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William Pinkney Rhoney
(1846-)
Mary Isabelle Francis Mull
(1850-1904)
George Washington Pendleton
(1842-1911)
Frances C. Chapman
(1853-1885)
William Lawrence Rhoney
(1873-1958)
Georgia Anna Pendleton
(1875-1945)
Horace Dixon Rhoney
(1896-1991)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Ethel L. Thorneburg

Horace Dixon Rhoney 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 25 March 1896, Catawba County, NC 1 2 3 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Ethel L. Thorneburg on 18 December 1925 in Catawba County, NC 1
  • Died: 31 August 1991, Granite Falls, NC at age 95 4 5
  • Buried: 8 September 1991, Bandys Township, Catawba, NC 4 5
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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Bandys Township, Catawba, NC on April 1910. 3

1910 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 16, Household 101
Bandy's Township, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States
Horace Rhoney..Son..13..NC

(Living with parents.)
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• His obituary was published in The Charlotte Observer on 2 September 1991 in Charlotte, NC.

5 HICKORY - Mr. Horace Dixon Rhoney 94, Rhoney Chair Co. founder, died Aug. 31, 1991, at Camelot Manor Nursing Care in Granite Falls. Funeral is 4 p.m. Tuesday at Tabernacle Baptist Church. Visitation is 7 to 8 tonight at Bass- Smith Funeral Home.
Survivors are his wife, Ethel; sons, Robert Rhoney, Lawrence Rhoney; daughter, Mrs. Mildred Burton; sisters, Johnnie Crow of Valdese, Mrs. Margie Hildebran, Willie Bradshaw.

Memorials may be made to Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1225 29th Ave. Dr. NE, Hickory, NC 28601
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(Source: The Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep 1991)
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• He was buried on 8 September 1991 in the Catawba Memorial Park in Bandys Township, Catawba, NC.

Find A Grave Memorial #79766874
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Horace married Ethel L. Thorneburg, daughter of Charles Bonner Thorneburg and Mary Alice Newton, on 18 December 1925 in Catawba County, NC.1 (Ethel L. Thorneburg was born on 10 January 1907 in Catawba County, NC,1 6 died on 25 March 2001 in Drexel, NC 6 and was buried on 27 March 2001 in Bandys Township, Catawba, NC 6.)


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Sources


1 "North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979," index, FamilySearch.com (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675514 : accessed 13 Jul 2014), Name: H. D. Rhoney; Spouse's Name: Ethel L. Lineburger; Event Date: 18 Dec 1925; Event Place: Catawba, North Carolina.

2 Helen Virginia Crowe, "Crowe-Rhoney-Kervan Tree," database, RootsWeb.com (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1546851 : accessed 11 Jul 2014).

3 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Bandy's Township, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States, enumeration district (ED) 16, sheet 5B, family 101, William Lawrence Rhoney and Georgia Anna Pendleton; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 12 Jul 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624.

4 "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (accessed 13 Jul 2014), Name: Horace Dixon Rhoney; Event Date: 31 Aug 1991; Event Place: Granite Falls, Caldwell, North Carolina.

5 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 13 Jul 2014), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79766874.

6 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 13 Jul 2014), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79767009.


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