Two Horney households from North Carolina settled near Jeffersonville in Jefferson Township, and the 1881 history never says how they were related. Daniel Horney and his wife Margaret Calaway came by way of Greene County about 1808 and settled half a mile north of Jeffersonville on 600 acres; on the way home from the mill at Oldtown he once stabbed and killed a bear that was fighting his dog. Daniel gave each of his three sons 100 acres, and his eldest son, Jefferson, cleared his farm from 1834 on, while Jefferson's sons Forris and Oliver E. Horney both served in Company C, 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Oliver was wounded at Stone River. Jeffrey Horney came to the county in 1805, and he and his wife Catherine, a Virginian who came in 1815, raised nine children; his son W. J. Horney was a first lieutenant in the 168th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and a two-term county commissioner. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Fayette County history.
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Pioneers half a mile north of Jeffersonville
Farmer near Jeffersonville; eldest son of Daniel
Jefferson Horney, farmer, Jeffersonville, is the eldest son of Daniel Horney, (an account of whose life appears elsewhere) who came to this township, at an early day, from North Carolina.
Our subject was born in this county, where he was raised, and where, on the 19th of September, 1878, he married Mary (Carr) Mahoy, a sister of the late Colonel S. F. Carr, of Washington. She was previously married to Archibald Mahoy, who died December 20, 1866. He, too, had been married previously, (September 30, 1832,) to Miss Margaret Griffith, who bore him ve children — four of whom are living. Mr. Horney, Mr. Maboy, and both wives were members of the Methodist Protestant Chureli. Mr. Ilorney came to the farm he now occupies, and which contains one hundred and fourteen acres, in 1834, and has changed it from a wild and chaotic tract to a high state of cultivation. The elder Mr. Horney gave to each of his thi'ee sons one hundred acres of land, and offered them fourteen acres additional at two dollars. Jefferson, fearing that he would, because of the prevailing scarcity of money, be unable to pay for the land, did not accept the proposition until he had well considered the matter. He finally bought the land, and has, in late years, frequently refused seventy-five dollars per acre for the same.
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Farmer on his father's land north of Jeffersonville
David Homey, farmer, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Calaway) Horney, natives of North CaroUna, who came to Greene County, Ohio, at a very early date, and remained there until after their marriage, coming to Fayette County about 1808, and locating half a mile north of Jetfersonville, where our subject was born, October 19, 1832, and now lives, and has a farm of one hundred and seventy-seven acres, a part of six hundred acres owned by his father, who knew this neighborhood in the wilderness, and would go to Oldtown, Greene County, to mill with a sack of corn on a horse; would take two days to make a trip; would take his gun and dog, and camp by the path at night. One night, as he was returning, he stopped between here and Jamestown, when, after he had fallen asleep, his dog began a fight with a bear that came too near. By and by the bear got the advantage of the dog, when Mr. Horney stabbed the bear, killing him instantly. Hr. Horney died iSTovember 28, 1865. Mrs. Horney died in August, 1855. Our subject was married, March 18, 1858, to Miss Rebecca J. Wright, daughter of James and Louisa (Troxell) Wright, who bore him five children: Adda E., Delia O., Thurman P., Clarence H., and Loren R. Mrs. Horney is a member of the Christian Church. Mr.
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Farmer near West Lancaster; Civil War soldier
Forris Horney, farmer. West Lancaster, son of Jefferson Horney, whose biography appears in this work, was born in this township, August 15, 1833. He was reared, educated, and married in this county. July 29, 1858, he wedded Miss Esther A. Williams, daughter of Jesse and Margaret (Botkins) Williams. Her father died July 18, 1866, aged seventy-one years. Her mother lives with our subject.
Mr. Horney has a farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres, well improved, situated one mile west of West Lancaster, and farms to both grain and stock. During the war of "the rebellion he served about three years in Company C, 90th O. Y. I.
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Farmer; wounded at Stone River
OLIVER E. HORNEY.
Oliver E. Horney, farmer, is a son of Jefferson Horney, whose biography appears in this work. He was born January 31, 1837, and was reared and twice married in this county; first, to Miss Elizabeth McKillip, October 20, 1859. Two children were the result of this union: Viola A. and Elizabeth A. After Mrs. Horney's
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death, he married Sarah Underwood, who has borne him eight children: Henry E., James IS., Alpha, Eber J., Maywood, Leander H., Esther, and Lillie, all living.
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Pioneers northwest of Jeffersonville.
County commissioner; first lieutenant, 168th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
W. J. HORNEY.
W. J. Horney, county commissioner and farmer, was born in Jeflferson Township, this county, on the 20th of February, 1831,
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and is a son of Jeffrey and Catherine Ilorneri He was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to this county, in 1805, she of Virginia, and came here in 1815. The family consisted of nine children.
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He, during the "late unpleasantness," assisted in driving Morgan back to Kentucky.
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Farmer; township trustee
John Horney, farmer, is a son of Jeiirey Horney, and was born in this township, January 7, 1846, where he was reared, educated, arrd married Miss Nettie Bush, daughter of Abraham Bush, September 21, 1871. Two children are the result of this marriage — Charles A. and Catharine, both living.
Mr. Horney is trustee of this township at present. He has a farm of two hundred and six and a half acres, situated four miles northwest of Jetfersonville. This is the farm where his parents located at an early day, and where they died.
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