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Descendants of Josiah Horn

7.Josiah⁶ Horn (Josiah⁵, William⁴, Henry³, William², Hypothetical¹) was born Abt. 1806.He married Elizabeth Harriet Allen May 5, 1840 in Montgomery County, TN, daughter of Richard Allen and Elizabeth Morris.She was born 1817¹³.
Notes for Josiah Horn:
In 1841, four years before his death, Josiah Sr divided and deeded his property, apparently the 230 acres on Blooming Grove Creek, part to Josiah Jr, and part to Cordal H.
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Josiah Horn Sr to Josiah Horn, Jr
This Indenture made the 31st day of August A. D. Eighteen hundred forty one, Between Josiah Horn Sr of the County of Montgmoery and State of Tennessee of the one part and Josiah Horn Jr of the said county and state of the other part Witnesseth said Josiah Horn Sr for the love and affection I entertain for Josiah Horn Jr I give transfer and convey to him the tract of land on which I now live bounded as follows, on the north by Wm. Moore & Frazor, on the west by.........................on the south by Massie and in the east by Cordial H. Horn, to have and to hold the same to the said Josiah Horn Jr, his heirs and assigns forever, I covenant and agree for myself and him to warrant & defend the title to the said tract of land to the said Josiah Horn, his heirs & assigns against the lawful claim of all persons whatsoever.
Josiah Horn Sr (SEAL)
Witness
Jason Massey, James Harris
State of Tennessee, Montgomery County:Personally appeared before me Saml McFall, Clerk of the County Court of Montgomery CountyJames Harris one of the Subscribing witnesses to the within deed of gift who being first sworn deposesand says that he is acquainted with Josiah Horn Sr the within named assignor & that he acknowledged the same in his presence to be his act & deed upon the day it been dated, Witness my hand at office this 30th day of December, 1843.Saml McFall, Clerk.
State of Tennessee, Montgomery County:Personally appeared before me Jno H McFall deputty clerk of the County Court of Montgomery County, Jason Massey the other subscribing witness to the within deed of giftss who being first sworn deposes and says that he is acquainted with Josiah Horn Senr and that he acknowledged the same in his presence to be his act and deed upon the day it bears date, witness my hand at office this 21st day of February, 1844.
Received 19th March 10 oclock AMJno H McFall, DCLK
Registered 20 March 1844.Henry L Binkley, Reg . Nll.
FTW/Docs/jos2josdeed.rtf
Note the witnesses oath is taken and presented to the court two to three years after the date signed in Josiah statement.Identical entries mark the transfer of adjacent property to CH Horn.
The Family of Josiah (jr) is listed in the 1850 Montgomery Co census, but this family is not listed in the Montgomery couty censuses of 1860 and 1870, and I have found no other records of Josiah Jr, his wife, children, nor their descendants after the 1850 census.Where did they go and what happened?
Earlier I thought I recalled seeing a gravestone at the Blooming Grove cemetary engraved" Josiah Horn, born 1806" , but no death date engraved.This recollectionn was an error.I returned to the cemetary in July 2001 and found no such marker.Furthermore this Josiah Horn is not listed in an apparently accurate printed roster of grave markers that I have seen in multiple sites. (Cemetary Records of Montgomery County, F443, .M8D3, v 1).
8 August, 1999:Frances Osburn ([email protected]) reports to me the following: "My husband's people are from Montgomery County.Hisgreat great
grandmother was Mary Eliza Horn who married Jeremiah Bull.We have not
been able to prove her parents so don't know if Josiah is her father or
not.Jeremiah and Molly are buried in the Bulle Wall Cemetery there in
Cunningham TN. "Cunningham TN is about 6 miles southeast of Palmyra and justacross the river from Blooming Grove Creek.
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In April, 2002, the following Query from "[email protected]" was posted:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Scj.2ACEB/1456Message Board Post:
1870 Dunklin Co. MO census.
Josiah 50
Elisabeth 4?
John 21
Martha 17
Elisha 15
????? 13
Francis 10
Ann 6
Robert and Thomas 10/12
They went to Mo from TN before 1869. Can anyone tell me where in TN or where they went to from Dunklin Co.?
"[email protected]" responded:
This could be Josiah Horn and Elizabeth Margaret Allen of
Montgomery Co., TN, but their ages are off somewhat. They
had a son Cave J. on the 1850 Montgomery Census that could
be the John age 21 in 1870. Have not found this family in
1860 but haven't looked very hard, so they were prpbably
still in Montgomery Co., TN. Hope this helps.
The questioner replied:
Thank you! It could very well be them. Allen is a middle name that has been in the family for 3 generations that I know of. I kind of wondered if maybe it was a middle name from somewhere along the line. It gives me a direction to look at least. Thanks again.
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The above and the additional comments below sent to the questioner, April, 2002.
It is certainly possible that Josiah Horn (b 1806) and his family moved to Missouri before the Civil War.
An alternate hypothesis is that the man named in this query is Josiah Horn, b 1821, son of Thomas Horn, 1788-1867, the possible son of Josiah of Blooming Grove called to my attention by Barry Ousley.
Regarding hypothesis #1, the date of birth of Josiah Horn "Jr" in 1806 (the last child of old Josiah of Blooming Grove, TN) is quite well established.It is also clear from the Montgomery County, TN census data of 1850 that the family of Josiah Jr. at that time included :
Josiah 44,wife Elizabeth 33
Richard D. 9
Dawson 7
Allen 4
Cave J. 3
Mary E. 1/12
I have been unable to locate what happened to this family.I have no indication that they were in Tennessee after 1850.
Since Josiah Sr's grandson's, (sons of Henry Horn) moved to northern Arkansas (Counties of Independence, Baxter, Sharpe) in about 1850, I think it is entirely credible to believe that their young uncle might have relocated to the same general area.
If the 1870 Dunklin County census records the same family, Josiah Horn "Jr" would be 64 in 1870, but you can always assume that his agemight have been recorded incorrectly.If all the children alive in 1850 had left home except Cave J., and if Cave J. of 1850 was John of 1870, it could be the same family.Certainly not impossible.
I think you should also consider the second possibility mentioned above, that "the man named in your query is Josiah Horn, b 1821, son of Thomas Horn, 1788-1867, the possible son of Josiah of Blooming Grove, a possibility called to my attention by Barry Ousley."

Children of Josiah Horn and Elizabeth Allen are:

41	i.	Richard D.⁷ Horn, born 1841¹³.
42	ii.	Dawson Horn, born 1843¹³.
43	iii.	Allen Horn, born 1846¹³.
44	iv.	Cave J. Horn, born 1847¹³.
45	v.	Mary E. Horn, born 1850.She married Jeremiah Bull.

Notes for Mary E. Horn:
8 August, 1999:Frances Osburn ([email protected]) reports to me the following: "My husband's people are from Montgomery County.Hisgreat great
grandmother was Mary Eliza Horn who married Jeremiah Bull.We have not
been able to prove her parents so don't know if Josiah is her father or
not.Jeremiah and Molly are buried in the Bulle Wall Cemetery there in
Cunningham TN. "Cunningham TN is about 6 miles southeast of Palmyra and justacross the river from Blooming Grove Creek.
It seems likely that this daughter of Josiah Jr married Jeremiah Bull.

Notes for Jeremiah Bull:
See Notes to his wife.