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The author, Robert Gordon Horn, born in 1931, and most or all the Horn males buried in the Powell Cemetery at Lafayette, KY, are proven descendants of Henry Horn, a Quaker, born in 1716 in northeastern North Carolina or nearby Virginia. This Henry Horn is thought to be a son of William Horn of Nansemond County, Virginia who died in about 1754 in Edgecomb County, North Carolina. From results of yDNA genetic marker studies comparing the yDNA patterns found in cell specimens obtained from me and from a distant cousin, Etheldred Phillips Horn, now deceased, each of us being well documented to have descended from separate sons of Henry Horn, the Quaker, our male parentage back to Henry the Quaker is established.
During the past twenty years, I have collected, assembled, and analyzed a large volume of data previously assembled by numerous individuals interested in this family group.
A substantial proportion of that data has been entered into a large database, using the genealogical software called FamilyTreeMaker, the 2005 version, at this site: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/r/Robert-G-Horn/index.html
I have published much of that data in book form, in two books, William Horn of Nansemond, and Henry Horn of Contentnea Creek. Both of those books are available for about $25 each at www.lulu.com.
Another group of Horns appear to be descended from a certain Richard Horne who appeared in Northampton County, NC in the early 1700's, living just a few miles east of William Horn "of Nansemond". The proximity of these families seemed to suggest that Richard Horne and William Horn were related, perhaps closely, but specific indication of such a relationship has not been forthcoming.
On a separate website, www.drbobhorn.com/genealogy, I have provided extensive information about the family and descendants of Richard Horne of Northampton, and in the process I have attempted to clarify areas of major uncertainty regarding the identity of a number of Horn individuals whose ancestry, whether from Richard or William or others, is uncertain.
In the same website, I have included some information on other earlier Horns in Virginia in the 1600's who may have been ancestors of William and/or Richard Horn(e).
The present website contains relatively short individual biographies of each of my direct lineal Horn ancestors, from William Horn of Nansemond to my grandfather, Robert Lee Horn, 1861-1949, and my father, Wiley Weathers Horn, Sr., 1909 - 1988. In these biographical sketches, it may be of interest to note that, in many ways, more can be learned about the "Englishmen" in the colonial North Carolina period than we can conveniently know about those who crossed the mountains and came west, starting about 1800, into the relatively uncivilized frontier, after our independence was obtained.
I can only speculate that it may have been necessary, from time to time, to burn pages from the Family Bible to get a fire started.
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