David Horney
David Homey, farmer, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Calaway) Horney, natives of North Carolina, who came to Greene County, Ohio, at a very early date, and remained there until after their marriage, coming to Fayette County about 1808, and locating half a mile nortli of Jetfersonville, where our subject was born, October 19, 1832, and now lives, and has a farm of one hundred and seventy-seven acres, a part of six hundred acres owned by his father, who knew this neighborhood in the wilderness, and would go to Oldtown, Greene County, to mill with a sack of corn on a horse; would take two days to make a trip; would take his gun and dog, and camp by the path at night. One night, as he was returning, he stopped between here and Jamestown, when, after he had fallen asleep, his dog began a fight with a bear that came too near. By and by the bear got the advantage of the dog, when Mr. Horney stabbed the bear, killing him instantly. Hr. Horney died November 28, 1865. Mrs. Horney died in August, 1855.
Our subject was married, March 18, 1858, to Miss Rebecca J. Wright, daughter of James and Louisa (Troxell) Wright, who bore him five children: Adda E., Delia O., Thurman P., Clarence H., and Loren R. Mrs. Horney is a member of the Christian Church.
Mr. Horney remembers seeing some of the farming implements his father used in an early day, which were the wooden plow, wooden-toothed harrow, harness made of rope and elm bark, and sickle for cutting grain.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County