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Descendants of Leonard Hornsby

10. Leonard² Hornsby (Leonard¹)³⁵ was born 13 May 1755 in Jamestown, James City Co., VA ³⁶, and died Abt. 1830. He married Rachel [--?--] Unknown. She was born 1770, and died Unknown.

Notes for Leonard Hornsby:
Copied from the Hornsby/Stroud Family Bible, now located at Winthrop University - Dacus Library, Rock Hill, York Co., SC. Bible. - "Leonard Hornsby the Son of Leonard Hornsby and Elizabeth his wife was born the 13th of May 1755"

(Also in the Bible what appears to be a promissory note)(The promissory note is very faded and difficult to read. Some parts are not readable.)

December the 21 1781
I promise to pay or cause to be paid to John William Blake on his order the full sum of five pounds Sterling on or before the first day of March ____which I received at his hands

Leonard Hornsby

May the First 1782
Received of Leonard Hornsby Five Pounds Sterling Money in full of all debts ___ on ________from__________ of the ____to the Day of the date ____ __ of __ ___ my hand

John William Blake

(And another entry made in the Bible about the death of his father, written in Leonard's hand.)

"Leonard Hornsby Deceased April the 12th- Annodomini 1779 in the Eigheth Year of his Age About Halfanour Before the Sun Ris
Leonard Hornsby the Son of Leonard Hornsby Wrote Thus August the 10th Anndomini 1780"

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Leonard Hornsby served in the militia during 1782 under Capt Charles Lewis and Lt. James Pickett. (S.C. H & G LIX 52 AA 3760 Q 510) From Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution.
(Served with his brother Moses Hornsby)

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S.C. Historical Magazine, Vol. LIX, 1958, pg. 52
WFT Volume #8, Tree 2597, shows died probably in Mississippi.
Document from I D Hornsby, Lubbock, TX - Leonard Hornsby Jr, b 13 May 1755
Family Records, Mrs Henry S Cherry, San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX - Leonard Hornsby Jr, b 13 may 1755
SC Marr & Births - Leonard Hornsby, b 13 Mar 1755, Chester Co
Roster of SC Patriots in Amer Rev - Leonard Hornsby, b 13 May 1755, served in militia 1782 under Capt Charles Lewis & Lt James Pickett
Colonial Soldiers of the South - Leonard Hornsby, Unit Colonel was George Washington

1800 NC Census, Buncombe Co, 171 - Leonard Hornsby, age 45+, wife 26-45, 4M & 2F U10, 2M 10-16
1805 Census for Amite Co., MS ; Leonard Hornsby = 2 adults, 6 males, 4 Females. Total in HH - 12
1810 Census for Amite Co., MS ; Leonard Hornsbey 3-6-1-2-12-0-2
1830 MS Census, Wilkinson Co., MS - Leonard Hornsby 60+, wife 60+, 1M 10-20, 1F 20-40

1760 - (5) W/F SC
1770 - (15) W/F SC
-------- NOTE: 3 female children
1780 - (25)
1790 - (35)
1805 - State census of Wilkinson Co., MS; Leonard Hornsby 2-6-4-0-0-0-12
1820 - (65) Covington Co., MS
1830 - (75) Wilkinson Co., MS

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"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT." SKETCHES of THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith, 1892, Hopkins Printing Office, 20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans
PIONEERS of THE EIGHTH WARD.
When, in 1800, old Leonard Hornsby took passage on a flat boat and floated out of South Carolina down the head waters of the Tennessee river and around by the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, with all his father's slaves and herds, his house-hold and kitchen outfit, his wagons, teams and agricultural implements, his gunsmith and his one-legged shoemaker, his big mastiffs, bull dogs and deer hounds, he was tolerably well equipped to plant and defend and expand an outpost in the vanguard of civilization, which he did in 1802 in the forks of Beaver Creek and the Amite river, to which his Anglo-Saxon love of running waters had attracted him. This outpost of the Hornsby's, in 1802, lies in the extreme corner of the Eighth Ward, and is now the property of Judge W.F. Kernan. When its site was selected there were none within hearing of his cock's crowing for day-break, except the sly, scheming foxes, thirsting for chanticleer's blood; none to hear the deep-mouthed baying of his big dogs, except the frightened bears, panthers, wolves and deer. No human being was nearer than old Mr. Furlow, a Georgian, who, with a hermit's love of solitude, had planted his solitary log cabin on the west side of Hepzibah Creek, about half a mile below the high hill, out of the sides of which gush the living waters as fresh and strong and life-giving as those which gushed from the rocks of Horeb when struck by Aaron's rod. The place is central and has had many different proprietors after old Mr. Furlow was put away in his grave. His immediate successor was Daniel Eads, of Kentucky, who constructed the first grist mill just above where Hephzibah Church now stands. Two other leaders of Eighth Ward society, Elisha Andrews and Major Doughty, followed Mr. Eads as proprietors of the Furlow place, and in 1812 or 1814 the Rev. Ezra Courtney, having organized a numerous Baptist congregation, selected the portion of the place lying on the east side of the creek for the site of a Baptist house of worship, to which was given the name of Hephzibah................................................................. ..................
After Furlow and Hornsby, the dim and scattered germs of Eighth Ward settlers were first recruited by John Chance and James Felps from Georgia, in 1803 and 1804, and probably by the ancestor of Jack, Booker and Smith Kent. Mr. Chance made his first clearing on the place in the Seventh ward on which in 1806 old Mr. Henry Dunn moved with his family and slaves. This John Chance became conspicuous in the annals of the Eighth Ward, for long and honorable services as a leader through its early struggles, and as the founder of a numerous and powerful family by his marriage with Miss Zilpha Doughty, who came into the ward in 1806 in company with her father, old Mr. Levi Doughty, from Darlington District, S.C. In the same fleet of flatboats which floated the Doughtys out of South Carolina, down the head waters of the Tennessee and through the perilous Muscle Shoals, down the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, came out of the same neighborhood a column of immigrants with their families, slaves and household goods; and from Natchez, on foot and in wagons, probably along the same trace which old Leonard Hornsby blazed out in 1802, to the banks of Beaver creek, near which most of these colonists commenced their clearings................................................................. ...........

Early Settlers of MS Territory
LDS Fiche # 6051448
When MS became a state, the settlers were required to prove their right to the land claims in the county, either by British, Spanish or USA grant, proven by occupancy.
The person had to prove, by witnesses, that he was 21 or the head of the household, living on the land, with some improvements and raising a crop there on 27th Oct 1795.

The first name on this list, is the name of the person applying for the deed, the Second name is the person who received the original grant, the number is the acreage involved, last is the location of the land.

AMITE RIVER
these grants were located in Wilkinson Co. until 1809 when Amite was formed.
Edmund Andrews Edmund Andrews 300 Amite River
John Courtney John Courtney 590 Amite River
Jacob Currey Jacob Currey 525 Amite River
Moses Foster Moses Foster 320 Amite River
Peter Haines Peter Haines 260 Amite River
William Hickman William Hickman 150 Amite River
Joseph Johnson Joseph Johnson 325 Amite River
John Kneelan John Kneelan 115 Amite River
William Lawrence William Lawrence 237 Amite River
William Lea William Furlow 261 Amite River
Robert Montgomery Robert Montgomery 420 Amite River
Mathew Tool assignee of Robert Furlow Robert Furlow 100 Amite River
Mathew Tool, assignee of James Burney James Burney 320 Amite River
Robert Trentham Robert Trentham 425 Amite River
William Vardiman John Morgan 320 Amite River

BEAVER CREEK
these were in Wilkinson Co. until 1809 when Amite was formed.
William Burd William Burd 320 Beaver Creek
Mark Cole Mark Cole 336 Beaver Creek
Thomas Courtney Thomas Courtney 320 Beaver Creek
William Curtis William Curtis 382 Beaver Creek
John Davis assignee of Jesse Lea James Hazletop 117 Beaver Creek
Micajah Davis assignee of William Roach Willliam Roach 320 Beaver Creek
Owen Ellis Owen Ellis 187 Beaver Creek
George Ellis George Ellis 640 Beaver Creek
John Francis John Francis 176 Beaver Creek
Simpson Holmes Simpson Holmes 640 Beaver Creek occupancy 30 mar 1798
Leonard Hornsby Leonard Hornsby 196 Beaver Creek
Isaac Jackson and W. Temple assignees of John Berry John Berry 534 Beaver Creek
Samuel Lacey assignee of Samuel Harper Samuel Harper 274 Beaver Creek
Jesse Lea James Swain 221 Beaver Creek
Micajah McCullen Michajah McCullen 255 Beaver Creek
Alexander McKay Alexander McKay 84 Beaver Creek
Henry Ratcliff Henry Ratcliff 170 Beaver Creek
Thomas Shropshire Thomas Shropshire 100 Beaver Creek

Notes for Rachel [--?--]:
Source: WFT Volume #8, Tree 2597, Birthyear has to be wrong

More About Leonard Hornsby and Rachel [--?--]:
Marriage: Unknown

Children of Leonard Hornsby and Rachel [--?--] are:

+	39	i.		Elijah Henry³ Hornsby, born Abt. 1780; died Abt. 1852 in Iverville Parish, LA.
	40	ii.		Offney French Hornsby, born Abt. 1783 in SC; died Abt. 1871 in Iberville Parish, LA. He married Elizabeth Duke 05 Oct 1820 in Wilkinson Co., MS; born 1799; died 15 Sep 1859.

Notes for Offney French Hornsby:
Source: Marriage Index: Ar, MS, Mo, TX, 1766-1981, Sec III, Ch 80, Wilkinson, MS. FTM CD #5. shows town of Amite.

Notes for Elizabeth Duke:
Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA.

Source: Alice Whitehead

More About Elizabeth Duke:
Burial: 1859, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Marriage Notes for Offney Hornsby and Elizabeth Duke:
Full Context of Marriages--Mississippi to 1825

Mississippi, Wilkinson Co.

Dukes, Elizabeth married Hornsby, Offney on 05 Oct 1820 in Wilkinson Co., MS

More About Offney Hornsby and Elizabeth Duke:
Marriage: 05 Oct 1820, Wilkinson Co., MS

iii.

Elisha Hornsby, born Abt. 1790 in Virginia; died 12 Jun 1852 in Pearl River, LA. He married Elizabeth Mills Unknown; born 1775; died 12 Jun 1852 in Iberville Parish, LA.

Notes for Elisha Hornsby:
WFT Volume #8, Tree 2597, not sure dates on this person and wife are correct, show him as born in 1775, which would make his mother 5, shows her about 1790.

St. Helena War of 1812 Veterans, St. Helena Parish, LA
File prepared by D.N. Pardue and submitted by Inez Bridges Tate

Hornsby, Elisha

Louisiana Soldiers In the War of 1812, Hardie to Knight Compiled by John Bennett Pierson
Hornsby, Elisha Private 12 and 13 Cons. Reg't., LA Mil. (Orig. under Horensby, Elisha)

More About Elisha Hornsby and Elizabeth Mills:
Marriage: Unknown

+	42	iv.	James Hornsby, born 1797 in SC; died Abt. 1852.
+	43	v.	Samuel R. Hornsby, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1850.
	44	vi.	Phannel R. Hornsby, born Abt. 1800; died Unknown. She married (1) Jacob Bunch 01 Jan 1829 in Wilkinson Co., MS; born Unknown; died Unknown. She married (2) Joshia Geter 18 Aug 1836 in Adams Co., MS; born Unknown; died Unknown.

Notes for Phannel R. Hornsby:
Documentation: Marriage Index: Ar, Mo, MS, TX, 1766-1981, Wilkinson Co., MS. FTM CD #5

More About Jacob Bunch and Phannel Hornsby:
Marriage: 01 Jan 1829, Wilkinson Co., MS

More About Joshia Geter and Phannel Hornsby:
Marriage: 18 Aug 1836, Adams Co., MS

+	45	vii.	Leonard K. Hornsby, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1842 in Point Coupee Parish, LA.
+	46	viii.	Benjamin Hornsby, born 1800 in SC; died Abt. 1846.
	47	ix.	Isabel Hornsby, born Unknown; died Unknown. She married James Cotton 02 Feb 1812 in St. Tammany Parish, LA; born Unknown; died Unknown.

Marriage Notes for Isabel Hornsby and James Cotton:
Full Context of Marriages--Louisiana to 1850

Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish

Cotton, James married Hornsby, Isabel on 02 Feb 1812 in St. Tammany Parish, LA

More About James Cotton and Isabel Hornsby:
Marriage: 02 Feb 1812, St. Tammany Parish, LA

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