Catherine Horr

1855 - 1925  (70 years)

• Name	Catherine Horr
  Born	11 Sep 1855	Portsmouth, , Ohio, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	14 Nov 1925	Ohio, USA
  Buried	Portsmouth, Scioto Co, Ohio, USA (Greenlawn Cemetery)
  Person ID	I33367	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Philip Horr,   b. 18 Aug 1826, Saint Austell, Cornwall, England ,   d. 27 Feb 1864, Zaleski, , Ohio, USA  (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Catherine Walsh,   b. 1834, Portsmouth, , Virginia, USA ,   d. 1855, Portsmouth, , Virginia, USA  (Age 21 years)
  Married	1854	Norfolk, , Virgina, USA
  Family ID	F6021	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Information on this family was kindly contributed by Bridgid Kelly bridgidckelly(at)hotmail.com Bridgid is in posession of a book put together by her great-grandfather Robert Linn Clare, son of Anna Horr and James Robert Clare. It contains biographies written by him, also letters and photographs and a xerox copy of the journal of Philip Henry Horr. Please contact her for further information. The following is the biography of Catherine Horr written by Robert Linn Clare in 1958. Catherine Walsh Horr She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1855. Her mother died at the time of her birth so she was left in the care of her Grandmother, Mrs. Fanny Walsh, until her father was able to properly care for her. Her father, Philip H. Horr, went to Portsmouth, Ohio where he met and married Mathilda Wilhelm in 1856. The baby Catherine then was taken by the father and stepmother to live with them in Ironton, Ohio about 1857. She remained with them until the early death of her father in 1864. She was then nine years old and had three half-brothers, William, Harry and Newton, and a baby half-sister Anna. Her widowed stepmother, Mathilda, then with five young children to raise and no means of support, was forced to send Catherine back to her Grandmother Walsh in Portsmouth, Virginia. Catherine lived there until about 1890 when she again went to Ohio to live with her half-sister Anna (Mrs. J. R. Clare in Portsmouth. She lived with Anna's family until 1908, then when Anna and her family moved to Columbus, Ohio, Catherine again moved to live with her half-brother Newton's family. She lived with them until her death from cancer in 1930. She is buried in the Horr family plot in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio. Catherine's life could not have been a happy one. She was moved from family to family with little regard to her feelings and through no fault of her own. She never married. RLC: 1958