Rev. Jeremiah Horn

He was raised in the Quaker church. His parents belonged to New Garden MM. He converted to Methodism. Rev. Horn had been tending his Texas congregation since 1845. 1867 Rev. Horn died after many years as a Methodist Minister in both Collin and Hunt Counties, TX.

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The Lost Creek, TN settlement, where Wm. Jeremiah Horn was born, was on the Holston River in a place now called New Market, Jefferson Co., TN, just south of Jefferson City, TN.

Wm. Jeremiah Horn was married four times during his life.His first wife, the mother of his daughter Elizabeth (Samuel Byrd's wife), name is unknown, but she was supposed to be a white women.The other three wives of Jeremiah were all supposed to be part indian. His second wife, Elsie Hicks,was the daughter of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Charles Renatus Hicks.

To date nothing is known about his first wife, our ancestor, but it appears based on dates, that she may have died in child birth or sometime soonthereafter.While Wm. Jeremiah was born in the Lost Creek settlement in TN, little is known of his life until he shows up working and living with the Cherokee Indians in Northeastern GA around 1818.Many of Wm. Jeremiah and Elsie Hicks's children, born in the 1820's, are listed as having been born in Oothcaloga.The Oothcaloga Moravian Mission was located about 20 miles south of Spring Place, GA.In Oct 1830 Wm. Jeremiah Horn and family were at or near the Moravian Mission in Spring Place, GA because there is a record in the Moravian Diaries that states, "Sister Horn recently giving birth to a son."Elsie Hicks Horn gave birth on 17 Oct 1830 to James Trott Horn.

A Jeremiah Horn is listed in the book, "Whites Among the Cherokees", as living in "Oak Kalagee" (which is probably another spelling of Oothcaloga) during lists taken by the Government of Georgia in 1830 and 1831.

This book states that the white men listed as residing among the Cherokees, per these Georgia lists at the time, excluded missionaries, traders and peddlers.OurWm. Jeremiah Horn was clearly a missionary and trader.It is possible that this Jeremiah Horn is the other Jeremiah listed exiting the Cherokee Nation during the removals.

Wm. Jeremiah Horn was a Circuit Riding Methodist Minister and a trader among the Indians in the Cherokee Nation in the area of what is now NW Georgia.He had a combination trading post, bunk house-way station for travelers, and a "stand"-tavern at New Echota (the last capital of the Cherokee Nation before the Indian removals), near present Calhoun, GA.The James Vann Tavern was relocated by the Georgia Historical Society onto the original foundation stones of Wm. Jeremiah's tavern.The well at the site was originally inside the Horn tavern.These taverns served as stores, restaurants, and inns for travelers of the time.

When the turmoil in the Cherokee Nation began, Wm. Jeremiah, wife Elsie, and family, moved from the Cherokee Nation in some of the early volunteer removals to the Indian Territory in the west.They were a part of the "Old Settlers" move west, traveling to Arkansas (there are some references to Yell Co., AR) and then on to Oklahoma, arriving around 1834.Elsie died shortly after their arrival in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

In the "Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835", there is a Jeremiah Horn and family that were part of the early volunteer removals to the western Indian territory.They were listed as a family of eleven, living in Hiwassee, TN.They are listed as leaving the Cherokee Nation on their own (not using government transportation) on July 17, 1833 and arriving in the western Indian territory on May 16, 1834.

Wm. Jeremiah Horn migrated to the Peters Colony in TX as a family man prior to July 1, 1848.He was issued a land certificate by Thomas William Ward in 1850 and patented 640 acres in Collin Co., TX (Fannin Third Class No. 1016).He is listed in the 1850 Census (Collin Co., Family No. 175) as a 56-year-old preacher, born in TN, with four children.

Wm. Jeremiah was a Methodist minister in both Collin and Hunt counties (Texas). In 1848, along with Rev. John Noble, Rev. John Cullwell, and Rev. Tarleton Cunius, he organized the Sway Back Methodist Church in the Walnut Grove area.All four preached there as did Wm. Jeremiah's son-in-law, Rev. Jeremiah Martin.The building was also used as a schoolhouse.

He is listed in the 1850 Collin Co., TX Census living with his fourth wife, Cynthia Doughtery, and several children from each of his last three marriages.