

Henry or Richard Horn of Jamestown, Virginia and Thomas Horn and son of Norfolk County before 1700
Generation No. 1

1. HENRY OR RICHARD HORN was born Abt. 1600 in ? England, and died Aft. 1623 in ? Virginia. Notes for HENRY OR RICHARD HORN: To the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable information, but only speculation, as to who might be the parents of either William Horn (16901754) of Nansemond County, Virginia or his contemporaries, Richard Horne of Northampton County, NC and Henry Horn who died in 1761 in Edgecomb County North Carolina. On the other hand, fragmentary information about a number of other Horn's, present in the colonies prior to the time of William, Richard, and Henry Horn(e) is available, the earliest of which I am aware having been documented in the listing of the citizens living in Jamestown and

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surrounding areas in 1623. In the "Lists of the Livinge & the Dead in Virginia, February 16, 1623" both a Henry Horn and a Richard Horun (sic) are listed as living on the Surry side of the James River. No further documentation of these two men is available. (This information, now widely available, was first provided to me by Gwen B. Horne and discussed in interesting detail in her contribution to the Ray Horn book.) It is, of course, tempting to speculate that these two Horn's, Richard and Henry, known to be and documented in the Jamestown VA area in 1623, are our progenitors, but I believe at this remote stage, there is little likelihood of determining how these or other Horn's unknown are related to the several other very early Horn's of which we have some documentation. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that other Horn families are documented in Virginia in the 1600’s, affording at least a potential genealogical link between Richard and Henry Horn of Jamestown, Virginia and the three Horn families who entered North Carolina in the early 1700’s. About 25 years after the Jamestown census of 1623, a Thomas Horne appeared in Norfolk County, VA, before 1650, where he married Johanna Yates and purchased land from her brother, Richard Yates in 1649. This Thomas Horne is apparently of the age to potentially be a son of either Richard or Henry of 1623 Jamestown, but there is no evidence known to me to support this hypothetical relationship.

Child of HENRY OR RICHARD HORN might be: 2. i. THOMAS2 HORN, b. Bef. 1628, Virgina; d. about 1658, Virginia.
Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS2 HORN, Sr. (HENRY OR RICHARD1)1 was born Bef. 1628 in Virgina2, and died about 1658 in Virginia3. He married (1) MARY YATES4, daughter of JOHN YATES and JOANE UNKNOWN. She was born Bef. 1636 in ? England4, and died Mar 1652/53 in Virginia4. He married (2) JANE RIGGLESWORTH4.

Children of Thomas Horne and Johanna Yates are: 1 Johanna (Hanna) Horne, born Bef. 1645. She married John II Herbert. 2 . Mary, born about 1647, married Fanshaw. 3 Thomas Horne, born Bef. 1652; died Aft. 1664.

4 Elizabeth Horne, born Bef. 1652.
Notes for THOMAS HORN,Sr.: [ThosHorneOfNorfolkv2.ftw] Initial Information on this man, his two wives, and his known children was largely obtained from Elizabeth L. Gabriel of Crested Butte, CO who sent this information to Etheldred P. Horn, in 1995. "Thel" also sent me information from the book, Cavaliers and Pioneers, by Nell M. Nugent, p540, where the following entry is recorded: "THOMAS HORNE, 300 acs. nere the head of the W. br of Eliz.Riv., adj land of Jane Rigglesworth; 27 Sept. 1665, p 453, (548). Granted unto Robt. Capps & Robt. Spring 30 May 1653, & by them sould to sd. Horne." In addition he sent me an accompanying detailed plat of the ownership of many properties in this area of Norfolk County, VA. Gabriel is a 9th G-granddtr of Thomas Horne and Johanna Yates, via their daughter, Hanna. According to Gabriel's correspondence, the following references are cited: Alice Granberry Walter (comp.). Herbert in England and Virginia 1399 1900. 1977. Virginia Beach, VA. Horn bought land from Richard Yates, his brother-in-law, in 1649, I presume in Norfolk County. Charles Fleming McIntosh, Brief Abstract of Lower Norfolk County, and Norfolk County Wills 1637 - 1710. 1914, Rpt. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, n. d. p 23. Joane Yates 1664 will names as grandchildren the four listed children of Thomas Horne and Johanna Yates. Gabriel recommends further examining Lower Norfolk County Court Records. This Thomas Horne was a cooper. If Elizabeth Gabriel is correct as to the time of death of the older Thomas Horne, it appears likely that the son, Thomas Horne, is the 1665 purchaser of the 300 acres on Western branch of Elizabeth River. Note the important association that the older Thomas Horne second married Jane Rigglesworth, who was probably the widowed owner of 200 acres just to the west of Thomas Horne's 300 acres (See the Plat). If the son, Thomas Horne, were born in, say 1645-1650, he would be of age to possibly be the father of William Horn of Nansemond, Richard, Henry, and Moses. The time and location appears to admit of the possibility. 20 September, 2004: Additional information on Thomas Hornes of Norfolk.

I have recently received from Larry Horn of Arkansas some additional information on this Thomas Horne, obtained by Larry from Robert W. Baird of Raleigh, NC. (http://home.nc.rr.com/rwbaird], a genealogist with particular interest in southeastern colonial Virginia. The information from Baird appears to consist of "hard" well-documented citations of deeds, wills, etc, of Horn(e) and some Yates families from s. e. VA, with short commentary notes by Baird. I have typed the material from Yates into a file (FTW/Docs/LarryHorn/HORNESOFVA4X6.DOC] which prints out on about 50 4x6 index cards. Citations below may refer to the particular index card from this Baird data. There is considerable redundancy in the Baird material and material previously received from Thel Horn, cited above. With this new material in hand, I have attempted to analyze the combined data I have on this Thomas Horne "of Norfolk", employing the correspondence from Elizabeth Gabriel, the Baird material, and additional material from Thel Horn, including particularly Notes furnished to Thel in 1988 by Dr. R. B. True, apparently a substantial series of citations from "Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607 - 1660". The following is a preliminary summary of suggestions and conclusions made from a review of all this material now in hand. I hope to visit the Suffolk, Nansemond, Norfolk area and environs soon, in hopes of extending the analysis of this material. Extended Observation of September, 2004: Mary Yates, dtr of John and Joane Yates, destined to become the first wife of Thomas Horne, is named in VA Patent Books, 1636. [Baird #2, #3]. Joane Yates names her four g'children of Thomas Horne and Mary Yates in her 1664 will [Baird #27-30]. 1649 warrant names wife of Thomas Horne as "Mary" [Baird #14]. Mary Yates, born before 1636, had a child in 1647(Baird #24 and #35), her daughter Mary Horne Fanshaw. This information suggests a likely birth year of about 1630 and a marriage year of about 1645 for Mary Yates, first wife of Thomas Horne Sr. Thomas Horne "Sr" purchased property before 1644 [Baird #10], witness a sale in 1645, and died in 1658, suggesting a likely birth year of 1620 25. [This date would be consistent with his being a son of Henry Horne, a 1624 resident of James City County, a unsubstantiated speculation]. 1645 - 1651: Four children borne to Thomas Horne and Mary Yates: Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth and Hanna (Johanna), inferred from will of grandmother Joane Yates, and other citations. 1652: Thomas Horne made constable. 1652: Death of Peter Rigglesworth.

1652: Thomas Horne, cooper, states intent to wed the widow, Jane Rigglesworth [Baird #21], indicating that his wife Mary is deceased. 1658: Thomas Horne dies intestate; his widow, Jane, marries Thomas Lovell. [Several citations from both Baird and True). 1660/61 Joane Yates, g'mother, charges ill-treatment of her g'children, of Mary Yates, deceased, and Thomas Horne, deceased, by Thomas Lovell, their "father-in-law", or step-father. [Baird, #22, 23]. 1662: Thomas Lovell ordered to give up estates of orphans Thomas Horne and Elizabeth Horne to g'mother Joane Yates, and also estates of Johana and Mary to their respective husbands, Balentine and Fanshaw. [Baird #25, 27]. The above events appear to be well established as reported, and I see no controversy there. However, the following events described do not appear to me to allow an obvious, easy, or certain interpretation, unless additional supporting data can be located. From the Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys: 27 Sept 1665. Thomas Horne grantee. 300 acres near the head of the Western branch of the Elizabeth River (in Lower Norfolk County), beginning ... joining to the land of Jane Riggleworth... the said land being formerly granted to Robert Capps and Robert Spring dated the 30th of May 1653 and by the said Capps sold unto the said Horne. Since this grant was made 7 years after the death of Thomas Horne "Sr", I initially assumed the grant was not made to him (Sr.), but, on the other hand, was likely made to his son, Thomas Horne "Jr", who would presumably be about 20 years old in 1665. However, Mr. Baird concludes that the 1665 grant of 300 acres was made to Thomas Horne, SR, the father, and Baird describes his reasoning as follows: "This is evidently Thomas Horne Sr., though the above record show he had been dead for five years or more. Thus this is apparently a posthumous patent. A patent signed five or more years after the patentee's death is unusual, but there's no escaping the conclusion. ( Baird continues) "The land description in patents was copied from the survey submitted. In this case, the survey must have been the same one used for the 1653 patent since it mentions Jane Riggleworth (whom he had married more than ten years earlier). See the three patents of 1682." Further, Robert Baird points out that this same land was, at some unknown time, deeded to the three daughters of Thomas Horne SR, as recorded in three separate patents, all three dated 22 November, 1682, on which date the subsequent transfer of the three tracts from each of the three daughters to three separate purchasers was documented.

The questions is raised as to exactly how the 300 acres came into possession of the three daughters of Thomas Horne. Baird hypothesizes as follows: "These three patents, all consecutive on page 210 (of VA Patent Book 7), are the east, middle, and west parts, respectively, of the 1665 patent to Thomas Horne. Obviously, Horne's land was inherited equally by his three daughters. Since there is no will recorded for Thomas Horne, it would appear that he died intestate. His daughters would have inherited the land in equal shares only if there were no male children. Thus it seems that Thomas Horne Jr. must have predeceased his father leaving no heirs of his own." [The preceding conclusion by Baird is inconsistent with his documentation of the naming of Thomas Horne, Jr in the will of his grandmother, Joane Yates, written in October, 1664 and proved in October, 1666. THOMAS HORN SR'S DEATH IS CLEARLY ESTABLISHED AS OCCURRING IN 1658 (SEE ABOVE), AND THOMAS HORN JR IS SPECIFICALLY NAMED AS BEING ALIVE IN 1661 AND 1662 (CITED ABOVE, LNC WILLS AND DEEDS D, pp 288, 298, AND 307, ABSTRACTED IN HISTORICAL SOUTHERN FAMILIES). Baird coments continue: "The sales by the daughters must have occurred sometime before 1669, since Thomas Fanshaw was dead by 16 June 1669. It is possible that the sales actually predated the 1665 patent itself. The deed books ought to be checked for the relevant deeds." I acknowledge that Baird's hypthesis may be correct, but, particularly because the granting of 300 acres to a man dead for seven years seems so improbable, I believe that further study is indicated to test Baird's hypothesis. Alternative hypotheses seem to me to include the following: 1) Thomas Horne, "Jr" may have renounce his claim to a portion of the 300 acre property for reasons other than his death. 2) Thomas Horne, "Jr" may have been the grantee of the 300 acre property in 1665, but may have subsequently deeded the property to his sisters. I believe the Baird hypothesis above is not sufficient to establish credibly that Thomas Horne Jr died prior to the transfer of the 300 acre property to the heirs of his father, Thomas Horne, Sr. Given the temporal and geographic considerations, I believe further attempts need to be made to determine if any of the other wellestablished Horn(e) citizens who appear to have been born in this area on the Virginia-Carolina border in the late 17th century were descendants of these two Thomas Hornes. The striking prevalence of usage of the name, Thomas, among the descendants of William Horn of Nansemond and Richard Horne of Northhampton, seems to me to reinforce the likelihood of a genetic connection among these families.

I have requested assistance from Donald Moore, CGRS, a professional genealogist with particular expertise in this area, in the analysis of the present data and the search for additional information on this subject. 22 September, 2004 Additional notes of 31 January, 2005: I have had Donald Moore, referenced above, review much of the material cited herein. Moore offers the following general opinions, in the form of Answers to my specific questions: 1)> Q: How would you speculate that the date (September 27, 1665) on the > transfer of the property to Horne, appearing in the hand-written text > from patent/grant, would have been dated seven years following the > death of the "said Thomas Horne"? Moore's Answer: I really have no idea about this one. I know that head rights (50 acres of land due for each person transported into the colony) were often not claimed until years after the event. It could be that the transfer of property that took place in 1653 before Horne's death was not recorded until 1665. This is not unusual. Perhaps the patent was recorded as a precaution against possible legal difficulties with Thomas Lovell in 1662 and his administration of the orphans' estate. 2) >Q: If you were a betting man, given the evidence I have presented and > your knowledge of both the human condition and the transfer of > properties in this era, what would you judge to be the likelihood that > 1) Thomas Horne Jr predeceased his father, as postulated by Baird, or 2) Thomas > Horne Jr, formally or informally, renounced his birthright and moved > west to Nansemond county, Sussex county, or thereabouts, and raised a > family, the records of which, if any, have been long destroyed or > lost? Moore's Answer: The first option is the simplest solution. However, given the apparent unrest in the household after Thomas Horne's widow Jane married Thomas Lovell, I would not be surprised if the second option were a better choice. ********* Based on my study and consideration of this material, and in consideration of the opinions offered by others, described above, I remain convinced that it is reasonably likely that Thomas Horne, Jr., the son of Thomas Horne, Sr. and Mary Yates, a) was born in about 1640-45, b)

was orphaned at the death of his father in 1658, and c) became embroiled in a conflicted and controversial situation over the ownership of the Elizabeth River property owned by his deceased father, a controversy pitting his maternal family members, in particular his grandmother, Joane Yates, against his stepmother and her husband, Thomas Lovell. I propose that the peculiar inconsistencies noted above, particularly the anomalous dates associated with the several transfers of the Elizabeth River property that had belonged to his father, reflects delays and uncertainty in determination and adjudication of proper owners of that property at various times. It is my suggestion that Thomas Horne, Jr., as a very young man, tired of the conflict, yielded all claim to that property by allowing it to be patented by his three sisters, and elected to move westward, establishing his family in one of the western counties. I am assuming that it is likely, but unproven, that Thomas Horne, Jr fathered Richard Horne "of Northampton", William Horn "of Nansemond", Henry Horn of Chowan, and other children. I invite and solicit evidence from interested persons which may either support or disparage this hypothesis. 1 February, 2005 Robert G. Horn FTW: ThosHorneOfNorfolkv2.ftw

Children of THOMAS HORN and MARY YATES are: i. MARY3 HORN4, b. 1648, Virginia; m. THOMAS FANSHAW, Bef. Feb 1661/62. ii. ELIZABETH HORN4, b. Bet. 1648 - 1652. iii. HANNA HORN4, b. Bet. 1648 - 1652; m. (1) JOHN H. HERBERT4; m. (2) GEORGE VALENTINE. Notes for HANNA HORN: Ancestor of Elizabeth Langley Gabriel, the source of this information re Herbert spouse. Will of Joane Yates, her grandmother, and other documents suggest initial marriage to George Valentime or Balentine.[ThosHorneOfNorfolkv2.ftw] Ancestor of Elizabeth Langley Gabriel, the source of this information.

iv. THOMAS HORN4, b. Bef. 16524; d. Aft. 16644; m. UNKNOWN. Notes for THOMAS HORN: To the best of my knowledge, there is no good information but only speculation as to the parentage of William Horn (1690-1754), the earliest well characterized Horn in the Family discussed in this treatise. Gwen Battle Horn reported to me in September of 1997 that she suspects that the first immigrant Horn in our line might have come to America, a refugee from Cromwell, possibly originally from Holland, in 1654, and that he was "possibly also kin or European descendant of Henry and Richard Horn who came to America before 1622", enumerated in the Virgina census taken on February 16th, 1623, and listed as living on the Surry side of the James River. It is, of course, tempting to speculate that these two Horn's, known to be and documented in the Jamestown VA area in 1623, are our progenitors, but I believe at this remote stage, there is little likelihood of determining how these or other Horn's unknown are related to the several other very early Horn's of which we have some documentation. At about the same time our William appears in Nansemond VA/Chowan NC area, a Richard Horn appears in the real estate records of Chowan precinct (in 1716), apparently located in what is now Northampton County, NC, and a number of his descendants are well documented in the same area of North Carolina. This Richard Horn seems to have been about the age of our William of Nansemond, and it seems likely they were brothers, but I am aware of nothing approaching proof of that. Nevertheless, in order to incorporate and capture the data, I am including the known descendants of this Richard Horn of Northampton county as a hypothetical brother to William Horn of Nansemond. The Henry Horn who married Elizabeth Stephenson and who died in 1761 is quite well documented but the identity of his parents and his siblings is unknown. Because of proximity of residence and similarity in age to William Horn of Nansemond, I have listed these two as brothers, admittedly without any semblance of documentation. A Moses Horn is listed as a possible brother of this Henry Horn and William of Nansemond, simply because in the 1761 will of Henry Horn, a brother Moses is named.

Another well documented Horn line from that area of Virginia descends from a James Horn (1720-1793) of Sussex County VA, seemingly one generation younger than William and Richard of the preceding paragraph. James' relation to William and Richard, if any, is unknown to me. From this James of Sussex line, his grandson, Frederick Horn (1771-1849) appeared in the Nashville area and a number of his descendants are recorded in the middle Tennessee area. One fairly well known Horn from this line was a writer of a number of historical works, Stanley F. Horn, fairly recently deceased. A nicely detailed description of this Horn line is in Broderbund World Family Tree, CD #5, pedigree #1407. No attempt is made to incorporate the descendants of this James Horn into the present treatise. June, 2001: The following excerpt from a note by Larry Horn of Fayetteville, Arkansas points out other references to individuals with the surname of Horn(e) in 17th century Virginia: "For now, I wanted to call your attention to some items I found in vol. 1 of Cavaliers and Pioneers by Nugent. You may be acquainted already with these items. In any case, I'd be most interested in hearing your speculations! 1) "James Knott, 1200 acs. Eliz. City co., 24 Mar. l635 . . . N.E. faceing upon Nanzemund Riv. . . . etc. [for] trans. of 23 pers." including "Jno. Horne." 2) "Margarett Rogers, Widdowe, 500 acs. in the upper Co. of New Norf., 14 Aug. l637 . . . etc. [for] trans. of 10 pers" including "Jon. Horne." As you may know, the county of Upper Norf., or upper Co. of New Norf., became Nansemond in l646. 3) "James Knott, 1550 acs. Up. Co. of New Norf., l8 Aug. 1637 . . . N.E. faceing upon Nansamund Riv. . . . etc. for trans. of 28 pers." including "John Horne." The description of this property is virtually identical with that in #1 above.

4) "Thomas David, Gent., 100 acs. Nanzemond Co., 16 Nov. 1653 . . . for trans. of 2 pers." including "Wm. Horne." I know there were Horns already in Virginia in l623/4 that we may descend from; but I thought these records need our attention too. Do you have some ideas/speculations/knowledge about them." Clearly it would be of great interest to be able to correlate the above citations with the other information we have mentioned, but at the moment I have nothing else to add. RGH

Endnotes
1. ThosHorneOfNorfolkv2.ftw, Date of Import: 27 Feb 2005. 2. Gabriel, Elizabeth Langley, correspondence from E. Gabriel, POB 608, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, obtained from Etheldred P. Horn of Flint Michigan. 3. Gabriel, Elizabeth Langley. 4. ThosHorneOfNorfolkv2.ftw, Date of Import: 27 Feb 2005.

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William Horn b: Bef. 1690 in Nansemond County, VA d: Abt. 1754 in Edgecombe Co., NC +Margaret Unknown b: in Virginia d: Bef. 1753 in NC [1] William (Jr) Horn b: Abt. 1713 in Nansemond Co., VA d: 1795 in Edgecombe County, NC +Unknown *2nd Wife of [1] William (Jr) Horn: +Ruth Unknown [2] Henry (the Quaker) Horn b: 21 Nov 1716 in Nansemond Cty, VA d: 1798 in Wayne, NC +Ann Purcell b: 01 Apr 1723 d: Aft. 1776 *2nd Wife of [2] Henry (the Quaker) Horn: +Patience d: Aft. 1798 Charles Horn b: Abt. 1718 d: 02 Dec 1786 in Bertie County, NC +Honour Holland Moses Horn b: Abt. 1719 d: 27 Jul 1782 in Edgecombe County, NC +Mary Unknown d: 1785 in Edgecombe County, NC Thomas Horn b: Abt. 1720 d: Abt. 1782 in Nash Co, NC +Hannah Unknown David Michael Horn b: 1721 in Edgecombe Cty, NC d: 1790 in Edgecombe Cty, NC +Luraney Robbins b: 1738 in Edgecombe County, NC John Jacob Horn b: Abt. 1722 d: Abt. 1744 in Craven County, NC +Mary Magdaline Margaret Horn b: Abt. 1730

Notes on William Horn of Nansemond
This man, the earliest clearly established Horn ancestor in this family, is the William Horn who emerges from the few surviving records as a property owner and Carolina in the late 1600's or earliest 1700's. The will has been abstracted as follows: paterfamilias in the Nansemond County region of southeastern Virginia and nearby established by his Will, authored in September of 1753 and probated in June of 1759. From Edgecomb County (NC) Will Abstracts, v. 1, (TN State Library, F262/.e2g38). The fact of his life is perhaps best

Abstract # 197. "William (X) Horn, Sr., 10 Sep 1753, June Court 1759: Sons: William, Henry, Charles, Thomas, and Moses and my daughter Margaret - one shilling each. Son Michael Horn - all my stock, etc. To the heirs of my son John dec'd - one shilling."

The following text is from a copy of the will first furnished to me by Gwen Battle Horn: Probated in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, June court, 1759.

"In the name of God, Amen. Hundred and fifty three, I William Horn Ser. being in Good Health of Body and of "The Tenth Day of Septemb. in the year of our Lord Christ one Thousand Seven

perfect mind and memory, Thanks be Given unto God; Therefore calling unto mind

the Mortality of my Body; and Knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die; Do Make and ordain this my last will and Testamte, That is to Say, Principally and First of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and My Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian Buriall at the Discretion of Same Again by the mighty Power of God And as Touching Such Worldy Estate the Same in the following Manner and Form---

my Executors; Nothing Doubting but as the Generall Resurrecting, I shall Receive the wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this Life, I Give Demise and Dispose of "Imprim. I give and Bequeath unto my Well beloved Sons William, Henry, Charles,

Thomas and Moses, and to my wellbeloved Daughter Margaret, to Each of Them one Shilling Sterling to paid unto them after my Deceace--"Item I Give and Bequeath unto the Heirs of my wellbeloved Son Michaell Horn all my

stock of Cattle and Horses and Mares them and there Increase to him and his Heirs for Ever by the freely to be possessed and Enjoyed--"Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Wellbeloved Son Michaell one Gun and all my

Household Goods and all Improvements whatsoever to me Belonging to him and his Heirs Forever by them freely to be Possessed and Enjoyed--"Item I Give and Bequeath unto the Heirs of my wellbeloved Son John Decd. one

Shilling Sterling to be paid them after my Decease---and I do hereby Likewise

Constitute make and ordain my wellbeloved Son Michaell Horn my Sole Executor of this my last will and Testamente, and I Do hereby Disallow, Revoke and Disanull all and Every other former---Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before named, willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testamente--Written.---

"In Witness whereof I have Hereunto Sett my Hand and Seale the Day and year above "Signed Sealed published, Pronounces and Declared, by the Said William Horn as his

Last will and Testamt. in presence of Wm. Reynolds, Joyce (her mark) Reynolds, Ann (her mark) Hill, jurat, -- The mark of William (his mark) Horn. (The will was folded as was the custom in those days and noted as follows:) Book No. 6, pag 202."

"William Horn's Will. Letters Issued June 1759. Recorded in the Secretary's Office,

LOSS OF RECORDS FROM NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA resided in the Nansemond County, Virginia area in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Americans, have been largely lost from this area of Virginia. Several records cited below and other evidence suggests that this William Horn

The deeds and other legal records, so important in defining the origins of the earliest In the first paragraph to the preface of his 1963 book, "Bible Records of Suffolk

and Nansemond County Virginia", Fillmore Norfleet lists the events which led to the

loss of most of the official records of early Nansemond County, as follows:

"Nansemond County's official records have been totally destroyed by three sucessive fires: (1) in April 1734 at the time the repository of official documents, the house of clerk's office along with almost the entire town of Suffolk was destroyed by a detachment of British infantry; and (3) on February 7, 1866, the fire being of Christopher Jackson, the county clerk, was consumed; (2) on May 13, 1779, when the

unexplained origin. This total destruction of the past has presented an almost

insurmountable problem to historians and genealogists, professional or otherwise, have taken place within the confines of one of the oldest counties in Virginia." attempting to determine the origins of William Horn of Nansemond.

who have sought to throw more light on the people who lived in and the events that For this reason, those records which are available are particularly important in Records of Early Property Transactions naming William Horn The surviving "Virginia Quit Rent Roll of 1704", a long listing of the names and locations of property owners, was obtained from the following web site (www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/va/vafiles.htm). In this record, two men named

Horne are listed. "Wm Horne" of Nansemond County, and Richard Horne of Surry County. In a reference, presumably based on the same original source material, provided to me by Larry Horn of Fayetteville, Arkansas, from a volume entitled "English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records" the following is recorded: " On a name Wm. Horne, who is said to have 100 acres. [ Phil Norfleet provides an

compleat list of the Rent Roll of the land in Nansemond County in Anno 1704", is the illuminating description of the nature of the 1704 Quit Roll rent at one of his many

wonderful websites, this one being at http://norfleet01.tripod.com/norfleet2.htm.] Thus it appears very likely that this reference may be the earliest documentation of the presence of this William Horn(e) in the Nansemond County area of Virginia, or thereabouts. discussed elsewhere). (The likelihood that Richard Horne of Surry is William's brother is

In November of 2001, I have located on the web site of the Library of Virginia, under upper parish" of Nansemond County, Virginia granted to William Horne. Digital

the listings of Land Office Patents and Grants, a listing for three tracts of land in "the images of the text of the grants are available from that web site. The three grants are sequentially entered in the original handwritten text, and all are dated in the text 22 January, 1718. The descriptions indicate that the three tracts are contiguous and located in relation to three streams or waterways, namely Cyprus Swamp, Sarem

Creek, and Scratch Hall Branch. Tract 1 is for 392 acres "beginning by a branch called Scratch Hall Branch... to the Cyprus Swamp", tract 2 is 384 acres "on the north side of Cyprus Swamp ... to Scratch Hall Branch ... to Sarem Creek", and tract 3 is for 237 acres "on the north side of Cyprus Swamp ... bounding on the sd Horne to Saram

Creek". The adjacent entries are all dated on 22 January, 1718, suggesting that the property may have been obtained or occupied by the grantees at some date earlier than its description was entered and recorded.

Substantial study of maps and databases of geographic names in this area suggest Chowan River and just east of the small community of Eure, NC.

that this property is located in what is now Gates County, NC, on the east side of the well defined stream in Gates County NC, clearly designated on many current Sarem Creek is a

topographic maps of this area. " Cypress Swamp" is a commonly used name in this

part of North Carolina and Virginia, and it should be noted that at that time the term now generally used. Waterways called "Cypress Swamp" are present in this area in the NC counties of Bertie, Gates, and Halifax and in the Virginia counties of Surry,

was often used as a synonym for a small stream or creek, rather than in the sense it is

Southampton, and Nansemond (now the city of Suffolk), among others. Therefore, the location of "Cyprus Swamp" does not locate the William Horn property of 1718. Initially I was unable to identify the location of a stream called Scratch Hall Branch on current or archival maps, nor in databases of geographic names, such as the USGSGNIS (vide infra). On the other hand, Sarem or Saram Creek is still used and well

marked on current maps of the area of Gates County NC just east of the community location in this area or elsewhere. Furthermore, the stream in Gates County, NC called Cypress Swamp is located by the USGS, at latitude N362512 and longitude

of Eure, NC, and I have not found any indication that this name was used at any other

W0765003, precisely at the location of the headwaters of Sarem Creek, although the name "Cypress Swamp" does not appear inscribed on current topographic maps of to be currently in use, I have (Jan 2002) located a citation in the North Carolina this area which I have seen. Although the name "Scratch Hall Branch" does not seem Gazeteer, by Powell, TSLA F252/P6, indentifying a waterway with that name in the and flows w into the Chowan River."

expected location in Gates County NC: ""Scratch Hall Swamp rises in w Gates County Thus it seems clear that the so-called Nansemond County properties assigned to County, NC>

WIlliam Horn in 1718 were actually located in lands now indisputably located in Gates The Disputed or Uncertain boundary between Virginia and Carolina That land described as being in "the upper Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia"

should now be found to have been in what is present day North Carolina may at first seem improbable, but the border between Virginia and the territory to its south was not well established and clarified until about 1728. The history of this issue is well described by Phil Norfleet in his essay on "The Norfleets of Colonial Virginia and North Carolina (1666 - 1775)", available at http://norfleet01.tripod.com/norfleet2.htm. N36 degrees 30 minutes in 1665), to eight political supporters, called "Lords interests of the Lords and converted North Carolina into a Royal Colony. In 1663, King Charles II granted property south of latitude N 36 degrees (revised to

Proprietors", a situation which prevailed until 1728, when the King bought the

Norfleet further observes, "In those early days, the exact boundary between Virginia 1728. Therefore, before 1728 many land patents issued by Virginia to land tracts, thought to be in southern Nansemond County, were subsequently discovered to actually lie in North Carolina." and elsewhere is highly recommended.)

Phil

and North Carolina was not accurately defined until a special survey was conducted in

(The extremely erudite work of Phil Norfleet, here

As I have suggested above, it appears clearly to me that the 1000 acres granted to William Horn in 1718 by King George as lying in the "upper parish of Nansemond of North Carolina, after the survey of 1728. County, Virginia, was actually land determined to lie in what became clearly territory located at latitude N36 25 minutes, less than 10 miles south of the NC-VA border which is at latitude N36 33 minutes, a location which places this property clearly within the area of dispute and uncertainty at the time of the 1718 grants. Sarem Creek, as mentioned above, is

The irony is possible that this man, frequently called William Horn of Nansemond, land given to him by the grants of 1718.

may not have lived in Nansemond County, after all, at least not after he occupied the The possibility that the 100 acres belonging to Wm Horne listed in the Quit Rent Roll of 1704 (vide supra) was also in the part of Nansemond County subsequently to become North Carolina might be considered.

Several other references to the early ownership of land by a William Horn (and other Horns) may be found in a book by Margaret Hoffman, abstracting the records of Chowan Precinct, NC, 1696 to 1723, in the TSLA catalogue as F262/c44/h6. A William Horne is cited as a land owner in the following two abstracts. frame suggests these abstracts may refer to Horn's Sarem Creek property, as The time

discussed above. Note that the author includes the records under the Chowan regarded as being in Nansemond County.

precinct of NC rubric, while referring to the property as if they might have been 1) "#1647 Deed Book B1: Henry Hackley of the Upper Parish of Nansemond Co Va to William Waters (residence not given) Carpenter. 6 Feb 1715 for love, good will and friendly respect- the sd Henry being of Sound Mind and Disposing Memory. 100

acres more or less in the upper parish and Co. afrsd, joining John Hislip, Thomas D------, William Horn and a small White Marsh as by Patent. Wit: William Rodes, Ann Rodes Michael Archer C.Ct. N. C. 29 Mar 1745 (so written in the abstract). Proved before me by the Oath of William Rodes. Let it be registered E. Moseley, Ch. Just." her mark, Jacob Butler his mark. Reg Nansemond Co Ct. 22 Feb 1715 by

2) "#1531 Deed Book B1: Thomas Jernegan of the Upper Parish of Nansemond Co, Va to George Hews (residence not given). 13 October 1722. For 40 barrels of good, Merchantable Tarr 340 acres more or less, joining John Jernegan, Richard Odam, 22 Feb 1719. Wit: John Hews his mark, R D Tayloe, Robert Hicks. Ack. 22 Dec. 1722 by Robert Hicks before C. Gale, Ch. Just. Reg 28 Feb. 1722." Later Property Transactions by William Horn journal called "North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register". Several of the earliest recorded land transactions by William Horn are listed in a [All four of the

William Horne and Henry Goodman, part of a larger tract granted to the sd Jernegan.

following listings are grouped on page 448, in the issue of July, 1901, in a section Edenton, NC'] These following four transactions appear to reflect the sale of the property obtained by William Horne in the three 1718 grants noted just above. 1) "William Horn to John Hassell, Sr, of Nansemond Co., VA

called "Abstract of Conveyances", with the notation that 'Original in Court House at

Swan Creek, patented Jan'y 22, 1718" (The size of this property suggests it may the third tract granted on Sarem Creek in 1718.) (The further possibility might be early transcriptionist, or vice-versa.) considered that the name, "Swan Creek", may be a misreading of "Sarem Creek" by an

239 acres known as

2) "William Horn and wife Margaret to Elias Stallings, April 29, 1723. My manor [RGH: I am not aware of a recorded Michael Horn who would correspond to this witness.]

plantation at a place called the Banks of Italy. Test, Michael Horn, John Denby."

3) "William Horne to Elias Stallings, Apl 15, 1729. 100 Acres known as the "Banks of Italy". Test, Michael Horn, John Denby. In the Ray Horn Book, p139, clearly the same transaction is recorded as follows: "April 15, 1729; "#2. (April 15,) 1729 -

Chowan Precinct Deeds, Book C1, page 630, WILLIAM HORNE sold Elias Stallings 100 acres, part of a patent to said Horne in 1718. {see Ref to 1718 patent, just above]. and John Denby." (This was known as THE BANKS OF ITALY. The deed was witnessed by Michael Horn 4)"Same (ie William Horn} and wife Margaret to John Denby, of Nansemond Co, VA. Thus, it appears likely that the four items immediately above represent several "of Nansemond".

150 acres on the Cypress Swamp, July 25, 1730. Test, Elias Stallings, Michael Horn." transfers of the "Nansemond" property obtained in the 1718 grants to William Horn Other Horn(e) Families in upper eastern NC at this time By the time, 1718, that William Horne obtained grants to over 1000 acres in the Cypress Swamp/ Sarem Creek area, east of the Chowan River, a certain Richard Horne on Turkey Creek near its terminus into the Meherrin River.

had two years earlier obtained property several miles to the west of the Chowan River, A third Horn(e) family bought property in the area in 1729, and within a few years all three of these Horn(e) families, apparently headed by men of about the same age, lived within a few miles of each other

These three Horn(e) families that moved into eastern North Carolina, probably from adjacent Virginia, in the early 1700's included Richard Horne and his wife, Sarah, men were contemporaries and lived in clear proximity, it appears likely, but unproven, that they were brothers. William Horn and wife, Margaret, and Henry Horne and wife Elizabeth. Since these

River in Norfolk County in 1665 is a likely candidate to be the father of one or more of these three men, but no specific evidence to support that possibility is known. Richard and Sarah entered North Carolina first, and from 1716 to 1724 they owned of Murfreesboro. In 1723 they obtained a patent for 640 acres, a few miles to the southwest, and they relocated to this tract north of Potecasi Creek and west of Paddy's Delight (creek), retaining this property until 1746.

A certain Thomas Horn who purchased 300 acres on Western Branch of the Elizabeth

property and lived on Turkey Creek, west of the Meherrin River, near the present town

In 1729 Henry Horne and his wife Elizabeth purchased 290 acres at the head of the Henry's death in 1761. (Bertie County Deed Book C115(90) Horne.

Cashie River, north of the present town of Lewiston, where they apparently lived until May 7 1729. 20 pounds for 290 acres. On western and middle branch of John Henard to Henry

Cashey. Adj. James Rutland. Part of tract granted Abel Curtis for 640 acres, dated

August 1 1726. Wit: Joseph Lewis, Michael Horne, Thomas Barfield, May 1729. R. Forster.) William Horn and his wife Margaret sold their Sarem Creek property east of the 1730, and then appear to have purchased other properties both on Ahoskey

Chowan River in several transactions over a number of years, perhaps from 1723 to Pocoson, just south of Rich Square, located between and just a few miles from the

properties owned by Richard Horne and Henry Horne, as well as further south, on the

south side of Conneho Creek (vide infra), where they spent the final years of their life. There is fragmentary evidence suggesting that other Horn men, contemporaries of the three better known Horn listed above.

the above three, were present in the area at this time, men who may well be related to A Michael Horne is named as a witness to three Bertie County deeds dated 1729, and Henry Horne is also named in all three. A Michael Horn also witnesses two deeds in time they are about to relocate into NC. William and Margaret's son named David which William Horn and wife Margaret sell Nansemond County property at about the Michael is said to have been born about 1721, thus disqualifying this Michael as the to William and/or Henry. Nothing further is known about this person.

witness to the documents cited. Perhaps this earlier Michael was a brother or cousin Henry Horn's 1761 will refers to a brother, Moses, as executor of his will. This Moses

Horn is clearly not Moses Horn, the son of William, nor is he Moses Horn, the known to me. Horn(e)

grandson of Richard Horne. No other documentation of Henry's brother Moses is Further observations on real estate transactions pertaining to William

I have been privileged to obtain copies of original research in this area done by Edna Raiter of Raleigh NC, a descendant of William Horn via his grandson Elijah Horn and Elijah's daughter, Rhoda. Mrs. Raiter has meticulously studied deeds and other presentations. records pertaining to this Horn family, and I will repeatedly refer to her work in my indicate contrary viewpoints where I believe she may have erred. It should be acknowledged that, because of the frequent use of the same given names for

In most instances I believe her interpretations are correct, and I will

different individuals, ie, numerous 'cousins' living in the same area, it is often difficult and sometimes impossible to determine which specific individual is being named in a particular document. In a letter from Edna Raiter to Bill Horn of Garland, TX, dated 5 Nov 1996, Raiter says 1720 (I have not located this record) and that this Henry bought land in Bertie in

she has determined that Henry Horn, son of Wm Sr, bought land in Chowan county in 1730, in an area that became Edgecomb in 1741. I believe that this interpretation of Raiter re 'Henry Horn' needs to be re-examined, since I am sure she at least at some points did not correctly discriminate between 1) the Henry Horn who died with will second son of William of Nansemond, while the Henry who died about 1761 is dated 1761 from 2) Henry Horn, "the Quaker", 1716-1798. Henry the Quaker is the probably a brother of Wm of Nansemond. Clearly a Henry Horn who purchased land in Chowan in 1720 and Bertie in 1730 is unlikely to be Henry the Quaker, who was born in 1716.

In Mary Bell's 1963 book, Colonial Bertie County NC Deeds, 1720-1725 [TSLA: F262/B38B4, the following peculiar and confusing abstract appears: " C232(106) Henry Baker of Chowan Precinct to Henry (William) Horn (Horne).

May 12, 1730. 30 pounds for 110 acres. On Ahoskey Pocoson, Adj John Gray. Land bought of William Faulk. Patent date Feb 1 1725. Wit: John Beverly, Henry Beverly." at least in part, on this document. I assume the opinions of Raiter expressed in the preceding paragraph may be based, In Feb 2000 I examined a photocopy of the originals of the above deed and the deed recording the sale of the property in 1737. The preponderance of references in the deeds is to Henry Horne, and the single reference to William Horne appears to be a

"slip of the Pen" by the loquacious scribe. I believe the Henry Horne who purchased 1761, since Henry the Quaker was only 14 in 1730. clouded, however

this property in 1730 is probably the Henry Horne,with wife Elizabeth, who died about to admit that the idenitity of the purchaser(s) of this property may forever remain Candor and humility forces me

The following deed, from the Mary Bell book on Colonial Bertie, appears to record the purchase of land by William Horn of Nansemond, also in the Ahoskey Creek area referenced in the preceding paragraph.

"E273(188) Henry Baker of Chowan Precinct to William Horne. Jan 20 1737/8. 25 pounds for 260 acres. On Ahosey Swamp (Ahoskey Marsh) "at head of Branches". jurat, Chris's Cuwell(?). May Ct 1738." Patented to Henry Baker April 6 1722. Wit: Charles Horne, jurat, Solomon Barfield,

Raiter's next identification of a record of Wm Horn Sr was in the Bertie county records on 9 May 1740 "when he gave 130 acres, part of a 260 acre tract of land, to his son property as long as they lived. The land was located on the 'head' of one of the counties now join together. There is no date on the deed stating when Horn Charles. The deed states that he, William, and his wife had the right to remain on the brances of Ahoskey swamp located in an area where Northamption, Halifax and Bertie purchased the land, only that he had bought it from Henry Baker, who had received it by grant, dated 6 April 1722. A Henry Horne (Wm's son ? or?Wm's brother, Henry, d July 1737, to Thomas Horne, believed to be Wm's son. The witnesses on the latter deed were Charles, Michael, and Moses Horn, also Wm's sons. On 9 August 1740, May 1743. Witnesses were Wm Horne Sr, Henry Horne, and John Randle. are also found in Bell's book: 1761] had sold a tract, also bought from Henry Baker and adjoining Wm's land, on 6

Wm sold the last 130 acres to Charles, who sold it to Moses Horn, his brother, on 9 Abstracts of four deeds documenting Raiter's description in the preceding paragraph 1) "E153(180) Henry Horne to Thomas Horne July 6 1737. 20 pounds for 110

acres. On upper end of Ahoskey Pocoson adj. John Davison. Land bought of Henry Baker, and granted to William Faulk by patent for 110 acres. Feb 1 1725. Wit: Charles Horne, Michael Horne, Moses Horne. August Court 1737.

[Since Henry, the son of William, was born in 1716 and was only 21 at the time of this transaction, I believe it is very likely that the Henry Horn who obtained Ahoskey property from Baker and who sold it to Thomas Horne in 1737 was the Henry Horn, mention of the 1730 purchase of this property, above.]

contemporary to William of Nansemond, probably his brother, who died in 1761. See

branches of Ahoskey Swamp. Part of a patent granted Henry Baker for 260 Acres dated April 6, 1722. Wit: Robert Whitfield, William Moor, jurat. Aug Ct 1740." 3) "F410(257) William Horne to Charles Horne. May 9 1743. To well beloved

2) "F148(228) William Horne to Charles Horne. Aug 9 1740. At head of the

son. Land on Ahoskey Swamp. Being part of land William Horne bought of Henry Moses Horne, John Randall. May Ct 1743. Henry DeLon. 4) "F412(257) Charles Horne to Moses Horne.

Baker which was granted to Baker for 260 acres. April 6 1722. Wit: Henry Horne, *. 20 pounds for 130 acres. In

"N'Hampton Co.". Land bought of William Horne which he bought of Henry Baker and is part of Baker's patent for 260 acres dated April 6 1722. Wit: Henry Horne, John Randall, William Horne. May Ct 1743. Henry DeLon. Raiter continues: "Wm's will, dated 10 Sept 1753, proved Feb ct, 1759. The

following information indicates he died between 10 Sept 1753 and 4 April 1754.

Charles Horne, of Edgecombe county (now Halifax county], 'having full authority as

heir of my father, ' sold 200 acres located on the south side of Conneho Creek, (now of the same county on 4 April 1754. The deed further stated 'it being land where John Horn, deceased, formerly lived.' Moses Horn was a witness. " JOHN CAIN of Edge Co 4 Apr 1754

spelled Conoho on NC maps) in Edgecombe county (now Halifax County) to John Cain

The abstract of that deed, from Bell, follows: "24(45) CHARLES HORNE of Edge. Co to 15 pounds Va money 200 acres on the south

side of Conneho creek, it being the plantation whereon JOHN HORNE decd, formerly lived. All houses, buildings, yards, gardens etc. Wit: M A DEHORTY, MOSES HORNE, SARAH BRYANT S her mark Reg. Edge. Co May Ct 1754 B Wynns CC Raiter continues, " Wm Sr and Wm Jr had both rec'd grants on the south side of

Conneho Creek on 14 Feb 1739. It was located in Bertie county until the formation of Edgecombe county in 1741." (RGH, Prior to Jan, 2002, I had not been able to locate records of these grants to Wm Sr and Wm Jr, cited by Raiter, but on 7 Jan 2002, I located the following two citations. 1) In Hoffman's book, Colony of North Carolina, 14 Feb 1739, 160 acres in Edgecombe County on the S. side of Conehoe Creek,

1735-1764, Abstract of Land Patents, vol 1, I located the following entry: "Wm.Horn, joining Buxton's line and the creek", and 2) from Pruitt, Colonial Land records in NC, in Edgecombe Co on N side of Coneho Creek: border: oopposite Jno Wiggon's land; paid; made out." Current and archival maps show that Conoho creek arises near Palmyra, about 12

Land Entries 1735 -1752, the following entry: "Apr 5 1745 Wm Horn enterss 150 ac

miles NE of Tarboro, then moves south and then directly east to end in the Roanoke to Tarboro.

River. Conetoe creek is roughly parallel to Conoho, to the west and therefore closer Edna Raiter reports (p 29) the following: Wm Sr and Wm Jr had both received land

grants on the south side of Conneho creek on 14 Feb 1739, land located then in

Bertie co until the formation of Edgecombe in 1741. Later on the page she indicates that this land then became Halifax county, and in 1774 it became Martin county. Raiter then states, "William Sr remained on this farm until his death in 1754. William Jr. bought other tracts in Edgecombe co, sold his property in what was then Halifax county, and moved to Edgecombe where it is assumed that he lived out his life. Most

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1 Henry (the Quaker) Horn b: 21 Nov 1716 in Nansemond County, VA d: 1798 in Wayne, NC +Ann Purcell b: 01 Apr 1723 d: Aft. 1776 2 William Horn b: 30 Mar 1738 in Nansemond County, VA/NC d: Bet. 1797-1800 +Celia Richardson b: Abt. 1740 d: 01 Dec 1760 in Edgecombe County, NC 2nd Wife of [1] William Horn: +Mary Thomas b: Abt. 1741 in Nash County, NC d: Abt. 1778 3rd Wife of [1] William Horn: +Sarah Granberry d: Abt. 1790 4th Wife of [1] William Horn: +Sarah Norfleet b: Abt. 1763 in Nansemond County, VA d: Aft. 1824 in ?Nash County, NC 2 Esther Horn b: 06 Apr 1740 in Edgecombe, NC d: Unknown +Andrew Ross, Jr. 2 Isaac Horn b: 07 May 1742 in Wayne County, NC d: 1782 in NC +Edith Richardson d: May 1801 in Nash county, NC 2 Henry Horn, Jr. b: 10 Jun 1744 in Edgecombe, NC d: 05 Feb 1785 in Edgecombe, NC +Sarah Battle b: 1743 d: 1798 in Edgecombe County, NC 2 Jacob Horn b: 10 Mar 1747/48 in NC d: 1827 in Edgecombe County, NC +Elizabeth Unknown 2nd Wife of [2] Jacob Horn: +Millicent Thomas

2 Mourning Horn b: 10 Mar 1747/48 in Wayne County, NC d: 15 Feb 1829 in Tuscaloosa Co, AL +Wilson Curl d: Abt. 1802 in Montgomery County, TN 2 Phebe Horn b: 14 Sep 1749 in Edgecombe, NC d: Unknown +James Ricks b: in Edgecombe County, NC 2 Joel Horn b: 14 Aug 1751 in Edgecombe, NC d: 1793 in Nash, NC +Ann Harris d: Abt. 1789 2nd Wife of [3] Joel Horn: +Sarah Philips b: 1771 in Edgecomb County, N. Carolina d: 1850 in Davidson County, TN 2 Thomas Horn b: 24 Mar 1753 in Edgecombe, NC d: Abt. 1808 in Wayne County, NC +Celia Ann Vick 2 Charity Horn b: 19 Nov 1755 in Edgecombe, NC d: Unknown +William Battle b: 08 Nov 1751 in Edgecombe County, NC d: 1781 in Edgecombe County, NC 2 Selah Horn b: 13 Feb 1758 in Edgecombe, NC d: Unknown 2 Demaris Horn b: 31 May 1760 in Edgecombe, NC d: Unknown +James Cobb 2 Jeremiah Horn b: 01 Nov 1763 in Edgecombe, NC d: Bet. 1809-1840 in Wayne County, NC or Indiana +Pheriba Peele b: 27 Mar 1765 in Wayne County, NC d: Unknown *2nd Wife of [4] Henry (the Quaker) Horn: .. +Patience d: Aft. 1798

Notes on Henry Horn, the Quaker
The following short excerpt from a privately published source seems to be a credible synopsis. "The Horne-Polk Family Connection in Southern Arkansas, by John S. Polk, 207 Belding Street, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 71901.

I. A Quaker, William Horn, of Nansemond Co, VA, was the father of Henry Horn, b. 21 November, 1716. II. Henry Horn, son of William, M/1 Ann Purcell in 1737. Residence was established in Edgecombe Co NC. Henry was a member of Rich Square monthly meeting of Quakers, Edgecombe Co. Children enumerated.

Henry's first wife, Ann died after 1776, and he M/2 Patience ___________, who died after 1798.

Removing from Edgecomb Co about 1780, the family settled in Wayne Co, NC, where it is listed on the 1790 us census and where Henry died in 1798. etc." ************* Henry was born in 1716, probably in Nansemond County, Virginia or nearby North Carolina, where at "the head of the branches of Ahoskey Pocoson", just south of Rich Square, the site of a Quaker meeting house. The family of Henry's wife, Ann Purcell, lived in Southampton County, VA, just west of Nansemond County.

his father had obtained a grant of land by 1718. The family by 1730 had obtained property located

Henry Horn, his wife Ann, and their children are frequently mentioned in the Quaker records of the Rich Square Monthly Meeting from 1761 to 1776, and in the Perquimans meeting from 1757 1759, consistent with their residing in the Ahoskie area, just south of Rich Square, during the early part of their lives.

[It originally appeared to me that Henry bought property in NC as early as 1730, when he was only 14 years old, based on this peculiar abstract of this Bertie deed [" C232(106) Chowan Precinct to Henry (William) Horn (Horne). May 12, 1730. 30 pounds for 110 acres. On Ahoskey Pocoson, Adj John Gray. Land bought of William Faulk. Patent date Feb 1 1725. Wit: following deed, recording the sale of the same property in 1737 [E153(180) " Henry Horne to Henry Baker of

John Beverly, Henry Beverly."] In Feb 2000, I obtained a copy of the original of this deed and of the Thomas Horne July 6 1737. 20 pounds for 110 acres. On upper end of Ahoskey Pocoson adj. John Davison. Land bought of Henry Baker, and granted to William Faulk by patent for 110 acres. Feb 1 1725. Wit: Charles Horne, Michael Horne, Moses Horne. August Court 1737]. "

In the original of the peculiar 1730 Bertie deed above, the name Henry Horne is used multiple times as the purchaser. In only ONE location the name William Horne is clearly written in a context that suggests it may be an error by the scribe. clearly the same property by Henry Horne to Thomas Horne, contains no reference to a William The original of the deed recording the 1737 sale of

Horne (see Bertie E153-180). Since Henry the Quaker was only 14 years old in 1730, it seems unlikely that he was buying this property. It nows seems more likely that the purchaser here is and/or Richard of Northampton.]

Henry Horne + Elizabeth, who died in 1761, possibly a brother or cousin of William of Nansemond Numerous property transactions are recorded in this Ahoskey area after 1741 involving "Henry

Horn of Edgecomb County", but since both this Henry Horn and his presumed uncle, the Henry

Horn who was married to Elizabeth Stephenson, both lived in this area prior to the older Henry's

death in 1761, the particular Henry involved in a given transaction during this period is often not obvious. A Henry Horn of Edgecomb County is recorded as having bought 250 acres on the north side of the Tar River in 1741, selling the same property, with his wife, Susana, a year later. The same and Susana" were, but the probability occurs to me that "Susana" may have been a familiar or alternative name for Ann Purcell, the wife of Henry the Quaker. explanation for the identity of this couple. couple bought 25 acres south of the Tar River in 1745. Initially I had no idea who this "Henry Horn I am aware of no alternative

In Jan of 2002, I have located evidence of a Tar River land patent to a Henry Horne in 1742, In

Hoffman's Abstracts of Land Patents, 1735 - 1764, Colony of North Carolina: "Henry Horn, 5 May 1742, 170 acres in Edgecombe County on the S. side of the Tar River at the mouth of Dogwood Creek, joining the river.", providing further indication that Henry the Quaker began acquiring properties in the Tar River area about 1740.

The following deed abstract clearly records an early purchase of substantial property in the Rocky Mount area by Henry the Quaker. "THOMAS KERBY of Edge Co to HENRY HORN of Edge Co 10 Mar

1743/44 110 pounds current money of Va. 299 acres more or less on the north side of Tarr River to the sd KERBY 6 Mar 1729." It appears that the residual 200 acres of the 500 acre 1729 grant

now in the possession of the sd KERBY and ELIZABETH his wife and is part of a patent for 500 acres to Kerby was bought by Henry and Ann in 1752, as recorded in the following abstract. "352(148)

THOMAS KIRBY of Edge Co to HENRY HORN of Edge co 16 Sept 1752 20 pounds 200 acres on the north side of Tar river, joining Stoney creek all houses, orchards, fences etc. Wit: BENJAMIN BUNN, JAMES RICKS, CHARLES JONES. Reg Edge Co Nov Ct 1752 B Wynns CC."

I believe this is almost certainly Henry Q, since the location near Rocky Mount is in the area where he owned properties throughout much of his life, divesting himself through gifts to his descendants in the 1780's and 1790's. This may be the 200 acres Henry sold to his son Wm in

1761 ["254-(75) Henry Horn of Edgecomb Co to his son William Horn of same. 21 Dec 1761. 50 pounds Va. 200 acres on the north side of Tar river, joining Stoney Creek.Wit: John Page, Joseph Pittman (a Quaker), Isaac Horn. Dec Ct 1761. Jams Hall DCC]. I also suggest that this property might be the source of the name, Kirby's creek, employed in Henry's bequest to grandson Josiah in his will.

Some of Henry's assets may have been derived from his wife's endowment. Henry and Ann sold Virginia property in 1762, as documented in Southampton County Deed Book 3, pp 110-111.

[Henry Horn and wife Ann of Edgecombe County, North Carolina to Newitt Drew, dated 14 Jan

1762. 100 acres on the west side of Angelica Swamp on Purcell's branch (given sd Ann, wife of sd. Henry, by father Thomas Purcell on 12 Dec 1745), S: Henry (signed) Horn and Ann (signed) Horn, W: Hardy (signed) Harris and Aaron (signed) Harris].

In his later years Henry moved south into Wayne County, where numerous deeds identify him as living "south of Contentnea Creek", below Wilson NC. One of the earliest references to Henry Horn that I find in Wayne County records is in Deed Book 3, #409, p. 9. , recording William Alford in 1785 selling 400 acres to James Cobb: the deed locates identify Henry Horn as living on property on the south side of Contentnea Creek. the property adjoining Henry Horn. Several following references from this Wayne County Deed Book

I have not located a deed showing Henry Horn's initial acquisition of property in Wayne County.

The handwritten text of Henry's will clearly indicates that the plantation left to his wife and thence

to three of his sons was "bought of Richard...". The text appears to me to read "bought of Richard Horn(e)" with either a "Sr" or "Jr" interlineated above the "Horn(e)". However, I have as yet not

found a deed transferring any property from a Richard Horn(e) or from any other "Richard" to Henry and Archives (TSLA), with an extensive collection of NC County Records, I found that there are no Dobbs County records extant as such, since many were lost and others were transferred to the

Horn. Wayne county was excised from Dobbs County in about 1780. At the Tennessee State Library

archives of the counties which were constructed from the "lost county" of Dobbs, suggesting that be in Wayne Co records.

such records of Henry's property transfers prior to the formation of Wayne county (in 1779) might Accordingly, in Wayne County Deed Book 5E p 372 there is the following incomplete citation.

Henry Horn, Senr of Dobbs County, NC bought land, witnessed by Thomas Horn, Sept 27 1777. I suggest that this citation may be a reference to Henry's purchase of his last plantation, probably in Dobbs County, which is soon to become Wayne County, in 1779. from Richard Horne, Jr. This citation clearly indicates that Henry Horn is "of" and thus already lives

Also in property not clearly accounted for in my analysis, Henry Horn received a Granville Grant of 425 acres in Johnston county in June 1756, property lying "on both sides of Poplar Swamp". In 1756 the lands of Wayne County-to-become (in 1779) was a part of Johnston County. At the present time I cannot locate a Poplar "Swamp" in this region. However, in a gazeteer of Place

Names in this region, [William Murphy, Dobbs County Crown Patents, 1759-1775] Murphy identifies a Wayne County stream called Poplar Branch as flowing northeast into Black Creek. Black Creek is located south of and flows into Contentnea Creek. Therefore, it appears likely that in Henry Horn's final years, in Wayne County, he lived on or near the property he acquired by the Granville Grant of 1756.

The following Edgecomb County deed abstract refers to "Henry Horn of Wayne.." giving Edgecomb county property to his son Jacob. "535-(276) Henry Horn of Wayne Co to his son Jacob Horn of Edge Co. 1 Mar 1783. Deed of gift. 350 acres, joining Tar River, Hilliard, Compass Creek, sd Johnson. May CT 1783. Edw Hall CC."

Jacob Horn, a white oak marked "A", Joel Horn, Cool Spring Gut. Wit: Hardy Harris, Joel Horn, Jacob

And the following 1785 Nash County abstract refers to Henry Horn "of Wayne County" selling two tracts of property in Nash County. "DB3-346 Henry Horn of Wayne Co to Joseph White Sr of Nash

Co. Mar 25 1785. For 400 silver dollars two tracts of land: 1) 550 acres adjoining Robert Young, Joseph White, Widow Thompson, Whitehead's Mill Swamp, and Ready Branch; (2) 450 acres adjoining the aforesaid tract, Isaac Hilliard, and Little Pig Basket Creek. The first tract was granted conveyed by him to Ebenezer Folsome on June 22, 1762. The second tract was granted to

to Nathaniel Folsome by Earl Granville on June 30 1760, came by descent to Israel Folsome and was Ebenezer Folsome by Carl Granville on Aug. 8 1761 and both tracts were conveyed to Henry Horn by Ebeneqer Folsome on Nov 24, 1772. Wit: John Bond, David Pridgen, and Redmun Bunn." In attempting define the location of properties owned by Henry Horn, the Quaker, particularly his "last plantation" south of Contentnea Creek, in the summer of 2010 I made several visits to this

area, now located primarily in the southeastern part of Wilson County and adjoining parts of Wayne and Johnston Counties, with limited success.

It is virtually impossible to locate the precise location of specific properties described in deeds from the 1700's. However, a particular location is often suggested by reference to streams, swamps, and other remaining landmarks. By combining resources, both personal and documentary at both the North Carolina Genealogy Library in Raleigh and the Wilson County Public Library in Wilson, NC, I was able to locate a quite detailed map of Wilson County NC, prepared by Garland P. Stout, with a detailed accompanying index and annotations describing a large number of landmarks in the area in question. In the same area, south of Contentnea Creek where the property deeds and descriptions discussed above suggest that Henry the Quaker was located, several places and and names were found on this map. The following three locations, precisely defined on the old map are Henry Horn's Mill, 1778, Horn's Bridge, 1792, and Henry Horn's Old Place, The location of these and other sites are noted on the Map below.

The disposition of Henry's properties at his death in 1798 is detailed in Henry Horn's will, quoted in full below,

THE WILL OF HENRY THE QUAKER: On 8/25/97 RGH rec'd from Gwen Battle Horn of Sante Fe, NM a copy of the will of "Henry the Quaker", which she obtained 29 Aug 1984 at the NC State Archives. Acc. to Gwen "This will is

recorded vol. 1, p 47, Wayne Co NC Will Book A-Z and the record there appears to be in a different writing."

TEXT OF THE WILL: ordain this my last will & Testament, revoking & dis...ing all others heretofore made by me. Be it remembered that I, Henry Horn of Wayne County & State of North Carolina do make &

ITEM I give & bequeth to my wife Patience one feather bed & furniture (to wit) that on which we sleep, One black mare, one hunting saddle, one bridle, two young cows and calves, one sow and ten pewter

three pigs, one small pine chest, six earthen plates, two cups and four bowls, two basins, 2 dishes, plates, two silver spoons, Table & Tea spoons, 2 iron potts, 1 frying pan, one cotton wheel, one pair cards, one tub, one pail, one pigen, 3 setting chairs, one small pine table, one case of knives & forks, & six pewter spoons, to her & her heirs forever. ITEM I lend to my above & wife the use of my Lands & plantation I bought of Richard ???? during her widowhood but no longer. ITEM I give & bequeath to my sons and daughters viz William, Esther, Isaac, Henry, Charity, Joel and Demaris, the sum of five shillings each.

ITEM I give & bequeath to my daughter (to wit) Mourning, Phebe, & Selah, the sum of ten pounds current money to each of them, to them and their heirs forever. to him & his heirs forever. ITEM I give & bequeath to my son Jeremiah all that Tract of parcel of Land called the Wiggins place, ITEM I give & bequeath to my Grandson Josiah Horn, all my wright in the Lands on the North side of Tarriver and above Kirby's Creek whereon he now lives to him & his heirs forever. pigs to their only use & benefit in. ITEM I give & bequeath to my negrows, Will & Jude, their freedom & to them two cows, two sows & ITEM my will & desire respecting my other negroes (to wit) Isaac, Shadrack, Meshack, Duck or Patience, is that if at any time the laws of our Country will admit of their freedom, then they shall be free, but untill then, I do hereby deposit them in the care of my Executors as Guargians over them in all cases with equal authority as if I had made an absolute legacy of them, to them, yet not

so as to sell them for gain. ITEM I give & bequeath to my sons Jacob, Thomas, & Jeremiah all & every part of my Estate which is not heretofore bequeathed or directed, including the land lent my wife after her marryage or decease, to be Equally divided amongst them, to them & their heirs forever.

ITEM I do constitute & appoint my Sons Jacob, Thomas, & Jeremiah Horn's. executors of this my last Will & Testament, rattifying & confirming the same under my Hand & Seal this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and ninety-seven. Signed and acknowledged in presence of us, Jesse Parker John Doudna Sarah Doudna The Kirby's creek property which Henry mentions in the bequest to his grandson Josiah in this will above is probably the 200 acres which Henry had bought from Thomas Kirby in 1752 and then sold to his son Wm in 1761 "on the north side of Tar river, joining Stoney Creek", property sold by Col William to his Josiah in 1791. Henry's peculiar phraseology in the will, ie, "all my wright in the Lands on the North side of Tarriver", probably reflects that there was some question of ownership of this property, a circumstance which often afflicted Colonel William's assets. HENRY HORN S_E_A_L

Henry the Quaker was doubtlessly a man of substance and character. His abundant descendants are well documented, herein and elsewhere. I salute him. (a copy of these Notes is available in C:\FTW\Docs\HenryQNotes.rtf)

********************************************* Response to a query from Tim Horn, manager of the Horn family page on FTDNA.com. Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:10 AM

To: [email protected] Subject: HORN DNA PROJECT INFORMATION Robert, this is Tim, I am emailing you from my work. I have a strange match with your group and need some type of explanation. David Patterson Hunt joined our group and he traces his lineage to a William Hunt b 1740 but he matches Ethelred and John Long Horne 36/37 and matches you 35/37. What the Hell? Call me if its more convenient (561)379-7787 cell

My Response: Tim, (and David Hunt) Good to hear from you. First, let me say that I have been surprised by the fact that I see no indication from the published yDNA data that my Henry Horn the Quaker, b 1716, is descended from William Horn of Nansemond. My logic is this. named Horn, most of the descendants of whom lived in NC at least for a few generations, before moving south and west and procreating abundantly, it seems likely to me that at least a few of Given that William Horn of Nansemond, according to his will, had seven sons

those who have obtained yDNA studies would have the same yDNA as William of N. assume this is likely to be true.

And I still

Since three of the four Horn’s that have a clear paper trail to Henry the Quaker (me, Thel, Bryan C) and we have near identical yDNA, it seems essentially proven that we three share Henry the Q as a common ancestor. county, in 1805, so it seems it is likely that he is also descended from Henry the Quaker or from a more remote common ancestor. Two possible explanations for the findings to date regarding Henry the Q and William of N are: 1) Henry the Quaker was not a son of William of Nansemond. 2) Henry the Quaker was the son of William of Nansemond, and the only descendants of Possible, but ? unlikely. The fourth Horn, John Long Horne can only trace his paper back to Pitt

William of Nansemond who have submitted yDNA for study are those who have the yDNA of Henry the Quaker. Regarding the Hunts with yDNA matching that of Henry the Quaker, their earliest known ancestor, William Hunt, died in Richmond county NC in 1807, suggesting he was born in the middle of the 1700’s, one or two generations after Henry the Quaker. Since these families lived in the same

area for many years it seems likely that either the first Horn or the first Hunt with the Horn-Hunt yDNA was conceived out-of-wedlock. I have no indication of any circumstances which would provide additional information about this probability. father of William Hunt. A hallowed American tradition.

Perhaps a Hunt was the father of Henry Horn the Quaker, perhaps a son of Henry Horn was the

(David Hunt, do you more or less agree with this?) Keep in touch. Bob Horn

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NotesColWmHornC.docx Notes on the Life of “Colonel” William Horn, 1738 – 1800

I will begin this essay by quoting the entirety of several messages from Phil Norfleet, a distinguished genealogist who is very wellinformed about many of the families who emerged in pre-Colonial Virginia and North Carolina, in particular his family, and to no small extent, my own.

The first message from Phil Norfleet, 97-06-25, nicely summarizes important information regard the "Colonel"; it is a of the information I had on Colonel William, when I became seriously interested in my paternal ancestry.

particularly appropriate choice because the letter provides the bulk

Hi Bob, The info that I have re Colonel William Horn is presented below: 1 Colonel William Horn +Celia Richardson ........ 2 Nathan Horn 1738 - Abt 1818 - 1759 1759 - 1760

*2nd Wife of Colonel William Horn: . ........ +Mary Thomas Abt 1743 - Abt 1786 2 Priscilla Horn 1762 -

........ ............ ........ ............

2

Millberry Horn 1764 - 1851 +Joseph Phillips

2

Josiah Horn

1766 - 1845 1765 - 1840

+Elizabeth _____ 3 Henry Horn +Mary Morris 3

................... ....................... ................... ....................... ................... .......................

1793 - 1866 1799 - 1869 1800 -1882

Cordell Henry Horn +Lucy Morris

1809 - 1884 1806 -

3

Josiah Horn

+Elizabeth Harriett Allen

*3rd Wife of Colonel William Horn: . +Sarah Granberry - Abt 1790

*4th Wife of Colonel William Horn: . ........ ........ +Sarah "Sallie" Norfleet Abt 1763 - Aft 1824 2 2 William Norfleet Horn David Lawrence Horn Abt 1793 - Bef 1819 Abt 1795 - Aft 1820

It's interesting to note that one of Josiah's sons was named Cordell H.Horn and one of his grandsons was named Cordell Norfleet Horn. Cordell (Cordall) Norfleet (1777-1834) was a resident of Montgomery County TN and had been a member of the Red River Baptist Church until he was excommunicated in 1816. Do you know anything about the connection between Josiah Horn and Cordall Norfleet? Re the 360-acre tract of land given to Col Horn and his wife Sarah Norfleet Horn by Lemuel Lawrence: This land was later resold by David Lawrence Horn on 01 February 1820 (see Davidson County Deed Book "O," page 45). At the time his father and brother (William Norfleet

Horn) were both apparently dead. Previously, on 5 April 1819, David's mother, Sarah, signed a quit-claim (see Davidson County Deed Book "N," page 428) in his favor so that he could sell theland. At the time of the sale, David Lawrence Horn was a resident of Green County GA. Today, the actual location of the land is in Cheatham County (established 1856) TN. I have never seen hard evidence proving that Josiah was the son of Col Horn. There was an unsigned monograph in the Horn Vertical File at the Clarksville Public Library, in which the genealogist (name unknown) conjectured that Josiah was the son of Colonel William Horn by his 2nd wife. Re Colonel Horn's death, most sources I have seen give his death as 1824, the year that his estate in Nash County NC was divided. The only thing I can state for sure is that he was dead by 1819. Regards, Phil Norfleet An earlier E-mail from Phil Norfleet on 6/20/97 to Bill Horn, forwarded to me, stated the following: Hi Bill, Thanks for your message dated 20 June 1997. There are two Horn family members that I am particularly interested in. 1. Colonel William Horn (1738-c1818) of Nash County NC: In about the year 1792 Colonel William Horn, a Revolutionary War Hero, took as his fourth and last wife, Sarah (Sallie) Norfleet, the daughter of James Norfleet (1735-1780) and Mary Battle. Sallie Norfleet and Colonel Horn had at least two children: William Norfleet Horn and David Lawrence Horn. After James Norfleet's death in 1780, Mary Battle Norfleet, Sallie's mother, married Lemuel Lawrence (d 1811) of Northampton County NC, who was a close friend of Colonel Horn. By indenture, dated 29 August 1796, Lemuel Lawrence "for the love and affection that I have and declare unto my friend William Horn & his wife Sarah Horn, both of the county of Nash and State of North Carolina," conveyed a 360 acre tract of land in Davidson County TN to "...the said William Horn & Sarah his during their natural life and after their decease unto the aforesaid sons of William and Sarah Horn. To Wit, William Norfleet Horn and David

Lawrence Horn to them & theirs forever." (Davidson County TN, Deed Book "D", p 225.) See further notes re this land below. 2. Josiah Horn (1766-1845) of Montgomery County TN: Josiah was a noted Baptist minister and the founder (in about 1805) of the Blooming Grove Baptist Church in Montgomery County TN. He is reputed to have been the son of William Horn by his second wife, Mary Thomas (1743-1786). However, I have no hard evidence that proves this assertion. Any information you might have concerning Colonel Horn, his ancestors, his four wives, and his children would be much appreciated. Regards, Phil Norfleet

Chronology of Selected Events in the Life of Colonel William Horn (1738-?) and his Associates 1738: Born in Nansemond VA. He was the firstborn child of Henry Horn and Ann Purcell. 1758: Married Celia Richardson, August 2. (She was a first cousin, the daughter of Ann Purcell’s sister, Phoebe) This wife, Celia Richardson was also the sister of Edith Richardson who married Col Wm's brother, Isaac. 1759: Son Nathan born, April 9. (Eight months after marriage) 1760: Son Nathan died in January. His wife,Celia, died in December. 1762: Married Mary Thomas, age 19. 1762-1766: Three children born, Priscilla, Millberry, and Josiah 1775-78: Mary Thomas dies, her early thirties.

Milberry may have been raised by her uncle, Henry Horn, Jr. and his wife, Sarah Battle. In some Battle family records, Milberry is erroneously described a being a child of Henry and Sarah. 1776, November 12: "William Horn duly elected and certified for Edgecombe County to a Congress begun and held at Halifax, in the County of Halifax". V. 10, p. 919, Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. Wm Horn was in the state legislature for a number of years. Same reference states, v 19, p233, "In the House of Commons April 18, 1783, William Horn certified as being duly elected to represent Bertie County." He probably continued as a House member through 1789. V. 21, p193, Colonial Records states "November 2, 1789: House Journal in the House of Commons... William Horn certified as being duly elected to represent Bertie County." Extensive citations of the Colonial Records in the Ray Horn Book, pp 77-87. 1779: Marries Sarah Granberry. Information about this marriage was largely provided to me by Gwen Horne, who provided me a copy of a marriage contract between these two in which the action is clearly dated as 1779, witnessed by Thos. Rhodes and Lemuel Burkitt 1780, Dec 26: Nash Co NC Deed Book 1-241: William Horn of Bertie Co NC to George Wimberley of Edgecombe Co, for 33 pds, a tract of 100 acres on Pig Basket Creek. Witnesses: Joel Horn, Josiah Horn, Milberry Horn (from data sent by Jim Doyle). According to Gwen Horn, this 100 acres was a part of Mary Thomas’ inheritance, and this sale rather well establishes that Josiah and Milberry had an interest in the property, presumably because she was their mother. This document is interpreted as indication that Josiah was a son of Col WM and Mary Thomas. (Gwen’s note of 12/15/97) 1789: Sarah Norfleet Hilliard petitions the Northampton Co Court for Dower of several tracts of land, her husband Elias having recently died intestate. 1790-1792: Col Wm marries Sarah Norfleet Hilliard. 1793-1795: Sons, William Norfleet Horn and David Lawrence Horn, born to Col Wm and Sarah Norfleet Horn. 1796, Deed transferring 360 acres in Davidson County, TN from Lemuel Lawrence to Wm and Sarah Horn, signed 29 August 1796, presumably in Nash Co NC, witnessed by Cordall Norfleet, John Cryer, and E???? Thompson. Execution of this deed in Davidson County, TN court on 18 March, 1797, "by the oath of John Cryer".

[Cordall Norfleet, witness to the deed above, the brother of Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn, according to Phil Norfleet, (http://members.xoom.com/norfleet1666/norfleet5.htm], relocated from NC to TN in 1799, joining his brother Capt. James Norfleet in Montgomery and Robertson Counties, where both were prominent citizens. Cordall was affiliated with the Port Royal Baptist church. Cordall was probably well known to Josiah Horn of Blooming Grove, probably providing a name for Josiah's son Cordell and his grandson Cordial. John Cryer, another witness to the NC deed above and an affiant to the execution of that deed in 1797 in Davidson County court, was a apparently a citizen of Sumner county, TN, since an individual of that named in frequently cited in Sumner County record of the early 1800's.] Colonel William was, at least for a time active in the affairs, political as well as religious, of a Baptist Church in North Carolina, discussed by Hugh B. Johnston in History of The Falls of the Tar River Baptist Church, 1757-1939, Wilson County (NC) Public Library. This period of religious interest may relate to the religious interests of the Norfleets and his son Josiah in Tennessee (previous paragraph). THE DEED IN THE PRIOR PARAGRAPH IS THE SECOND-TO-LAST KNOWN DOCUMENTATION I HAVE THAT COLONEL WILLIAM HORN WAS STILL ALIVE. (3 Feb 1999, RGH). (The last known documentation, described in detail below, is the March 1797 Wayne County Deed, which the Colonel apparently was named and which he witnessed. [vide infra]). For a considerable time, until the summer of 2010, I had been unable to any documentation of the continued life or of the death of Colonel William.

(Most or all of the following discussion was formulated while attempting to determine what had been the fate of Colonel William after March of 1797. Near the end of this essay, I will provide convincing evidence bearing on the answer to that question.)

1800, 1 January: Deed signed transferring 230 Acres in Montgomery county TN to Josiah Horn, son of Colonel William. Proven in Court, April 1801, registered 8 July 1801. Although this property of Josiah, where he lived for the remaining 45 years of his life, is only about 20 miles from the Cumberland River property deeded to his father in 1796 (see above), I have no indication that the transactions are at all related, and there is, in fact, no indication that the

Colonel ever saw his Cumberland River property or had any interaction with his son, Josiah, after the son's migration to Tennessee.

The following two transactions were thought initially to possibly represent land purchases by Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn, the wife of Col William, but that possibility was proved to be erroneous, as is discussed in great detail in the NOTES to Sarah Norfleet Horn. 1799, 8 January: Deed signed transferring 50 acres on Whites Creek (TN) to Sarah Horn. Davidson county court, 1800. 1802, 20 January: Deed signed transferring 14 acres on Whites Creek (TN) to Sarah Horn. To Court in April Session 1803. A study of events surrounding this other Sarah Horn, recounted in detail in the Notes to Sarah Norfleet Horn, seems to clearly establish that another Sarah Horn, the widow of Joel Horn, a brother of Colonel William, brought her two young sons, Etheldred and Matthew, to Tennessee to locate near her brothers, Joseph and Benjamin Philips. For this reason Sarah Philips Horn purchased land on White's Creek, near the Joseph Philips property in 1800 and 1803. 2) And, on the other hand, considerable investigation of Davidson county records in this period provide no evidence that Col William and Sarah Horn ever got to Davidson County to see their Cumberland River property, and furthermore, it seems if they did get here they probably did not stay very long.

WAS COL. WILLIAM HORN CITED AS DECEASED IN THE 1797 WILL OF HIS FATHER, HENRY THE QUAKER? The following excerpt of a letter describes my consideration of the answer to the preceding question. 30 January, 1999 A distant cousin of ours, Charlene Sallee Sidwell, after looking at my Home Page on the Web, pointed out to me that several of the children of Henry the Quaker, named as if alive in his 1797 will, are recorded as having died before 1797 in my listing of Henry's descendants. I had not noticed that paradox, but upon perusal the apparent disconnect is quite obvious.

A listing of Henry's children, with dates of birth and death follows:

1 ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......

Henry Horn 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

b: November 21, 1716

d: 1798 d: Bet. 1795 - 1800

William Horn Esther Horn Isaac Horn

b: March 30, 1738 b: April 6, 1740 d: 1789 b: May 7, 1742 d: 1782

Henry Horn, Jr. b: June 10, 1744 d: February 5, 1785 Jacob Horn b: March 10, 1747/48 d: 1827

Mourning Horn b: March 10, 1747/8 d: February 15, 1829 Phebe Horn Joel Horn Thomas Horn Charity Horn Selah Horn Demaris Horn b: September 14, 1749 d: Unknown b: August 14, 1751 b: March 24, 1753 b: November 19, 1755 b: February 13, 1758 d: 1793 d: Abt. 1808 d: Unknown d: Unknown

b: May 31, 1760 d: Unknown

Jeremiah Horn b: November 1, 1763 d: Bet. 1809 – 1840

Reviewing this information has led me to some interesting speculation. I would like you to consider this. The following appears to be the case: Of the 13 Children of Henry the Quaker, the date of death of five is unknown to me (William, Phebe, Charity, Selah, and Demaris). Of the other eight children, the year of their death seems well established. Of the eight, the following died well before the date of their father's will: Isaac, 1782, Henry, 1785, Esther, 1789, and Joel, 1793. Given this fact, why would the following line be included in the will of their father:

"ITEM I give and bequeath to my sons and daughters viz William, Esther, Isaac, Henry, Joel, Charity, and Demaris the sum of five shillings each." [I have rechecked a photocopy of the original document and the cited line is correctly transcribed above.] It is well established that the following children died after the death of their father: Jacob, 1827, Mourning 1829, Thomas 1808, and Jeremiah, after 1809. Of the children known to be dead before 1797, all four are listed in the "five shilling" bequest above. The time of death of the other three children listed in that line, William, Charity, and Demaris, is unknown. [Parenthetically, the seven children listed in that line are named in the order of their birth.]

It is consistent with known facts that the seven children listed in the "five shilling line" were all dead at the time Henry the Quaker wrote his 1797 Will, and that this bequest is essentially a symbolic tribute to their memories, and possibly a clever mechanism to avoid a challenge to the Will by heirs of his deceased children.

His other six children each received a significant bequest: 10 pounds current money to each daughter, Mourning, Phebe, and Selah, and the remainder of the estate equally to each of the surviving three sons, Jacob, Thomas, and Jeremiah. If this hypothesis of mine were true it would indicate that, in his final days, Henry knew, or believed, that his oldest son, Colonel William, had preceded him in death. Such a possibility would probably be both a disappointment and a relief to many Horn genealogists who have continued to look for some evidence as to what finally happened to the flamboyant and redoubtable Colonel, and when, where, and how his career came to an end. At the moment, the considerations discussed suggest to me it is likely that Col William had died some time between 29 August 1796, when he received the gift of 360 acres on the Cumberland River, near Nashville, TN, from his friend, Lemuel Lawrence, and 30 March, 1797, when his father, Henry Horn, signed his Will, listing his oldest son, William, among the dead.

In regard to and arguing against the above hypothesis, Gwen Horne recalls that William Horn is named in a Nash County Deed in 1797, suggesting he is alive at that time. An abstract of such a deed follows: "Nash County Deed Book 6, p 268. Mar 8 1797. From Henry Horn of Wayne Co to Thomas Horn of same. For 45 pounds Virginia money paid to William Row, deceased, including the plantation whereon William Horn then lived. Wit: Wm Horn, Jeremiah Horn, and Patience Horn." A photocopy of the microfilm of the handwritten original document was examined on 23 Feb 1999. The original documents states directly the following: "... including the plantation whereon William Horn now lives." Furthermore, according to the original document, William Horn not only witnessed the signature by Henry Horn, but William also presented the document in open court under Oath as proof (the date of "proof" in court does not appear to be documented. Henry Horn's Will was dated 22 days later, 30 March, 1797, in which his son appears to be addressed as among the dead. Why? Review of Nash Co Deed Abstracts reveals three additional references to the same (almost certainly) piece of property. Two of those deeds record the purchase of two additional adjacent tracts by Thomas in 1798. The more significant is this: 1) Four weeks prior to the 8 March deed cited above, Henry Horn deeded the property to this son Thomas. " Nash Co, DB6-233 Henry Horn of Wayne Co to his son Thomas Horn of same. Feb 9 1797. For love and affection that tract of land in Nash Co on the north side of Contentnea Creek beginning at the upper end of the William Row old friend and near Cornelius Sanders' field. Wit: William Row and James Broadstreet." (Note: William Row dies between 9 Feb (see above) and 8 March 1797 (see next paragraphs.) 2) Four weeks later, they were back in court, now with Colonel William, to execute the second deed, wherein the failing Henry Horn pays 45 pounds Virginia money to his son, Colonel William, undoubtedly that the prodigal son William wanted, to clear any cloud to the claim of his son Thomas to the property that William felt he was entitled to. The text is somewhat cluttered, but I believe it is clear that this is the effect and intent of The 8 March deed, the text of which follows:

" This Indenture made this Eighth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety-seven Between Henry Horn of Wayne County and State of North Carolina, and Thomas Horn of the same place witnesseth that the said Henry Horn for a consideration of the sum of Forth five pounds Virgina Currency paid to William Horn doth acquit and Discharge the said Thomas Horn haith given Granted Bargained & sold unto the said Thomas Horn all my wright to and privilege in all the Lands formerly belonging to William Row Deceased with my benefit thereunto belonging Including the plantation whereon William Horn now lives To Have and To Hold the said land above Granted with Every appurtenance thereto belonging to him the said Thomas Horn his Heirs and assigns forever and I the said Henry Horn do for my self my Heirs Executors or Administrators acquit all claim in said Land and do warrant & defend the title thereof against the lawfull Claim of other person or persons whatsoever, in anywise. In Witness whereof I do hereto set my hand with my seal this day and year above written. Signed and Acknowledged in the presence of Wm Horn and Jeremiah Horn. Henry Horn S_E_A_L

The written Deed was in open Court duly proved by the Oath of Wm Horn & Patience Horn and ordered to be registered. Nash County ---lig & term 1797

The above documents seem to clearly establish that Col. William was alive on 8 March 1797, while the fact remains that the Col's father, Henry the Quaker refers in his will dated 30 March, 1797 to son William as if he were dead. Did Colonel William die shortly after 8 March 1797? Could the fact or circumstances of his death been a particular stimulus to Henry to write his Will and prepare for the settlement of his estate? Or, on the other hand, did the redoubtable Colonel William Horn, on 8 March, 1797, tuck the 45 pounds Virginia currency in his purse, mount up, and head west to see his property in Tennessee, on the Cumberland River, just north of Nashville. The deed to this 360 acres was executed in Davidson county court, just 10 days later, 18 March, 1797 (vide supra). Was the deed delivered to the court by the Colonel himself? Was Henry the Quaker, the Colonel's ailing

and elderly father, so angered by the circumstances of his first son's departure, that Henry referred to his son in his will, signed on 30 March, 1797, as if the son were dead? No clear trace remains of Colonel William Horn following these events of March, 1797. Although there are numerous references to several individuals with the name "William Horn(e) " in the records of eastern NC in the 20 years or so after the events of March, 1797, cited above. I have looked with reasonable care to see if any of those citations appear to refer to Colonel William, and it seems that most of the references are to other known men, often cousins of the Colonel, and not to the Colonel himself. For example, several deeds naming "William Horn of Nash County" appear to refer to a son of Thomas Horn and his wife, Hannah, the uncertain paternity of whom (i. e., Thomas) is discussed elsewhere in this tome. Several deeds naming "William Horn of Edgecombe County" in this period appear to refer to either a son of Moses Horn and wife Mary, or possibly "Willie", the son of Elijah Horn, Sr. There are a number of land transactions involving a William Horn)e) of Johnston County, and one of these even cites both a William and a Josiah, making it tempting to conclude that this citation refers to the Colonel and his son Josiah. However, this Johnston county transaction in 1802 occurs more than two years after Josiah Horn and his family had moved hundreds of miles to west, to Montgomery county, TN. It seems improbable, two years after Josiah had left NC for good, that he would have bought 20 acres of NC land from his father. In view of the more recent information regarding the time of death of Colonel William (vide infra), it may be that this 1802 real estate record reflects an action taken in regard to the settling of the estate of the Colonel. Recorded events involving the wife/widow of the Colonel, and their two sons establish their likely leaving North Carolina after 1800, and possibly being in middle Tennesse, before residing in Georgia and then Mississippi prior to the death of the last of the three, in 1840 in Mississippi.

In 1819, Sarah Horn, then in Greene County, Georgia, signed a Quit-Claim deed in favor of David L. Horn, re 360 acres in northern Davidson County TN. Joseph Phillips, husband of Milberry Horn (daughter of Col Wm. Horn), handled this transaction as well as the sale of the property in 1820.

In 1820 David L. Horn of Greene County GA sold the Davidson County property, his aunt Milberry,’s husband, Joseph Phillips handling the legal proceedings for him. 1840: David L. Horn dies in Warren County, MS. Interesting details surrounding the disposition of his property may be found in notes to this David Lawrence Horn, available elsewhere, where there is additional information about this man, his mother, and others of their relatives. Similar discussion of this area is present near the end of these Notes.

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The following note of 20 September, 2002, to Larry Horn, provides a summary of my interpretation at that time of the likely fate of Colonel William: "Regarding the Colonel, I have the strong feeling that something happened to the Colonel in 1797, following the events we have recently discussed in which his father transferred property to Thomas and paid off the Colonel to prevent his contesting the gift, in the Nash County court action of 8 March, 1797. Actually, we are lucky to have as much information as we do have in regard to the Colonel at this time. We know he had obtained the property in Tennessee, which he must have intended to utilize, if we can imagine the conversations, the planning for the future, in the summer of 1796, among the Colonel, his wife, and his wife's mother and her husband, who would give the property to the Colonel and his wife, for their two children's benefit. I think Colonel William was planning to make an exploratory trip to Tennessee to see the property and make plans to move there. He managed to maneuver his father into giving him enough money, the 45 pounds, to make the trip and implement the relocation.The Colonel was probably traveling with John Cryer, the individual who was both a witness to the NC deed giving the Tennessee land to the Colonel's family, as well as the man who registered the deed in the Tennessee

court on 18 March, 1797. Or perhaps he sent Cryer on ahead to register the deed in Tennessee, while the Colonel managed a slower pace.

I can imagine the Colonel left NC for Tennessee after 8 March, 1797, and that he never arrived there. A thousand things are easily imagined that might have happened to a 60 year old man, traversing the four or five hundred miles across the Appalachian mountains. I think the reason his death is not documented is because no one was sure he was dead, even then, and they were expecting, for a long while, that he would ride up one day, with a bottle half full, and a lot of wonderful tales to tell. I suspect this is as close to the truth about the Colonel's end as I will ever get. Stay in touch. " Bob Horn

As a consequence of two short trips to North Carolina in July of 2010, I obtained copies of about 375 pages of miscellaneous notes on some of the Horn families of early NC collected by Hugh B. Johnston, provided with the assistance of Sue Powell of Wilson County, NC of the Wilson County Genealogical Society. In these HBJ papers there is a 1/3 page carefully hand-written note, obviously being a note written by someone who was examining court papers of Franklin County, NC. The transcription of the note states the following: Franklin County NC County Court mInutes of September, 1800, state that the Court ordered Sally Horn (Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn) be appointed administratrix of Wm. Horn, deceased, who entered bond in the sum of 100 pounds with Wm Green, Jr her security. The immediately following note from the HBJ papers, clearly written by the same person, contains the following references: “Thomas Christmas of Warren County NC)…, Mother-in-law: Sally Horn, and Wife: Mary Ann Christmas, and Thomas Powers.”

From the above notes and correlated information obtained from other sources, I am confident of the following conclusions: 1) Sally Horn is clearly Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn the fourth wife of Col Wm. 2) Her oldest child by Hilliard, Elizabeth, married William Green Jr in 1797 in Franklin County NC. 3) Her second child by Hilliard, Mary Ann, married Thomas Christmas (III) of Warren County NC in 1801. 4) Thomas Powers of Warren County was married to a Christmas. 5) Franklin and Warren counties are adjacent, northeast of Raleigh. 6) The initial text of the note states explicitly that Wm Horn, clearly the husband of Sally Hilliard Horn, was deceased, and that he had left property to be allocated by a court supervised probate or administration. ( The use of the term, administratrix, indicates the deceased Colonel William had not left a will, which would administered by probate, rather than “administration”, according to Stephen Bradley). Given the above information, it seems obvious that by 1800 Sally Horn (Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn) had relocated to Warren or Franklin county, presumably as a consequence of the relationship of her daughters to William Green, a sonin-law, and Thomas Christmas, a son-in-law to be. Whether she had relocated there before or after the death of Colonel William is not clear. Presumably this relocation of the Colonel and/or his wife and children, probably not long before his death, contributed greatly to the difficulty in our learning more about the fact and circumstances of his death. Gwen Horne had long complained to me that she could not imagine why such a public figure as the Colonel left no apparent record of his demise. With this knowledge of the approximate time of the death of Colonel William, it may be easier to interpret the actions of his widow and their children in the following years. It was long recognized that at times Sally and her daughters by Hilliard and sons by Horn were located first in Georgia and then in Mississippi.

It now becomes reasonable to consider that possibility that after the death of the Colonel, probably in 1800, Sally and some of her family may have at least for

a time lived in Montgomery County TN, in or near where two younger brothers of Sarah Norfleet, James and Cordell resided at that time. Such a happening might explain how David Lawrence Horn, son of Sarah and the Colonel, and his cousin, William B. Norfleet, son of Cordell, became closely acquainted. These two men, near the same age, lived during their final years in Mississippi, in Hinds and Warren counties, both were childless and apparently unmarried, both wrote their wills and died in 1840, and both left the bulk of their estates to Elizabeth Hilliard Green and Mary Ann Hilliard Christmas, daughters of Sarah Norfleet Hilliard Horn.

It is my intention to travel to NC again within the next few weeks to visit Franklin and Warren counties and elsewhere as needed to

obtain more information regarding the circumstances of the death of the Colonel, and to reconsider the events in the light of this new information.

STATUS REPORT, 18 SEPTEMBER, 2010 THE FATE OF COLONEL WILLIAM HORN, 1738-1800
In early September of 2010 I made a quick trip to North Carolina. I will mention a few highlights. I drove all day Tuesday, and went to the State Archives on Wednesday morning. In a short time I was able to see the original documents from the Franklin County Court Minutes wherein the fact of the death of Colonel William Horn shortly before September of 1800 was documented. The Court minutes document the appointment of his widow, Sarah (Sally) Norfleet Hilliard Horn as administratrix of his estate, and give her the authority to dispose of his “Perishable Estate”. There are two consecutive Court actions on Sept 8, the first appointing Sally Horn the adminstratrix of estate of Wm Horn, dec’d, and the second giving 6 months to dispose of the “perishable assets”. These two court actions seem to synchronize with the two notations from the Franklin County Will book A, by Stephen Bradley, noting the Inventory and Sale of William Horn, dec’d. Stephen Bradley astutely points out in a general reference that, “probate” is the process of effecting the terms of a will, while the term, “administration”, is used to define the courtdirected action of settling the estate in the absence of a will. Therefore, the Franklin county Court action of 8 September, 1800, in appointing Sally Horn the administratrix of the Colonel’s estate, indicates that Colonel William died intestate. Correspondingly, I find no record of a Will for Colonel Williams in the NC State Archives. What, if anything, can we infer about the death of Colonel William, apparently shortly before September of 1800?

In the late 1790’s the Colonel was apparently a vigorous young man in his early sixties, with two young sons by his fourth wife. Only a couple of years earlier, in 1796, the Colonel and Sarah had been given a large tract of land on the Cumberland river, just north of Nashville, a gift from Sarah’s stepfather. I can only imagine the family foresaw a bright future across the mountains in Tennessee. The Colonel’s daughter, Milberry, married to the well-to-do Joseph Phillips, had recently moved from NC to the Nashville area, and they had a large property and accommodations just east of Nashville. The Colonel’s son, Josiah, would come to Montgomery county in late 1799 and purchase land on the Cumberland River on 1 January, 1800, along with his family and others, Including his aunt, Mourning, the Colonel’s young sister and her family. (Parenthetically, the fact that we have noted before, that Col William’s son David became very close to William Battle Norfleet, raises the interesting question of where David Horn and William B. Norfleet became acquainted. The two were about the same age. They both lived in Mississippi, near each other, and they each wrote wills and died in 1840, both leaving the bulk of their estates to the descendants of Sarah Norfleet Horn’s daughters. Strange, is it not? William B Norfleet was the son of Cordall Norfleet, a close friend and compatriot of Colonel William. Cordall moved from NC to Montgomery County TN in 1798, when both William B. Norfleet and David L. Horn were less than 10 years old. Is it possible that the young David Horn came to Tennessee with the Norfleets, perhaps even Sarah and her other young son, living with or in proximity to Cordall Norfleet, prior to the young men’s later moving south and ending up in Mississippi with Sarah Norfleet and her two daughters and their families.) Unfortunately, it seems, the Colonel never apparently arrived in Tennessee, if he ever started.

The Colonel and his family received the gift of land in Tennessee in 1796. In 1797, in March, he was involved in a legal dispute in a Nash County court, in brother, and their father. At the same time a friend of the Colonel had Davidson County, TN. which the ownership of a property was in dispute among the Colonel, a

traveled to Tennessee and registered the deed to the Colonel’s property in I am aware of no documentation of the presence or existence of the Colonel NC courts records in September of 1800.

between March of 1797 and the reference to his death in the Franklin county I speculate that the Colonel, possibly even with his family, started on the trek of that journey. His wife’s presence is Franklin County, NC in 1800 is

to Tennessee, and I further speculate that he may have died during the course probably related to the fact that, of her two grown young daughters by

after the Colonel died or disappeared, Sarah Horn, the young widow, moved to Franklin County in relation to her daughter’s interests there.

time of the execution of the court document in September of 1800. Perhaps

thereafter marry Thomas Christmas, both citizens of Franklin County at the

Hilliard, one was married to William Green, Jr, and the other would shortly

Larry Horn asks: “So you think that the Colonel and Sally after marriage just lived in Northampton County, and that she went to Franklin after his death? If so, then the l800

Franklin document naming her administratrix of his estate would be referring to his holdings in Northampton County, or elsewhere? Could one county decree in that way about property in another county? To which I answered Larry: “All good questions. I have no answers. It is not in TN was actually gifted to the two sons of Wm and Sally, with the assignment had a clear title to the Tennessee property, and perhaps other tracts or items. Sally must have known the Colonel often found himself in litigious situations. Surely he must have at least occasionally been at some fault in his business arrangements or dealings. Recall the unseemly situation in court with his of a “life estate” to the parents. It is possible Sally was trying to be sure she clear to me what property Col Wm owned at the time of his death. The land

father and brother Thomas in Feb/March of 1797. Of course, also with issues over Hilliard property at around the time of his marriage to the widow Hilliard.

It seems to me that the following is where we stand now regarding the fate of Colonel William. Col. Wm. died sometime before Sept of 1800 when Sarah, his wife was

apparently living in Franklin County with or in proximity to her two grown Horn, age 5, were living with her.

daughters. Her two sons, William Norfleet Horn, age 7 and David Lawrence

I do not know where the Colonel and Sarah lived after their marriage in about 1789, apparently in Northampton County. We know that in August of 1796, Sarah’s stepfather gave the family the 360 acre property in Davidson County, Tennessee and directly or indirectly, the Colonel sent his friend John Cryer to Tennessee where Cryer registered the deed on the property of the Colonel and Sarah, in the Tennessee court on 18 March, 1797. I cannot at the moment recall knowing anything else specific about the

Colonel’s whereabouts, until the controversial episode of February/March 1797 involving his father, Henry and brother, Thomas, over real property issues and money.

I believe we still have no evidence of any action or identification of a living Colonel William after March of 1797. You will recall the perhaps interesting observation which I have discussed perhaps excessively, where the text of Henry the Quaker’s will can be the Will Henry signed on 30 March, 1797. interpreted to refer to his son, Colonel William, by implication, as being dead, in Is it possible that Colonel William died, by fair means or foul, in mid-March of

1797, leaving his widow Sarah and their two young sons to fend for themselves

without a husband and father.

gone toward Tennessee, where he arrived on or before 18 March, 1797.

By this time John Cryer must have been long

Or, perhaps Colonel William, angered by the dealings with his father and

brother, impulsively decided to depart for Tennessee with the 45 pounds,

promising to lay the ground work for a planned move to Tennessee, and leaving his wife and two young ones to adjourn to Franklin county where Sarah’s twp daughters might help them sustain themselves until he returned. referring to him in his will as in the “past tense”.) (In this

scenario, we might imagine Henry rhetorically disowned his son, William, thus It is not hard for me to imagine that an impulsive and somewhat irresponsible 60 year old man could meet his fate on such a journey, five or six hundred miles through the wilderness.

It might well have taken two years or more for Sarah to learn of what might have happened to him, or to come to the conclusion that he was not going to return, as planned. Whatever specific fate finally befell him, it must be acknowledged that, in spite single son who would maintain his paternal line. His first son, Nathan died in infancy, along with his mother. Of Sally’s two sons, William apparently died prematurely and David Lawrence died childless in Mississippi in 1840.

of flamboyant and possibly heroic marital efforts, resulted only the survival of a

Nevertheless, Josiah Horn, 1766-1845, who seems almost certainly* to be a son of Colonel William, even if the documentation is poor, provided sufficient sons and grandsons to carry the Horn name across the mountains to Tennessee, to and West, even unto today. Bob Horn 18 September, 2010

begat fruitfully and well, sending sons and daughters in abundance to the South

*(Perhaps it might well be acknowledged here that, even if it were unlikely but true that Josiah was not the son of Colonel William, he is certainly a lineal Horn descendants of Josiah and Henry the Quaker establishes with near descendant of Henry the Quaker. Available yDNA evidence from a number of absolute certainty that Henry the Quaker is a common ancestor of these Horns. Thus, if Josiah Horn is not the son of Colonel William, as seems most likely, he is the son of another son of Henry the Quaker, his grandfather. See further discussion under the Notes to Josiah Horn of Blooming Grove.)

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Josiah Horn of Blooming Grove

Josiah Horn and His Children
1 Josiah Horn b: 06 Aug 1766 in Edgecombe County, NC d: 23 Oct 1845 in Montgomery County, TN +Elizabeth Hunter b: 18 Sep 1765 in Nash County, NC d: 01 Jul 1840 in Montgomery County, TN 2 James Horn b: Abt. 1787 in Nash, NC +unknown 2 Thomas Horn b: 17 Mar 1788 in North Carolina d: 01 Nov 1867 in Missouri +Elizabeth Hunt b: 06 Apr 1797 d: 03 Jun 1838 in Missouri 2 Henry Horn b: 22 Aug 1793 in Nash County NC d: 21 Feb 1866 in Montgomery County, TN +Mary Morris b: 07 May 1793 in North Carolina d: 19 Aug 1869 in Montgomery County, TN 2 Winifred Horn b: Abt. 1800 d: 1845 in Howard County, Missouri +Obadiah Jr. Tindall b: in Virginia d: 1828 in Howard County, Missouri 2 Cordell H. Horn b: 16 Sep 1800 in Nash County NC d: 18 Aug 1882 in Montgomery County, TN +Lucy Morris b: 28 Feb 1809 in Montgomery Co. TN d: 26 May 1884 in Montgomery County TN 2 Josiah Horn b: Abt. 1806 in Montgomery County, TN +Elizabeth Harriet Allen b: 1817

Notes on Josiah Horn of Blooming Grove
"Josiah Horn, born to Col. William Horn and his wife, Mary Thomas, August

6,1766." The above date of birth and parentage is frequently cited by careful students of this

family and the stated facts do not seem controversial, but I am aware of no precise documentation of these facts. For example, the births of the first two children of Col Wm and Mary T. Horn are listed in Williams and Griffin, Bible Records of Early Edgecombe, citing the files of Hugh B. Johnston, but neither Josiah nor the later wives and children of the Colonel are listed there.

the cemetary at Blooming Grove Church, so this date seems to have been in no doubt. Clear documentation of his parentage is lacking, however, and any conclusion requires some inferences.

The above date of birth is engraved on Josiah's tombstone (Photograph available) in

received a bequest in the 1797 will of his grandfather, Henry "the Quaker" Horn,

Josiah was clearly a grandson of Henry "the Quaker" Horn and Ann Purcell. He

namely: "ITEM I give & bequeath to my Grandson Josiah Horn, all my wright in the him & his heirs forever."

Lands on the North side of Tarriver and above Kirby's Creek whereon he now lives to The Kirby's creek property which Henry mentions in the bequest to his

grandson Josiah in his will is probably the 200 acres which Henry had bought from Thomas Kirby in 1752 and then sold to his son Wm in 1761 "on the north side of Tar river, joining Stoney Creek", property sold by Col William to his Josiah in 1791.

Henry's peculiar phraseology in the will, ie, "all my wright in the Lands on the North property, a circumstance which often afflicted Colonel William's assets. (See further discussion of this issue below.) (Henry and Ann Horn had a second grandson named Josiah, i. e., Josiah

side of Tarriver", probably reflects that there was some question of ownership of this

Robert, son of Jacob, but his age (born 1797) essentially precludes the possibility that Josiah Robert was the recipient of the bequest in Henry's 1797 will.)

Thomas is suggested by numerous real estate transactions which tend to link these individuals. Cited in the abstracts of Early deeds of Nash County, NC, 1778-1813, by Joseph Watson, in 1780 and 1782 there are transactions by William Horn,

Indication that this Josiah Horn, born 1766, is the son of Col. William Horn and Mary

witnessed by Josiah Horn and Milbrie Horn, linking these three rather convincingly. William would be about 42, now married to Sarah Granberry, Mary Thomas having died a few years earlier, and Josiah would be about 15. [In 1762, the first year of their marriage, William Horn and Mary Thomas sold to Joseph Thomas, Mary's father, and "Said Mary relinquished right of

Thomas Whitfield 260 acres on Pigbasket Creek, property which had been a grant to dower" (Edgecombe county deed book B, p530(603). Additional property on

Pigbasket Creek, 100 acres, was sold by the Colonel in 1780, in a transaction (Nash was residual property which had been part of the dower of Mary Thomas, mother of Josiah and Milberry. Citing this 1780 transaction, Gwen B. Horn, a very knowledgable student of this Horn family, commented to me in December, 1997: " How much documentary evidence do you need? ... Josiah is Col. Wm's son. In this 1780 NC deed Josiah, Milberry and and unidentified Joel witness the Col's sale of

Book 1, p 241) witnessed by Josiah Horn and "Melbry" Horn. It seems likely that this

Mary Thomas's Pig Basket Creek inheritance. Clearly Mary died intestate and Josiah and Milberry had some sort of claim. I say clearly Mary died intestate, for I have searched for her will for 40 years."] Josiah Horn witnessed the sale of property by Col. William in 1782 (Nash Deed Book

1, p 194) and in 1786 (Edgecombe Deed Book E, p 105(514), indicating that the father and son were in contact and on good terms at this time.

fourth time, to Sarah Norfleet Hilliard, in 1790-1792. At the time of her marriage to the Colonel, Sarah was recently widowed by the death of her husband, Elias Hilliard. Considerable legal controversy involving the Colonel and his wife and the estate of her late husband, Elias Hilliard, ensued, as reflected in subsequent real estate transactions and other legal documents. According to the 1790 NC census, listed in the Halifax district of Nash County,

By 1788 Col William was no longer married to Sarah Granberry, and he married the

Josiah Horn was listed as head-of-household, with the following enumeration: Free WM >15, 1, presumably Josiah; Free WM <16, 1; free W F, 3, Slaves, 5, none other and in papers received from Bill Horn]. listed." [This 1790 census material may be found in the Ray Horn book, p146, p464, In January, 1791 the Colonel sold 200 acres to his son Josiah, land "lying in both

Nash and Edgecomb counties, beginning at the mouth of Kirby's creek" (Nash Deed Book 4, p 65). It seems possible, in view of the controversy about to develop, that this sale might have been made to protect it from the Colonel's creditors. Along this Josiah in his grandfather's 1797 will, noted above, considering the likelihood that

line of reasoning, I believe it is possible that this is the same property bequeathed to Colonel William did not clearly own the Kirby creek 200 acres when he "sold" it to his son, and speculating that the grandfather Henry's gift of Kirby creek land to Josiah may have been an attempt of the grandfather to correct a wrong perpetrated by his son, the Colonel, on the Colonel's son, Josiah. [The somewhat peculiar phraseology used by Henry the Quaker, "... I bequeath all my wright in the Lands whereon he (grandson Josiah) now lives" seems to me to support this notion of the justification for the bequest.] This scenario is entirely speculative, but to me it has the ring of credibility, given the general impressions that the Colonel was at least occasionally inclined to somewhat nefarious deals. In September, 1791, by order of the Sheriff of Nash County, pursuant to a court

order obtained by the administrator of the estate of Elias Hilliard (the Colonel's wife's first husband), 200 acres on the north side of the Tar River belonging to William Horn was sold for 50 pounds and 1 shilling (Nash Deed Book 4, p 119); this tract

was apparently near to but not the same property sold to Josiah in January of 1791. 185 acres (Nash Deed Book 4, p 148) "sold by Wm. Arrington, Sheriff, on Aug 10, 1791, by virtue of an execution obtained by ... the administrator of Elias Hilliard, against William Horne". The above happenings and others documented in Nash County records seem to

Under apparently similar circumstances, in April of 1792, Josiah purchased a tract of

indicate that the Colonel's financial affairs were in serious disorder, in difficulties which must have arisen in relation to his marriage to the recently widowed Sarah Norfleet Hilliard. The real estate transactions involving Josiah suggest to me that presumably self-inflicted wounds.

Josiah was probably trying to help his father, the Colonel, extricate himself from his

County, in no apparent connection with his father. In 1792 Josiah purchased "..320 acres (Nash Deed Book 4, p 190) on the Great or Bloomery Swamp adjoining (1) Benjamin Bunn (possibly the brother of Josiah's wife, see below) and (2) Joseph

In the next several years Josiah Horn bought several additional properties in Nash

Phillips (the husband of his sister, Milberry). [Within a few years, the families of both Josiah and his sister Milberry would move to middle Tennessee, in Montgomery and Davidson counties respectively, but there is no evidence that they interacted after the migration westward, to the Cumberland River Valley of Tennessee.] In 1794 acres (Nash Deed Book 6, p 8 and p18).

Josiah purchased another 22 acres on Kirby's creek along with another nearby 14 In Nash County records of 1796, Josiah Horn is bonded at 46 pounds ".. to keep a

passable bridge across Stony Creek at the lower road ..", witnesses include Benjamin Bunn (from Ray Horn book, p 122).

indicate substantial material success, presumably in farming or other rural

Josiah's accumulation of property during this period, his late twenties, seem to

commerce. Presumably he was also active in religious affairs, since in less than a decade he would become the founding minister of a Baptist church in Tennessee. Shortly after the death of his grandfather, Henry "the Quaker" Horn, in 1797 (his will

signed March 30, 1797, probated in April Court, 1798, Wayne County), Josiah sold "a tract of 150 acres on Tar River and Kirby's creek", presumably the property bequeathed to him by his grandfather. I assume he sold other properties which he the sale of those additional properties.

had acquired, listed above, although I have not identified recorded deeds describing Josiah then purchased property in Tennessee and relocated there. [ From TN State Library/Archives, Montgomery County Deeds, 1796-1800, p394 (Microfilm). Josiah Horn purchases property from Robert Prince. "This indenture made 10th day of January, 1800....sum of $400... 230 acres...Montgomery County Weathersby, it being part of John McKey(?) preemption of his 640 acres granted to said McKey by patent, bearing the date the 10th day of July, 1778 and by him Witnesses: Robert Nelson, Jesse Nelson"] conveyed to Robert Prince by conveyance bearing the date 15 October 1799... In 1841, four years before his death, Josiah Sr divided and deeded his property,

Tennessee...on the waters of the Blooming Grove Creek joining the lands of William

apparently the 230 acres on Blooming Grove Creek, part to Josiah Jr, and part to of this property.

Cordal H. See the Notes to these two men for more on the location and disposition Apparently Josiah was married in the period of 1790-1792, although there is no

known record of his marriage date, and it has, in fact, been difficult to establish a clear identification of the name and origins of his wife, Elizabeth. According to the Ray Horn book Josiah was guardian to Howell Horn, son of Josiah's

uncle, Joel (d 1793) from 1793 to 1798, indicating that Josiah was probably married before 1793.

A number of family researchers who have studied this family have stated that Josiah's wife was Elizabeth Bunn, born September 18, 1765 in North Carolina. While I was unable to locate any primary documentation of the source of either her surname or date of birth, I had no substantial reason to doubt the validity of her North Carolina that I have encountered is in World Family Tree CD 19, #266,

reported indentification. The most complete documentation of the Bunn family of prepared and contributed by Deborah C. Harbuck of Georgia. An apparently project under the GEDCOM name, "mrsharbuck".

expanded listing of this family tree is available on the Rootsweb World Connect Based on the work of Larry Horn in early 2002, I am convinced that Josiah Horn's

wife was not Elizabeth Bunn, and I have removed her from this Family File as Josiah's spouse. However, in order to preserve the information pertinent to this woman, in prior considerations of her possible relationship to Josiah, I have included her in this FTM file, unconnected to any Horn, and I have retained abundant information about her in the FTM file. Also included in the Notes to Elizabeth Bunn is Larry Horn's essay supporting the On 21 December, 1804, William Curl, [son of Wilson Curl (spouse of Mourning Horn,

conclusion that the earlier presumed relationship was in error.

Josiah's Aunt)], now of Stewart County, TN, sold 144 acres, a tract lying on the west side of Blooming Grove (creek) on Pain's Branch, running north on William Weathersby's line. Josiah Horn lived on Blooming Grove Creek, also adjoining Wm Weathersby, from 1800 until his death. On the same date on which Josiah Horn purchased from Robert Prince his 230 acres on Blooming Grove Creek, ie, 16

January, 1800, Prince also sold to "Edward More" a 150 acre tract "on the waters of Curl and Mourning Horn, see above, married an Edward Moore, and it appears that Maury County Tn with her dtr Sarah and Edward Moore, then southward later to Tuscaloosa AL. (See Notes to Wilson Curl, for elaboration.)

Blooming Grove Creek". HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS: Sarah Curl, daughter of Wilson after Wilson Curl's death in about 1802, the widow Mourning Horn moved south to

the estate sale of Thomas Tire, Will Book A, p 268. Five pages later, p 273, Josiah Horn posts a guardian bond as Guardian of Mary Tire, heir of Thomas Tire, deceased. I believe the Tire family is also called Tyree, and that two of the

It may be of interest to note that in June 1805 William Curl is recorded as a buyer at

Tire/Tyree young ladies, married two of Josiah grandsons several years later. Tennessee as they had done in NC, but it now appears almost certain that Josiah's wife, Elizabeth, was not related to either the Bunn or Curl families. Thus the Bunn's and the Curl's and the Horn's maintained some proximity in

Two of the children of Josiah Horn which are listed above, Thomas and Winifred, were not recorded in the records and resources which were initially available to me, existed.

but subsequent strong circumstantial evidence indicates that such children may have Two entirely independent sources have described remarkably similar stories, in which an apparently undocumented child of Josiah and Elizabeth was with them in

Tennessee in the early 1800's, each subsequently relocating to Missouri, and each

having assigned names to their children strongly supporting a relationship to Josiah

Horn, who had given a son the quite unusual name of Cordell/Cordal/Cordial or a similar name, after his friend, Cordall Norfleet. Exploration of the relationship of Thomas and Winifred to old Josiah led Larry Horn to the conclusion that Josiah's wife was Elizabeth Hunter and provided much additional support to the conclusion that Josiah and his wife had several additional children, not appreciated by most early students of this family.

*********************************************************************************************** The emerging evidence that Josiah and Elizabeth may have assisted with brought significance in trying to account for the parentage of a well know figure, Elisha Thomas Horn, the patriarch of a large number of interesting and successful descendants. some "adopted" children with them to Tennessee in 1800, assumed some possible

Concern with this question was brought to my attention by my rich and productive acquaintance with Gwen Battle Horne, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fascinating and looking for an answer to that riddle. well documented descendant of "ETH", who had spent much effort over many years In speculating who might have been the father of Elisha Thomas Horn, born 1800 in one of Joel's orphaned daughters. They would have been 14 and 12 years old in 1800. Milbrie, the older, seems to have disappeared from the record. A Jacob Horn appears on the 1811 Davidson County Tax List, but I have no other a few years and then returned to Edgecomb where his will was probated in

NC, etc, I considered the possibility that ETH might have been an illegitimate child of

record of Jacob Horn in Tenn. Possibly Jacob came to Tenn with his second wife for 1826/27. Consider the possibility that Jacob was the father of ETH, by one of Joel's daughters, ?Milbrie, and that they (or some of them) were in Tennessee in regard to ETH and his possibly living with Josiah, Mourning Curl, etc, prior to his appearance in Alabama.] Consider that Josiah and Elizabeth and/or Mourning and Wilson Curl and/or Sarah Curl and Edward Moore undertook the care of the foundling infant, taking it with them to Tennessee when they went there in 1800. See Above in these Notes to

Josiah Horn and the essay speculating on the possible relationship of ETH to Colonel William. See Notes to Jacob Horn.

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Reverend Henry Horn and His Children and Grandchildren
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1. REVEREND HENRY HORN (JOSIAH , WILLIAM , HENRY (THE QUAKER) , WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 22 Aug 1793 in Nash CountyNorth Carolina1, and died 21 Feb 1866 in Montgomery County, Tenn. He married MARY MORRIS 30 Sep 1813 in Tennessee, daughter of NATHAN MORRIS and LOUISA. She was born 07 May 1793 in North Carolina2, and died 19 Aug 1869 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

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Photographs taken at Blooming Grove Church Cemetery, Montgomery County Tennessee.

Notes for REVEREND HENRY HORN: In 1824 Henry purchased 640 acres on Marshall Creek, just a couple of miles downriver from Blooming Grove Creek. Deeds obtained from Division of Archives, Montgomery County, Clarksville. It appears that Henry lived on this property for the remainder of his life. The general area where this property is located is easily identified from current maps. In the 1878 map of Montgomery County, readily available in Montgomery County and Tennessee state archives, naming selected property owners on the map (including Henry's younger brother, C H Horn, it is noteworthy to some that in the same area, west of Marshall Creek (named Howard Fork on this map), a T M Reynolds is named. This is undoubtedly Thomas Mack Reynolds.

My grandparents, Emmaline Reynolds and Robert Lee Horn were grandchildren of Henry Horn and Thomas Mack Reynolds. Propinquinty counts! He followed in his father's footsteps as pastor of Blooming Grove church. Buried in churchyard cemetary alongside his wife. Photographs above.

The following note of 6 April, 2002, is excerpted from a letter to Larry Horn, of Fayetteville, Arkansas.: "Henry died in 1866, having lived through what must have been a generally very happy and prosperous earlier life prior to the civil war, but I am sure things were very difficult in his final years. I can imagine he must have thought that his and his friends' attempts to make a new life on the frontier had ended in catastrophe and perhaps hopelessness. I do not know how his estate was disposed of. As far as I can recall, I have not seen a will for Henry, son of Josiah. By the time of Henry's death in 1866, Josiah, Thomas, and Henry were long gone to Arkansas. Columbus was killed in the war. Cordial and James Robert had long since gone to Louisiana, and we more or less know about them, from my lucky finds about their marriage to the Stanley sisters, Cordial's early death, and Robert's long life as a "country doctor". I wish I knew how Robert got his "medical training". (I am very proud of discovering about Cordial and Robert.) That left William D., Charles F. M. and Cornelius David still in or around Montgomery County when their father died. These three young men chose to try to survive "at home", or nearby, in the post Civil War economy In the 1870 census, William D. was still in Montgomery County, with his family. I do not know what happened to them. Cornelius lived and died in Stewart County, to the west of Montgomery County, and downriver from "Blooming Grove". Charles F M and his two sons lived in this area and across the state line in Christian County, KY. I can imagine that when Henry died in 1866, apparently intestate, his three sons that remained in the vicinity managed to allocate his property among themselves, without particular generosity toward the older brothers who had gone off to Arkansas. This is a pretty typical approach to estate settlement, is it not?

There probably was not too much left to fight over or negotiate for, in 1866." And continuing shortly thereafter: "Hey, Larry, Just writing this, I have made a discovery, looking over my census records and related information. In the 1870 census of the 9th district of Montgomery County, TN, the following is noted. Dwelling #174 is T. Reynolds and family. This is Thomas Mack Reynolds, the grandfather of my grandmother, Emmaline Reynolds. I know from an 1878 map of Montgomery County, that this Reynolds family lived on Marshall Creek/Howard Fork, just west of Blooming Grove Creek. This is the same "hollow" where Henry Horn lived from 1824 to his death in 1866. In the 1870 census, C. M. Horn (Charles Marion) and his family (including my then 10 year old grandfather, Robert Lee Horn), lived in dwelling #180, and William Horn, definitely William D. Horn, and his wife and five children, lived in dwelling #182. ( A black female named Marshall, age of 20 with a one year old child occupied dwelling # 181). By combining the facts in the above two paragraphs, I will bet it is almost certain that C. M. and William D. lived on the property that had belonged to their father, prior to his death in 1866. It would certainly be interesting to know who was the father of the one year old black child named Marshall.

Children of HENRY HORN and MARY MORRIS are: i. JOSIAH MARTIN9 HORN, b. 04 Nov 1816, Montgomery County, TN3; d. 03 Jul 1898, Baxter County, Arkansas; m. MARY JANE TYRE, 26 Nov 1843, Montgomery County, TN4; b. Abt. 1822, Montgomery County, TN; d. 16 Apr 1888, Baxter County, Arkansas5. Notes for JOSIAH MARTIN HORN: Note from Larry Horn, 12,2000: " I notice that you still have Josiah Martin and Mary Jane Tyre Horn's first two children listed as having been born in Tennessee. Everything I have seen says that his first child, Sarah, was born in Arkansas. And I know that his second child, my grandfather John David, was born in Independence County, AR in l849." Notes for MARY JANE TYRE: See notes to her father, Richard Tyree.

ii. SARAH T. HORN, b. 31 Jul 1819, Montgomery County, TN6; d. 07 Feb 1841, Montgomery County, TN. iii. THOMAS HUNTER HORN, b. 28 Aug 1821, Montgomery County, TN6; d. 11 Jul 1910, Mountain Home, Baxter, Arkansas, USA7; m. TABITHA ELIZABETH TYRE, 25 Feb 1847, Montgomery, Tennessee, USA8; b. 1825, Tennessee; d. Arkansas. iv. WILLIAM D. HORN, b. 28 Oct 1823, Montgomery County, TN9; m. C. E. SMYTHE, 30 Oct 185610. Notes for WILLIAM D. HORN: In 1870 TN census, Wm. Horn, 46 MW, lives nearby and between Charles Marion Horn, 39 MW, and (Cornelius) David Horn, 30 MW. Surely this is William D., the fourth child of Henry and Mary Horn. Children entered here are from that 1870 Census. v. HENRY S. HORN, b. 20 Oct 1825, Montgomery County, TN; d. 15 Sep 1894, Arkansas10; m. MARY JANE MEACHUM, 30 Oct 1851, Independence, Arkansas11. Notes for HENRY S. HORN: According to David Sallee papers, he lived in Sharpe county, Arkansas. On 25 August, 2002, I received the following correspondence from a descendant of this Henry Horn, as follows, providing information which appears to be highly credible: "Dear Dr. Bob, I've followed the updated information about the Horn family as I searched for additional information about my great grandfather, Henry S. Horn. The information I've found has not shown up in your great compilation. Henry S. Horn moved to Arkansas after the 1840 Federal Census to Hickory Valley, Independence County, Arkansas with Josiah Horn and Mary Jane Tyer Horn. I was unable to determine if Josiah was his brother or uncle with the 10 year age difference but found a note in my mother's handwriting indicating my grandfather had an "Uncle Joe" that moved to Arkansas with Henry S. Horn, therefore I've proceeded as if that is accurate until I can actually prove it. I've also found indications of a Thomas Horn in the same general area. (Izard, Independence Counties) The family lived in Hickory Valley, Barren Township, Independence County, Arkansas. Later I found evidence of Josiah, age 33) from TN in Izard County in the 1850 Federal Census listing Mary Jane Tyer as his wife, with children Sarah A. E., John D.E. and Henry S. Horn (age 24). Further, I located Henry's wife. She was Mary Jane Meachum (your have her listed as Miacham) the daughter of James Meachum ( who was married to Mary Allen) both from Montgomery County, TN. He arrived in Arkansas after the 1810 census in TN but by 1812

because his two sons were listed in Goodspeed's History of Northeast Arkansas as good horsemen from Hickory Valley. Since Arkansas became a state in 1836, they were certainly pioneer settlers. Two summers ago, I went to Batesville, AR (very close to Hickory Valley) and located the family cemetery from Independence County Cemeteries Index in the library there. It's the Meachum cemetery. Henry S. and Mary Jane are buried there as are two baby sons who died in infancy with James and Mary Meachum there, too. It is off the road, through several fields, and difficult to find but very close to the area watertower on the left side of Hwy. 63 driving north. Henry S. and Mary Jane had five listed children in the various federal census reports and I have found the birthdates of only my grandfather. They were: William Thornberry, Christopher Columbus, Barsheeba L. Horn, James M., and Elizabeth L.. They lived north of the current town of Cave City, Sharp County, AR. My grandfather, William Thornberry, was born in Nov. 1862 and married Flora Belle Ball in 1886. Their offspring were Lola Belle (July 1891), Henry Albartus ( July 1893), Clinton Van Buren (Feb. 19, 1899 or 1900), George Buford (July 7, 1903), and James Conway (May 17, 1907). The area of Arkansas where they lived was very divided during the Civil War. My grandmother was born in Southern Illinois where her family fled during that time. (One of her Ball uncles was hung as a spy during the Civil War and that would have made a family flee if anything would.) I've found no evidence that Henry S. left the area during the conflict. My grandfather, William Thornberry, lived next to the cave which the town is named for in Cave City. It has a subterranean river with Indian remains in it when my father played in that cave. William Thornberry Horn gave the land for the schools in Cave City to the town. (The date of that gift is an unchecked item for me.) William moved his family the Hardy, Independence County, Arkansas and was the County Judge for many years. My father was Clinton Van Buren Horn. My search will continue and I will send additional information when I find it. The Arkansas Genealogical Association has just published a CD of Arkansas births before official records were kept and I hope to find more information about the Horn's in that resource. Please call or E-mail me if you have questions. Sincerely,

Anne Horn Crow 3805 D Abbott Martin Road Nashville, TN 463-7851 Unrelated to the above correspondence, I learned on 4 March, 2006, from information posted on the FamilyTreeDNA Horn surname family page and related associations, that Bryan Clinton Horn, b 1945, and a nephew of Ann Horn Crow, above, 1) is a direct lineal male descendant of this Henry S, Horn, and 2) most satisfying and significant, that Bryan Clinton Horn has a 12/12 yDNA match with me, Robert G. Horn, and with Ethelred P. Horn, V, essentially proving that the three of us are all direct lineal male descendants of Henry Horn, the Quaker, 1716 - 1798. The inescapable inference of the above observation is that all direct lineal male descendants of Henry the Quaker Horn should have identical or highly similar yDNA markers to that of the three of us. Further implications of this finding will be discussed elsewhere. My correspondence with Bryan Clinton Horn on this date is located in the Notes to Bryan, in this FTM family file. Robert G. Horn, 4 May, 2006. Notes for MARY JANE MEACHUM: For elaboration of the source of the following paragraph, and corollary information, see Notes to her spouse: "Henry's wife ... was Mary Jane Meachum, the daughter of James Meachum ( who was married to Mary Allen) both from Montgomery County, TN. He arrived in Arkansas after the 1810 census in TN but by 1812 because his two sons were listed in Goodspeed's History of Northeast Arkansas as good horsemen from Hickory Valley. Since Arkansas became a state in 1836, they were certainly pioneer settlers." vi. CORDIAL N. HORN, b. 25 Sep 1827, Montgomery County, TN; d. 22 Jan 1865, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana12; m. SUSAN EMMA STANLEY, 29 Nov 1855, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana12; b. Abt. 1832, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Notes for CORDIAL N. HORN: Sue Siler of Keithville LA on 9 June 1997 provides a letter which describes her discovery of several Horn's in the DeSoto (LA) parish census of 1860, some of which correspond to individuals on my pedigree (HORNREYN.ftw). She cites ... " ...p.933 R. H. Horn 29 TENN $70,000-1500 (physician), Mary Matron 32 ALA, John H. 9, LA; James? 7; Wm 5; Mary Jane 3. <This one not id'e yet>

And then there was on the same page:#802-21. C. N. Horn 31, TENN, farmer, Susan 28, LA, Isabella 4 Tenn, Susan E. 1 LA, John Stanley, 16, LA, Peyton Stanley, 10, LA, Marion(m) Stanley 10 LA. <?presume relatives of wife Susan> Their marriage date is Oct 27, 1855, DeSoto Parish, LA -= Cordial N. Horn to Susan Emma Stanley. He died Jan 22, 1865, DeSoto Parish LA. She may have married again a Potts, as there were land transa tions between she and ---Potts around Keathchie about 1881. Can you identify the R . H.? Maybe James R. b 1829?" End of letter from Sue Siler. From the above I assume 1) Cordial N. Horn and his brother James R. Horn removed to DeSoto Parish LA 2) the correct name of Cordial's wife is probably Susan Stanley, and not 'S. C. Panley' as cited elsewhere. DeSoto Parish LA See Notes of James R. Horn for some clarification of above material. Notes for SUSAN EMMA STANLEY: See Notes on her father, Peyton Stanley vii. DR. JAMES ROBERT HORN, b. 01 Oct 1829, Montgomery County, TN; d. 31 Dec 1909, Keatchie, LA13; m. ANN ELIZA STANLEY, Abt. 1858; b. 1842, Louisiana; d. Aft. 1870. Notes for DR. JAMES ROBERT HORN: Letter, E-mail from Sue Siler of Keithville, LA, reporting on information clearly indicating that James R. Horn and Cordial N. Horn, sons of Henry Horn (1792 -1866) and Mary Morris, removed to Louisiana before 1860 and raised families there, includes this data: 1860 DeSoto Parish Census: P O Mansfield, Sept 1860, p 933: #820 R. H. Horn 29 Tenn, $7,000-1,500. Physician. Anna E. 18 LA Josephine 8 months LA #821 C. M? Horn 31 Tenn farmer Susan E. 28 LA Isabella G. 4 TN Susan E. 1 LA John L. Stanley 16 Peyton Stanley 10 LA Marion Stanley 10 LA The above "R. H. Horn" is almost certainly a census typo error, since: 1870 DeSoto Parish Census, P O Keathchie, LA, 1st ward, June 28 1870, p 410. #379-375?, J. R. Horn 40 Tenn Doctor A. E. Horn 27 LA Josephine, 10 LA

S. E. (f) 38 ALA [must be the widow of Cordial N. & sister of A E ] I. G. (f) 14 LA S. E. (f) 10 LA Lilian Adams 18 TX Other notes from DeSoto Parish Record, cited by Sue Siler: Dec 15, 1858 C. N. Horn appointed guardian for minor children of Stanford Stanley. 1861, C N Horn appointed Tutor for children of Sanford Stanley. Succession for Cordial N. Horn-No. H-20. Dec 9, 1859 - Robert Horn bought slave from Peyton Stanley, Bk J52. Mar 28, 1861 - Robert Horn bought land from Peyton Stanley, Oct 11, 1867 - Robert Horn bought a lot in Keatchie LA from James McCraken. L-373. Oct 11, 1867 -Susan Horn bought a lot in Keatchie LA from James McCraken. Jan 17 1870 - Robert Horn bought land from Mary J. Blackwell. N86 Aug 31 1871 - Robert Horn bought land from R. J. Wood. N-670. Oct 2, 1872 - Robert Horn bought land from J. W. Cherry. p-255. Additional purchases of Land by Robert Horn recorded, 1879 1887, I suppose: 1) James R(obert) Horn is the name. 2) Dr. James Robert Horn and Susan Horn (widow of C N) removed to Keatchie area after death of C N in 1865. 3) The younger Stanleys were perhaps the siblings or cousins of Susan Stanley Horn, 'adopted' by CN after they were orphaned in about 1858. 4 February, 2001: I recently discovered in papers sent to me by Estelle Horn of Memphis, a letter from Trisha Perkins of Nacogdoches, TX (Rt 2, Box 4528) written to Estelle in April 1988. The text of that letter follows: Dear Mrs. Horn, I am writing you in response to your inquiry in the "Anse?????". At the present time I am trying to place my greatgrandmother. Her name was Bella Horn Falbert (?Talbert). She lived in Keathchie, LA. She was born in 1856 - the family she lived with was Dr. James Robert Horn who was born in Clarksville TN in October 1, 1829. He died in Keathchie on Dec. 31, 1909. I believe he was Bella's uncle, but I'm not sure. I haven't found definite informtion on Dr. Horn's family. In the 1820 census I have James, Josiah and Henry listed with boys under 10 but don't know where he might fit in. I would appreciate anything you might be able to help me with. Most of my work has been done around Keathchie (27 miles from Shreveport). I have found a large number of Horn's buried in several local cemeteries - mostly small church graveyards. I did come across Henry & Mary's cemetary -

Blooming Grove, Clarksville, TN and felt certain some of these Horns must tie into mine. I would love to be able to go to Tennessee and continue my work, but with three children in school, it becomes almost impossible. Thank you for your time, Trisha Perkins, Rt 2, Box 4528, Nacogdoches, TX, 75961. An excerpt from another letter states that Trisha Perkins has determined from guardianship papers at the DeSoto Parish courthouse that her g-grandmother's father was Cordell Horn, born 1827 in Tennessee and died January, 1865. Ms. Perkins has also encountered Levi Horn and other Horn's in the graveyards in the Logansport area. It is of course obvious that Mrs. Perkins g-grandmother is Cordial N. Horn's daughter, Isabella. I have been unable to locate Mrs. Perkins, as of 10 February, 2001. Notes for ANN ELIZA STANLEY: Subj: Stanley info Date: 97-06-25 05:21:04 EDT From: [email protected] (Sue Siler) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi Bob, I am so excited to send you added info on your James Robert Horn...here goes...Mickey called me last night after her trip to the Library with the following...Bk. A-p.235. Marriages of DeSoto Parish: Annie D.[?] Stanley to Robert Horn on December 4, 1858. Also a probate on Peyton Stanley: he died April 2, 1853. Son Mason of Texas; Son Stephen was appointed Tutor for Peyton's minor children-SUSAN, Stanford, Green, Augustus, ANN ELIZA, John, Peyton, Marion. This pretty well wraps it up since it is quite apparent that brothers married sisters and that accounts for Susan in their household in the 1860 Census. With the land records that I picked up on the NET as follows: Pat. No. 2578, Mason L. Stanley 1846\9\1 Caddo/DeSoto 40.14 SENW S1,T14.R15. 3688 Peyton Stanley 1849\9\1 DeSoto 40.36 NWNW S7,T14,R15. 707 Peyton Stanley 1843\04\1 Caddo/DeSoto 240.30 E<SE S12,T14,R15.

You can see from previous records that Cordial is in the same T14,R15. There is an entry for James R. Horn #11362 1904\4\8 Winn 152.13 SWNE S6,T9,R3. I don't know if this one is yours. Mickey also ran the marriages through 1912 and found no other Stanley, so they might have gone over the Texas line as it is only a few miles away and Mason Stanley was there in 1853 as per Succession of Peyton Stanley. Let me know what you think about all this. Sue

viii. CHARLES FRANCES MARION HORN, b. 03 Oct 1831, Montgomery County, TN; d. Apr 1918, Lafayette, Kentucky; m. (1) SARAH WYLIE, 30 Oct 1860, Montgomery County, TN14; b. 24 Feb 1839; d. 08 Feb 1896, Stewart County, TN; m. (2) LUCY TIPPIT, 01 Oct 189615. Notes for CHARLES FRANCES MARION HORN: Detailed Notes on this man and his family are found in a separate section of this website. See the link on the home page. ix. ELIZABETH W. HORN, b. 07 Nov 183316; d. 23 Apr 1855; m. JOSEPH A. WELKER, 23 Apr 1854, Montgomery County, TN; b. Abt. 1830. x. COLUMBUS J. HORN, b. 20 May 1837; d. Feb 1865, Civil War. Notes for COLUMBUS J. HORN: Enlisted 22 May, 1861 at Camp Duncan, Montgomery Co. TN. From War records located and cited by Estelle Horn. 5 ft 10 inches. Dark Hair, hazel eyes, and dark complexion. Wounded several times. Taken prisoner at Fredericksburg, paroled and returned to duty. Served in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Last records are in Jan and Feb, 1865. xi. CORNELIUS DAVID HORN, b. 16 Mar 1840, Montgomery County, TN; d. 04 Jul 1928, Cumberland City, Stewart Co, TN17; m. ELLA ANN BARBEE, 18 Jan 1871, Montgomery County, TN; b. 01 Jan 1850, Tennessee; d. 16 Oct 1936, Cumberland City, Stewart Co, TN. Notes for CORNELIUS DAVID HORN: From Notes of Estelle Horn. Recalled as being small, 5' 8", stern and unfriendly. Enlisted Confederate Army at Camp Duncan, Montgomery Co, TN in May

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1. CHARLES FRANCES MARION9 HORN (HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY 5 4 (THE QUAKER) , WILLIAM , THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 03 Oct 1831 in Montgomery County, TN, and died Apr 1918 in Lafayette, Kentucky. He married (1) SARAH WYLIE 1 30 Oct 1860 in Montgomery County, TN . She was born 24 Feb 1839, and died 08 Feb 1896 in Stewart County, TN. He married (2) LUCY TIPPIT 01 Oct 18962.

(Photograph taken in Lafayette, Kentucky, at Powell Cemetery, 29 September, 2010.) Notes for CHARLES FRANCES MARION HORN: Charles F. M. Horn and his family apparently lived at his father's farm in Montgomery County for at least several years after his father's death. In the 1870 census of the 9th district of Montgomery County, TN, the following is noted. Dwelling #174 is T. Reynolds and family. This is Thomas Mack Reynolds, the grandfather of my grandmother, Emmaline Reynolds. I know from an 1878 map of Montgomery County, that this Reynolds family lived on Marshall Creek/Howard Fork, just west of Blooming Grove Creek. This is the same "hollow" where Henry Horn lived from 1824 to his death in 1866. In the 1870 census, C. M. Horn (Charles Marion) and his family (including my then 10 year old grandfather, Robert Lee Horn), lived in dwelling #180, and William Horn, definitely William D. Horn, C. M.'s brother, and his wife and five children, lived in dwelling #182. ( A black female named Marshall, age of 20 with a one year old child occupied dwelling # 181). By combining the facts in the above two paragraphs, I BELIEVE it is almost certain that Charles M. and William D. lived on the property that had belonged to their father, prior to his death in 1866. It would certainly be interesting to know who was the father of the one year old black child named Marshall, and through what circumstances she happened to reside on or near to the farm of Henry Horn. (See Notes to C M's father for some elaboration of the above topic). R G Horn, April, 2002: The following is indication that children/grandchildren of T. M. Reynolds and Henry Horn may have lived in the Marshall Creek area as late as 1898. According to Montgomery County cemetary records, in the Reynolds cemetary off Lylewood Road in district 9, interments include "Clifton R. Horn, son of R. L. and E. R. Horn, Dec 12 1892 - Feb 8, 1898." This child was of course an early child of my grandparents, Robert Lee Horn and Emmaline Reynolds, and a grandchild of Charles F. M. Horn. When elderly, Charles and Lucy returned to their respective families, Charles living with his son Robert L and family, either in Lafayette KY or in nearby Stewart Co TN. Charles was burned to death in a fire that destroyed the residence of his son Robert. Robert was burned trying to save his father, possibly accounting for his wearing a full beard thereafter. Charles was initially buried with his first wife Sarah at the RL Horn cemetery in Stewart Co, but both were removed to the Powell

cemetery in Lafayette when Fort Campbell was built (WWII). R L and Emma also buried in Powell cemetery, Lafayette KY. [From Estelle Horn papers and common family lore. All of these graves are in the older part of the cemetary; the newer part, toward Lafayette, was added shortly after WWII. Feb 2003. My brothers, Wiley and Phil, and I visited the Powell cemetery, confirming that Charles M. Horn and his first wife, Sarah are buried there, adjacent to their two sons, Robert L. and Wiley. My brother Wiley W. Horn, Jr reports that he was told by our cousin, Durwood Roach, that RL and Emma were living in Lafayette, between the present location of the Powell cemetery and Lafayette, at the time of the house fire that resulted in C M 's death. Wiley, Phil, and I are considering purchasing a block of grave sites near where our grandfather and great-grandfather are buried, for personal use, as needed. Notes for SARAH WYLIE: The name Wiley, Wylie, Wilee, etc, is prominent in early records of folks in the Blooming Grove area. Investigation is indicated. Children of CHARLES HORN and SARAH WYLIE are: 2. i. ROBERT LEE10 HORN, b. 12 Jul 1861, Montgomery County, TN; d. 07 Feb 1949, Christian County, KY. 3. ii. WILEY JACKSON HORN, b. 28 Jun 1864, Montgomery County, TN; d. 22 May 1956, Christian County, KY.
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2. ROBERT LEE10 HORN (CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY 1 OR RICHARD ) was born 12 Jul 1861 in Montgomery County, TN, and died 07 Feb 1949 in Christian County, KY. He married EMMALINE GERTRUDE REYNOLDS 18 Feb 1890 in Stewart County, TN, daughter of JOHN REYNOLDS and CLARA PARMINTER. She was born 05 Apr 1873 in Big Rock, TN, and died 25 Mar 1946 in Hopkinsville, KY. Notes for ROBERT LEE HORN: Detailed Notes on this man and his family are found in a separate section of this website, accessible from the home page. 3. WILEY JACKSON10 HORN (CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 28 Jun 1864 in Montgomery

County, TN, and died 22 May 1956 in Christian County, KY. He married IDA PACE 23 Dec 1891 in Stewart County, TN. She was born Mar 1873.

(Photograph taken at Powell Cemetery in Lafayette, Kentucky, 2010)

Notes for WILEY JACKSON HORN: According to the 1870 census of Montgomery County, TN, in the family of C. M. Horn, M39 and Sarah, F31, were two children, Robert, M10, presumably Robert Lee Horn, born 1861, and Wiley, M 7, presumably born 1863. Children of WILEY HORN and IDA PACE are: i. CHARLES WILLIAM11 HORN, b. 28 Nov 1892; d. 22 Jul 1965, Fairview, Kentucky; m. FRANCES BURKS, 30 Sep 1914. Notes for FRANCES BURKS: Feb, 2003: On a visit to the Powell cemetery with my brothers, Wiley and Phil, Wiley observes that the Burks family lived just across the road from the Powell cemetary, a bit toward Lafayette, in a large two story white house, still standing and in good repair in 2003. ii. MARY HORN, b. Aft. 1892.

Endnotes
1. Tennesse Marriages 1850 to 1900/ancestry.com. 2. Estelle Horn papers 3. William Glasgow Reynolds, REYNOLDS HISTORY ANNOTATED, (Mercury Press, Rockville, Maryland 1978). 4. gordon.ftw, Date of Import: Jan 1, 2001.

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1. ROBERT LEE10 HORN (CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 12 Jul 1861 in Montgomery County, TN, and died 07 Feb 1949 in Christian County, KY. He married EMMALINE GERTRUDE REYNOLDS 18 Feb 1890 in Stewart County, TN, daughter of JOHN REYNOLDS and CLARA PARMINTER. She was born 05 Apr 1873 in Big Rock, TN, and died 25 Mar 1946 in Hopkinsville, KY.

Photograph taken at Powell Cemetery, Lafayette, Kentucky.

Notes for ROBERT LEE HORN: According to his son and my father, Wiley Horn, R. L. Horn was a farmer and occasional merchant, frequently selling and buying farms, in and around the area of Lafayette, Ky. It has come to my attention recently that my grandfather, Robert Lee Horn, lived through the Civil War, (which he must have recalled at least slightly, since he was four years old in 1865,) Reconstruction, the Spanish-American war, World War I, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression of the 1930's, and World War II. His first two sons died young, Clifton at age 6, in 1898, and his namesake, Robert Jr. , in 1933 at age 27. Children of ROBERT HORN and EMMALINE REYNOLDS are: i. CLIFTON R.11 HORN1, b. 12 Dec 1892; d. 08 Feb 1898, Montgomery County, TN1. Notes for CLIFTON R. HORN: Date of birth and death is recorded in "Cemetery Records of Montgomery County Tennessee, v. 2". TSLA f443,m8d3,v 2. Reynolds Cemetery. Off Lylewood Road in District 9 - back of a small house at the top of a hill. Also among the 12 people buried in this cemetery are Susan Reynolds, mother of Thomas Mack Reynolds. 2. 3. ii. SARAH HORN, b. Abt. 1900; d. 18 Mar 1977, Kentucky. iii. RUTH HORN, b. Abt. 1902; d. 04 Aug 2000, Nashville, TN. iv. CLARA HORN, b. Abt. 1905; d. Aft. 1950, Tullahoma, TN; m. C. L. MCDOWELL. Notes for CLARA HORN: Clara was an attractive, rather prim, red-haired, intelligent lady. For many years she was employed in the office of the Nashville Bridge Co, and lived in Nashville. For some years she lived with her brother Wiley and his family at 2515 Dickerson Rd. Well into adult life she married Mr. McDowell, a widower, owner of a Lumber Co. in Tullahoma, TN. In late middle age she died in Tullahoma, I think of complications of an abdominal tumor. She had never borne children. Recollections of Robert Gordon Horn. 4. v. JR. ROBERT LEE HORN, b. 1906; d. 1933, Hopkinsville, Ky. 5. vi. WILEY WEATHERS HORN, b. 12 Apr 1909, near Lafayette, KY; d. 15 Nov 1988, Nashville, TN.
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2. SARAH11 HORN (ROBERT LEE10, CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY 1 OR RICHARD ) was born Abt. 1900, and died 18 Mar 1977 in Kentucky. She married (1) CARTER BRANDON Abt. 1918. She married (2) DR. DURWOOD BELL ROACH Abt. 1930. Children of SARAH HORN and CARTER BRANDON are: i. CHARLES12 BRANDON. ii. WESLEY BRANDON.

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RICHARD BRANDON. PAUL BRANDON.

Children of SARAH HORN and DURWOOD ROACH are: v. DURWOOD B.12 ROACH, b. 1931; d. 08 Feb 2003, Christian County, KY. Notes for DURWOOD B. ROACH: Durwood was a KY State Trooper. He retired in Lafayette, KY and later moved to place near Kentucky Lake. Large family. vi. IRENE ROACH, b. Abt. 1934; m. JOE LAWSON.

Notes for JOE LAWSON: Joe was a prosperous farmer in Christian County. Died at about age 70 of lung cancer. Many good cigarettes from the tobacco he had raised. vii. ROBERT ROACH, b. Abt. 1937.

Notes for ROBERT ROACH: Robert lives in Hopkinsville KY, where he was a school teacher and administrator, long being the principal of Christian County High School. 3. RUTH11 HORN (ROBERT LEE10, CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born Abt. 1902, and died 04 Aug 2000 in Nashville, TN. She married PAUL WAIN. He died 18 Dec 1976 in Nashville, TN. Notes for RUTH HORN: Ruth was an intelligent and civilized lady. She lived alone for many years after her husband's, but near her daughters, and was alert, loving, and involved for almost one hundred years. She could always smile, from the heart. Children of RUTH HORN and PAUL WAIN are: i. ELLEN CLAIRE12 WAIN, b. Abt. 1928. ii. MARY RUTH WAIN, b. Abt. 1929. 4. JR. ROBERT LEE11 HORN (ROBERT LEE10, CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 1906, and died 1933 in Hopkinsville, Ky. He married LUCILLE ROSE. Notes for JR. ROBERT LEE HORN: This young man died of a "ruptured appendix". It is my recollection that he was employed with city or county government in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky. To the day of his own death my father was troubled by the early loss of his brother. (Wiley tells me that our father told him that Robert survived the acute appendicitis, but died from adhesions and obstruction, during surgery, some time later. I recall brief visits from Robert's widow and Jack and Sue, during or shortly after WWII, when they were teen agers. I can still recall what seemed to me and my parents to be grandiose tales of unlikely accomplishments by Jack during the war.

I have no idea what became of them. Robert is buried in the Powell cemetary in Lafayette, in the Rose family plot. His widow, Lucille Rose has her name on a adjacent stone, with no death date. I suspect she is buried elsewhere, having long since left this area, I believe. R G Horn, April, 2002. February, 2003 Children of ROBERT HORN and LUCILLE ROSE are: i. JACK12 HORN, b. Abt. 1928. ii. SUE HORN. 5. WILEY WEATHERS11 HORN (ROBERT LEE10, CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1)2 was born 12 Apr 1909 in near Lafayette, KY, and died 15 Nov 1988 in Nashville, TN. He married MARY VIRGINIA GORDON2 Abt. 15 Jan 1931 in Nashville, TN, daughter of JOHN GORDON and NORA NASH. She was born 25 Jun 1910 in Nashville, TN, and died 13 Nov 1993 in Hopkinsville, KY. Notes for WILEY WEATHERS HORN: Detailed Notes on this man and some of his descendants are included in a separate section of this website, accessible from the home page.

Endnotes
1. William Glasgow Reynolds, REYNOLDS HISTORY ANNOTATED, (Mercury Press, Rockville, Maryland 1978). 2. gordon.ftw, Date of Import: Jan 1, 2001.

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1. WILEY WEATHERS HORN (ROBERT LEE , CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1)1 was born 12 Apr 1909 in near Lafayette, KY, and died 15 Nov 1988 in Nashville, TN. He married MARY VIRGINIA GORDON1 Abt. 15 Jan 1931 in Nashville, TN, daughter of JOHN GORDON and NORA NASH. She was born 25 Jun 1910 in Nashville, TN, and died 13 Nov 1993 in Hopkinsville, KY.

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My father, Wiley Horn, grew up as the youngest child of a relatively prosperous farmer and small business man in the Tenn/Ky border area of Christian (KY) and Stewart (TN) counties. My father is recalled to have said that his father lived at Weaver's store when my father was born. Weaver' Store was a community in Stewart County, TN, 3 to 4 miles southwest of LaFayette, Ky on State Route 107, now located within Fort Campbell, and no longer existent as a community. (A Google search will show its former location on the Google Map.) When I was a child, in the 1930's, my grandparents lived in nice white frame house on a couple of acres in the tiny town of Lafayette, KY. Accent the second syllable: la FAY et. The house was clean, nicely furnished and comfortable. Features included kerosene lamps for lighting, a gigantic black cook stove in the kitchen, a bucket of water with a dipper on the side porch, adjacent to the kitchen, and an outdoor toilet, with a Sears catalogue providing pages for reading and toilet use. I assume this was the kind of accomodation in

which my father had grown up. Maids cooked and took care of the house. My grandparents appeared always "dressed", as if ready for a visit by neighbors or friends. My father recalled that his father was habitually buying and selling farm properties, necessitating frequent relocations by the family. It appeared that my grandfather was well off, but it became clear as the economic boom of the twenties began to bust before the Great Depression that things would not always be so plentiful. By the time my father finished high school in Lafayette, times were very troubled. His father had lost much or all of his wealth. His older brother would die of appendicitis in about 1931. His sister, Sarah, was married for the second time to the family doctor of Lafayette, with three or four children by her first husband. My father said he caught the bus for Nashville on the day after he graduated from high school, to live with his sister, Ruth in Nashville. My father spoke of a menial job at a pharmacy while he took a "business school" course to prepare him for a white collar job. My father's maternal uncles had been rather successful. Wilton was a general practitioner in Nashville, and her brother John Lacey Reynolds was a prominent attorney. My father was never inclined to socialize with these uncles, although my mother frequently took me to see Uncle Wilton for minor childhood complaints. Once or twice during my 50+ years of knowing my father, I heard him say that WIlton had encouraged him to try for Medical School, but my father was, I believe, too proud to admit that he needed any help from a "rich uncle". So, instead, he got married to a girl he met on the bus or street car, on the way to his work in the downtown office of the Telephone Company, then called Southern Bell, where he worked for several years. I recall knowing as a very young child that my dad worked for the telephone company. In later years my father told me that his primary job was to count the coins collected from phone booths in the area, and to account for the funds collected. During the late thirties, my father left the phone company and took a job as a salesman with a small motor freight line, called Southeastern Motor Freight, its offices being on first avenue south, facing the river, in the first block south of Broadway. I clearly recall that in a flood in the late 1930's the river rose high enough to cover First Avenue, about 3 or 4 feet above the pavement. Needless to say, Southeastern's office was flooded. I believe my mother's half-brother Vernon, a lawyer, and her half-sister, Cumi, an aspiring entrepeneur and a dominating large wonderful woman, had for a time acquired the truck company, possibly as a result of a bankruptcy, accounting for my father's opportunity to work for Southeastern. Not long afterward, Southeastern was purchased by Charles Potter, a young man from a well off Nashville family which included Ed Potter, a bank president, and Justin Potter, financial

powerhouse, now with a statue on the Vanderbilt campus for his generosity, and not necessarily for his high ethical business standards. Charles Potter owned Southeastern for many years, and the company did well. I believe my father was an excellent salesman and representative of the company for many years. He was appreciated, he had a good job, and the pay was adequate, but he had no ownership interest. During the 1950's, as a sideline, my father "developed" the 125 acre farm on Haywood Lane, which had been our homeplace for my childhood, into a subdivision. In this process, he borrowed money, built roads, installed utility services, and then sold the lots to home builders. In the process he was able to convert a property he had purchased for $12,500 in the early 1940's into sufficient funds to purchase a 300+ acre farm in Christian County, KY, on the Fairview road, with a wonderful home of 1900 vintage, where he relocated with my mother and two brothers, both still in high school or college, while I was already married and on my own, in Medical School in Nashville. Soon thereafter, he decided to give up his job with the Truck line and become a full-time farmer. This worked for several years, but for reasons about which I can only speculate, probably both personal and financial, he elected to purchase a small truck line, called Pulaski Highway Express. Wiley and his partner in PHE, J. T. Foster, were able to develop the truck line into a moderately large and rather lucrative business over the next two decades. During this period, my father experienced a degree of reward and independence which he had never experienced, and he found much gratification and enjoyment from his business experiences. During this period, my father and mother became estranged, and they were never reunited. My father lived in Nashville until his death, and my mother remained on the farm in Kentucky until she required a long period of hospitalization in a nursing home setting for the last several years of her life. In the late 1970's, the nature of the interstate trucking business changed dramatically, from a highly regulated industry, requiring much political know-how, to a more entrepeneurial and "free market" industry. I believe my father and his partner did not begin to forsee the cataclysmic change in the business climate produced by changes in federal regulation of the industry, and in an unbelievably short period of time a very large proportion of the small and medium-sized truck lines collapsed into bankruptcy, as a result of "deregulation". During the last several years of my father's life he lived alone, simply, in a very modest house in a near blue collar neighborhood, but he retained his intelligence, wit, and vigor until the last day of his life, having dealt quite well with coronary bypass surgery and carcinoma of the prostate, before finally succumbing to a several year struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

During the last years of his life my father was cared for by a much younger woman, a handsome nurse with whom he had long been intimately acquainted. They occupied separate residences, but were mutually devoted until his death. Until the very end, my father elected to avoid hospitalization, and his circumstances permitted him to remain independent and well cared for by his loving friend. When finally the disease had progressed to the point that he could barely breathe sufficiently to maintain himself, it became clear that hospitalization would be necessary. His friend, my brothers, Wiley and Phil, and I met with him and arranged for him to be transported to the hospital on the following morning. We all elected to stay awake for the night, and assist with preparation for sending him to the hospital by ambulance in the AM. There was little to do during that evening, except for casual and not too serious conversation. My father was too breathless to speak, but he would occasionally make himself understood by whispers and signals. He remained fully alert and cheerful. To pass the time, some of us worked a crossword puzzle and an anagram puzzle in the newspaper, with some light banter about riddles evoked by the puzzles. After a while it became clear to me, that my father wanted to say something, so I leaned over and listened carefully, to his barely audible whisper. I finally was able to hear, not clearly but with perfect undertanding, that he was recalling a verbal puzzle from his childhood. He was saying this: "The fox, the goose, and the corn", then smiling broadly. These were the last words I heard him say. "The fox, the goose, and the corn". You may remember the story. A farmer, traveling to market with a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn is required to cross the river, but the boat available is only of sufficient size to at one time carry himself and one of the items he carries. How does he transport the three items across the river without allowing an opportunity for the fox to eat the goose or the goose to eat the corn? Then and now, I repeatedly recollect what I think was my father's calm and frankly humorous consideration of the problems associated with "crossing the river", on what I suspect he knew was his last night on earth. Early the next morning the ambulance came, and without ado my father was put on the stretcher and taken to the ambulance for transport to the hospital. I do not really remember seeing my father conscious after he whispered to me the reminder of the old riddle night before. But I know he was conscious and breathing on his own when he was placed the stretcher.

After my father was put in the transport vehicle, the EMT exited the vehicle, told me that my father was no longer breathing, and asked me if we wished him to provide ventilatory assistance. I told the EMT that I did not wish him to provide further support. In a separate car I followed the ambulance on the trip to Westside hospital, a component of the Centenniel Medical Center complex. When we arrived at the hospital, my father was intermittently making weak respiratory efforts, but he was clearly unconscious and comatose. He died quietly, without further suffering, on that afternoon. I can only speculate, but I feel there was probably a substantial voluntary element exercised by my father in choosing to die when he did. He had reached a stage of weakness and muscular atrophy, such that respiratory activity required all the effort he could muster to slightly move his chest and diaphragm. It is my feeling that he realized he could not go on breathing on his own, and that he willfully and knowledgably elected to die, by his own will, and the time of his choice, by choosinging not to exert the effort required when he realized the time had come. He know how to cross the river, on his terms. Such a choice would have been, and I am sure, was, in perfect character for this remarkable man. His courage is a challenge to each of us.

Photographs taken at Powell Cemetery, Lafayette, Kentucky, September, 2010

Children of WILEY HORN and MARY GORDON are: i. ROBERT GORDON12 HORN, b. 17 Dec 1931, Davidson County, Tennessee. ii. WILEY WEATHERS HORN (JR), b. 09 Nov 1937, Davidson County, Tnessee. iii. PHILLIP LOUIS HORN, b. 01 Oct 1940, Davidson County, Tennessee.

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1. ROBERT GORDON12 HORN (WILEY WEATHERS11, ROBERT LEE10, CHARLES FRANCES MARION9, HENRY8, JOSIAH7, WILLIAM6, HENRY (THE QUAKER)5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, HENRY OR RICHARD1) was born 17 Dec 1931 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He married (1) BETTY JANE WADDELL 18 Dec 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was born 12 Dec 1931 in Nashville, Tennessee. He met (2) LILIA DUJUA MAURICIO. She was born 14 Aug 1943 in Manila, The Philipines. Notes for ROBERT GORDON HORN: Born at 2515 Dickerson Rd, on 25 acre farm of John Gordon. House burned about 1933 and replaced by brick bungalow, still there in 2011. Place left to Patsy, my mother, on death of John Gordon, in July of 1935. Sold in about 1943 when Wiley and Patsy bougt 100+ acre farm on Haywood Lane. This place subdivided by Wiley Horn in about 1958, the residence becoming site of present day Baptist church (ghosts of Josiah and Henry). Wiley and Patsy bought 300+ acre farm in Christian County, Kentucky for $75,000. Transferred to Bob, Wiley, and Phil in late 80's and sold to Mennonite family from Ohio. The meek shall inherit the earth.

Places of residence of RGH: 1931-~43: 2515 Dickerson Rd, Davidson County, TN 1943-~54: Haywood Lane, " " " 1954- 61: Acklen Park Drive (site now about 50 feet in the air, over I-440), Haywood Lane,Bordeaux hospital(57-58), various apartments in the Vanderbilt-West End area. 1961-1965: Silver Spring and Bethesda, Maryland, near NIH. 1965-1995: Various locations in Nashville and Brentwood, TN. 1996- ? : 3530 John Allen Road, Cornersville, Marshall County, TN. ************ (The following notes were prepared by me, Robert G. Horn, in November of 2002, in response to a request by my grandson, Gordon Chavez, for some information he wanted to present a talk in school about one of his ancestors.)

I was born in 1931 on a small farm, 25 acres, on the outskirts of the city of Nasvhille, northeast of town, the first child of Wiley Horn and Patsy Gordon, where I lived until I was 12 years old. My parents lived in the household of Patsy's mother and father, John and Nora Nash Gordon. At the time the country was in an economic depression, many people were unemployed and homeless, businesses were failing, and many people were penniless because they had lost their jobs, and often any money they had. Many the banks had collapsed and lost the savings which had been entrusted to them by their customers. My grandfather, then quite old, had owned and operated a small grocery business and later a bakery, and his businesses managed to survive the "crash" of the economy, although he suffered substantial losses in the process.

My father had come to Nashville from nearby Christian County, Kentucky, as soon as he had graduated from high school in about 1929. He lived with an older sister, took classes at a "Business School", got a job in the office of the telephone company, and married my mother, whom he had first encountered on a city bus, in January of 1931. When they first married, they lived in a tent in the back yard of my grandfather's house, but by the time I came along, a week before Christmas day in 1931, I think they had moved into the house where I was born. When I was a small baby, the house burned on a Saturday night, while my parents, grandparents and I had taken a drive to the city. On the way home, they heard a fire engine, going the same way they were, and it turned out both of them were going to the same place. The house was promptly rebuilt, a nice 3-bedroom brick bungalow which stills stands there. This is the first home I remember. Because so many people were out of a job and available for work, the house was promptly rebuilt, for a very few dollars, I forget the amount, but if one had any money at all, they could buy a great deal with it.
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My grandfather died suddenly of heart problems in July of 1935. I was only three and a half years old, but I think I can remember that when my grandmother, mother, and I came back to the house from a short trip to a nearby grocery, he had fallen out of his chair and was dead on the floor. As a result of my grandfather's death, my mother was given the property where we lived, and my aunt Dee was given some other property that he had owned. Dee had recently married a young attorney, Beverly Briley, who would obtain considerable fame as the first mayor of the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, a few years later. My grandmother continued to live with my parents and me on the small farm, although she frequently visited and spent time with her other five children and their families in the nearby communities. I did not have a younger brother until I was almost six years old, so I initially grew up as an "only child", with few nearby neighbors and no childhood friends except for my occasional visits from cousins. As a result, I had considerable time to entertain myself, and I promptly learned to read whatever I could find to try to interpret. My parents have told me that they were often somewhat aggravated when they would take me for a drive, and I would insist on "showing off" by reading the roadside signs

from the car window. I think I also learned how to entertain myself in those early years, and even now I am not often entirely happy in busy and bubbling social situations. Even after I started to school, my schoolmates all lived in a suburban neighborhood near the school, while I lived "alone" on the farm about a mile or two from school. This arrangement provided me with much time for reflection and study. I am sure I would have been a more sociable person, if I had been forced to deal with more children of my own age at this time of my life. I found it quite easy to do the school work, and I think I found that I could obtain considerable satisfaction and self-assurance from knowing more than most of classmates and impressing the teacher's with my fund of information. In many ways, this approach to the world outside my home became a way of life to me for a long time. I think my parents were so busy learning to be parents and young adults, that they did not spend much time in conversation with me. On the other hand, my grandmother told me many stories of her life and times. I wish that she had told me more, and that I had listened more carefully. She was born in Henry County, TN and grew up in the Pinewood community of Hickman County where her father was the foreman of a saw mill on the Piney River. Living conditions were very poor, particularly in rural areas of the South, after the Civil War. Infectious diseases were rampant, and life was often very short and difficult. Her father died as a young man, at work at the mill, of heart disease, age 39. Nora was first married as a very young woman and several of her first-born children died, of diarrhea, meningitis, and other infectious diseases. And her first husband died as a young man, perhaps of tuberculosis, leaving her with four young children and no ready means of supporting herself. Perhaps these stories of my grandmother awakened in me some interest in diseases, which so tragically had affected her life and the lives of most people in those days. In spite of it all, my grandmother married a second time, to the childless and recently widowed Mr. Gordon,and they had two more children, my mother, "Patsy", and "Dee". Nora lived for another 35 years following the death of her second husband in 1935. Nora Nash Hines Gordon died at age 97 in 1970, having raised six children to adulthood in health and prosperity, with multitudes of grandchildren who loved her dearly and were awed by her simplicity and effectiveness. When I was twelve years old, my parents sold the small farm where I had been born and took me and my six and three year old brothers to a larger but somewhat similar place, 125 acres on Haywood Lane, in the southernmost part of Davidson County. By this age, I was able to enjoy the wide open spaces on our farm as well have friends in the community where we lived. But I still managed to find time to be the "smartest kid in school", at least in the very small schools I went to then. At Antioch elementary school, the fifth and sixth grade classes were in the same room, and at Tusculum elementary school, both the seventh and eighth grades were in the same room. There were only 8 or 10 students in my

8th grade class there. bottom in that school.

No one was very far from the top or from the

I think my father wanted me to be a "gentleman farmer" when I grew up. When I was ten years old, he bought me a pony as a surprise. It was quite a surprise. We went to the back yard and saddled the pony, who appeared quite large to me, and my father helped me onto the horse's back. I guess somebody said, "giddy up", but in any case the pony started to run. He ran through a narrow gate, jammed my leg against the gate latch, and I must have fallen off, with a large laceration just below my left knee. This required a trip to the doctor and several large metal clamps to close the wound. I recovered from the injury promptly, but I have never trusted horses, and it took me forty more years to want to become a farmer. As a result of this episode and, I am sure, others like it, my father and I modified our expectations of each other, and each of us tried to do as we pleased, with cautious respect. I helped out a good bit at the farm, fencing, making hay, milking cows, but it was alway clear to all of us, that at that time my deeper interests lay somewhere beyond the farm. After we moved to the larger farm on Haywood Lane, I enjoyed school, at least the "doing well" part and being with friends. I enjoyed living in the country, I tolerated the small amount of farm work that I did, and greatly enjoyed solitary walking and investigation on the farm. I bought a single-shot .22 rifle, but I did not like to hunt and I had no talent for it. I remember once shooting a crow, a bird which I enjoyed stalking, because they are so smart. But one was enough. Crows live in social groups, they do not willingly let people get near them, and they post sentries to watch for encroaching humans and warn the rest of the crows when someone approaches. Nice birds. There are not nearly so many now as there were then. I also enjoyed talking a walk on the farm, finding a comfortable place and building a small bon-fire, especially in the winter. It is always a challenge to build a small outdoor fire with only a few matches and no kindling or fuel, and it is, of course, very comforting to sit quietly and watch a fire, especially if you have created it. As soon as I was old enough, 15 or 16, along with one or two friends, I took every chance to go on hiking and camping trips away from home. We had initially done this several years earlier with the Boy Scouts, but shortly gave up on this organization and started doing similar things on our own. Our favorite reasonably nearby places were the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee and North Carolina. Newfound Gap, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Mount Le Conte, and Cades Cove. Bears, campfires, the Appalachian Trail, and very few people. Shortly, thereafter, while still in high school, with my friend, Wallace Rogers, we undertook long trips by car to see the country beyond Tennessee. Our first trip was to the northeast, with one other friend, Al Turman. We travelled to Knoxville, Virginia, Monticello, Mount Vernon, Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Boston, Cape Cod, the coast of Maine, Mount Katahdin at the northern end of the Appalachian

Trail, then west into Canada, Montreal and Quebec, Niagra Falls, and back home. Amazingly, on most nights we camped out on cots by the roadside, only occasionally stopping at cheap motels for a bath and a good night's sleep. We never encountered any hostility or concern from other travelers, the locals, police, or psycopaths. It was a somewhat different world then, when President Truman would talk a walk on the sidewalk around the White House, unaccompanied, like us, not bothered by and not bothering anyone in the process. After the successful northeastern trip we made two similar two to three week long trips to the West, to see just about all of it. In two separate long summer trips Wallace and I and a couple of our friends saw just about all of the western United States. I think we were most awed and fascinated by the mountain ranges, the Rockies, the Sierras, and by the massive dams across some of the largest rivers, the Grand Coulee Dam in the State of Washington, and the Hoover/Boulder Dam across the Colorado River. Shortly after first encountering the site of the massive wall of the Rocky Mountains, leaping up from the earth, after we had driven westward across the endless plains of Kansas and eastern Colorado, we drove directly into the mountains, looking for places to camp and hike. It was then that I first realized that when one enters the mountains, so dramatically visible from afar, the peaks disappear from view. From the surface of the earth, in the valleys and lower ridges, the peaks tend to remain blocked from view, except for occasional glimpses. We later learned that to truly see the grandeur and presence of the mountains, one must climb to or very near their peaks and look at them from above. For our initial climb, Wallace and I selected a rather dramatic looking mountain in the southern portion of Rocky Mountain National Park to attempt our first climb. We had driven along a mountain road to about 8000 feet above sea level, and the estimated 6000 feet additional vertical climb to the top did not seem insuperable at the moment. We did not make it even halfway that day, the effort required to climb at that elevation, with its lowered oxygen content, making even our young and enthusiastic hearts and lungs too starved to go on. It took us several more attempts, considerable planning, and more than a decade to finish the ascent of Mount Meeker, the peak of which is just short of 14,000 feet above sea level. In later years with my son, David, in one summer trip we were able to climb to the summits of three mountains higher than 14,000 feet. We climbed Long's Peak, the highest mountain in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Mount Elbert, the highest mountain in Colorado, and Mount Whitney in the Sierra Mountains of California, the highest mountain in the the United States, excepting those in Alaska (which really should not count, since Alaska may be a nice place but it is certainly not much of a state). After finishing my college degree at Vanderbilt in 1954, my entrance to Medical School in the fall of that year pretty much ended my elective pursuits. It was four years of very hard work, long hours, an exhausting

curriculum, capable of being grasped only very incompletely by even the most qualified students. The process determines that you can survive a life of extreme rigor and stress, while providing you with just enough information that you can begin to select and learn to be the kind of physician you wish to become. I recommend the process only for the extremely dedicated and determined, those with clearly nothing better to do. In the latter stages of medical school, I decided I was very interested in the science of Medicine, determining how the body works and fails to work properly, (an arena I later found to be, much more than I had imagined, a vast and inexpressibly complex area of incomplete and continually expanding information), and I correctly concluded that I was not particularly well suited for the hands on close personal interactions with patients that were required to become a good care-giving physician, perhaps as a result of those interpersonal skills I failed to acquire in early life. After completion of medical school, I entered a training program to learn to be a Pathologist. Pathologist are physicians who are trained to use laboratory techniques of many types to assist in the diagnosis of diseases. A skill particularly important to the practice of Pathology is skill in use of Microscopy in determining the nature of diseases processes. After 3 years working in the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt Hospital, I was able to become an officer in the United States Public Health Service, stationed for four years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH was at that time, and even now, is, one of the premier medical research institutions in the world. During that four years I was able to work with some good and some near great scientists at the NIH, accomplishing some research goals and, more importantly, obtaining experience in the use of research techniques which were then quite new and "avant garde". In 1965, I was offered and accepted a position on the faculty of the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt University. At that time the VU School of Medicine was a much smaller and simpler institution that it is at the present time. Medicine was about to embark on a phase of very rapid growth, fuelled by America's prosperity after the end of WWII, the rapid advances in science and technology of that era, citizens' demand for improved medical care, and the growth of governmental and corporate involvement in trying to meet those demands and provide needed services. In the intial phases of that growth spurt at Vanderbilt, I was able to bring to the institution and to the department of Pathology a beginnning of enhanced competence in some of the important research techniques I had learned to use at the NIH. I obtained NIH funded research grants to equip a Laboratoy for Electron Microscopy and facilities to begin to employ some immunological and other new techniques in the study of human diseases.

At this time rapid growth in the understanding of disease of the kidney was underway, due to 1) the use of techniques to remove a very small amount of tissue from the kidney, using a biopsy needle to remove a small piece of tissue from the diseased kidney, and 2) by using the new techniques of Electron Microscopy and other special microscopic techniques to determine the processes which were injuring the kidneys of these patients. Over the next decade, a large number of these kidney biopsy procedures were performed, both at Vanderbilt and in other medical research institutions, and a new discipline of Kidney Biopsy Pathology developed, producing greatly improved understanding of kidney diseases and substantial improvement in the management of patients with such problems. With the expanded demand for health care in America, the decision was made to increase the number of physicians being trained in America through increased governmental funding of medical schools for this purpose. The number of students in Medical School at Vanderbilt was more than doubled in a very few years, and beginning in the early 1970's, considerable effort was made to improve the quality and effectiveness of the educational process in medical schools. For several years I was the director of education for the long and demanding course in Pathology, required of all medical students during their second year. I was able to accomplish a number of dramatic and effective changes in educational techniques and content in our Patholgy teaching, due to my interest in improving the quality of the teaching which I had found to be so abysmally awful just a few years earlier, and in these efforts I was given much appreciated support by the Dean of the Medical School and many of the faculty of Pathology. In 1975, the graduating class chose to give me the "Shovel Award", for my teaching efforts on behalf of the Vanderbilt Medical students, a much appreciated honor. After about 15 years as a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt, having enjoyed greatly my efforts in research, teaching, and the practice of Pathology, and being reasonably gratified by the results, having reached the rank of Professor of Pathology and determining that I did not wish to attempt to try to rise higher in the ranks of Academic Medicine, I elected to resign from my academic position and try something new, in a different environment. Beginning in 1981, I worked for four years as a practicing hospital pathologist at a large community hospital in Nashville. In this position I established a laboratory to continue my work in Kidney Biopsy Pathology, offering my diagnostic services and professional expertise in this area to physicians in practice outside the university hospital. In 1985 I resigned my position at Baptist Hospital and opened an independent laboratory devoted to the practice of Kidney Biopsy Pathology, the facet of Pathology that I had found was particularly rewarding in applying relatively new and sophisticated diagnostic techniques to practicing physicians and their patients with kidney disease.

My established clientele responded to the services offered by the newly created independent small and focussed laboratory, and over the years, the amount of service being provided by this Laboratory has slowly but regularly increased. The productivity and reasonable success of this Laboratory for Kidney Pathology has been due in large measure to the continuing contribution of Mrs. Jennie O'Saile, who has been my technological wizard for more than 25 years, and to two of my daughters, Sarah and Cynthia, who have each worked with me for more than 10 years. These three and two other wonderful technologists provide an efficient, effective, and caring service to our physician clientele and their patients. I have recently been joined in this practice by a dear friend and outstanding Pathologist, Dr. Lilia Mauricio, and it is our intention to continue to provide these services for the forseeable future. In about 1983, perhaps in response to the lingering feeling that perhaps I had disappointed my father in not being able to become a gentleman farmer, like I thought he may have wanted, and perhaps motivated by some genetic urge that afflicted my ancestors, a need to "go west, and seek a new land", perhaps to repay them, symbolically, for their efforts, I purchased a debilitated old farm, 325 acres in the rocky hills and valleys of southern middle Tennessee, about an hour directly south of Nashville, just outside the Nashville basin, at the headwaters of Richland Creek, a tributary of the Elk River, and then the Tennessee River. Remaining relics of those pioneers who settled the place in the early 1800's were the hand hewn logs in the smoke house, 8 to 12 inches in cross-section, the rock chimney in the interior of the old house, chinked with mud between the closely fitting rocks, still standing straight, and the rows of buttercups at the head of some of the smaller valleys, marking the remains of an attempted beginning of a new homestead of the offspring of the thenowner of the farm, an attempt now long since abandoned and untenable. In the ensuing now nearly 20 years I have begun to restore some of the features of the old place, while adding modern amenities to acknowledge the present and the future, as well as remembering the past. It is my wish and desire than this place can provide a site for at least the occasional assembly of our families, in recognition of the ties that bind us and the forces that separate us, now, as earlier, and forthwith. With the help of a few distant relatives and newfound acquaintances, and several visits to libraries, I have in the last year or so been able to trace, with reasonable conviction, my Horn lineage to the area of southeastern Virginia near the end of the 1600's, where a certain William Horn and his wife, Margaret, and their family appears in the records of Nansemonde County, Virginia. In 1718 this William Horn was awarded 1000 acres by King George, for reasons unknown, property then said to be in Nansemonde County, Virginia, and determined, after the survey of 1728, to be property that would become Gates County, North Carolina.

A son of William Horn of Nansemond, Henry Horn, a Quaker, lived from 1716 to 1798, mostly in the Tar River area of upper eastern North Carolina, raising to adulthood thirteen children, one of whom, the oldest, "Colonel" William, among his other accomplishments, was four times married, as well as being an elected member of the North Carolina legislature, 1776-1789, apparently being more successful in politics than in matrimony. The oldest son of Colonel William, Josiah Horn, emigrated from North Carolina to Montgomery County, Tennessee in 1800 where he bought farm land and established a Baptist Church where he was the minister for many years. The initial membership of Josiah's church was 17 Whites and 6 Blacks. Josiah's grandfather, Henry the Quaker, had been a slaveholder, bequeathing several slaves to his children at his death in 1798, but Henry stipulated in his Will that the "if at any time the laws of our Country will admit of their freedom, then they shall be free, but untill then, I do hereby deposit them in the care of my Executors as Guargians over them in all cases with equal authority as if I had made an absolute legacy of them, to them, yet not so as to sell them for gain.". Josiah's son, Henry Horn, followed his father as minister of the Blooming Grove Church. He raised two daughters and nine sons, two of whom served in Army of the Confederacy, and one whom died in that War, in 1865. One of Henry's sons, Charles Frances Marion Horn, was a school teacher. He survived the War and Reconstruction. One of Charles' two sons, Robert Lee Horn, 1861 - 1949, survived the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, the influenza Pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression, and World War II. Robert Lee Horn, and his wife, Emma Reynolds, raised six children, the last of whom was my father, Wiley Weathers Horn, 1909 - 1988. As with every person and every family, each of our lives should be a tribute to those who lives made ours possible. My final home is meant to recognize and be emblematic of the joys and struggles involved in the lives each of us has led, since time unremembered, and will continue to lead into the unforseeable future. Among the greatest pleasures of my life is walking with my grandchildren, Gordon and Warner, surveying the rocky hills around us, pondering the times that have passed and the wonderful days to come, planning our futures, wherever the days will take us. Robert G. Horn 11 November, 2002.

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