Clay-Talladega County AlArchives Biographies.....Horn, Joshua 1796 - June 10, 1880 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Timothy Horn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00014.html#0003414 February 6, 2008, 9:26 pm Author: Timothy Horn Joshua Horn was my Great Great Great Grandfather. There is family lore that Joshua decided to settle in Horn's Valley when he saw a turkey roost on the property. Dad is unsure where the original house for Joshua and Dolly was in Horn's Valley but he does recall where the James M Horn property was located. There is no house there at present. Dad also says that part of an existing house was built out of logs and this was the Elijah Horn house originally. The James Madison Horn house was just inside the Clay County line on the right side of the road as you are driving into Horn's Valley. We have no information about the parents or siblings of Joshua Horn. A major problem is that he was unable to read and write making a paper trail virtually impossible to trace. We do know he applied for and received a pension for his service in the War of 1812 and that Dolly applied for and received a pension for his service after Joshua died. We also have a remarkable document from November 20, 1863 where he petitions the Probate Court to grant him guardianship of his two orphan grandchildren, Andrew Lee Kirkpatrick and Washington Kirkpatrick after their father was killed in the Civil War and the mother Sarah Horn had died prior to this. We also have the will of Joshua Horn where he signs his name with an X. Cary Horn believes that Joshua was orphaned and was living with the Waits family as they seem to be moving around the country in tandem. Joshua and Dolly marry in Conecuh County in 1819 prior to the formation of the State of Alabama in December 1819. Because of this I was able to nominate Joshua Horn and Dorothy Ann Waits as a First Family by the Alabama Genealogical Society. The 1880 census lists Joshua then his name is crossed out. He had died on June 10th of that year. Dollie died on May 24, 1881 according to the pension records. Little else is known about Joshua and Dolly but you can see where they are moving around in the Census. 1820 they are in Conecuh, 1830 and 1840 they are in Troup Ga, and 1850 and beyond they are in Alabama. In the Alabama Census' you will find they are listed in Randolph Co, Al in 1850 and 1860, then Clay in 1870 and 1880. My brother Stan says that prior to the formation of Clay County, Al in 1867, they lived in Randolph Co, Al near Lineville (thus the name of the town that separated the 2 counties - LINEVILLE) then moved to the present site of HORN's VALLEY. Someone who gave my brother some information on the Horns states that Joshua was born in Orange Co., NC. From the census we know that he was born in the Carolinas (usually listed as NC) but I have never seen evidence of a more precise place of birth. I see in the 1800 census there are Horns in Orange county, William, Thomas, James, and Joshua and 3 of them - William, Thomas, and Joshua have boys in the house that are the right ages to be our Joshua. These Horn's could easily be brothers and are all living next to each other in Hillsborough. I also see they are in the 1790 census but for some reason I am unable to view those images. In 1810 in Hillsborough there are now 7 Horns but Thomas is missing. William, James, and Joshua are there as well as A, J, and Joseph and Jesse. The area where Joshua was living in 1850 was a very interesting community. The names are not indexed properly so finding some of these people can be difficult but some of the interesting people in the area are my Great Great Grandfather on my mothers side - John Thomas Phillips who fought and was killed in the Civil War. Several doors down from John Thomas Phillips and Joshua Horn there is the Lemuel Phillips family. Lemuel is 61 yo and may possibly be the father of John Thomas Phillips. Also in the area are several EASTS of which the Horn family marries into by various means including Zealous East, James East, and Amos East. Another family in the area is Absolom Nixon aged 53 who may possibly be the father of my Great Great Grandfather James Edward Lowry Nixon. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/clay/bios/horn45nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb