My Genealogy Hound

Elliott D. Hornbeak is a son of James and Sarah (Dean) Hornbeak, and was born in Hickman County, Tenn., in 1817. He was educated in the very primitive schools of his day, and after attaining his majority, continued to remain with his mother on the home farm, of which he afterward became the possessor. March 22, 1854, Elizabeth White became his wife. She is a daughter of J. A. and Prudence White, and became the mother of eleven children, the following nine now living: S. Prudence, Ann Eliza, William A., John E., Allen B., George A., Thomas M., Ethelbert J. and Margaret E. Mr. Hornbeak’s farm consists of 238 acres of very productive land. He is a man who is strictly honest in all his dealings, and possesses fine business qualities. He has always been a member of the Democratic party, and Martin Van Buren received his first presidential vote. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for nearly forty years, and he and Mrs. Hornbeak are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; the latter was born in Jackson County, Tenn., in 1835, and departed this life October 8, 1881. Our subject’s father was born in Tennessee, in 1782, and is of German descent. He was married when about twenty-two years of age. He was a farmer, and the owner of 353 acres of land, and died in 1849. The mother died in 1876, at the ripe old age of ninety-two years.