Name Aaron Horn
Born Bef 1740 Elsoff, Westphalia, Germany
Gender Male
Died 1 Oct 1778 Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky
Cause: Personal Injury (By Family Tradition)
◦It has been stated by family tradition that Aaron Horn died as a result of a personal injury sustained while cutting cane* and died, as stated in various records, the last day of September or the first day of October, 1778. There is no known record indicating that Aaron's death was associated with the September 1778 Siege of Boonesborough; likewise, none to refute such evidence either but if Aaron died due to a wound sustained in battle, such a reference would likely have been made in the military correspondence between Boonesborough and the Virgina Assembly.
*Cane - Undoubtedly the plant described by science as, Arundinaria gigantea, which formes dense growths up to thirty feet tall, called canebrakes, in fertile soil along the rivers of Kentucky. This species of cane is a type of bamboo native to the United States.
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