Fry Family History

 (last update 13 Aug 2004)

Fifth Generation

( SPENCER⁴, GEORGE³, WILLIAM², GEORGE¹)

Children of George Horner and Jemima Russell

1. Dr. JOHN TURNER HORNER [637] was born 22 Sep 1829 in Perry County, Tennessee, and died from a fall on 25 Oct 1911, at the age of 85, in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri. As the story goes John wanted to marry a poor girl but his father, Spencer, wanted him to marry a girl with more wealth, Susannah Boen. On one occasion, John had stopped to visit with Susannah Boen. Spencer happened by and took John's horse, insuring a lengthy visit with Susannah. He married (1) SUSANNAH "SUSAN" BOEN 1846 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She was born 09 Mar 1829 in Perry County, Tennessee, and died 10 Apr 1913 in Cato, Barry County, Missouri, the daughter of Lewis Boen and Mary Hodge of Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas. Their marriage was not a happy one. One day, and six children later, he came home and she hit him over the head with a broomstick. He left and never came back. It was during these early years of marriage that John was away a lot of the time in his medical training. He received primary and secondary education in Arkansas and taught school. When he was 21 he began his studies in medicine. His preceptor was Dr. Forley of Clarksville, Arkansas. He moved to Webster County, Missouri with his parents but they returned to Johnson County by 1860. In 1860 he entered the medical college in New Orleans for two years. 

John's service during the Civil War is in question. It has been stated that he was conscripted into the Confederate Army. This is not the case. Since the Revolutionary War all able bodied men were required to serve in their local militia, providing their own transportation, supplies and weapons. Company I of the 10th Arkansas Militia mustered at Clarksville, Arkansas, from February 22 to March 19, 1862, with 41 men, including John and his brothers, were  present. Captain Christopher C. Casey was in command during this muster. John was mustered as a First Lieutenant; brother William was a First Sergeant. This unit, as with most militia units, never saw action. When Arkansas seceded from the union the Governor turned over his militia units to the CSA. The newly formed Confederate Army could not absorb the militia structure so the militia units simply disbanded, their members moving on to enlist in regular Confederate or Union units. John was never conscripted and never served in or deserted the CSA Army. There was no stigma in the Union Army about previously serving in the militia, they all did. In fact, the Union Army regularly recruited from CSA ranks throughout the war. It has also been stated the John formed Company K of the 2nd Arkansas Union Infantry. This is highly unlikely as there is no record of John's service in the Union Army (the basis for the rejection of his 1893 Union pension application). 

Even though the town of Clarksville was occupied by Union troops during most of the Civil War, these troops were far from Union supply lines and could not maintain civil order in the county. After the death of his father, three brothers and two sisters in the Civil War John organized a refugee wagon train. The surviving Horner and other local families left Johnson County and settled in Webster County, Missouri to escape the bushwhackers.

He married (2) MARY GILLIAM, the daughter of Dow and Celia Gillian, about 1865 in Webster County, Missouri. She had previously married FRANCIS MARION DUNLAP before 1865. It is believed that he died in the Civil War leaving her to care for two small children. She was born 20 December 1844 in Arkansas and died 9 December 1929 in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri. John and Mary met on the wagon train from Johnson County, Arkansas to Webster County, Missouri in 1864. They remained in Webster County for several years before John set up a allopath medical practice in Cassville, Barry County, Missouri in 1866.  He was licensed to practice in Missouri in 1884. She and John are buried in Cassville Cemetery, Cassville, Barry County, Missouri.

A family history was told in 1942 by Professor John Turner Horner, to Eva Horner, his daughter, about Dr. John Turner Horner of Cassville, Missouri.

"His dad (Spencer Horner) was a slave owner, but he was a Union man. When war came up all his boys joined the Union Army except Dad (Dr. John Turner Horner). The Confederates conscripted him, so he was on one side, and his three brothers were on the other side. His (Dr. John Turner Horner) younger brother was Will. He (John Turner Horner) managed to get away, slipped out on them and joined the Union Army. His oldest boy, Louis, was 15; he was afraid Louis would be conscripted too, so he took Louis with him. He recruited one whole company in the federal army, Company K. Bill Mullen, Cassville, was one of the men he recruited. His son Louis got a pension. Now then the lines were drawn. Most of Arkansas was rebel. Dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) and his brother got a furlough to go home to visit their folks. He would dodge around through the mountains to go to the house at night, etc. Dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) said his horse needed shoeing and he had to go out on the mountain 5 miles to get it shod. He told his brother, Will, and his father Spencer Horner that whatever they did, never go to the house in the daytime. But the mother (Permelia Turner Horner) was killing a chicken so the father Spencer Horner and Will went to the house. Wasn't long till about 20 rebels came riding up. Grandfather (Spencer Horner) went out into the potato patch and said, 'I surrender!' and they shot him down. Will ran through the lot and up on the mountain side and was shot in the head. He lived several days in a cave.

Dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) had a squad of men, including Wash Middleton and Fate Arnold, desperate men, to go back into the hills and clean out that bunch. They killed 17 out of the 20 bushwhackers.

Dr. John Turner Horner knew that after he was conscripted and deserted the Rebel Army, if he ever became a prisoner, they'd shoot him. That's why he never got on the Union Army record. He was either afraid, or too careless to get an honorable discharge. Dad's (Dr. John Turner Horner) squad was equal in number to the other squads. One day they met in a corn field and each man picked out his man. Dad picked out the leader; couldn't shoot him, threw his pistol at him. They caught one man walking between his wife and his mother. Wash Middleton shot him down. One night they surrounded a house where the bushwhackers were having a dance. Wash Middleton took the man who killed grandfather (Spencer Horner) by the hair and dragged him out, 'Now you'll kill a helpless old man' and killed him. Fate Arnold didn't know what fear was. 'I (Prof. John Turner Horner) heard so much about him that I expected to see a wonderful man. When I got a certificate in Stone County, his son-in-law was a County School Commissioner, and I told him I wanted to see Fate Arnold.' He was a little wizened old man.

Father (Dr. John Turner Horner) helped to take a refugee train of Union people out of Clarksville, Arkansas, to Marshfield, Webster County, Missouri. That was where dad met mother (Mary Gillian Dunlap) and her two girls, in that refugee train. Fate Arnold would volunteer to go through 20 miles of Rebel lines to get ammunition, and he'd always come back. Once he jerked his horse's head up, and the horse got shot in the head. Arnold got wounded. He stayed with my father (Dr. John Turner Horner) in Marshfield, Missouri until he got well. Mother (Mary Gillian Dunlap) said there'd be a pool of blood under his chair. In Marshfield the folks were suspicious of the Union soldiers who came up from Arkansas. Fate Arnold and dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) passed a saloon one day and heard some man say, he didn't believe there ever was a Union soldier who came up from Arkansas. Fate Arnold says, 'Did you hear that?' 'Yes, but there's just two of us. We'd better let it pass.' 'No, I'll not.' They went back, ordered drinks, dared the man to repeat it, and they let it pass. Dad's name was always on the list of GAR at the Cassville Reunion.

Grandfather, Spencer Horner, had a pot of gold and silver and paper money, but they never did find it after he was killed. Louis had a dream about 'a black gum tree in the middle of a field - put my back to the tree, took ten steps toward the house, dug down, and found the pot of gold.' Dad's, (Dr. John Turner Horner) brothers and sisters were Will, and two who died in the Union Army, Sarah and Jim Vaught Eva Horner saw Sarah near Oark. Arkansas one time, Zilphie and Bob Mooney. Bob Mooney, after his wife died, went to live with one of his girls, and said she objected to his spitting in the fire. He say's 'I went and found me a woman and now I've got a place to spit.' Dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) said Jess Wilson was a brave man too. One time they left Jess Wilson to hold their horses when they went to fight. Jess was another little measley, looked like he wouldn't fight a chicken.

Dad's (Dr. John Turner Horner) first wife was a Bowen. She was quarrelsome. His father (Spencer Horner) forced him to marry this girl because she had money. He wanted to marry a poor girl. He stopped one day to talk to her, hung his reins off the post, and dad (Dr. John Turner Horner) had to walk to church. He and his first wife had a quarrel. She hit him with a broom stick. He left and never went back.

Dad's (Dr. John Turner Horner) first family, Louis, Spence, Bud, Bell Wilson, and Mary Wilson, Spence, and I (Prof. John Turner Horner) always got along. We could work together. He'd let me take the lead. Louis and I had 80 acres of land together. We dug a well, Spence and I. Every day he'd say, 'Listen, I hear Water.' I got old Dempsey over to blast. Aunt Ollie Sears once told me, although I do not have the notes dated, that Dr. Horner and family lived at Rocky Comfort, Missouri one year when she was ten. She then lived in Cassville, Missouri till she was sixteen, when they moved to Pineville for one year. Then, of course, the family moved to White Rock, and she said that grandpa lived in the drug store at White Rock. She also said it was 'Bitters' which grandpa had laid up for the Christmas trade. Prof. John Turner Horner took the bottles out in a field. The family lived in White Rock a long time. Zoe, Nell, and Ollie were married there Aunt Mattie (Shelly Fritz's GGM ran off to get married in Seligman, Missouri, according to Aunt Ollie). When Grandpa and Grandma moved back to Cassville, from White Rock, they did not move away from Cassville again. She said the family was poisoned on head cheese, when grandpa was in the drugstore. Now as to Jessie Horner, and the way she rocked her babies, 'when we lived up the holler, the Sears could hear that cheer just a poppin of a night.' 'Bud Horner died here in Oklahoma 80 years old, a year or two ago,' said Aunt Ollie.

I saw Bess and Byrd Matterson at their home in Cassville 10-18-65, and got some corrections on my own memories. I have known for a long, long time that my memory is not trustworthy. Bess said that our grandparents never lived in the house where Aunt Zora died, where Pete and Virginia lived once, and where Richard O'Brien lives now. Just east of this house of Richard's is a stucco house, which is the former location of our grandparents' barn. East of the stucco house is another house which is the former home of Old Doe Horner. Aunt Zora lived there; it was her girlhood home. Aunt Mattie Melton lived on east almost to the end of the street. She lived on the south side of the street, opposite Tom Yeargain's house, which is still there. The Horner home had three or four rooms then, and is of course larger now. There used to be silver poplar trees planted by grandfather Horner. This house was the first home of Bess and Byrd, if I understood them correctly. Aunt Zora had a church wedding, and her brother, Prof. John Turner Horner, performed the ceremony. Aunt Mattie made Zora's beautiful dress of some shiny material. June Latshaw has a picture of Aunt Zora in this dress. The wedding was in the Baptist Church. 'Farmer Bill' was a partner in the drugstore with grandpa for quite a while. Bess had never heard of Jessie Horner ever having any connection with the drugstore at White Rock. Another of my memories gone. Aunt Mattie Melton not only had Jump [John?] (Shelly Fritz's grandfather) and Leo, but also Clyde, Lawrence, and Mabel; about all of her children were born before they left for Texas. A whole lot of other folks went to Texas about that time also. As to that house where Richard O'Brien lives now, it was for many years the family home of Uncle Jake Sears, Matt Sears' daddy. Now here comes a very interesting angle or two on White Rock. The sulphur well was in the early days a spring, a bubbling spring, with lots of big flat rocks around it. In the very early days, long before Old Doc Horner, there were big elm trees near it, and local men had platforms in the trees, in order to shoot the deer which came there to drink, making a neat supply of meat for the winter. In our grandfather's time it was still a spring, and people with stomach trouble came to camp near it for the sake of the sulphur water, and grandpa practiced medicine with these people who came to the place as a King of The Health Resort. It was a period when medicinal waters were much more popular than now. Bess, [Grandma Young - Aunt Allie Young], at that time, and the stomach patients consulted Grandpa Horner. Bess said when the family lived at Pineville a short time, Aunt Zora made many life-time friends, although she was only 12 or 13. White Rock and Pineville are only 5 miles apart. She got acquainted with Pearl Baber, Fred Baber, Daisy Farmer, and the Moffatt bunch, etc. Will Horner, was also a doctor, I believe, and a cousin of our grandfather; must have lived at White Rock for a while. He was the father of Will and Maude Horner who came to the Horner Institute at Rocky Comfort, Missouri. His daughter Sarah, older than Maud, married Milo Coffee of White Rock, Missouri, they had two sons, Hugh and _____ They were divorced, and he raised the boys. Later he married Marianna Lewis, a school teacher. The younger Will Horner and Maud, and their cousin, Jasper Cowan, were all from Spadra, [Johnson County] Arkansas, at the time they came to school at Rocky Comfort, I believe. I am trying to get in touch with a granddaughter of Maud Horner who died in California about a year or two ago. I had one brief letter from Maude before her death. Her granddaughter was working on genealogy of that branch of the family. At a Lions Club meeting 10-24-1921 in Tulsa, when the Superintendent E. E. Oberholtzer was in charge of the program, Prof. John Turner Horner was "Chief Lion," and there was a brief printed account of his life. He said then he was born about six miles south of Marshfield, Webster County, Missouri, July 26, 1866. His parents removed to Barry County, Missouri, when he was six weeks old, where he resided till he reached his majority. This was more than I had ever known about his place of birth. "

Signed: Eva Horner

Children of JOHN HORNER and SUSANNAH BOEN are:

1. LEWIS CASS HORNER, b. 22 September 1848, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 31 March 1923, Tamaha, Oklahoma; m. JEMIMA KASIAH MELSON.

2. MARY ELLENDER HORNER, b. 10 May 1850, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 6 April1936, Cato, Barry County, Missouri; m. WILLIAM JESSE WILSON, 5 July 1866.

3. SPENCER P. HORNER, b. 20 September 1852, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 22 May 1923, Hope, Stephens County, Arkansas.

4. MARTHA ISABELL HORNER, b. 15 June 1856, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 15 February 1922, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska.

5. RUSSELL CARTER HORNER, b. 20 October 1858, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 15 September 1942, Hatch, Dona Ana County, New Mexico; m. CORA ELLEN SHAFTER, 25 December 1879, Barry County, Missouri.

Children of JOHN HORNER and MARY GILLIAN are:

7. JOHN TURNER HORNER, b. 26 July 1866, Webster County, Missouri; d. 15 September 1942, Neosha, Newton County, Missouri; m. 1) MARTHA ELLEN JESSE; b. 19 March 1868; d. 2 August 1927, Neosha, Newton County, Missouri. Married 2) LUCILLE BRAZILE.

8. ZILPHA HORNER, b. 1869.

9. MARTHA CHRISTINA HORNER, b. 21 May 1871.

10. OLLIE ELIZABETH HORNER, b. 23 May 1873, Cassville, Barry County, Missouri; d. 1946.

11. WILLIAM ALBERT HORNER, b. 11 January 1874, Barry County, Missouri, d. 29 February 1936, Decatur, Wise County, Texas; m. Minnie Abigail Young.

12. ZORA CATHERINE HORNER, b. 28 May 1876, Cassville, Barry County, Missouri, d. 8 June 1944, Jane, McDonald County, Missouri; m. Willie Carlisle Russell.

13. +NELLIE MAY HORNER, b. 17 August 1879, d. 9 February 1965, Wheaton, Barry County, Missouri, m. Porter Samuel 'Port' Potts, 1 November 1894; b. 1876, d. 15 March 1962. Porter was a blacksmith in Rocky Comfort for many years. Both are buried in Rocky Comfort Cemetery; McDonald County, Missouri.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township. page 130b, John T. Horner.

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Spadra Township, page 158a, Major Gillian.

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Floyd Township, page 982, John T, Horner.

• 1865 Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

• 1870 Federal Census, MO, Cassville, White River Township, page 783a, dwelling 109 (John)

• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Clarksville, Spadra Township, page 103b, dwelling 109, James Melson. (Susannah)

• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, page 313a, (Susannah [Boen] Horner) living with son Spencer Horner

• 1884: Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929.

• 1965: Obituary of Nellie [Horner] Potts, 10 Feb 1965, The Joplin Globe, Joplin, Missouri.

2. ZILPHA HORNER [683] was born 14 February 1834 in Perryville, Perry County, Tennessee, and died 18 July 1910 in Madison County, Arkansas. She married 1) JAMES M. BOEN in 1848 in Johnson County, Arkansas. He was born 1830 in Illinois, and died 12 Aug 1862 in Crystal Hill, Johnson County, Arkansas. He served as a private in Co. H of the 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, along with his brother Jesse. Zilpha moved to Webster County, Missouri along with much of the surviving Horner family in 1864 to escape the the bushwhackers of Johnson County. They were still in Webster County in 1865 during the probate of her father's estate in Johnson County. She married 2) WILLIAM ROBERT MOONEY about 1865. He was born 26 November 1843, in Arkansas. William was a Union veteran if the Civil War, having served as a Private in Company of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment. In 1900 Zilpha and William were in Newton County, Arkansas. In 1910 William and Zilpha lived with their daughter Permelia and her husband Dr. Albert Boen in Madison County, Arkansas. Zilpha and William are buried in Oark Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of ZILPHA HORNER and JAMES BOEN are:

1. WILLIAM SPENCER BOEN, b. 13 Nov 1844; d. 17 May 1938, Newton County, Arkansas.

2. JAMES C. BOEN, b. 1851, Arkansas.

3. OMA BOEN, b. 1854; m. [first name unknown] BOHANNON.

4. SARAH BOEN, b. about 1856; m. [first name unknown] MOONEY.

5. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BOEN, b. 14 Feb 1859, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 17 Aug 1934, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma; m. POLLY RUSSELL, 13 Jul 1875.

6. JOHN BOEN, b. about 1861, Arkansas.

7. NANCY EMELINE BOEN, b. about 1861, Arkansas; m. JAMES A. WILLIFORD.

Children of ZILPHA HORNER and WILLIAM MOONEY are:

8. ELMIRA MOONEY, b about 1866, Arkansas.

9. DANIEL MOONEY, b. about 1867, Arkansas.

10. PERMELIA MOONEY, b. about 1869, Arkansas; d. 8 Sep 1960, Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas, buried in Oakland Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. ALBERT L BOEN.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 129a, James M. Bowen.

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township. page 1021, James Bowen.

• 1865: Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Newton County, Jasper, Boston Township, page 149a, dwelling 4.

• 1900 Federal Census, AR, Newton County, District 92, Boston Township, page 1a, William R. Mooney.

• 1910 Federal Census, AR, Madison County, District 74, Kentucky Township, page 102a, Albert Boen.

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic." [James Boen]

• Desmond Walls Allen, Second Arkansas Union Infantry, Arkansas Research, Conway, Arkansas, 1987 [William R. Mooney]

Notes: James is believed to be the son of William Boen and Narcissa farmer who lived next door in the 1850 Johnson County, census. This fact is disputed by many researchers as proof has never been found that William and Narcissa were ever in Illinois. His middle name is often stated as Monroe, the same as his presumed father. However, the 1850 census and his military papers list only an initial that may be either an "M" or a "W".

3. William Riley Horner [628] was born 1 August 1834 in Perry County, Tennessee, and died 10 August 1864 at he father's farm near Catalpa, Johnson County, Arkansas. He married Mary Ann Boen 12 July 1853 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She was born January 1837 in Perry County, Tennessee the daughter of William Monroe Boen and Narcissa Farmer. William was a medical doctor. He served the Union during the Civil War, enlisting as a Private in Co. K of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment on 6 December 1863 at Clarksville, Arkansas. He mustered into service on 19 February 1864 in Fort Smith Arkansas. The following is the account of Floy Vaught Dewberry, the granddaughter of Sarah, another of Spencer s daughters:

"William Riley and other members of the family were at Spencer's for a chicken dinner. John Turner Horner, Spencer's oldest son, had gone out on the mountain to get some horses shod. The family knew that the bushwhackers were around and thought they were being vigilant. They had posted the younger children (of whom Sarah was one, she was 11 years old) at what they thought was a critical point on the road. But instead of coming down the road they came off the mountain. When the children saw the men coming, they ran to the house and yelled, 'Here they come, Grandpap!' William Riley ran out the back door to try to get the woods across the field. Spencer went outside to try to talk to the men because they were neighbors and he did not think they would bother him. Instead they shot him dead in his tracks and took out across a potato patch after William. They caught him and pistol whipped him about the head and according to Sarah 'crushed his privates'."

"William Riley was taken to a cave or a large bluff overhang where he lived for eight days. According to Sarah, they would slip out at night to take him food and take care of him. They felt that the bushwhackers were watching them and they would carry the food and supplies wrapped like a child to keep down suspicion."

He is buried in Moore Cemetery, near Ozone, Johnson County, Arkansas. The inscription on his grave marker states "Wm. R. Homer Born Aug. 1, 1834 Killed Aug. 10, 1864 by parties known to his family." Mary applied for a widow's and minor's pension in 1865. On 13 September 1868 in Newton County, Arkansas, Mary remarried to 2) Thomas Franklin Boen, son of John Boen. Thomas was born October 1844 in Arkansas and died 5 June 1920 in Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of William Horner and Mary Boen are:

1. Zilpha Isabel Horner, born 1 December 1855, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 27 July 1927, Polk County, Arkansas.

2. Dr. John Riley Horner, born 22 March 1858, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 5 June 1909, Spadra, Johnson County, Arkansas.

3. Permelia Narcissa Horner, born 6 November 1860, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 24 April 1884, Johnson County, Arkansas.

4. William Horner, born 28 December 1863, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; died before 1870, Arkansas.

Children of Mary Boen and Thomas Boen are:

1. Martha Jane Boen, born October 1869, Arkansas; died 21 September 1953, Bell Gardens, Los Angeles County, California; married George Washington Cowan, 13 July 1884, Johnson County, Arkansas.

2. Tinna Boen, born November 1872, died 1875.

3. Mary C. Boen, born 29 November 1874, Arkansas; died 22 August 1891.

4. Sarah E. Boen, born about 1878, Arkansas.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas, Mulberry Township, page 130b, Spencer Horner

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Floyd Township, page 981, W. R. Horne

• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 50, Thomas F. Boen.

• 1880 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas

• 1900 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas

• Probate Records of Johnson County, Mrs. R.W. Milken (William R. Horner, Spencer Horner)

• Desmond Walls, Second Arkansas Union Infantry, (ISBN 0-941765-21-0).

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic," Wm. R. Horner.

4. ELIZABETH HORNER [4215] was born about 1837 in Arkansas, and died 1 March 1864 in Friley, Johnson County, Arkansas. She married  FRANCIS MARION ACORD  on 10 January 1853 in Johnson County, Arkansas, son of JOHN ACORD and SARAH TURNER.

Children are listed under Francis Marion Acord.

5. OMA HORNER [629] was born 1837 in Franklin County, Arkansas, and died before 1865. She married JOHN J. BOWMAN. He was born about 1832 in Tennessee.

Children of OMA HORNER and JOHN BOWMAN are:

1. SPENCER BOWMAN, b. about 1856, Arkansas.

2. JOHN N. BOWMAN, b. about 1859, Arkansas.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas, Mulberry Township, page 130b, Spencer Horner

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Floyd Township, page 982, John Bowen.

• 1865: Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

Research notes. A transcription of the probate records of Spencer Horner indicates that Oma's husband was John J. BOWMAN.

6. MARY ANN 'POLLY' HORNER [630] was born 1839 in Franklin County, Arkansas. She married JESSE A. BOEN on 9 March 1856 in Johnson County, Arkansas, son of WILLIAM BOEN and NARCISSA FARMER. He was born about 1839 in Tennessee, and died 12 August 1862 in Austin, Conway County, Arkansas. He died of disease in hospital while in the service of the CSA during the Civil War in Company H of the 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. He enlisted on 13 August in  1862 at Fort Hindman, Johnson County, Arkansas for a period of three years. He us buried in the Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery, Cabot, Lonake County, Arkansas.

Child of MARY HORNER and JESSE BOEN is:

1. GEORGE WASHINGTON BOEN, b. 23 Sep 1861, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 28 Dec 1938, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 130b, Spencer Horner

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 1021, Jesse Bown.

• 1865: Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic."

9. KESIAH HORNER [633] was born about 1848 in Franklin County, Arkansas. She married A. J. James before 1865. She went to Missouri near the end of the Civil War with her brother Dr. John Turner Horner. There she married (2) the widower JOHN JAMES BOWMAN in 1866. He was born about 1825 in Tennessee and died 10 January 1872 in Stone County, Missouri. John served both the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. At the outbreak of the war he mustered with Company I of the 10th Arkansas Militia in Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas. The militia disbanded without seeing action and he first enlisted in Company C of the 16th Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiment. He later enlisted in Company A of the 2nd Arkansas Union Infantry Regiment along with several of the Horners. He probably went to Missouri near the close of the war with Dr James Turner Horner. When Kesiah married him he had a son named John N. Bowman, born about 1858 in Missouri, who married Catherine [last name unknown], from a previous marriage. After John died Kesiah returned to Arkansas where she remarried  to (3) WILLIAM BOWEN on 28 October 1872 in Johnson County . He was born about 1849 in Tennessee.

Child of KESIAH HORNER and JOHN BOWMAN is:

1. + REBECCA BOWMAN, b. about 1866, Missouri, d. 1885, Johnson County, Arkansas, buried in Lone Pine Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. James Buchanan Bean, son of Peter Michael Bean and Nancy C. Lemon, 17 Aug 1882, Johnson County, Arkansas; b. 11 May 1858, d. 16 October 1916.
2. + GEORGE W. BOWMAN, b. Dec 1867, Missouri; m. LONELLA L. ZACHARY on 17 June 1894, Johnson County, Arkansas; b. April 1877, Arkansas..
3. SARAH C. BOWMAN, b. about 1869, Missouri.

Child of KESIAH HORNER and WILLIAM BOWEN is:

4. JESSIE BOWEN, b. about 1874 in Arkansas.
5. ROSA BOWEN, b. about 1876 in Arkansas.

Bibliography:

• 1850 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas, Mulberry Township, page 130b, Spencer Horner

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County.

• 1865 Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

• 1870 Federal Census, MO, Stone County, Pierce Township, page 139b, John J. Bowman.

• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Prairie Township, page 351a, William Bowen

• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 251b, John Bowman

• 1882 Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, compiler, Arkansas Marriages, 1851-1900, ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001.), "Electronic." Rebecca Bowman and J. B. Bean.

• 1894 Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, compiler, Arkansas Marriages, 1851-1900, ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001.), "Electronic." (George and Lonella)

• 1900 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Grant Township, page 19a, George W. Bowman.

• 1902 Mrs. R. W. Mickel, Probate Records of Johnson County, Arkansas, 1902, John J. Bowman.

• 1910 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Grant Township, page 9b, George W. Bowman.

• 1920 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Grant Township, page 6a, John N. Bowman.

• 1920 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Coal Hill, Grant Township, page 84b, George W. Bowman.

• 1930 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Coal Hill, Grant Township, page 6a, Geo. W. Bowman.

• Service Records, Second Arkansas Infantry, USA

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic," John J. Bowman, Co. A. 2nd AR Union Infantry, Private-Private.

• National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, "Electronic," John J. Bowman, Co. C, 16 AR Confederate Infantry, Private-Private.

10. JAMES S. 'JIM' HORNER [1048] was born between 1849 and 1853 in Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 31 October 1924 in Fallsville, Newton County, Arkansas. He married (1) ELIZABETH MOONEY on 24 March 1867 in Newton County, Arkansas. She was born 15 March 1950 in Arkansas, died 26 November 1907.After Elizabeth's death he married (2) LUCY RHEA on 18 April 1909 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She was born about 1861 in Tennessee, and died 4 February 1934 in Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas. James and Elizabeth are buried in Woodland Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas. James' obituary was published on 6 November 1924 in the Herald-Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of JAMES HORNER and ELIZABETH MOONEY are:

1. WILLIAM HARRISON HORNER, b. 4 Feb 1889, Arkansas; d. 10 Jan 1907. Buried Woodland Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of JAMES HORNER and LUCY RHEA are:

2. [first name unknown] HORNER (f); m. [first name unknown] HARRIS.
3. BULAH HORNER, b. about 1905.

Bibliography:

• 1860 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas
• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Newton County, Jasper, Boston Township, page 149a, dwelling 4.
• 1909 Marriage Records of Johnson County, Arkansas, Book U, page 111
• 1920 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas

11. SARAH ANN HORNER [1049] was born 15 March 1853 in Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 24 November 1929 in near Catalpa, Johnson County, Arkansas. Life was hard in Johnson County during the Civil War with most of the grown men gone and very little to eat. Sarah recalled recalled feeling sorry for her brother Jim who would have worked 10-12 hours in the field during the day, come in at night, and take his supper, a piece of corn bread and a glass of water, on the porch to eat. When she was eleven years old she witnessed the murder of her father, Spencer, and brother, William, by bushwhackers at their home in Johnson County. After the death of Spencer, William and several other brothers in the Civil War he brother John Turner Horner escorted several families which included Sarah and her mother to Cassville, Missouri. Sarah recalled that on the trip to Cassville at least part of the wagons were pulled by oxen. After the war, many of the Horners stayed in Missouri; however, Sarah, her mother, and several of the other Horners came back to Johnson County. It is not clear whether they came back just to settle Spencer's estate or for other reasons. But some stayed. Among them, were Sarah and her mother. She married GEORGE MARION VAUGHT on 8 July 1867, son of Isaac James Vaught and Semimarus Frances Douglas. He was born 28 September 1849 in St. Francis County, Arkansas, and died of a stroke on 9 March 1931 near Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas. Sarah could neither read nor write but was quite religious and could quote the scripture accurately. She depended on Marion to read the Bible to her. (She pronounced his name Mar-en, to sound like bar.) Her grandchildren remember her as an extremely kind woman who had the ability to make each child feel very special. Floy [Vaught] Derryberry recalls that Sarah and her son, Christopher Columbus, would hear a name of someone in the community during a conversation. Sarah's six daughters were dressed as well or better than the other girls in the community. Floy said that Sarah dug and sold ginseng to make the money to buy their clothes. A look would pass between them and Sarah would nod and say that he was one of them - meaning that he was one of the bushwhackers who had killed her father. Sarah's obituary was published on 28 November 1929, in the Herald Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas. Sarah and George are buried in Oark Cemetery, Johnson County. George's obituary was published on 12 March 1931 in the Herald Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas. All their children are buried in the Qark Cemetery except Charley who is buried at Hartman, Arkansas and Kizzie is buried in the Liberty Hill Cemetery near Hunt, Arkansas.

The Herald-Democrat, Clarksville Arkansas, Thursday, 20 May 1920
Oark
Mrs. G. M. Vaught has returned from an extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. Cowan at Hunt Town.

The Herald-Democrat, Clarksville Arkansas, Thursday, 5 Aug 1920
Oark
Bert Cowan and family are visitors at Oark at present.

The Herald-Democrat, Clarksville Arkansas, Thursday, 29 November 1929
    Mrs. G. M. Vaught died Sunday at 8 o'clock at the home of her son S. M. Vaught, near Catalpa, Ark., from an illness partly due to the effects of a fall she sustained five years ago and from which she never fully recovered.
    Sara Ann Horner was born March 15, 1853, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Horne [should be Spencer Horner]. She was married to G. M. Vaught on July 8, 1867. To this union were born, five who survive.
    She was a consistent member of the Baptist church and attended services regularly until ill health prevented. She was an affectionate mother and grandmother, devoted to the interests of her husband and children. 'Aunt Sara,' as she was known, was loved by all who knew her.
    Besides her aged husband, she is survived by three sons, two daughters, 38 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.

Children of SARAH HORNER and GEORGE VAUGHT are:

1. F. PERMILLIA VAUGHT, b. 15 Mar 1873, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 02 Oct 1899, Johnson County, Arkansas.

2. WILLIAM CHARLES W. VAUGHT, b. 14 May 1874, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 26 Apr 1959, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. (1) EMMA CASEY; m. (2) ALPHA OWENS.

3. KIZZIE R. VAUGHT, b. 04 Sep 1879, Arkansas; d. 19 Dec 1949, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. NATHAN B. JOHNSON, about 1900.

4. MARGARET I. VAUGHT, b. 27 Jan 1882, Arkansas; d. 21 Feb 1911, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. NATHANIEL ELI DICKERSON, about 1900, Johnson County, Arkansas; b. Jun 1872, Arkansas.

5. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS VAUGHT, b. Nov 1883, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 07 Apr 1969, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas.

6. MARTHA E. VAUGHT, b. Dec 1887, Arkansas; d. 1908, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. THOMAS JEFFERSON DICKERSON. Burial: Oark Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

7. SIDNEY MONROE VAUGHT, b. Apr 1890, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. 03 Feb 1973, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. DORA COWAN, 1912, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas.

8. ZILPHA VAUGHT, b. Nov 1892, Arkansas; d. 02 Feb 1930; m. WALTER E. COWAN.

9. + CHARITY A. VAUGHT, b. 3 Aug 1896; d. Jul 1924; m. BURT COWAN. Burial: Oark Cemetery, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas. Obituary: 17 July 1924, The Herald Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas; married Bertie Christday Cowan.

Bibliography:

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County.

• 1865 Probate Records of Johnson County, Milken (Spencer Horner, Administrator John T. Horner).

• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, page 51, Geo. W. Vaught.

• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County.

• 1900 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County

• 1910 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, dwelling 42.