Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Horn, Elijah September 15, 1904
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Our Mountain Home
After more than three-quarters of a century of an industrious and useful life, 
after the summers and winters of seventy-six long years, our esteemed friend has 
returned Home in triumph. We knew him when we were yet a boy, having enjoyed his 
hospitality at his own fire side, having seen his gentle ways and tender 
association with his family, exemplifying the religion which he professed, when 
joining the Baptist church in 1847, and having known him as a true kindhearted 
and honest man, therefore this humble tribute to his worth. Mr. Horn was born in 
Troup County, Georgia, November 29th, 1825, moved to Alabama and was married to 
Miss Elizabeth Jones November 28th, 1849. In 1852 he settled in what is known as 
Horn's Valley in Clay County. Nine children were born seven girls and two boys, 
all having received a fair education, the two boys, E. and A. S. Horn, having 
attended school at Auburn. The last hours of this kind husband and father were 
watched by wife and seven children, when without fear and with a willingness and 
a preparation to so, he passed quietly away on the 15th of September. He was an 
apostle of morality. The good growing out of such characters is not visionary, 
for such quiet and holy lives elevate the moral sense and keep chaste the human 
heart. More admirable and eloquent than speech the lovers of home, family and 
friends have purified the world and taught the soul to hunger for immortal life. 
It has always been peculiarly, our pleasure to love the glory of a simple 
upright life, and he who lives unselfish and honest has done more to elevate 
character than the inventor or discoverer of any device. The greatest 
achievement ever won by man, has been to rise above sordid motives. Such true 
lives though spent in quietude remind us of our great and lofty destiny and 
beckons the world to nobler and better things. Shelly did not teach the world 
holiness, and Byron, though poised in dim heights, his life was soiled by 
immorality, and these two prove that higher manhood lies not in intellectual 
power, out in traits and dispositions of character. Rome was happiest when her 
legions were victorious, Greece was greatest when Leonidas led her arms to 
victory, and England was mightiest when Cromwell's strong arm ruled her 
destinies, but now insignificant appears the commands and edicts of these great 
men compared with the "still, small voice," speaking to the divine part of 
humanity, lilting man up above groveling passions, and leading him to the 
morning star. There is no grander life than to live true, there can be no 
greater reward than God's approval. Mr. Horn was true to hie family, faithful to 
his church, sincere in his friendship and loyal to his country. He was tender in 
his love for little children and in their sweet and happy ways he found a pure 
delight. He who can mase lite better, who becomes a director of the souls high 
er longings, who can teach submission to truth rather than revenge, who can 
guide the energies of man s better self, and establish him in the prosperity of 
heavenly things, deserves the highest esteem that can be awarded to human 
endeavor. If the palm of merit is to be accorded to visionary glory, give it. to 
those who kneel at the cross of gold, and revel in passionate excitement, if it 
is to be accorded to immortal worth, give it to him whose life preaches peace to 
the world and whose deeds and acts exemplify the Sermon on the Mount. 
J. A. Woodward. Oct. 2, 1904.

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