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Jacob Horn

Jacob Horn[1]

Male 1748 - 1826  (78 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 7 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Jacob Horn 
    Birth 10 Mar 1748  Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 18 Sep 1826  Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 3 Siblings 
    Person ID I572401  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2007 

    Father Henry Horn,   b. 21 Nov 1716, Nansemond County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1798, Wayne Co., North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Anne (Mourning) Purcell,   b. 1 Apr 1723, Nansemond County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1798, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 1737  Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F245241  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Millicent Thomas,   b. 1742   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1781  Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. William Horn,   b. 1779   d. Abt 1855, Choctaw Co., Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F245239  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2007 

  • Notes 
    • The Notes of David Price, p2 and p 7, state the following: "Jacob Horn (of Edgecomb co NC, dismissed by Quakers 16 Sept 1775; will 18 Sep 1826, proved Feb Court 1827). B 10 March 1748 - D 1827, 1 married Elizabeth _______, 2 married in 1781 Millicent Thomas of Edgecombe(daughter of Rev John Thomas Jr) (2w=Patience Williams per HBJ) (Millicent not the mother of Ch thru Edie per HBJ)" HBJ is papers of Hugh B. Johnston, NC historian.
      There is an extensive listing of material on Jacob Horn in the Ray Horn book, p 161 et seq.
      From this material it is clear that Jacob lived near and interacted with 1) his brother-in-law, Wilson Curl, husband of Mourning Horn (Jacob's twin sister), as well as near to 2) his brother Joel, who would die in 1793, leaving some of his children (Harris, Milbrie, and Rebecca) under the care of Jacob, when they all lived in the Rocky Mount area, on Compass Creek and later, after they moved a few miles south, in the vicinity of Tosneot swamp, near Wilson. Jacob's nephew, Josiah Horn, who would also care for some of Joel's children and who would emigrate to TN in 1800 with Wilson and Mourning Curl, also lived in this area, on Stony Creek in the late 1700's.
      At this point in the Ray Horn discussion (p 161) of Jacob Horn, the observation is made that after Jacob's purchase of the Tosneot swamp property in 1783 and his relocation there, "this family is closely related to Elisha Thomas Horne and his family in Alabama", reflecting the fact that many of Jacob's children moved to and died in Alabama.
      The above discussion is pertinent to a consideration of the possible parentage of Elisha Thomas Horn.
      Elsewhere (in the Notes to Josiah Horn) I have speculated that the infant Elisha Thomas Horn may have been transported from his birthplace in NC to TN in about 1800, along with Josiah Horn and family and Wilson Curl, wife Mourning, their daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Edward Moore, then transported south via Maury county, TN and then into Alabama, along with the Moore's. In this highly speculative scenario, the parent(s) of ETH have been considered to be either 1) an unacknowledged son of "Colonel William" Horn, Josiah's father, or 2) an illegimate son of either Milbrie Horn or Rebecca Horn, orphaned daughters of Joel Horn and Ann Harris, who were under the guardianship of Jacob Horn after 1793. Gwen Horne and others have also considered the possibility that one of Joel's orphaned sons, under the care of Jacob and/or Josiah, might have fathered ETH.
      In the Ray Horn book, referred to above, there are numerous citations naming Jacob in the public records of North Carolina during the period of 1776 to 1807. In the 1810 census, Jacob and his family are recorded in the Farmer's District of Edgecomb County. No other citations are listed until 1821, when Jacob deeded property to his sons. Jacob's Edgecomb county will was signed in 1826 and probated in 1827.
      It is of interest, as I have noted in the notes to Josiah Horn, a Jacob Horn appears on the 1811 Davidson County Tax List, but I have no other record of Jacob Horn in Tenn. I have considered the possibility that Jacob came to Tennessee for a while and then returned to Edgecomb where his will was probated in 1826/27. Consider the possibility that Jacob was the father of ETH, by one of Joel's daughters, ?Milbrie, and that he was in Tennessee in regard to ETH and his possibly living with Josiah, Mourning Curl, etc, prior to his appearance in Alabama, where he lived in proximity to several of the children of Jacob Horn.]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2042] 1790 Census of Edgecombe, Pg. 54A Halifax District (Reliability: 3).



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