Jefferson Horney
Jefferson Horney, farmer, Jeffersonville, is the eldest son of Daniel Horney, (an account of whose life appears elsewhere) who came to this township, at an early day, from North Carolina.
Our subject was born in this county, where he was raised, and where, on the 19th of September, 1878, he married Mary (Carr) Mahoy, a sister of the late Colonel S. F. Carr, of Washington. She was previously married to Archibald Mahoy, who died December 20, 1866. He, too, had been married previously, (September 30, 1832,) to Miss Margaret Griffith, who bore him five children—four of whom are living. Mr. Horney, Mr. Maboy, and both wives were members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
Mr. Horney came to the farm he now occupies, and which contains one hundred and fourteen acres, in 1834, and has changed it from a wild and chaotic tract to a high state of cultivation. The elder Mr. Horney gave to each of his three sons one hundred acres of land, and offered them fourteen acres additional at two dollars. Jefferson, fearing that he would, because of the prevailing scarcity of money, be unable to pay for the land, did not accept the proposition until he had well considered the matter. He finally bought the land, and has, in late years, frequently refused seventy-five dollars per acre for the same.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County