Key Facts

Snapshot:	immigrated from North Carolina to Georgia; owned a slave
Parents:	412Abishai Horn 413Mary Ann Ricks
Born:	20 September 1775 North Carolina
Died:	15 October 1856 probably Pulaski County, Georgia, or perhaps Twiggs County
Buried:	unknown

206Joab Horn was born in North Carolina1 on 20 September 17752 to parents 412Abishai Horn2,3 and 413Mary Ann Ricks.2

He married 207Nancy Dixon on 29 December 1796.2,4

A court record implies that 206Joab was living in Edgecombe County, North Carolina in August 1799,4 but by March 1813 he had relocated to Twiggs County, Georgia.5 (The same court record also mentions a relative who still lived in Edgecombe County, and thus helps prove that 206Joab Horn of Twiggs County, Georgia was the same man as the 206Joab Horn from the 1799 Edgecombe record.)

This deed proves that 206Joab Horn had relocated to Twiggs County, Georgia by 1813. Full page.5

Although I've been unable to find 206Joab in the 1820 census, he appears in Twiggs County tax records in 1818 and 1826.6,7

The following notice was published in a Milledgeville newspaper on 6 June 1829.8 It indicated that 206Joab's land and slave would be auctioned to pay off a debt. The property mentioned lies in what is now southern Twiggs County. Its approximate location is marked on the master map.

1829: 206Joab's property was sold to pay a debt. Full page.8

Despite losing his land, the 1830 and 1840 censuses still show 206Joab's family in Twiggs County.9,10

1830: 206Joab's family in the 1830 census. Full page.9

1840: 206Joab's family in militia district 326 (map), Twiggs County, Georgia. Full page.10

His wife 207Nancy died in January 1843, and 206Joab remarried to Isabella Davidson on 11 April 1843.2

The 1850 census shows 206Joab and his wife Isabella living alone in Pulaski County, Georgia.1

1850: 206Joab and his wife in Pulaski County, Georgia. Full page.1

206Joab died on 15 October 1856.2

Sources Cited:

1: 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Pulaski County, Georgia. Page 251A, dwelling 339, family 339, Joab Horn household. NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 80. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-64VB-SJ?i=46&cc=1401638&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMZYC-1PT>.

2: A Horne family Bible described and abstracted in: Bess Vaughn Clark, Twiggs County, Georgia Records: A Reconstructed Heritage: A Collection from Newspapers, Deeds, Bible Records, Military Records, Wills, Personal Journals and Papers (Wolfe Publishing, 1999), pages 255-257.

3: Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Deeds book 8 (1794-1798), page 611-613. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G983-NKYK?i=651&cat=306915>, accessed 2 June 2020. I've written a partial transcription.

4: Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Estate records for 1748-1917 / Arthur Dew - Mary L. Drew / folder for Jesse Dixon (1799). FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-817M-35S?i=1&cc=1911121> et seq., accessed 9 June 2020. To be clear, this record does not state that 206Joab Horn married 207Nancy Dixon. Notably, however, it shows that 206Joab Horn was summoned to help settle the estate of 414Jesse Dixon, and therefore it helps to corroborate the Horne family Bible cited above (source citation #1).

5: Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Deeds book 14 (1810-1813), pages 391-392. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-896D-8K75?i=400&cat=306915> et seq., accessed April 2020. The corresponding microfilm at the North Carolina Archives is microfilm C.037.40011. The relevant deed begins near the end of page 391.

6: Twiggs County, Georgia. 1818 property tax digest, entry for Joab Horn. Ancestry.com ("Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1792-1892" / Twiggs / 1818 / images 69 and 70 of 97), accessed 8 June 2020.

7: Twiggs County, Georgia. 1826 property tax digest, entry for Joab Horn. Ancestry.com ("Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1792-1892" / Twiggs / 1826 / images 57 and 58 of 129), accessed 8 June 2020.

8: "Sheriff's Sales," The Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Georgia), 6 June 1829, page 4, column 1, about halfway down the page. Georgia Historic Newspapers, <https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014251/1829-06-06/ed-1/seq-4/>, accessed 9 June 2020.

9: 1830 U.S. Federal Census. Twiggs County, Georgia. Page 76, Joab Horn household. NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 21. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YY1-DCG?i=33&cc=1803958&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AXHGB-JJR> and <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YY1-D5X?i=34&cc=1803958>.

10: 1840 U.S. Federal Census. Militia district 326, Twiggs County, Georgia. Page 375, Joab Horn household. NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 51. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBW-GZ5?i=4&cc=1786457&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AXHB8-MBW> and <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBW-GLW?i=5&cc=1786457>.