BiographyTacy Horner was born in 1805 in Pilesgrove, Gloucester County, New Jersey, the eighth child of George and Hannah Cassady Horner. George was a prosperous farmer and landowner. The family was descended from many of the earliest British Quaker and Presbyterian settlers in the area. Tacy married widower Georga Duell in 1837. An extensive family history from the files of the Gloucester County Historical Society is attached below,