W. J. Horney
W. J. Horney, county commissioner and farmer, was born in Jeflferson Township, this county, on the 20th of February, 1831, and is a son of Jeffrey and Catherine Horney. He was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to this county, in 1805, she of Virginia, and came here in 1815. The family consisted of nine children.
W. J. Horney, onr subject, was married, in 1853, to Sallie A. McMillen, daughter of John and Martha McMilleun, of this county. The marriage has been blessed with four children: Edwin E., Ida F., Eugene W., and Mary C, all living, two others dying in infancy.
He, during the "late unpleasantness," assisted in driving Morgan back to Kentucky. He was first lieutenant of Company G, 168th O. V. I., and is a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church. He received his education in this county, where his youth was spent, and is now serving his second term as county commissioner, and owns three hundred and twenty-five acres of land near Jeffersonville.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County