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Welcome to all the desendents of Nathan Horn Sr. We hope that this resource is a blessing and a sourse of enlightenment to you as you research your past ties to this and other trees. We're so pleased you dropped in to visit our site. We've worked for years on this family and its connections to our ancestors.
Nathan Horn was a lad of 10 to 13 years of age when the slave ship took him from his parents and from his native West Africa. He along with his two brothers Jeff and John ( their slave names ), remembered waving to their parents as the ship left port coming to America. The ship docked unloading it's human cargo in Shreveport Louisiana where Nathan was sold and served as a slave.
By all recollection, Nathan worked in his masters house where he was well fed. He was taught to read and because of his fine physique, standing 6 feet tall, when he was old enough he became a part of the masters breeder stock.
Soon after slavery Nathan moved to Galveston Texas, then to Clearview Oklahoma. He married ( wife's name unknown ) and fathered eight children, Nathan Jr., Cornelius, Ophelia, Mary, Mahalia, John, Anna and Marteal. No one remembers what happened to his wife, but that she was no longer there.
After a while Nathan Sr. had saved up enough money from farming for him and his two youngest children to travel back to Africa in an attempt to locate his family. He left the other children in the hands of his oldest daughter Mary. He gave each of them a gold coin. When he returned from his visit he married a woman named Sally from Arkansas.
He died in 1926 and is buried in Clearview Oklahoma Cemetery. His brother Jeff was a lawyer in Clearview and his brother John a farmer in Gallolee Oklahoma.[Myfamily.ftw]
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NATHAN HORN DESCENDANTS
This Family has a remarkable history which, by virtue of story telling suggests the Great Great Grandfather of Icy Ree, Otis, Clifford, Leon, Easter Normore and Earl Horn (on Dolena's side) was a "Breedstock" slave. This revelation assures us of relatives throughout the country - possibly abroad - whom we may never identify. Neverless, The seads of Tupps and Olivia Normore (the aforementioned siblings grandparents) have more clear lineage demonstrated here. A recent 23 & Me DNA analysis of Clifford Normore (August 2019) suggests 79% of his DNA surfaced between 1820-1890 (2-4 generations ago) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Among the coungries where this DNA surfaced are Nigeria-29.3%, Ghana, Liberia & Sierra Leone-18%, Senegal & Guinea-7.5% and Broadly West Africa-13.5%. The anlysis further suggests Congo and Angolia reflect 8% & 7% respectively. In additon there is a European presence (20.2%) in his DNA. This is largely Northwester Europe-18.3% (as far away as Norway & Finland) and British & Irish-12.1%. The results also suggest a French & German-1.7% influence. The Southern East Africa and French & German DNA surfaced as far back as 8+ generations ago (1670-1790). The trading of African slaves took place between 1440-1850.
The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.' by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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