Francis Marion VanHorn was born in Jackson Centre, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1848, and died at his home in Welton, Iowa, Nov. 20, 1902.
When he was a small child, his parents, Ai and Rachel (Loofboro) VanHorn, removed to Peoria county, Ill., locating near Farmington. In 1856, they settled at Welton, Clinton county, Iowa, at which place Bro. VanHorn lived the greater part of his life. June 6, 1868, he was united in marriage with Miss Malinda F. Davis, who survives him. Of the eight children born to them, four sons, Alvah M., of Milton, Wis., Leonard A. and Willard M., of Welton, and Edgar D., of Milton College, and three daughters, Mrs. Oscar A. Davis, of Welton, Mrs. Myrtle L. Furrow, of Garwin, Iowa, and Orra VanHorn, of Welton, are still living. Two brothers, Rev. T. J. VanHorn, of Brookfield, N. Y., and C. C. Van Horn, of Gentry, Ark., and two sisters, Mrs. John Hurley, of Welton, and Mrs. D. B. Coon, wife of the pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist church at Little Genesee, N. Y., also survive him. When quite young Bro. VanHorn was baptized by Elder Lewis A. Davis, and joined the Welton Seventh-day Baptist church, of which he was a member at the time of his death. He bore his long and painful illness with patience and Christian fortitude, and was a witness to the power of grace to sustain in the time of trouble. G. W. B.
