(1) James Arthur, January 16, 1882 - February 14, 1936, buried in Coleman, married Mary Louella Beck (see Firmin Beck).  They had two children: (1a) Robert Arthur married Jean Day, July 26, 1942 in Bryan. They had two children: (a) Robert Arthur Jr., December 24, 1950, married Ann Morriss, July 4, 1981 at Mountain Home; one daughter, Asenath Ella, January 26, 1983, and live south of Talpa.  Robert Jr. still has descendants of the original Beck sheep.  (b) Marilyn Angela, January 5, 1952, married (1) Ralph Terry (see Oscar Hill Terry, Sr.), married (2) Matthew Lorz, December 13, 1980; two sons, Joshua and Jesse and they live in Edmonds, Washington.  Robert Sr. died April 7, 1984, buried in Coleman.  Jean lives southwest of Coleman on Home Creek.  (1b) Jack met Rebecca Baird in Estes Park, Colorado in 1937.  He had taken his mother there for a vacation and Rebecca had driven her grandparents there and they all stayed at the same hotel.  Jack and Rebecca married September 14, 1938 in Council Bluff, Iowa.  They moved to Coleman after their marriage and he worked as funeral director and embalmer at Horne Hardware and Funeral Home.  They built a house on the ranch in 1941.  Jack quit the store and started ranching in 1941.  He died of cancer, November 27, 1949, buried in Coleman.  Rebecca and the children continued to live on the ranch.  They had three children: (a) Jare (named after Jack and Rebecca), October 30, 1940, married Jim A. Smith, June 17, 1961.  Two children: Steven Mathew, January 5, 1967 and Amanda, April 19, 1969.  They live in Austin where Jim is Vice-President of Treas. of Tracor.  (b) James Arthur II, October 11, 1942, married Imelda De Leon.  Two boys: Jason Beck, April 27, 1972 and James Christopher, July 22, 1978.  He is project designer for Dillards Department Stores and they live in Little Rock, Arkansas.  (c) Jack Baird, September 26, 1945, married Carole Stiles, October 20, 1973 (see John William Collier).  They have two children: Alissa Flynn, July 28, 1969 and Lanham Jack, April 29, 1976.  They live on the ranch where Jack raises registered cattle and cutting horses.  Rebecca married Cloyce M. Huckabee, September 24, 1958, and they live on the ranch and in the cattle business.

(2) Omie Etta, December 19, 1883, married Archie Jackson.  Three children: Stella Mae, Archie Jr. and Faye.  They later moved to California in the Los Angeles area.

(3) Ora Ethel, born February 3, 1886 - died in 1972, married LaFayette (Bud) Vaughn, 1884 - 1952, son of O. N. and Martha A. Vaughn; all buried in Coleman.  Their children: (3a) Tom married Lomena ? and had one son, Gary; (3b) Lucille married Tony Grubbs, two children, Tommie and Don.  This branch of the family moved to the Tuscola area.

(4) Mattie Asenath, February 18, 1888 – died in 1979, married Dr. William Leonard Jennings.  Five children: Jane, Marian, William, David and Arthur Volley (see Dr. W. L. Jennings).

(5) David Edgar, June 22, 1890 - December 21, 1941, married Mary Gertrude Evans, February 29, 1892 - July 20, 1979, both buried in Coleman, on March 13, 1910 (see John T. West).  They had one son: Cecil Edgar, born January 1, 1911, married Pearl Jameson, May 16, 1931, in the Coleman Methodist Parsonage (see Emmett C. Jameson).  They live southwest of Coleman where they have lived since 1940.  They had three daughters: (1) Leta Pearl, born October 22, 1933, married Leslie Fainbrough, August 29, 1954.  Two sons: Leslie Edgar, December 2, 1956, married Donna Jean Hawkins, December 16, 1978, one son, Leslie Thomas, July 22, 1981.  They now live in Bonneterre, Missouri; David Lynn, October 15, 1958, is still single and now lives in Irving.  (2) Mary Cecile, January 30, 1937, married Donald Milford Roberts, March 21, 1956, the son of Alfred and Jessie Mae (Barrington) Roberts of Valera, born December 21, 1936.  They now live in Casper, Wyoming.  (3) Edwina Marie, February 25, 1942, married Oly Loyd Hopper, January 27, 1961 (see Hopper Family).

(6) Henry Thompson, August 22, 1893 - October 1949, was never married.

(7) Simon Petty, November 20, 1895 on the home place, located west of Coleman on the Glen Cove highway, which has been in the Horne family more than 100 years.  He was raised on the home place and graduated from Coleman High School in 1915.  He worked for his brother, Arthur, in the Home Hardware Store until joining the Army in 1917.  Simon married Agnes Lucille Pauley, November 30, 1919 (see Pauley Family).  That same day, they rode the train to Tuscola where they made their first home.  There he worked for his brother-in-law, Bud Vaughn, in a general mercantile store.  Later he went into the hardware business for himself.  Eventually he sold his store and went to work for Burton-Lingo Lumber Company.  In 1928, he was transferred to Coleman where he was manager of Burton-Lingo until his retirement in 1952.  He and Lucille moved back to the home place in 1952 and built a new home of native stone on the original site.  He was a stock farmer and board member and President of the Production Credit Association.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church.  He died September 29, 1969, buried in Coleman.  Their two children were born while they were living in Tuscola and had their schooling in Coleman.  They are:

(7a) Barbara Wanda (Bobbie), November 28, 1922, received her B.A. in Library Science from North Texas State Teachers College in Denton where she remained as head of the cataloguing department for 7 years.  She received her M.A. in Library Science at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and married Philip M. McMinn, February 9, 1949.  He took his B.A. and M.A. degrees from NTSTC and continued study on advanced degrees at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.  They moved back to Coleman via Ranger Junior College, where Phil was head of the Science Department, and Mertzon where he was high school principal and Bobbie taught high school English.  In Coleman, Phil was a science teacher and Bobbie became head of the High School Library and continues there now.  Phil is now in the woodworking and building business.  Their son, John Petty, born August 10, 1952 in North Carolina, finished high school in Coleman and earned a B.S. degree in Agri-Business from Texas A&M in 1971.  He married Alice Diane Amburn, September 6, 1975.  Two sons: Casey Ryon and Stacy Bryon.

(7b) Max Henry, February 20, 1925, married Billie Ruth Brewer in Coleman on May 28, 1948 in the First Baptist Church parsonage (see George W. Brewer).  For about two and one half years they lived ten miles west of Coleman on the George Pauley place.  They built a rock home in October 1950, about one half mile west of Coleman on the Glen Cove highway and raised three children there (all born in Coleman).  All graduated from Coleman High School.  Billie is a Star Route mail carrier and works for the Department of Public Safety in Driver License Office.  Max has always been engaged in farming and ranching.  He started shoeing horses for the public about 30 years ago.  In his younger days, he entered rodeos and roped calves.  He quit traveling with the rodeo circuit after he married, but still ropes for the fun of it.  In 1974, he was elected Coleman County Commissioner for Precinct Four and is still in office.  Their children are:

(a) Mitzie Lee, December 29, 1950, graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos in May 1973, receiving a B.S. degree in Education.  She was employed as head secretary in the Math Department at SWTSU and married John William Summers II, son of John and Dorothy Summers, August 26, 1972 in the First Baptist Church of Coleman.  One son, Chad William was born August 31, 1976 in Austin.  They moved to Bastrop in 1978 where they own and manage Bastrop Auto Parts Store.

(b) Simon Kit, March 20, 1954, received his B.S. degree in Agriculture from Tarleton State University in 1975.  He had been active in 4-H work through his school years and spent six months in Norway as a United States Ambassador in the International 4-H Youth Exchange in 1976.  He was with the First National Bank of Brownwood before joining the Texas Agriculture Extension Service in 1977; serving as Extension Agent in Brown County before taking leave to complete his graduate studies at A&M, receiving his Masters Degree in Agriculture Education in August 1981.  He was Extension Agent at Caldwell in Burleson County a short time.  In January 1982, he started to work for West Texas Utilities Company in Abilene as Farm and Ranch Supervisor.  He married Mindy Lou Cardinas, daughter of Victor and Billie Cardinas, September 10, 1977, under the big walnut tree on the Horne homeplace.  It was a wedding not to be forgotten.  Just before the ceremony it started raining and it poured, but they got married under the tree anyway.  They live in Abilene and at present have no children.

(c) William Scott, June 11, 1959, was an honor student in high school, a member of the National Honor Society, Drum Major of the high school band.  In 1977, he was recipient of Rotary Club Scholarship and the R. A. Autry Memorial Scholarship from the First Baptist Church, Coleman.  He attended the University of Texas in Austin where he was on the Dean’s List.  He worked summers while in college; one job being assistant Sergeant-at-Arms at the Texas State Capitol.  He received his B.A. degree in Latin on August 15, 1981 and in January 1982, moved to Dallas and is currently employed with AT&T there. He is single and lives in Dallas.