Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Horner was born on 14 April 1807, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States, his father, John Horner, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Compton, was 27. He married Beulah Stuart on 19 December 1838, in Spiceland, Spiceland Township, Henry, Indiana, United States. He lived in Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Franklin, Dalton Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 22 September 1891, in Ogden, Spiceland Township, Henry, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Henry, Indiana, United States.
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- Samuel Horner, "United States Census, 1870"
- Samuel Homer, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
- Samuel Horner, "United States Census, 1850"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1811
Historical Boundaries: 1811 - 1816: Wayne County, Indiana Territory, United States. 1816 - Today: Wayne County, Indiana, United States.
1829
Historical Boundaries: 1829: Henry, Indiana, United States
Name Meaning
English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere), a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels, as containers, as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons, buttons, combs, handles, decorative tips for rods, and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example, Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 1421.
German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn, referring to their location at a spur of land, at a horn shaped piece of land.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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