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Descendants of Josiah Horn
4.Reverend Henry6 Horn (Josiah5, William4, Henry3, William2, Hypothetical1) was born August 22, 1792 in North Carolina10, and died February 21, 1866 in Montgomery County, Tenn.He married Mary Morris September 30, 1813 in Tennessee, daughter of Nathan Morris and Louisa.She was born May 7, 1793 in North Carolina11, and died August 19, 1869 in 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!
Following in his father's footsteps as pastor of Blooming Grove church.Buried in churchyard cemetary alongside his wife.Photograph available.
Note of 6 April, 2002, excerpted from a letter to Larry Horn:
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 particularly 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.
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:
+ | 24 | i. | Josiah Martin7 Horn, born November 4, 1816 in Montgomery County, TN; died July 3, 1898 in Baxter County, Arkansas. | |
25 | ii. | Sarah T. Horn, born July 31, 1819 in Montgomery County, TN12; died February 7, 1841 in Montgomery County, TN. | ||
+ | 26 | iii. | Thomas Hunter Horn, born August 28, 1821 in Montgomery County, TN; died July 11, 1910 in Mountain Home, Baxter, Arkansas, USA. | |
+ | 27 | iv. | William D. Horn, born October 28, 1823 in Montgomery County, TN. | |
+ | 28 | v. | Henry S. Horn, born October 20, 1825 in Montgomery County, TN; died September 15, 1894 in Arkansas. | |
+ | 29 | vi. | Cordial N. Horn, born September 25, 1827 in Montgomery County, TN; died January 22, 1865 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. | |
+ | 30 | vii. | Dr. James Robert Horn, born October 1, 1829 in Montgomery County, TN; died December 31, 1909 in Keatchie, LA. | |
+ | 31 | viii. | Charles Frances Marion Horn, born October 3, 1831 in Montgomery County, TN; died April 1918 in Lafayette, Kentucky. | |
32 | ix. | Elizabeth W. Horn, born November 7, 183312; died April 23, 1855.She married Joseph A. Welker April 23, 1854 in Montgomery County, TN; born Abt. 1830. | ||
33 | x. | Columbus J. Horn, born May 20, 1837; died February 1865 in Civil War. |
+ | 34 | xi. | Cornelius David Horn, born March 16, 1840 in Montgomery County, TN; died July 4, 1928 in Cumberland City, Stewart Co, TN. |
6.Cordell H.6 Horn (Josiah5, William4, Henry3, William2, Hypothetical1) was born September 16, 1800 in North Carolina, and died August 18, 1882 in Montgomery County, TN.He married Lucy Morris 1830 in Montgomery County, TN, daughter of Nathan Morris and Louisa.She was born February 28, 1809 in Montgomery County, TN, and died May 26, 1884 in Montgomery County, TN.
Notes for Cordell H. Horn:
In 1841, four years before his death, Josiah Sr divided and deeded his property, apparently the 230 acres on Blooming Grove Creek, part to Josiah Jr, and part to Cordal H.
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Josiah Horn to C. H. Horn
This Indenture made the 31st day of August AD eighteen hundred & forty one between Josiah Horn of the County of Montgomery and state of Tennessee of the one part & Cordal H. Horn of the said county and State of the other partWitnesseth that the said Josiah Horn for the love and affection I entertain for Cordal H. Horn I give transfer and convey to him a tract of land bounded as follows, commencing on a black oak and poplar Robert Armsteads north west corner, running south with said Armstead line to Jaon Masseys north east corner, thence west with Masseys line to ... plum trees thence north to a ash and white walnut, thence to the beginning.To have and to hold the same to the said Cordal H Horn his heirs and assigns against the lawfull claim of aall persons whatever.
Witness:Jason Massey, James HarrisJason Horn, Sr (SEAL)
State of Tennessee, Montgomery County:Personally appeared before me Saml McFall, Clerk of the County Court of Montgomery CountyJames Harris one of the Subscribing witnesses to the within deed of gift who being first sworn deposesand says that he is acquainted with Josiah Horn Sr the within named assignor & that he acknowledged the same in his presence to be his act & deed upon the day it been dated, Witness my hand at office this 30th day of December, 1843.Saml McFall, Clerk.
State of Tennessee, Montgomery County:Personally appeared before me Jno H McFall deputty clerk of the County Court of Montgomery County, Jason Massey the other subscribing witness to the within deed of giftss who being first sworn deposes and says that he is acquainted with Josiah Horn Senr and that he acknowledged the same in his presence to be his act and deed upon the day it bears date, witness my hand at office this 21st day of February, 1844.
Received 19th March 10 oclock AMJno H McFall, DCLK
Registered 20 March 1844.Henry L Binkley, Reg . Nll.
FTW/Docs/Jos2CHDeed.rtf
In regard to the deed above, although Josiah Jr's land is not mentioned as bordering C H' s, but in the Josiah Jr deed, C H is noted to be on the east boundary.
In the 1878 detailed map of Montgomery County, the C H Horn property is identified south of New York Road (now apparently called Rawlings Road), lying between Blooming Grove Creek on the west and Dotsonville on the east.I inspected this area from Rawlings Road on Nov 5, 2001.It is beautiful rolling pasture land, apparently now in an expensively manicured farm, contrasting with generally much more steeply contoured hills and valleys characteristic of the north side of the Cumberland River.
Cordell Horn and his wife are buried in a plot adjacent to that of his father, Josiah, and his older brother, Henry, at nearby Blooming Grove Church.His monument is quite large and obviously expensive, suggesting that he was rather prosperous.Photograph available.
In the 1878 map of Montgomerul county, showing the district borders, landowners, and many other features, C H Horn's place is shown on the south side of New York road, nearing the eastern border of the 9th district.
Children of Cordell Horn and Lucy Morris are:
35 | i. | Catharine E. P.7 Horn, born 182913. | ||
36 | ii. | Priscilla W. Horn, born 183213. | ||
37 | iii. | Elizabeth H. Horn, born 183413. |
38 | iv. | Sally A. Horn, born 183613. | ||
39 | v. | George Horn, born 184113. | ||
+ | 40 | vi. | Nathan Ross Horn, born July 17, 1849 in Montgomery County, TN; died May 20, 1918 in Tennessee. |
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