HORN, John B.

HORN, WALTON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/6/2006 at 21:21:14

"Fairfield Ledger", March 3, 1897, Pg. 3, Col. 3

DEATH OF JOHN B. HORN, well known and excellent citizen of Fairfield township, at his home six miles northwest of this city Friday morning... Pneumonia.

Married in 1846 Miss Phoebe WALTON who survives; eight children; five living -- Mr. M.L. HORN at Danville, Ill.; Geo. R., John M., Emma B. and Lydia A. in this county. Moved to Iowa in the spring of 1855... Remains interred in the City Cemetery Sunday afternoon.... Lutheran Evangelical Church, with which Mr. HORN had been identified since 1846....

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"Fairfield Tribune", Mar. 3, 1897, Pg. 6, Col. 1

DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT. Fri., Feb. 26, at 8:30 A.M., John B. HORN... His early manhood days were spent in transferring stock across the Allegheny mountains from the west to the eastern market, after which he spent six or seven years in Virginia and Pennsylvania, farming in the summer and teaching school in the winter. During this period he had sickness and death in his family, losing all but his wife and one little boy. Becoming discouraged, he thought to move to the west, coming from Brownsville, Penn., by water to Keokuk, Iowa, reaching Fairfield in the spring of 1855.... He died as he lived, an honest gentleman....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.