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Horn and Allied Families
Bill's earliest proven Horn ancestor, was Elisha Thomas born in North Carolina in 1800. By
1826 he was in Greene County, Alabama, where he married his first
wife, Marilda Richardson. They moved to
Sumter County, Alabama, about 1837, and to Neshoba County,
Mississippi, before 1850. Marilda died there in 1852. By 1857,
Elisha Thomas was living near Carthage, Leake County,
Mississippi, where he and his second wife, Nancy Susanna, gave
land for the Zion Hill Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery.
That same year, the church was constituted in his home and the
church governing body licensed him to preach. Several years
later, Nancy Susanna died, and he married third, Mary Jane Wells
McCauley, a widow. There was issue from the first two marriages,
and by some accounts, the third. His second child by Marilda was
William Lemuel Horn (I) who was born in
Greene County, Alabama, in 1829. He apparently left home before
1850 as he doesn't appear in the census of that year with his
parents in Leake County. An exhaustive search of the 1850 census
has failed to find him, but his older brother Manasseh Lee is probably the M.L. Horn, age 22,
born in Alabama, who appears in Panola, a county in East Texas
bordering Louisiana. It is four counties due east of Freestone
County where Bill Horn married Minerva Ann
Malone a few years later. It seems a reasonable guess that
the brothers, both of age but unmarried in 1850, struck out
together, and Bill was simply missed in the census. Whatever the
case, Bill Horn was living in Freestone County by 1854, and there
married twice and had sixteen children before moving to Indian
Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1890s. His tenth child by his second
wife, Naomi Simmons, was William Lemuel
Horn Jr., also called Bill. He grew up in Freestone County, and
probably didn't move to Indian Territory with his parents. He was
in the Spanish-American War, has not been located in the 1900
census, and was living with his brother Robert Lee and family in
Vera, Texas, in 1910. He moved to Brazoria County before 1916
where he first farmed on shares for James
Edmund Fairfield, father of his future wife, Ruth Minerva. He bought a store in Sandy Point and
served as Postmaster. He and Ruth had four children before
divorcing in 1932. He maintained very little contact with the
family, and died in Houston in 1944.
Richardson and Allied FamiliesThe earliest proven Richardson ancestor is John. Apparently, he patented 700 acres in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, in 1664, for his son William later deeded 160 acres of the land to his brother John to fulfill a promise to his father. John's grandson William, son of William, moved to Surry County, Virginia, where his will was probated in 1742/3, and his son John moved to Johnston County, North Carolina, where the next three generations lived and died. Thomas, second great-grandson of the first John, served during the Revolution in the North Carolina militia. Thomas' grandson, Samuel Garthon Richardson, moved to Wake County, North Carolina, after 1807, was in Greene County, Alabama in 1830, Pickens County, Alabama, in 1840 and 1850. Samuel's daughter Marilda married Elisha Thomas Horn in Greene County in 1826. Some related families of particular interest are:
Simmons and Allied Families
The Simmons line has been traced to John, a silversmith of Charleston, South
Carolina, who married Ann Pickens there
before 1763 and afterwards moved to Louisiana. His son Robert married Ann Miller
in Abbeville District, South Carolina, and moved to Washington
Parish, Louisiana, sometime after the birth of their fifth child
John in 1790. John was a private in the
War of 1812 and fought in the Battle of New Orleans. Following
his honorable discharge in 1815, he accompanied his
brother-in-law, Colonel James Raulston,
to Jackson County, Tennessee, where he met and married Colonel
Raulston's niece, Naomi Jared. Ten of
their eleven children were born in Jackson County between 1816
and 1837. Before the birth of their youngest child in 1839, the
family moved to Perry County, Missouri, and afterward to Carroll
County, Arkansas, Greene County, Missouri, where John received
bounty land for War of 1812 service, Oregon County, Missouri,
Wright County, Missouri, Lawrence County, Arkansas, and back to
Wright County. Their third child and oldest son, William Jared Simmons, was a pioneer Methodist
preacher of the circuit rider days. He married Susannah Hahn and lived in Perry and Wright
counties in Missouri, and apparently for several years in
Freestone County, Texas, where Reverend Simmons officiated at the
wedding of his daughter Naomi and
William Lemuel Horn in 1865, and where
his wife Susannah died in 1867. By October 1868, William was back
in Arkansas where he married second Elizabeth
Jane Montgomery. They lived in Franklin County, Arkansas, and
in about 1879, moved to Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas.
Hahn and Allied FamiliesThe Hahns were from Frechenfeld located in the Rhineland area of southwestern Germany. Johannes, immigrant, his wife Elizabeth Margaretha (Forster), and five children arrived in Philadelphia in 1751 and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth died in York County in 1756 following the birth of their eighth child, and Johannes married second in 1757, Agnes Langlin. They had five children in York County before moving in 1765 to Lincoln County, North Carolina, which was at that time part of Mecklenburg County, and is today, Catawba County. There they had five more children. Johannes was a private in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War. Joshua, son of Johannes and Elizabeth, married Eve Hinkle before 1780 and moved to Perry County, Missouri, about 1804. Their son Abraham married Barbara Wise and had Susannah who married Reverend William Jared Simmons.
