Tony Horn
by Barbara Jefferson-BonnerFamily Historian, 1995
During slavery, Slave Master Horn traveled to and from Africa transporting slaves from Africa to Alabama, Macon County, Georgia. On one of his trips, Slave Master Horn brought back Tony, Caroline, Angeline and Sandy Jinks. The slaves were transported to Georgia, on a ship with red flags, signifying slave ship. Once the ship made its stop in Macon County, the slaves were taken to a nearby auction block and sold.
In 1842, while still in Georgia, Tony and a young girl named Caroline had a daughter named Lucendia.
Tony and the other slaves who were transported from Africa were all native African. Tony was known to be a very dark-skinned man with snow white hair and no facial wrinkles. His age was well preserved. No one knew his exact age.
In 1856, in Georgia, Angeline "Angel" and Sandy Jinks had a baby named George Jinks.
Tony and Angeline "Angel", sometime after 1856, took slave master Horn's last name in marriage. The couple had four children born in Alabama. The fifth child was born in slavery in 1864 in the State of Texas (Old Beckville, Panola County, Texas).
Slave Master Horn transported his slaves to old Beckville, which is southeast of Beckville, Panola County, Texas and referred to as Beason Land.
Caroline later married Samuel Beck and had seven additional children. Her daughter Lucendia settled in Texas, with her father and step-mother, and raised a family of her own.
Tony is first seen on the 1870 Panola County Census (PCC) as a 60-year-old man with his wife Angel and four children living at home. Angel is first seen on the 1870 PCC as a 40-year-old woman married to Tony Horn. Caroline and her husband Samuel Beck are first seen on the 1870 PCC in their mid 30's with three small children.
Tony, Angel and Caroline's dates of death are unknown.
The 1900 PCC reflects that Angel was a 75-year-old widow, living in the home of her oldest son, George Jinks, and his family. The 1900 PCC reflects that Caroline was a 70-year-old widow, living in the home of her youngest daughter, Martha Beck-Smith, and her family.