Individual Details

From post to Quaker-Roots-L Archives, 7 May 2009:

More information is available about Ann Hornaday, who was probably John
and Christian Hornaday's eighth child and third daughter. One of her
descendants, Anna R. Stewart of Mesa, Arizona, left a considerable
correspondence with R. H. Hutchison, the historian of Orange County, and
others interested in the Hornaday genealogy. This correspondence contains
the only reference we have to John Hornaday the elder as having been known
to his grandchildren. Writing in 1933, Miss Stewart said, "Carrie Abbey,
daughter of Ivy Stewart, youngest son of Ann Hornaday Stewart says her
great-grandfather was the first Hornaday and that would be Ann's father.
Now I make a guess his name was John because in the Stewart family,
Alexander, Ann's son named their oldest child John Clark and it was said his
two grandfathers were John" (6)

We are fortunate to have an existing Bible record for Ann, which its
present owner, Mrs. Martha Beel, generously copied for us. From it we know
that she was born December 12, 1766, married Robert Stuart on Saturday,
January 11, 1783, and died August 1, 1839, at the age of seventy-three (7)

Anna Stewart's correspondence shows that the Stuarts were a Quaker family,
which had come to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and on through Virginia to
Cane Creek, North Carolina, where they were living in 1758, Alexander Stuart
married Elizabeth Pike. Their son Robert, was born in Cane Creek on
December 23, 1760. Thus he was twenty-three and Ann was seventeen when they
were married.

The young couple remained in Cane Creek Settlement until the turn of the
century at least. They are said to have moved to Ohio about 1802 "or a
little later." It is quite possible that Robert and Ann (Hornaday) Stuart
were a part of the Hornaday group which came out in 1807 or 1808 to settle
in Miami Valley in Ohio. The Stuarts settled in the same region, in Warren
County (where we have already noted the the presence of Hornadays), Warren
County is perhaps 25 miles south and east of the Gratis-Camden-West Elkton
area of Preble County where Nathan Hornaday and his family settled. It lies
north of Butler County where the two John Hornadays established their first
farms. Anna Stuart's letters indicate that the Stewarts knew their Hornaday
cousins in Ohio, but that her father (an old man in the 1930's) had
forgotten the precise relationships involved (8).

In any case, Ann and her husband appear to have established themselves
near Oregonia, Ohio. This small settlement is close to Lebanon, the county
seat of Warren County, where local tradition proudly preserves the memory of
Charles Dickens's visit to the Golden Lamb Tavern. The Golden Lamb, the
oldest hotel in Ohio, is well worth a visit today, as it is one of the few
buildings that remain from the early nineteenth century in southwest Ohio.
We like to think that Ann (Hornaday) Stuart perhaps came over from Oregonia
now and then with her husband, and might even have stopped at the Golden
Lamb.

Robert Stuart outlived his wife. He died on July 21, 1844, five years
after Ann. He was eighty-three years old.

"The Hornadays, Root and Branch" The Unfolding of an American Family.
Copyright 1979 by Quinn Hornaday, Published by the Stockton Trade Press,
Inc., Los Angeles, CA. 90040. Pages 122, 123

Birth	23 Sep 1760	Orange County, North Carolina
Death	21 Jul 1844

Father	Alexander Stuart (1737 - 1767)
Mother	Elizabeth Pike (1739 - 1816)
Sibling	Abigail Stuart (1762 - 1843)
Sibling	John Stuart (1764 - 1856)
Sibling	Henry Stuart (1766 - )