 1909 - 1993 (84 years)
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| Name |
HORNE Herbert Calvin |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Birth |
8 Jan 1909 |
Sussex County, VA (Milton Farm/Rt. 460)  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA (Waverly Baptist Church) |
| Census |
1930 |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
- Herbert C Horn
in the 1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Herbert C Horn
Birth Year: abt 1909
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Virginia
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1930: Waverly, Sussex, Virginia
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: Blackwater Road
House Number in Cities or Towns: 195
Dwelling Number: 229
Family Number: 234
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Salesman
Industry: General Station
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker
Employment: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Herbert R Horn 49
Mary E Horn 45
Herbert C Horn 21
Thelma E Horn 19
Evelyn M Horn 16
George L Horn 11
Mary V Horn 7
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| Vehicles |
1935 |
Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA |
| Calvin and Herbert |
- Unknown location, see the mountain, there are none in Sussex County.
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| Employment |
Abt 1940 |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
| Waverly Businesses |
- Farm Implement Supply Company
Horne Sales and Services
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| Residence |
Abt 1950 |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
| in Waverly |
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| Residence |
Abt 1960 |
Hanover Courthouse, Hanover County, Virginia, USA |
| The Hanover store |
- House was beside the store (he later sold the store and house to Billy)
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| Death |
25 Mar 1993 |
Chesterfield County, VA |
| Cause: heart attack |
Address:
At Martha's Home
Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County, Va |
| Funeral |
27 Mar 1993 |
Wakefield, Surry, Virginia, USA |
| Purviance Funeral Home |
- A funeral service will be held at Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield on Saturday, March 27,
1993 at 2:00 p.m. by Rev. Larry Grizzard and Rev. Justin Home. Burial will follow in Waverly Cemetery., The family will receive friends at the funeral horne on Friday evening 7:00-8:30 p.m.
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| Medical |
Heart Problems [2] |
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| Organizations |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
| Waverly Rotary Club |
| Organizations |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
| Waverly Ruritan Club |
| Vehicles |
Hanover Courthouse, Hanover County, Virginia, USA |
| Calvin and the GTO |
| Occupation |
Mercantile Proprieter |
| Reference Number |
H3 |
| Religion |
Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| Grove Avenue Baptist Church |
| Residence |
cir 1960's |
Thornburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA |
- They had a trailer beside the store. The store is still there. One day Calvin decided that HC needed to lose weight, so he made him dig a 2' ditch around the trailer and then fill it back in. All this was because HC loved his moon pies and cartons of milk (and a lot of other sweets) and put on a lot of weight. HC never went back to a lot sweets again and retained his much lower weight.
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| Burial |
27 Mar 1993 |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA [3] |
- BORN
1909
DIED
26 March 1993
DEATHS METRO
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) \emdash Friday, March 26, 1993
Horne, Herbert Calvin, 84, of Richmond, retired merchant.
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) \emdash Friday, March 26, 1993
CITE THIS RECORD
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia,
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| Notes |
- Herbert Calvin Horne, Sr., was born on Jan 8, 1909 at Milton Farms in Disputanta, Virginia. Very little is known about him until his teenage years. *** Check with Landon for younger years In his senior year of high school at Waverly High Schools, he came home one day and told his father that he might as well give him a whipping now because he wasn't going back to school for another day if he had to continue taking chemistry under Mr. Level, because he embarassed the kids that he didn't like and showed favoritism to certain of his cronies children in the class. At this point Calvin Horne quit school and went to work on his daddy's farm for several years. Frank Pulley, a lawyer and businessman came to Calvin and asked him if Calvin would run his store (Lindsey's Store). Calvin took over the running of the store and after a few years, Frank Pulley asked Calvin if he would like to buy the store. Calvin bought this, his first store and ran it for many years. Calvin borrowed the money from his mother and she loaned him the money from what he had been paying her for room and board. She had never spent it but kept in in her trunk in the upstairs bedroom at the farmhouse. The trunk was between the two beds and under the front window. This made a nice down payment on the store and it took Calvin about five (5) years to pay off the rest of the loan to Mr. Pulley. He sold this store and build Horne Sales & service across the road. This new store sold Chrylser/Plymouth cars and tires for the lumber yard people. He had a small grocery, but only sold limited items, mainly for workers to make lunches with. Calvin never mailed a bill. He kept a little notebook that he listed the people he gave credit to. And he never had a customer leave town owing him a bill, even though he never mailed out one. He had one family, with several small children, that he gave credit to, repay him with several musical ukelins to settle their account before they moved to Suffolk. This was Mr. Lupton. One would have paid the bill, but Mr. Lupton insisted he take both. Joan Howard (niece) still has one of these ukelins and Martha Jane (his daughter) has the other one. It should be noted at this point that one of the very few faults Calvin had all his life was a penchant for fast cars. At one point Preston Harrell, the mayor's son, bet Calvin that he could be in Wakefield before Calvin. Calvin then left someone in charge of the store and he and Preston left for Rt. 460 to start the race. Someone squealed to the town cop and he was sitting on the road waiting when Calvin was in front of Preston and saw the town cop. Calvin was able to slow down in time, but Preston hadn't seen the cop and passed Calvin in a blaze of speed, went passed the cop and was going so fast the cop couldn't even clock him, however Preston realized his fat was in the fire and had better stop before things got worse. In another incident, Calvin driving a red car actiually outran the police coming back from Petersburg. He had passed the policeman and the police started chasing him. Calvin managed to take a cutoff on a dirt street behind the old train depot and the cop never saw him and lost Calvin. When he hit the railroad tracks by the depot, Calvin's car went airborne. Calvin never was one to take his time going from one point to another. One one occurrance Calvin Horne was carried upon the wings of angles while driving his car. Preacher Harrell was having a revival in Waverly Baptist Church. Now, Preacher Harrell lived in Claremont and Calvin had arrived at the church ready for the revival meeting, when he was asked where the preacher was. You see, the preacher didn't have a car and certain members were to bring him on given nights. Well, this was Calvin's night and he had forgottten. Calvin made it to Claremont and back and the revival was only 20 minutes late. To this day, people swear that Calvin and the good Lord straightened out all those curves on Rt.40 to get the preacher to the church on time. To this day the 18 to 20 minute run from Waverly to Claremont and back hasn't been beaten. The preacher told Calvin not to worry that the lord was on their side. Calvin didn't remember the ride to Claremont and was 12 miles one way on a crooked curbved road with two small bridges over the Blackwater swamp. In his early teen years Calvin was dating a girl that lived across the road from his families farmhouse, named Evelyn Chesson. She was in love with a boy that had gone in the Navy and Mary Virginia (sister) knew this. She didn't want Calvin dating this girl. One day Calvin came home, put his car keys on the kitchen table and went upstairs to change to take her to a movie in Petersburg. Mary Virginia took his car keys and went out in the yard, yelled up to Calvin to look out the window. She told him she had his car keys and wasn't going to give them back to him since Evelyn Chesson was using him. Calvin yelled for her to hush as he didn't want Evelyn to here Mary. Mary then ran to the outhouse and locked herself and Calvin's car keys inside. Calvin was begging Mary Virginia for the keys and even offered a $5 bill to put the keys on the porch. Mary decided that $5 was worth more than Clavin making a fool of himself over the girl and gave him back the keys. Within a month's time Clavin took Evelyn Chesson to a dance and her boyfriend (Gwaltney Raines) came home on leave, came to the dance, claimed his girl, and Calvin was left standing at the dance, sans girl. Calvin was so mad he tried top run people off the road and when he got home Mary was able to say 'I told you so'. While living in Waverly, Calvin was a member of the Ruritan Club and Rotary Club. Mary Jane Sheffield was born and raised in the house behind the store and Calvin had known her ever since he bought the store. After Calvin bought this store they used to talk over the fence between the store and her house and very soon one thing led to another and they became husband and wife, on June 15, 1940. This was one week before his sister's birthday and her graduation and she was furious with him for not waiting. Of course, Calvin was one of those who used to spoil Mary Virginia. They were married in Waverly Baptist Church, by Rev. Albert Harrell in a small intimate ceremony. Mary Jane didn't have any attendenants and Calvin didn't have a best man. They left and went to New York for the World's Fair for their honeymoon. They stayed with Cyrus & Effie Leap. They also went to Niagra Falls during the honeymoon. When they returned they stayed at Herbert & Mary Horne's farm house until they got an apartment in a house next to the Baptist Church. HC, Jr., was born while they lived in the apt. They then bought a house on West Main Street. It was small brick bungalow with 2 bedrooms downstairs. Martha Jane was born at this house. Mary Jane worked from her teenage years through this time as a waitress and hostess at the restaurant at the corner of Main Street and Rt. 460. She was also choir director at the Waverly Baptist Church. She is remember by everyone as being very beautiful, quiet and loving. During this time Calvin sold H.C. Horne Sales and Service and he and Bob Clark bought Waverly Feed and Seed on Main Street.Note: Mary Jane's father, Cleveland Sheffield was murdered when she was younger. He was the paymaster for Gray Lumber Company and disappeared on a Friday afyternoon, when he was on his way with the payroll to pay the employees. His body was found three weeks later in Blackwater Swamp. The murderer was never apprehended or identified. The family continued to live here until after Mary Jane passed away, shortly after Martha's 3rd birthday. Mary Jane died in January 1951. Mary Jane died from Cirrhosis of the liver, even though she never drank alcohol. This was possibly cancer instead as cancer wasn't widely known at that time and the symptoms were the same as Herbert Horne's stomach cancer. His sister Mary Virginia spend the first six months after Mary Jane's death with Calvin to look after the children and take care of the house. He was able to obtain a Baptist minister's widow from Richmond as a nanny for the children. She was very rough on both H.C. Jr. and Martha, and Calvin ended up having to take HC, Jr. to the store with him. Calvin fired her later. Calvin also sold Massey Ferguson tractors for Surry Implement Co and later sold John Deere tractors for Dudley Robertson Tractor Co. Shirley James Johnson remembers that Calvin could sell anything. He was a born salesman. He met Glayds Bradshaw and married her in 1952. From this marriage was born his third child, Catherine Denise Horne, on September 12,. Calvin then bought the big 2 story white house on Main Street. This had a garage and a side stable that held the pony he got for H.C. and Martha. Of course, all the rest of the nephews and nieces had to ride also. This probably contributed to the pony having a sway back. Every Christmas Calvin and H.C. used to set up a model train that ran all around the living room at this house. This was a tradition for as long as I can remember. We used to put christmas presents on the train and ride them around the room. The parlor of this house was off limits to us kids and was used for company only. The marriage bwtween Calvin and Gladys was not destined to work and they divorced in ?????. Calvin, in partnership with Richard Spain, next purchased a grocery in Petersburg, Va. He stayed there until one of the assistant managers started taking the profits home in groceries. Calvin never prosecuted him and sold the store. He then came to Richmond and lived with Linwood and Mary Virginia Howard. While living here in Richmond he sold Chrylsers and Plymouths at the dealership at Belvidere and Broad St. During this time his son H.C., Jr. went into Demolay and went through the Order and became A Master Councilor of his chapter. It is said that bad things come in three's. This has centainly been the case in Calvin's life; Mary Jane's father died as a young man, Mary Jane died as a young woman and his son H.C. Jr., died as a young man, on Calvin's 68th birthday. For one so honest and caring as Calvin was, he was followed by bad luck with those he loved so much. About a year after coming to Richmond, Calvin bought a grocery store in Thornsburg and the family moved into a house trailer next to the store. I remember that at one point when I was visiting that Calvin decided that H.C. Jr., needed to loose some weight, so he made him dig a drainage ditch all the way around the trailer without stopping. Well, Calvin looked at the ditch HC was digging and decided that it wasn't deep enough, so this drainage ditch turned into being a 3' deep ditch and HC literally sweated buckets digging this ditch. He was so tired that he didn't even think about food that whole day. He did however drink several BIG coke bottles full of water. After this, H.C. started dieting in ernest and lost a most of the extra weight he was carrying around. I guess that he was afraid Calvin was going to make him dig another ditch and he never put the weight back on again. Calvin sold this grocery and moved to Hanover Courthouse where he opened another grocery that was called the Hanover Market. The house was next to the market and had a fenced in yard. His mother lived there with him in 1964 and stayed there for quite a few years. They had a pond out back and an old Packard in the garage that he had received in payment for a customers bill. While there in Hanover Courthouse the great family race took place one year, between Calvin, Linwood Howard, Tommy West and Bob Cowdin. Calvin was driving HC's GTO, Linwood had the old blue Oldsmobile, Tommy had a State Police cruiser and Bob was driving a small sportscar. The race started on U.S. 301 in front of the store and went to the bridge just North of the Courthouse. Tommy, in the State Police cruiser was the winner although Calvin wasn't too far behind.
A finer, more Christian man would be hard to find.
- (Medical):He had 3 heart attacks over 20 years and an ulcer
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| Person ID |
I945 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Jul 2017 |
| Father |
HORNE Herbert Raines, b. 26 Dec 1880, Newville, Prince George, VA d. 3 Sep 1956, Richmond, VA (MCV Hosp) (Age 75 years) |
| Mother |
GOODRICH Mary (Pinky) Elizabeth, b. 18 Aug 1884, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States d. 10 Jun 1976, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 91 years) |
| Marriage |
28 Jan 1907 |
Halifax, Halifax, North Carolina, USA [4] |
- The way that he and grandmother left to get married is a classic, just like a romantic novel. On a cold, blustery, snowy 28th day of January, 1907, Grandfather, at the stroke of midnight, placed a ladder against the side of the farmhouse and grandmother climbed down to go marry Herbert. They took the horse and carriage that he had waiting through three (3) feet of snow to the train station in Waverly, Virginia. There they took a train to Halifax, NC and stayed at the Roanoke Hotel, where they were married by J. L. Fenner, Justice of the Peace on January 28th, 1907. Mrs. W. A. Sater was both the proprietress and witness. Mary Virginia Horne Howard remembers that the next morning, one of the kids went downstairs and told their mother, Ella Gertrude Booth Goodrich that Pinkie (Mary Goodrich) wasn't in her room. As the family started to search for her, her father Benjamin Taylor Goodrich, said,' there ain't no need to look for her, she's run away to get married, haven't you seen her making all these new clothes?'. Mary Virginia doesn't remember which of the kids told their mother about Pinkie (Mary) being gone. However it was the one that slept in the room with Mary Goodrich and my guess would be Stella, as they were the closest of the kids and remained so throughout life.
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| Family ID |
F245 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
SHEFFIELD Mary Jane, b. 13 Feb 1919, Waverly, Sussex County, VA d. 15 Jan 1951, Richmond, VA (Stuart Circle Hosp) (Age 31 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Jun 1940 |
Waverly, Sussex County, VA (Waverly Baptist Church) |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F337 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
28 Dec 2008 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 8 Jan 1909 - Sussex County, VA (Milton Farm/Rt. 460) |
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 | Baptism - - Waverly, Sussex County, VA (Waverly Baptist Church) |
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 | Census - 1930 - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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 | Vehicles - Calvin and Herbert - 1935 - Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA |
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| Employment - Waverly Businesses - Abt 1940 - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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| Marriage - 15 Jun 1940 - Waverly, Sussex County, VA (Waverly Baptist Church) |
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| Residence - in Waverly - Abt 1950 - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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 | Marriage - 1952 - Petersburg, VA |
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 | Residence - The Hanover store - Abt 1960 - Hanover Courthouse, Hanover County, Virginia, USA |
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 | Death - Cause: heart attack,Address:
At Martha's Home
Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County, Va - 25 Mar 1993 - Chesterfield County, VA |
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 | Funeral - Purviance Funeral Home - 27 Mar 1993 - Wakefield, Surry, Virginia, USA |
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| Organizations - Waverly Rotary Club - - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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| Organizations - Waverly Ruritan Club - - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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| Vehicles - Calvin and the GTO - - Hanover Courthouse, Hanover County, Virginia, USA |
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 | Religion - Grove Avenue Baptist Church - - Richmond, Virginia, USA |
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 | Residence - cir 1960's - Thornburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA |
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| Burial - 27 Mar 1993 - Waverly, Sussex County, VA |
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| Sources |
- [S29] Horne family Bible.
- [S37] Gene C. Harris.
- [S31] Horne family Bible Gravestone.
- [S229] Gene C. Harris Evelyn Horne Harris.
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