“Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Name Choice
“Name Choice Freedom is not a new concept; it’s just that few people exercise or realize that they have such freedom. The result is that nearly every woman gives up her name at marriage and nearly every child is given the surname of fathers.“
I received the following from a Barnett researcher, but I’ve forgotten who it was. If you recognize this write-up, please let me know.
Barnett Cemetery is located on what was the original land bought by John I. Barnett in Barnett Township Section 34 and registered in 1831. It is off the road perhaps about 1/4 mile. This cemetery was deeded to the township October 27, 1953 and accepted on April 5, 1955. It is recorded in deed book 80 page 133. The Township is supposed to care for this cemetery and a strip of land given as right of way. Instead, Barnett is a cemetery forgotten by the powers that be, as you can see in the picture below.
To get this picture I had to cross through about an acre of corn. This only being possible because a very kind neighbor of the cemetery guided me through the corn. She said that until the present owners of the land next to her moved in there was at least a path to the cemetery. This cemetery not only holds the remains of some of the oldest pioneers in the County, they were also soldiers in several wars. Buried there is John Barnett, a soldier in the war of 1812. I am listing below a list of people buried there that was received by my mother from Oscar Cromwell 1959.
Burials
John I. Barnett, b. Jan. 29, 1780 d. May 16, 1854. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and fought with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans and also was a soldier in the Black Hawk War 1832.
James Barnett, son of John and Sally (Kenney) Barnett b. Nov. 9, 1820 Bourbon Co., KY. d. March 16, 1889. His stone is no longer found. His wife Elizabeth Jane Irvin is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Cyrus Miller Barnett, b. June 6, 1850 d. Nov. 9, 1852 son of James and Elizabeth.
Victor Barnett, b. July 29, 1859 d. Oct. 4, 1859 son of James and Elizabeth.
Edward Barnett b. Mar. 29, 1853 d. Feb. 18, 1859 son of James and Elizabeth.
Infant daughter of James and Elizabeth d. May 14, 1860.
Edna Barnett b. July 8, 1880 d. May 19, 1887 daughter of
George A. and Sally J. (Kirby) Barnett.
Infant son of George A. and Sally J. (Kirby) Barnett.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Lanham, b. Feb. 18, 1817 d. Dec. 18, 1862 daughter of John and Sally (Kenny) Barnett, wife of Curtis Lanham.
Curtis Lanham, husband of Elizabeth Barnett (there is no remaining stone).
Mary L. Lanham, d. Jan. 12, 1859 adopted daughter of Curtis F. and Elizabeth (Barnett) Lanham.
Addison Eads (no dates). He was one of the earliest judges for DeWitt County.
Sarah Barnett Eads (no dates), daughter of John and Sally (Kenny) Barnett, wife of Judge Addison Eads.
Infant daughter of Addison and Sarah (Barnett) Eads d. Nov. 22, 1861.
Carlson Eads (no dates) died at age 16 (accidentally shot while climbing through a fence while hunting).
Sally Eads d. Sept. 5, 1859 daughter of Addison and Sarah (Barnett) Eads.
John D. Kirby, b. Feb. 13, 1841 d. Aug. 11, 1881 son of Robert and Phoebe (Graham) Kirby and husband of Sarah Frances (Sally) Barnett. Civil War veteran.
Sarah Barnett Kirby, b. Oct. 20, 1845 Bourbon County, KY d. Feb. 25, 1887 daughter of James and Elizabeth J. Barnett wife of John D. Kirby.
James Edwin Kirby, b. Jan. 2, 1867 d. Oct. 29, 1870.
According to tradition, the first Horne in America was Dutch. His father died in London, his pregnant mother made the rest of the trip to America alone, and delivered her baby in Baltimore. I have not been able to identify this unknown ancestor.
The earliest proven ancestor of this family was John Horne (1736-1840), a physician educated at the University of Edinburgh, who came from Carlisle in Cumberland to America about 1800. The family was first documented in North Carolina, but might have previously lived in Delaware. One branch of George’s descendants moved to Georgia, then in the late 1850s to Indiana.
William S. Horne (1833-1896) of Madison County, Indiana served in the Union Army as a drummer. He was kicked in the head by a mule at the Battle of Palmetto Ranch (11 May 1865, in Texas), and discharged as disabled . . . one of the last casualties of the Civil War. After the war, William moved to Missouri, where he married Rachel Roberson, a Cherokee who had been a Confederate sympathizer. His pension application shows that the family was destitute and moved frequently. Their house burned in 1896, and William died a few months later.
William’s son George Rufus Redmond Horn (1876-1969) worked as a railroad fireman in Nebraska. He was the first to spell the name without the final e. Many of his descendants have maintained the tradition of working for the railroad. George’s daughter Evelyn Horn married Dudley Howery.
Lineal Genealogy
1. Dr. John George Horne (1736-1840), physician; married Catherine Hook (1740-1840). They came to America, and settled in North Carolina.
2. John Horne (about 1765-before 1820) a farmer in Davidson County, North Carolina. He married Ann (Skidmore?) (1768-1840).
3. George Horne (1799-1854), a farmer in Madison County, Indiana. He married Martha “Patsey” Johnson (1804-1869), daughter of John and Nancy (Stever) Johnson, of Surry County, North Carolina.
4. William Steven Horne (1832-1896), a farmer in Rock Port, Missouri. He married Rachel Jane Roberson(1847-1944), daughter of Rufus Morgan and Elizabeth A. (Lomax) Roberson, of Holt County, Missouri.
5. George Rufus Redmond Horn (1876-1969), a railroad fireman in Fremont, Nebraska. He married Myrtle Louise Quillen (1885-1956), daughter of James Robert and Clara Etta (Weight) Quillen, of Tabor, Iowa.
6. Evelyn Louise Horn (1911- ); married Dudley Hamilton Howery (1910-1983), a jeweler in Laramie, Wyoming.
The Scottish Horries and Houries (Hauries, Howries) bear a similar name to the Swiss Hauris, but a relationship is unlikely. The Scottish family apparently takes its name from a farm named Horrie in the Toab district of St. Andrews parish on Orkney Mainland. The farm was part of the earldom estate. It appears in records between 1510 and 1560, when there was a dispute over its ownership.
“Hourie, Horrie. Clouston suggests that this Orcadian name is possibly a corruption of Thoreson, since the Norse th frequently becomes h in Orkney (Clouston, p. 34). Hourston, Horraldshay, Hurtisco, etc., are spelled with Th in the early records. There is, however, a place name Hurre or Horrie in the parish of St. Andrews from which the name may have come. Gawane Herre or Hurre is in record in the parish of St. Andrews, 1519. In 1568 Iggagartht (i.e. Ingagarth) Hurrie, daughter of Adam Hurry and lawful heir to John Hurry, sold half the place of Hurry [Horrie] to James Irrewing [Irving] of Sabay (REO., p. 126). In the Shetland rental of 1715 A. Horrie accounts for the skatt of 2 merks land in Sandwick, Unst (Old Lore Misc., VII, p. 59-60). Magnus Horrie, a native of Shetland, and once one of the clerks of the Exchequer in Edinburgh, became a resident of Algiers and by 1766 was described as being “so high in favor and confidence with the Dey of that place that he made him one of his principal secretaries” (Old Lore Misc., VII, p. 11-12). Gawane Herre (Hurre), of great age, was resident in the parish of St. Andrews, Orkney (OSR., I, p. 63). George Hourie was tenant of Nistaben, Firth, Orkney, c. 1850.” (George F. Black, The Surnames of Scotland (New York Public Library 1946))
There was an Andrew Howry in colonial Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania Militia at Chester, Pennsylvania on 10 May 1758 as a recruit in Capt. Paul Jackson’s Company. His birthplace was listed as Ireland, his occupation as weaver, and his height as 5 feet 8 inches. A military roll dated 29 May 1758 lists him as deceased at the age of 22 (Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. 1, pp. 168, 171). Annella A. McCallum, Orkney Roots Research, notes that there is an Ireland in the parish of Stenness, Orkney. She adds that Jacob and Ursula are common names in some Orkney families in the 18th century (Personal Communication, 19 June 1990). So, it seems likely that the Andrew Howry who was a contemporary of Hans, Ulrich and Jacob Howry in Pennsylvania belonged to an Orcadian family.
John Horrie (36), a farmer, his wife Jean (34), and children William (14) and Jean (12) emigrated from Stenness, Orkney, to Savannah, Georgia on the Marlborough, September 1774.
A John Hourie from Saint Ola or Scapa in Orkney came to America in 1800 as a worker for the Hudson’s Bay Company.
One branch of the Hauris came from Beromünster to Reinach about 1400. Beginning in the 1500s, members of the family were frequently mentioned as farmers and millers. Some of them were members of the local “college of judges.” Heini Hauri was Untervogt of Reinach in 1512. An Untervogt was a “Deputy Bailiff,” approximating a district governor. The Untervogts of Reinach governed as deputies of the Vogt of Lenzburg.
Heini Hauri’s descendants often held the office of Untervogt until 1605, then continuously until the French conquest of Switzerland in 1798.
One Untervogt, Hans Hauri, built Haus zum Schneggen(“House of the Snail”) in 1586, with major additions in 1604/05, a residence named from its unique staircase (pictured right). Schneggen is now a hotel (Address: Gasthof zum Schneggen, Hauptstrasse 72 5734 Reinach). A smaller house called Schneggli (“Smaller Snail”) lies diagonally opposite. It was built in 1688, also by the Hauris.
About 1660 one branch of the Reinach Hauris went to the Palatinate. Although it has not been proven, I believe that the Jacob Hauri who came to Pennsylvania about 1737 was member of the Reinach family via the Palatinate.
