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Horry County Railway
Horry is the surname of: * Baby Boy Horry (2008–2008), a formerly unidentified deceased American baby * Daniel Horry (c. 1747–1785), American Revolutionary War colonel and politician * Elias Horry (1773–1834), American lawyer, politician, businessman and plantation owner * George Cecil Horry (1907–1981), British-born New Zealand confidence trickster, tailor and convicted murderer * Peter Horry (1743 or 1747–1815), American Revolutionary War militia leader and Horry County namesake * Robert Horry (born 1970), American basketball player * Thomas Stanley Horry Squadron Leader Thomas Stanley Horry (21 May 1898 – 15 January 1960) was a First World War flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. He was the son of William Horry of Rout Green, Boston, Lincolnshire. He attended Framlingham College ... (1898–1960), English First World War flying ace * William Frederick Horry (1843–1872), English murderer {{surname, Horry [Baidu] |
Baby Boy Horry
Ronald Eugene Woodham IV (c. December 3, 2008 – December 4, 2008) was a formerly unidentified American baby and murder victim whose body was found off of South Carolina Highway 544, on the outskirts of Conway in Horry County, South Carolina on December 4, 2008. Known as "Baby Boy Horry" while unidentified, his case remained cold for over 11 years, until his parents were identified in March 2020. He was killed by his mother, Jennifer Sahr, when she left him in a box on the side of Highway 544, leaving him to die of hypothermia. Sahr was arrested in March 2020, and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his death in 2022. In June 2023, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Investigation The deceased infant was located by utility workers in the area wrapped in a tote bag, and placed inside of a box in a wooded area along the highway. Coroner reports made it apparent that the infant had died of hypothermia, due to exposure to the elements, but was otherwise viable at the time of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Horry
Daniel Horry (1747 – 1785) was a South Carolina politician and Revolutionary War military officer. Horry was the commander of the South Carolina Light Dragoons, a unit of the South Carolina State Troops that was established in February 1779 to fight the British in the American Revolution. He served as a justice of peace, member of the South Carolina General Assembly and a local commissioner. Daniel was born in the Province of South Carolina about 1747. His father, Daniel Huger Horry (1705-1763), was a prominent French Huguenot plantation owner who lived on the Santee River in South Carolina. Daniel and his wife, Harriott Lucas Pinckney (1748-1830), whom he married in 1769, lived at Hampton Plantation, located north of present day McClellanville, South Carolina. Harriott Lucas Pinckney was the daughter of South Carolina Chief Justice Charles Pinckney and his wife Eliza Lucas. Daniel and Harriott had two children, Daniel and Harriott. Horry served as a member of the South C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Horry
Elias Horry (1773 – September 17, 1834) was a lawyer, politician, businessman and plantation owner who twice served in the South Carolina General Assembly as well as the intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, serving two terms from 1815 to 1817 and 1820 to 1821. Early and family life Horry was born in 1773 and received a private education suitable for his class. He joined Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's office as a law student. He married twice. In 1797 he married Harriet Vanderhorst, who bore three sons and two daughters before her death: Thomas Lynch Horry (1806–1871); Harriet Vanderhorst Horry Frost (1807–1890); Ann Branford Horry (1812–1824) and Elias Horry (1815–1817). The widower then married Mary R. Shubrick in 1817, who bore Alicia Mary Horry (1820–1826); Elias Horry (1822–1839); and Richard Shubrick Horry (1823–1824). Career In 1793, Horry was admitted to the South Carolina bar. He represented St. James, Santee, in the South Carolina General A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cecil Horry
George Cecil Horry (6 May 1907 – 29 April 1981) was a British-born New Zealand criminal, confidence trickster, tailor and convicted murderer. In 1951, he became the first person in more than 300 years to be convicted under English common law for the murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ... of a victim of whose body was never found. He had emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1921, and from 1923 he accumulated a series of convictions and in 1938 was declared a "habitual criminal;". He married in 1935 and twice in 1942. The first marriage in 1942 was to Mary Eileen Jones. A week after the wedding he told her parents that she had been lost at sea when their ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean, but they were suspicious and reported her disappearance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Horry
Peter Horry (1743 – 28 February 1815) was a planter of Huguenot descent and a South Carolina militia leader. On June 12, 1775, the Provincial Congress of South Carolina elected twenty captains to serve in the 1st and 2nd South Carolina Regiments, which on September 16, 1776, were taken on the Continental Establishment as the 1st and 2nd Regiments, South Carolina Line. Peter Horry was elected one of those captains, and receiving the fifth highest vote, was ranked fifth of the twenty and assigned to the 2nd Regiment. Personal life Horry was born and raised in the Prince George Winyah Parish (Georgetown, South Carolina and vicinityhttps://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/horry-peter/), as were both of his parents and all four of his grandparents. All eight of his great grandparents were French Huguenot refugees who were part of a two-wave migration, first moving from France to England and then moving from England to South Carolina. Horry's eight great grandparents fled France i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Horry
Robert Keith Horry (; born August 25, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player and current sports commentator. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning seven championships, the most of any player not to have played for the Boston Celtics. He is one of only four players to have won NBA championships with three teams; he won two with the Houston Rockets, three with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the San Antonio Spurs with no defeats in NBA Finals. He earned the nickname "Big Shot Rob", because of his clutch shooting in important games; he is widely considered to be one of the greatest clutch performers and winners in NBA history. Horry now works as a commentator on Spectrum SportsNet for the Lakers. Early life, high school and college basketball Robert Horry was born in Harford County, Maryland; soon afterwards his father, Staff Sergeant Robert Horry Sr., divorced his mother, Leila, and moved to South Carolina. Horry grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stanley Horry
Squadron Leader Thomas Stanley Horry (21 May 1898 – 15 January 1960) was a First World War flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. He was the son of William Horry of Rout Green, Boston, Lincolnshire. He attended Framlingham College and entered service with the Royal Flying Corp in 1916. Horry gained his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate in a Beatty-Wright Biplane at the Beatty School, Cricklewood on 12 June 1917. Serving in France during the First World War, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross while with 92 Squadron in 1918. After the war he continued his service with the Royal Air Force in Iraq with No. 70 (Bomber) Squadron and he was awarded an Air Force Cross. From there he was sent to Kurdistan and the Southern Desert and gained the General Service Medal with two clasps. He was appointed to No. 22 Squadron based at RAF Martlesham Heath. Lieutenant Horry became engaged in 1936 to Lola Tremlett. He was promoted to squadron leader in 1937 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
