* Note: To learn more about the American Civil War-era military service of Luther S. Horn, see part one of this biography.

 

Following his final muster out from the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Charleston, South Carolina, on Christmas Day in 1865, and his transport by ship north with his regiment to New York City and subsequent transport by train to the city of Philadelphia, Private Luther Scott Horn (1838-1909), was honorably discharged at Camp Cadwalader in that city and was given his official discharge paperwork sometime between 9-11 January 1866. He then hopped aboard another train and headed for home in the city of Easton in Palmer Township, Northampton County, where he moved back in with his parents, Edward A. and Juliet S. Horn, and soon found work as a printer. Still employed as a printer and still living with his parents in Easton at the time of the federal census in July 1870, he resided there with his unmarried younger siblings, Calvin J. Horn (1840-1879), who was employed as a painter; Edward W. Horn (1846-1927), who was employed as a brick mason; and sisters Maria Horn (1852-1937) and Fannie A. Horn (1854-1931), who were still teenagers.

Sadly, tragedy then struck the Horn family when Luther’s brother, Calvin Joline Horn (1840-1879), who had served with the 5th Pennsylvania Militia and the 27th Pennsylvania Militia, Emergency of 1863 during the American Civil War, was fatally injured at work. According to The Philadelphia Times, Calvin had been working as a painter with Frederick Sampsel “on the second story of a Northampton street residence in Easton” on 24 October 1879 when “the slipping of a jack threw them to the pavement. Horn fell on the back of his head and was rendered unconscious. He died shortly afterwards.” Still in his late thirties when he died, Calvin J. Horn was laid to rest at that city’s Easton Cemetery, and was survived by “a wife and two young boys.”

* Note: Luther S. Horn’s brother, Calvin Joline Horn (1840-1879), had married Maria Henry (1848-1920) at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Easton on 20 October 1870, and had become the father of Roy Lenox Horn (born 1871-died after 1920), who had been born in Easton on 2 May 1871, was baptized at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Easton on 3 September 1871, had been raised by his paternal aunt, Emily (Horn) Lenox (1836-1917), and would later become a mechanic, marry Philadelphia native Mary Hendrickson at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware on 9 January 1893 and would settle with his wife in the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey.

Still residing at the home of his parents in Easton during the summer of 1880, Luther S. Horn was also still employed as a printer, while his father still worked as a carpenter, and Luther’s sister, Mary Horn, was employed as a dressmaker. Luther’s brother, Edward W. Horn, who also resided there, had become a “retired brick mason” due to asthma. According to a special census of veterans that was conducted in 1890, Luther and Edward Horn were still residing in Easton, Palmer Township that year. Having never married, Luther was subsequently taken in by his married sister, Emily (Horn) Lenox (1836-1917), and her family. Still employed as a printer during the summer of 1900, he and his sister, Emily (now widowed), resided at the home of Emily’s daughter (Luther’s niece), Julia E. (Lenox) Fielder (1859-1944), which was located at 102 Cliff Street in the city of Trenton’s Sixth Ward in Mercer County, New Jersey. Also residing at that home were Julia’s husband, salesman Robert Miller Fielder (1860-1939), and Julia’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Anna Miller Fielder (1883-1944).

That same year (1900), the citizens of Northampton County, Pennsylvania paid tribute to their family, friends and neighbors, who had fought to preserve the United States during the American Civil War, by unveiling and dedicating the Northampton County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Easton on 10 May — a spectacular event that involved a massive parade and attracted roughly thirty thousand men, women and children.

By the summer of 1905, Luther Horn was still single and still working, but was now living at the home of another of his married sisters, Lavinia L. (Horn) Crossley (1843-1918), who resided with her husband, George Crossley, at 202 Clay Street in Trenton’s First Ward.

Illness, Death and Interment

Like many of his fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry veterans, Luther Horn experienced health problems as he aged. In September 1907, the Trenton Evening Times reported that he was residing at 212 Clay Street in that city, and that his U.S. Civil War Pension had been increased by the federal government to twelve dollars per month “under the act of February 6 1907.”

Sometime during the late winter of 1908 or early January 1909, Luther Scott Horn was sickened by “the grip” (known today as influenza or “the flu”). Sadly, that illness proved to be one battle that he would not win. After succumbing to flu-related complications at the age of seventy-one, at the home of his sister, Lavinia, on Clay Street in Trenton, on 27 January 1909, his remains were returned to Pennsylvania for his funeral service, which was held at the Easton home of his siblings, Maria Elizabeth Horn and Edward William Horn, on 30 January.

One of President Abraham Lincoln’s most loyal soldiers was then laid to rest at the Easton Cemetery later that same day.

What Happened to the Siblings of Luther Scott Horn?

Following her marriage to Lewis Lenox (1829-1888), Luther S. Horn’s sister, Emily J. (Horn) Lenox (1836-1917), settled with her husband in New Jersey, where they became the parents of: George W. Lenox (1857-1915), who was born in March 1857 and would later wed Matilda H. Ashmore (1854-1922) on 3 April 1878 in Trenton, and was known to family and friends as “Tillie”; and Julia Lenox (1859-1944), who was born in Trenton on 23 March 1859 and would later wed Robert Miller Fielder (1860-1939). That household configuration remained consistent into the 1870s. By 1880, however, Emily’s household had grown to include her eight-year-old nephew, Roy Horn, and her unmarried sister, Fannie Horn. Widowed by her husband Lewis Lenox, when he died at the age of fifty-eight in Trenton on 20 March 1888, Emily J. (Horn) Lenox continued to reside in that city for the remainder of her days. During the summer of 1900, she was a member of the household of her daughter, Julia E. (Lenox) Fielder (1859-1944), which was located at 102 Cliff Street in the city of Trenton’s Sixth Ward. Also residing there were Julia’s husband, salesman Robert Miller Fielder (1860-1939), Julia’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Anna Miller Fielder (1883-1944), and Emily’s brother, Luther S. Horn (1838-1909), who was still working as a printer. By 1910, their household also included Anna’s husband, Wynn Edward Bruere (1882-1972), and Anna’s son, Richard Wynn Bruere (1908-1994). After a long, full life, Emily J. Horn Lenox died in her early eighties in Trenton on 24 January 1917, and was laid to rest at that city’s Riverview Cemetery.

Following her marriage to George W. Crossley (1842-1913) during the 1860s, Luther S. Horn’s sister, Lavinia L. (Horn) Crossley (1843-1918), had also settled with her husband in New Jersey, where they had become the parents of: William Crossley (1866-1916), who had been born in Trenton, Mercer County on 7 January 1866 and would later become a lawyer and prosecutor in Mercer County and the husband of Sallie S. Arndt (1867-1941); and Emily L. Crossley (1871-1945), who had been born in Trenton on 29 December 1871 and would later wed John Lindsay Van Nest (1871-1955). In 1900, Lavinia L. (Horn) Crossley and her husband, George Crossley, a grocery store clerk, resided at 148 South Stockton Street in Trenton’s First Ward. Also living with them were their twenty-eight-year-old unmarried daughter, Emily, and W. Harry Jemison, a twenty-three-year-old boarder who was also employed as a grocery store clerk. By 1905, however, Lavinia and her husband were residing at 202 Clay Street in Trenton’s First Ward. Also living with them at that time was Lavinia’s brother, Luther S. Horn, who subsequently contracted the flu and died at her home on 27 January 1909. Still residing at her Clay Street home in Trenton in 1910, Lavinia (Horn) Crossley resided there with her husband, George Crossley, who was employed as a grocery store clerk, and their forty-year-old son, William Crossley, who was employed as a criminal lawyer. Widowed by her husband when he suffered a fatal episode of apoplexy on East Front Street in Trenton and died at the age of seventy on 10 March 1913, Lavinia L. (Horn) Crossley continued to reside in Trenton until her death there at the age of seventy-six on 29 July 1918. Following funeral services, she was then also buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Trenton.

Following his American Civil War-era military service with the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers, during which time he had been captured by Confederate troops after being struck in the head by an artillery shell fragment in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, Luther S. Horn’s brother, Edward William Horn (1846-1927), had returned home to Easton, where he had found work as a plasterer and had continued to reside with Luther at the home of their parents. Still living with their parents in Easton during the summer of 1880, their father was still employed as a carpenter, and Luther was still working as a printer, while their sister, Maria Horn, was employed as a dressmaker. But Edward W. Horn was now a “retired brick mason” due to asthma, according to the 1880 federal census — and remained retired into the 1890s, according to the special census of veterans that was enumerated in 1890. (The Horns were still residing in Easton, Palmer Township that year.) Following the death of his father, Edward W. Horn secured work as a lather and continued to reside with his mother, Juliet Susan (Joline) Horn. By 1900, their smaller household in Easton included just Juliet, Edward and Edward’s unmarried sister, Maria Elizabeth Horn, who was employed as a dressmaker. Following their mother’s passing in 1906, Edward continued to reside with Maria. Still employed as a lather in 1910, he made his home with her in Easton’s Eighth Ward that year. (In addition to Edward’s income, Maria earned money from the rent paid to her by a nineteen-year-old boarder, Cora Schooley.) Ailing with dropsy during the final months of his life and still single, Edward William Horn died at the age of eighty-one, on 24 October 1927, at the home in Easton that he had shared with his unmarried sister, Maria Horn, who survived him. Also survived by his sister, Fannie (Horn) Lenox, who resided in Trenton, New Jersey, he was also laid to rest at Easton’s Easton Cemetery.

Luther S. Horn’s sister, Fannie (Horn) Lenox (1854-1931; alternate birth year: 1947), was reportedly still single and living at the Trenton home of her sister, Emily (Horn) Lenox, according to the 1880 federal census. Also residing their was Emily’s eight-year-old nephew, Roy Horn. Fannie Horn then married Hiram Lenox (1847-1935) in Mercer County in 1881, and became the mother of: Mabel Lenox (1882-1908), who was born in Trenton on 10 August 1882 and would later wed Percy Garfield Henry 1881-1939) in 1906; Clarence Lenox (1883-1974), who was born in Trenton on 1 August 1883 and would later wed Rebecca Reid in 1909; and William C. Lenox (1892-1895), was born in Trenton circa October 1892, but died at the age of two years and three months in Trenton on 24 January 1895. (William was subsequently buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Trenton.) Fannie and Hiram Lenox then welcomed the birth of another son — Robert Fielder Lenox (1897-1955), who was born in Trenton on 4 April 1897 and would later wed Louise Ahrendt in October 1920. During the summer of 1900, Fannie’s husband, Hiram, was employed as a letter carrier and their household in Trenton’s Sixth Ward included their children, Mabel, Clarence and Robert. By 1910, it included just their sons, Clarence and Robert, and by 1920, just Robert. By 1930, Robert had moved out, and Clarence had moved back in. Roughly ten months later, Fannie A. (Horn) Lenox was gone. Still in her mid-seventies at the time of her death in Trenton on 5 February 1931, she was also interred at that city’s Riverview Cemetery.

Luther Horn’s sister, Maria Elizabeth Horn (1852-1937), also never married. A resident of her parents’ house in Easton until her father’s death in 1887, she had continued to reside with her mother, Juliet Susan (Joline) Horn in Easton until Juliet’s passing in 1906. Also residing with them had been Maria’s older, unmarried brother, Edward A. Horn, a veteran of the American Civil War who had found it increasingly difficult to work as a plasterer due to asthma. Employed as a dressmaker for much of her adult life, Maria E. Horn continued to live with her brother until his death in 1927. After moving to the city of Trenton in Mercer County, New Jersey to be closer to her nieces and nephews, she resided at 698 Centre Street in Trenton for the final ten years of her life. She then died at the age of eighty-five in Trenton on 17 November 1937, and was subsequently laid to rest at the Easton Cemetery in Easton.

 

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35. Roy Horn (the groom, who was a nephew of Luther S. Horn and a son of Calvin J. Horn), Calvin J. Horn (the father of the groom) and Mary Henry (the mother of the groom); and Mary Hendrickson (the bride), John A. Hendrickson (the father of the bride) and Mary E. Morgan (the mother of the bride), in Marriage Records (City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, date of marriage: 9 January 1893). Dover, Delaware: Delaware Public Archives.
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37. “State and Suburban” (report on the death of Luther S. Horn’s brother, Calvin J. Horn). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Times, 25 October 1879.