Jeremiah Horn
JEREMIAH HORN FAMILY
Biography.
Jeremiah Horn was born January 23, 1794 in Tennessee, the son of Jeremiah and Judith Horn. The Horns were originally from North Carolina coming by way of Tennessee, Mississippi, and finally to Texas. The Horns came to Collin County with the Peter’s Colony settlers.
Jeremiah Horn married Alecy Hicks in June of 1818 and there were the parents of seven children, all born in Tennessee. There were: William Thornbrough Horn (March 13, 1819), Robert Sinclair Horn (February 18, 1821), John Horn (August 2, 1823), George Horn (February 14, 1826), Mary Nealy Horn (July 25, 1828), James Trott Horn (October 17, 1830), and Jeremiah Clark Horn (January 16, 1833).
Jeremiah’s second marriage was to Sintha Daugherty Leadbetter on July 6, 1845 and to this union were born the following children, Ruth Ellen Horn (April 15, 1846), Sintha Caroline Horn (November 22, 1849), Charles Wesley Horn (October 23, 1852). Jeremiah Horn was a Methodist minister and he and his family settled on the land just south of the Walnut Grove Cemetery in 1846 and it was said that his family lived farther west than anyone in Collin County at that time.
William Thornbrough Horn was married to Margaret Ledbetter (July 14, 1830) and they settled southwest of Rheas Mill. Their children include John Horn, a Methodist minister who moved to California; Wm. George Clark Horn and Lawrence Horn who were land owners near Rheas Mill; Cynthia Horn Taylor and Fanny Horn Curtsinger, who lived in Oklahoma; Florence Horn Barrett; Alicia Horn Grace; Mrs. Neighbors and Mrs. Collins passed away early leaving young children who were reared by their grandmother Horn.
William George Clark Horn was born October 9, 1863. Her served as Deputy Sheriff of Collin County for several years and while serving in that capacity, married Mary Catherine Keen, daughter of the Rev. and Betty Orr Keen. Rev. Keen was a Presbyterian minister. The young couple lived in McKinney on Benge Street until they decided to settle on a farm west of Rheas Mill. Their children were Leona, and twins, Leta and Leland. Leona Horn married Walter Snider and they were the parents of Mary Snider McCollum and Dr. L. W. Snider. Leona Horn Snider taught school for many years, then worked with McKinney Dry Goods Company. She is now retired and lives in McKinney. Leta Horn married Ammon Smith and they were the parents of Denna Smith Davis and Marion Smith Story. Leta Horn Smith taught in the Princeton School until retiring a few years ago. She now lives in Princeton.
Leland Horn married Ruth Campbell and taught school for a short time, before he met his death in a boating accident, while on a Senior outing, at age 29 years. After his death, his parents moved from the farm to a home in McKinney. She died January 4, 1958 and he died January 22, 1952. They are buried in Forest Grove Cemetery beside their son.
Lawrence Horn was born September 21, 1871 and married Hortense. The couple made their home on their land at Rheas Mill, and ran a grocery store in McKinney. The couple had no children.
Alicia Horn married R. C. Grace, a Presbyterian minister, who at the time was the pastor of the Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church about 1890. The couple later lived in Richardson, then California, where both are buried.
The first child born to Jeremiah and Sintha Horn was Ruth Ellen, who married Jeremiah Martin, a Methodist minister. They were the parents of eight children, tow of them living out their lives in Collin County. Cass Martin Horn was a landowner and farmer of the Bloomdale Community, now deceased, but his wife lives in McKinney with her daughter, Mrs. Eustace Dungan. Mary Catherine Martin married David R. Stubblefield, a landowner of Rheas Mill, and they reared their family there.
The last child of Jeremiah and Sintha Horn was Charles Wesley Horn who lived in the Walnut Grove Community until his death. The younger of his two sons, Ernest Wesley, lived on the homeplace and farmed it until about two years ago when he retired and moved his family to Denton, Texas. Mr. E. W. Horn passed away in 1973.
Jeremiah and Sintha Horn are buried in the private Horn Cemetery about a half mile south of Walnut Grove Cemetery with other members of the early family. Wm. T. and Margaret Horn, Jerry and Ruth Martin, Mary C. and David R. Stubblefield, Mrs. & Mrs. Chas. Wesley Horn and Ernest Wesley Horn are all buried in the Ware Cemetery about a half mile west of the Walnut Grove Cemetery.
JEREMIAH HORN
Family Group Sheet.
Jeremiah Horn b. 23 Jan 1794 Knox Co., south of the Ohio d 6 May 1867 Collin Co., TX
Occupation: minister, Methodist Military: War of 1812
m1) ?
Thomas Calhoun Horn b. 25 August 1814 TN
Elizabeth b. Oct 1816 Tenn
m. Byrd
m2) June 1818
Alsy Hicks b. @1799 Cherokee Nation East
father Charles R. Hicks mother Lydia Halfbreed?
William Thornborough Horn b. 13 March 1819 d. 21 Jul 1872 Collin Co., TX Ware Cem.
m. 10 Feb 1847 Margaret Ledbetter
Robert Sinclair Horn b. 18 Feb. 1821
m. Nellie Miller
John Horn b. 2 Aug 1823
George Horn b. 14 Feb 1826 GA
Mary Nealy Horn b. 25 Jul 1828
m. 7 Sep 1848 Horace R. Pinnell
James Trott Horn b. 17 Oct 1830 GA
m. 10 Apr. 1853 Collin Co., TX Becky Hose
Jeremiah Clark Horn b. 16 Jan 1833
m3) 6 Jul 1845 Collin Co., TX
Cynthia Daugherty Ledbetter b. 11 Feb 1813 Big Savannah, Cherokee Nation East (Dawson Co., GA)
d. 4 Jun 1900 Collin Co., TX father James Daugherty mother Mary Dean
Ruth Ellen Horn b. 15 Apr 1846 Collin Co, Tx d. 22 Nov 1905
Cynthia Caroline Horn b. 22 Nov. 1849
Charles W. Horn b. 23 Oct 1852
Cynthia Daugherty’s children by Daniel Ledbetter
Margaret Ledbetter b. 14 Jul 1830 GA d. 21 Feb 1914 Prosper, TX Ware Cem
John b. 1835
Aletheia b. 1837
Sarah b. 1839
JEREMIAH HORN
E-mail
...According to my resources and information gleaned from Jeremiah Sr.’s Rev. Pension application, the migration pattern was: VA; Orange Co., NC; Guilford Co., NC; Jefferson Co., NC (1790); Knox Co., TN (1793); Wilson Co., TN (1806); Warren Co., TN; Jackson Co., AL (1822); then Sr. died in Carroll Co, TN in 1834. There is a clear paper trail as to land ownership by Jeremiah Sr. in TN.
Jeremiah Jr. and his brother, John, served in the Creek War of 1812. Jeremiah (Jr.), in partnership with Milo Hoyt (from the missionary Hoyt family) operated a “Way Station” in Jackson Co., AL, to serve the Indians who were migrating to the western Cherokee Nation (now AR) as a result of the 1817-1819 Treaties. In 1819 he married Alsea Hicks and moved to the Oothcaloga Mission District of the old Cherokee Nation in what is now GA. He established a trading post at New Echota (now Gordon Co., GA) and sold it when the family migrated to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), arriving 16th May 1834. As explained in the previous message, it was there that Alesa died (10 July 1834 - Barren Forks).
Jeremiah, wife Cynthia and all of their children left the Cherokee Nation for the Peters Colony about 1845. His son from his first marriage to the white wife, Thomas Calhoun Horn (brother of Elizabeth (Horn) Byrd who came to Collin Co) was the only one of our line who remained in the Cherokee Nation. He had married a mixed blood Cherokee - Nancy Hildebrand, on 1st Aug 1837....
I don’t believe that R. C. Horn was related to my Horns, although...his family lived in Wilson County, TN, the same place that some of my Horn family lived for a short time.
...both Alsea Hicks and Cynthia Dougherty were registered Cherokees; Alsea being the daughter of Chief Charles Hicks and Cynthia being the great-great granddaughter of Chief Oconostata and Matoy, who was called “The Cherokee Emperor” by the English....
Jeremiah was first married to a non-Indian (name unknown) and they had two children - a boy and a girl. The only one to follow her father to Collin Co. was Elizabeth (Horn) Byrd. His next marriage was to Alsea (“Elsie”) Hicks and they had seven children, the oldest being ... William T. Horn. Rev. Jeremiah Horn and his family emigrated to Indian Territory in 1834, prior to the 1838/9 Trail of Tears removal of the Cherokees.
After Alsea’s death in 1834 of cholera, Jeremiah was briefly married to Elizabeth McCarty (Cherokee) but soon obtained a divorce, which caused him to be “defrocked” by the Methodist church. He then married Cynthia (Dougherty) Ledbetter (Cherokee), the widow of Daniel Ledbetter who had also died of cholera soon after this family arrived in Indian Territory. Jeremiah and Cynthia brought their combined families to Collin Co., TX and there Jeremiah regained his status in the church. I understand that he was one of the founders of The United Methodist Church in McKinney, then took over the old “Swayback Methodist Church,” located nearer to his farm. In addition to their children by prior marriages, they had three of their own.
Biography.
Jeremiah Horn was born January 23, 1794 in Tennessee, the son of Jeremiah and Judith Horn. The Horns were originally from North Carolina coming by way of Tennessee, Mississippi, and finally to Texas. The Horns came to Collin County with the Peter’s Colony settlers.
Jeremiah Horn married Alecy Hicks in June of 1818 and there were the parents of seven children, all born in Tennessee. There were: William Thornbrough Horn (March 13, 1819), Robert Sinclair Horn (February 18, 1821), John Horn (August 2, 1823), George Horn (February 14, 1826), Mary Nealy Horn (July 25, 1828), James Trott Horn (October 17, 1830), and Jeremiah Clark Horn (January 16, 1833).
Jeremiah’s second marriage was to Sintha Daugherty Leadbetter on July 6, 1845 and to this union were born the following children, Ruth Ellen Horn (April 15, 1846), Sintha Caroline Horn (November 22, 1849), Charles Wesley Horn (October 23, 1852). Jeremiah Horn was a Methodist minister and he and his family settled on the land just south of the Walnut Grove Cemetery in 1846 and it was said that his family lived farther west than anyone in Collin County at that time.
William Thornbrough Horn was married to Margaret Ledbetter (July 14, 1830) and they settled southwest of Rheas Mill. Their children include John Horn, a Methodist minister who moved to California; Wm. George Clark Horn and Lawrence Horn who were land owners near Rheas Mill; Cynthia Horn Taylor and Fanny Horn Curtsinger, who lived in Oklahoma; Florence Horn Barrett; Alicia Horn Grace; Mrs. Neighbors and Mrs. Collins passed away early leaving young children who were reared by their grandmother Horn.
William George Clark Horn was born October 9, 1863. Her served as Deputy Sheriff of Collin County for several years and while serving in that capacity, married Mary Catherine Keen, daughter of the Rev. and Betty Orr Keen. Rev. Keen was a Presbyterian minister. The young couple lived in McKinney on Benge Street until they decided to settle on a farm west of Rheas Mill. Their children were Leona, and twins, Leta and Leland. Leona Horn married Walter Snider and they were the parents of Mary Snider McCollum and Dr. L. W. Snider. Leona Horn Snider taught school for many years, then worked with McKinney Dry Goods Company. She is now retired and lives in McKinney. Leta Horn married Ammon Smith and they were the parents of Denna Smith Davis and Marion Smith Story. Leta Horn Smith taught in the Princeton School until retiring a few years ago. She now lives in Princeton.
Leland Horn married Ruth Campbell and taught school for a short time, before he met his death in a boating accident, while on a Senior outing, at age 29 years. After his death, his parents moved from the farm to a home in McKinney. She died January 4, 1958 and he died January 22, 1952. They are buried in Forest Grove Cemetery beside their son.
Lawrence Horn was born September 21, 1871 and married Hortense. The couple made their home on their land at Rheas Mill, and ran a grocery store in McKinney. The couple had no children.
Alicia Horn married R. C. Grace, a Presbyterian minister, who at the time was the pastor of the Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church about 1890. The couple later lived in Richardson, then California, where both are buried.
The first child born to Jeremiah and Sintha Horn was Ruth Ellen, who married Jeremiah Martin, a Methodist minister. They were the parents of eight children, tow of them living out their lives in Collin County. Cass Martin Horn was a landowner and farmer of the Bloomdale Community, now deceased, but his wife lives in McKinney with her daughter, Mrs. Eustace Dungan. Mary Catherine Martin married David R. Stubblefield, a landowner of Rheas Mill, and they reared their family there.
The last child of Jeremiah and Sintha Horn was Charles Wesley Horn who lived in the Walnut Grove Community until his death. The younger of his two sons, Ernest Wesley, lived on the homeplace and farmed it until about two years ago when he retired and moved his family to Denton, Texas. Mr. E. W. Horn passed away in 1973.
Jeremiah and Sintha Horn are buried in the private Horn Cemetery about a half mile south of Walnut Grove Cemetery with other members of the early family. Wm. T. and Margaret Horn, Jerry and Ruth Martin, Mary C. and David R. Stubblefield, Mrs. & Mrs. Chas. Wesley Horn and Ernest Wesley Horn are all buried in the Ware Cemetery about a half mile west of the Walnut Grove Cemetery.
JEREMIAH HORN
Family Group Sheet.
Jeremiah Horn b. 23 Jan 1794 Knox Co., south of the Ohio d 6 May 1867 Collin Co., TX
Occupation: minister, Methodist Military: War of 1812
m1) ?
Thomas Calhoun Horn b. 25 August 1814 TN
Elizabeth b. Oct 1816 Tenn
m. Byrd
m2) June 1818
Alsy Hicks b. @1799 Cherokee Nation East
father Charles R. Hicks mother Lydia Halfbreed?
William Thornborough Horn b. 13 March 1819 d. 21 Jul 1872 Collin Co., TX Ware Cem.
m. 10 Feb 1847 Margaret Ledbetter
Robert Sinclair Horn b. 18 Feb. 1821
m. Nellie Miller
John Horn b. 2 Aug 1823
George Horn b. 14 Feb 1826 GA
Mary Nealy Horn b. 25 Jul 1828
m. 7 Sep 1848 Horace R. Pinnell
James Trott Horn b. 17 Oct 1830 GA
m. 10 Apr. 1853 Collin Co., TX Becky Hose
Jeremiah Clark Horn b. 16 Jan 1833
m3) 6 Jul 1845 Collin Co., TX
Cynthia Daugherty Ledbetter b. 11 Feb 1813 Big Savannah, Cherokee Nation East (Dawson Co., GA)
d. 4 Jun 1900 Collin Co., TX father James Daugherty mother Mary Dean
Ruth Ellen Horn b. 15 Apr 1846 Collin Co, Tx d. 22 Nov 1905
Cynthia Caroline Horn b. 22 Nov. 1849
Charles W. Horn b. 23 Oct 1852
Cynthia Daugherty’s children by Daniel Ledbetter
Margaret Ledbetter b. 14 Jul 1830 GA d. 21 Feb 1914 Prosper, TX Ware Cem
John b. 1835
Aletheia b. 1837
Sarah b. 1839
JEREMIAH HORN
...According to my resources and information gleaned from Jeremiah Sr.’s Rev. Pension application, the migration pattern was: VA; Orange Co., NC; Guilford Co., NC; Jefferson Co., NC (1790); Knox Co., TN (1793); Wilson Co., TN (1806); Warren Co., TN; Jackson Co., AL (1822); then Sr. died in Carroll Co, TN in 1834. There is a clear paper trail as to land ownership by Jeremiah Sr. in TN.
Jeremiah Jr. and his brother, John, served in the Creek War of 1812. Jeremiah (Jr.), in partnership with Milo Hoyt (from the missionary Hoyt family) operated a “Way Station” in Jackson Co., AL, to serve the Indians who were migrating to the western Cherokee Nation (now AR) as a result of the 1817-1819 Treaties. In 1819 he married Alsea Hicks and moved to the Oothcaloga Mission District of the old Cherokee Nation in what is now GA. He established a trading post at New Echota (now Gordon Co., GA) and sold it when the family migrated to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), arriving 16th May 1834. As explained in the previous message, it was there that Alesa died (10 July 1834 - Barren Forks).
Jeremiah, wife Cynthia and all of their children left the Cherokee Nation for the Peters Colony about 1845. His son from his first marriage to the white wife, Thomas Calhoun Horn (brother of Elizabeth (Horn) Byrd who came to Collin Co) was the only one of our line who remained in the Cherokee Nation. He had married a mixed blood Cherokee - Nancy Hildebrand, on 1st Aug 1837....
I don’t believe that R. C. Horn was related to my Horns, although...his family lived in Wilson County, TN, the same place that some of my Horn family lived for a short time.
...both Alsea Hicks and Cynthia Dougherty were registered Cherokees; Alsea being the daughter of Chief Charles Hicks and Cynthia being the great-great granddaughter of Chief Oconostata and Matoy, who was called “The Cherokee Emperor” by the English....
Jeremiah was first married to a non-Indian (name unknown) and they had two children - a boy and a girl. The only one to follow her father to Collin Co. was Elizabeth (Horn) Byrd. His next marriage was to Alsea (“Elsie”) Hicks and they had seven children, the oldest being ... William T. Horn. Rev. Jeremiah Horn and his family emigrated to Indian Territory in 1834, prior to the 1838/9 Trail of Tears removal of the Cherokees.
After Alsea’s death in 1834 of cholera, Jeremiah was briefly married to Elizabeth McCarty (Cherokee) but soon obtained a divorce, which caused him to be “defrocked” by the Methodist church. He then married Cynthia (Dougherty) Ledbetter (Cherokee), the widow of Daniel Ledbetter who had also died of cholera soon after this family arrived in Indian Territory. Jeremiah and Cynthia brought their combined families to Collin Co., TX and there Jeremiah regained his status in the church. I understand that he was one of the founders of The United Methodist Church in McKinney, then took over the old “Swayback Methodist Church,” located nearer to his farm. In addition to their children by prior marriages, they had three of their own.
