How strange, my cousin and I were just talking about the Wilhite house and Hornsby Cemetery yesterday. I live in San Francisco and made a trip to Hornsby in 1978. My great great grandfather William Henry Windsor (1828-1904) was the teacher at the Hornsby school from 1872 to about 1900. He and his wife, Suzanna Droke (1832-1875) are buried in the Hornsby Cemetery, along with a couple of their children. Hornsby is about four miles directly west of Litchfield, Illinois, but between Litchfield and Hornsby the county line changes from Montgomery to Macoupin. Anyway, I was in Littchfield and got a ride to Hornsby. There is a interstate freeway (St. Louis to Chicago) about a mile west of Litchfield, and you take a two lane highway that goes west from Litchfield, crosses the interstate highway and continues on through the fields to I think Carlinville. On one side of the two lane highway from Litchfield to Hornsby runs a railroad line. After a few miles of driving on this road from Litchfield, on the opposite of the road is Hornsby, you make a turn into what seems like a driveway and go about 80 feet and that is Hornsby. Of course it was probably a very different approach to Hornsby before the highway and railroad made the landscape so finite. I was expecting some sort of small town, but there is really nothing there. There is a church looking building with a bell tower that was covered with yellow-brown brick design tarpaper. That has a really poor look to it. I could not see inside the front part of it, where the school desks would have been, but the back was being used as a stable for horses. I saw the names of my great grandfather and his brothers and sisters still written on the stable walls in white paint back from the time they lived there. That would have been about late 1880's. About 100 feet south west of the school-stable was a trailer house with a familiy living in it. They did not know much about the history of Hornsby or the school house, although they told me about the horses and the stable. But they had a teenaged son who was nice enough to take me to the Hornsby cemetery. We had to walk down an old dirt road and then through some corn fields, and we came to a creek area with trees growing on either side of it and then down by the creek was the cemetery. It was not overgrown but had been watched over, although that years crop of weeds was pretty high. Where the cemetery was, the creek made a 45 degree right turn and so as the water brushed up against the land with the cemetery it was slowly eroding the land away from the cemetery, and one or two tombstones already lay in the creek bed. There were about 75 graves in the Hornsby cemetery I would say. I don't remember any house in Hornsby, all I remember are the old schoolhouse and the trailer house. Maybe there was a Wilhite house nearby --- across the road and railroad tracks --- but I don't remember. All I remember is how flat the land was, flat as a pancake with few trees. Oh and the mosquitoes down by the creek and in the cemetery, there were swarms of them, and the humidity. One of the sons of the above William Henry Windsor married a Wilhite. This was Henry Hanson Windsor (1874-1952) married Hattie May Wilhite (1877-1952). She was a daughter of Thomas Jackson Wilhite and Hannah Peques of Hornsby. I should also mention that the range area division of the county where Hornsby is located is called Clyde Cahokia. He was some early settler in Macoupin Co. I think or some early Illinois settler, anyway, the division name was usually just called Clyde. So Clyde is not Hornsby but the four by four mile area that Hornsby is in. When someone refers to Hornsby they refer to the town, when someone refers to Clyde they refer to the four by four mile area that Hornsby is in. I guess in country towns in those days if someone lived in Hornsby you could just say they live in Clyde and people would get your meaning. Jim Windsor