Horace J. Tilson

Horace J. was born in 1864 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Horace J.'s father was Henry Tilson and his mother was Julia A.. He had three brothers and a sister, named Rufus, Hugh F., Lilburn B. and Alice.  He was the youngest of the five children. He had six half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Joseph, Henry Clay, William K., Jacob, Zacharias, Charles, Maria Elizabeth, Mary and Cynthia.