Clay County AlArchives News.....Horn, Barbara Dies in Fire Trying to Save Children.  June 23, 1961
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Talladega Daily Home And Our Mountain Home June 23, 1961
A fire which caused the death of the teen-age wife and two children of a former 
Ku Klux Klan leader apparently started from a short age in electrical wiring. 
Clay County Sheriff Paul Levie said an extensive investigation pointed to an 
electrical wiring shortage as the probable cause. He said an autopsy showed that 
19-year-old Barbara Richardson Horn in the blaze which destroyed the six-room 
frame house of the Rev. Alvin J. Horn Wednesday. 
The house was built of pine timber, and there was no way to determine how long 
the blaze could have smoldered before it burst into flames, Levie said. 
The children, Alvin J. Horn 3, and Pamela Horn, 2, were found in the living room 
with their young mother. 
"Mrs. Horn evidently died while she was trying to get the children out of the 
fire" sheriff said. The sheriff announced his findings Thursday night following 
an investigation involving state toxicologists, fire marshals and other state 
investigators. 
The Rev. Alvin Horn, 49, the husband and father, recently was named in a federal 
court injunction barring violence against "Freedom Riders." He had resigned as a 
leader of an Alabama KKK faction in 1957, soon after he married Barbara 
Richardson, who was 15 at the time. 
The funeral service for the three victims was to be held at 2 p.m. Friday at 
Springhill Baptist Church in Clay County, with burial in the adjoining cemetery. 
The Rev. B. C. Willcutt was to officiate.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Horn is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
W. H. Richardson of Talladega.

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