Mrs. Horner was born in the ancestral homestead, a log and frame building on the extensive original Thatcher property, the daughter of Margaret and John Thatcher. She spent her girlhood there and attended Alexandria elementary school. In 1874 she married the late James Edward Horner, member of a pioneer Lynchburg, Virginia family that settled in what is now Cold Spring.
She was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, which was erected in the early 1800s on a plot of ground donated by her father's grandfather. Land on which the present Courthouse and Baptist Church now stand was a gift of Mrs. Horner's ancestors who came to Alexandria and for whom Alexandria was named. The Thatcher telephone exchange which serves rural Campbell County derived its name from the family.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Homer Smith, Mrs. Margaret Scott, and Miss Bessie Horner, one grandchild, and one great grandchild, all of Ft. Thomas, where Mrs. Horner has resided for the past 40 years.
Mrs. Horner was born in the ancestral homestead, a log and frame building on the extensive original Thatcher property, the daughter of Margaret and John Thatcher. She spent her girlhood there and attended Alexandria elementary school. In 1874 she married the late James Edward Horner, member of a pioneer Lynchburg, Virginia family that settled in what is now Cold Spring.
She was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, which was erected in the early 1800s on a plot of ground donated by her father's grandfather. Land on which the present Courthouse and Baptist Church now stand was a gift of Mrs. Horner's ancestors who came to Alexandria and for whom Alexandria was named. The Thatcher telephone exchange which serves rural Campbell County derived its name from the family.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Homer Smith, Mrs. Margaret Scott, and Miss Bessie Horner, one grandchild, and one great grandchild, all of Ft. Thomas, where Mrs. Horner has resided for the past 40 years.
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