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Rodham C. Horner, farmer, of Washington County, Ark., is one of four surviving members of a family of five children born to the marriage of Hampton and Sarah E. (King) Horner, both of whom were born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and were there reared, married, and spent the remainder of their days. The father was a farmer and stock trader until the breaking out of the late Civil War, and died in 1864 at the age of about fifty-four years. The mother is still living, and resides on the old home place with one of her daughters. The following are her children: Rodham C., Robert S., James (deceased), Hilah A. (wife of Chauncy McBride, of Tennessee) and John H. Rodham C. Horner made his parents’ house his home until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to Little Rock, Ark., and from there to Dardanelle, Ark., thence to the Indian Territory two years later. After residing there one year he returned to Northwestern Arkansas, and at the end of two years took up his abode in Kansas. Since 1884 he has been engaged in farming and stock raising in Washington County, but previous to that time was a bridge-builder and carpenter. He has a fine farm of 228 acres, with about 110 acres under cultivation. August 19, 1885, he was married to Elizabeth Scott, who was born near Little Rock, Ark., and is a daughter of Allen and Eliza Scott, natives of Tennessee. The father died June 11, 1886, but the mother is still living, and makes her home with Mrs. Horner. She is now sixty years of age, and two of her four children are living: Robert R. and Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Horner have two children: Robert H. and Hilah May. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in politics Mr. Horner is a Democrat.