Roswell D. Horn
3 August 1891–23 May 1895 (Age 3)
Garvin, Wise, Texas, United States
The Life of Roswell D.
When Roswell D. Horn was born on 3 August 1891, in Garvin, Wise, Texas, United States, his father, William Michael Horn, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Barnett, was 35. He died on 23 May 1895, at the age of 3, and was buried in Cottondale, Wise, Texas, United States.
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Family Time Line
William Michael Horn
1852–1915
Margaret Elizabeth Barnett
1855–1924
Clarabel Christina Horn
1877–1953
Joe Roscoe Horn
1879–1881
William Mordecai Horn
1881–1946
Amy Pearl Horn
1883–1954
Charles DeRoos Horn
1886–1972
Alice Jane Horn
1888–1965
Roswell D. Horn
1891–1895
Henry Grady Horn
1894–1929
Ella Dawn Horn
1897–1943
Parents and Siblings
1852–1915Male
1855–1924Female
siblings
(9)
1877–1953Female
1879–1881Male
1881–1946Male
1883–1954Female
1886–1972Male
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World Events (1)
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Age 3
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
Name Meaning
1 English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person's physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.2 Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.3 Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (2)
- Roswell D. Horn, "Find A Grave Index"
- Roswell D. Horn, "Find A Grave Index"
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