J1 Alvey John Horine was born December 29, 1868 in Myersville, Maryland, and died August 02, 1940 in Myersville, Frederick County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth Delana Flook May 30, 1893, daughter of Dawson Flook and Elizabeth Harp. Click here to view a family portrait taken in about 1905. Five children.

Alvey J. Horine, son of Martin M. and Mary Ellen Horine (nee Shank), is listed in various historical records of Frederick County. He first appears in the 1880 Census (H650 Vol 13-Sheet 5) at age 11. He was residing with his parents, grandparents and sister, Minnie, age 10 years.

The following information was obtained from History of Frederick County, Biographical Records:

• "HFCM" Page 830: Alvey J. Horine is listed as being married to Elizabeth D. Flook, daughter of Dawson F. Flook and Elizabeth Harp, and is described as being the principal of the public school in Myersville.

• Page 903: Alvey J. Horine is listed as living in the house built by John Harp, his wife's grandfather, who in 1833 owned most of the land Myersville is now built on.

• Page 1033: A. J. Horine is again mentioned as being married to Betty D. Horine. A picture of Alvey J. Horine appears in "The History of Myersville", by Ira C. Moser, published 1905 and updated in 1971. It appears on page 99. The group is not identified and no other copy of the book has been found. This book further states that in addition to being the Principal of Myersville School, he also brokered chickens and eggs in New York from his "Blue Ridge Farms", and he was said to deliver milk. His wife Elizabeth was said to have been a music teacher. They resided at 513 Main Street, Myersville.

The following obituary appeared Saturday, August 3, 1940:

"Alvey John Horine, well known resident of Myersville died Friday morning at 8 O'clock at his home of coronary thrombosis after a short illness, aged 71 years. Mr. Horine had been in ill health for several years but his condition did not become alarming until several days ago. A son of the late Martin and Mary Ellen Shank Horine, he was born in Myersville district on November 29, 1868, and taught in schools of the county for 37 years, retiring about 20 years ago.

Mr. Horine, who was also engaged in farming, received the first teachers life certificate issued in the State on February 26, 1902. He taught in schools in Ellerton and Myersville. Mr. Horine was a graduate of Middletown High School and attended Gettysburg College. He was a keen student of the Civil war and was an authority on the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, and Gettysburg. His forebears immigrated to Maryland from the vicinity of Philadelphia and were believed to have been the first settlers of the section that is now Harmony.

Mr. Horine was a lifelong resident of Myersville district and was a member of the Myersville Lutheran Church. He was the last member of his immediate family. Surviving are his wife Betty Flook Horine, two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Ethel) Ruppersberger, Mrs. Dorsey (Miriam) Blickenstaff, Myersville, and three sons, Dr. Cyrus F. Horine and Alvey J. Horine, Jr., Baltimore; Dawson Horine, Hagerstown.

Funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 O'clock with private services at the late home, conducted by Reverend Stanley Sherriff. Interment MT. Zion Cemetery, Myersville, William F. Bast & Son funeral directors."

"The Monument public school house, two miles west of Myersville, which was a good weather boarded building, was destroyed by fire between 11 and 12 o'clock on Thursday night of last week, together with about $50 worth of books belonging to the county. It is thought the fire originated from an overheated stove. The school was taught by Mr. Alvey J. Horine, of Myersville. Only four persons--Messrs. Edward J. Moser, Charles Myers, Jos. Ludy and Daniel Fottler---were attracted to the scene by the fire, and but for their efforts, possibly the barn of Mr. Wm. Ludy, which was nearby, might have ignited from the sparks. A lot of fencing belonging to Mr. Noah Myers was also burned."

Elizabeth D. Flook, wife of Alvey J. Horine, was the daughter of Dawson F. Flook and Elizabeth Harp. She was born on the family farm in Myersville which was the which was the first farm on the right past her adult residence of 513 Main St., Myersville.

This house was built by her maternal grandfather, John Harp. She was a music teacher and very active in church life at the United Brethren Church in Myersville. She was helpful in rebuilding church after walls blown down in 1890 storm. She left her piano with the church.

According to "The History of Frederick County", the Flook family is descended from five brothers of French Huguenot origin. These five brothers sailed from Bristol, and landed at Philadelphia about 1760. Three of these brothers settled in Maryland and two in Pennsylvania. One of the former, Henry Flook, later moved to Virginia, where he died in 1840, nearly 100 years of age.

Another of these brothers, who had first settled in Lancaster County, Pa., went to Oneida, and located near Smith Falls, in the Province of Ontario, Canada. From here his descendants moved to Iowa and Indiana. There were, at the beginning of the 20th Century, over 1000 descendants of these brothers in Canada, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Nebraska."

Subsequent information seems to refute the above legend of the "5 Huguenot brothers". The ancestor of Elizabeth Flook Horine, and the Maryland ancestor of the Flook family was Jacob Fluck, who first appeared in Maryland in the mid-1750's. The Henry Flook who went to Virginia was Jacob's son and was born in Frederick County in 1756.

Children of Alvey Horine and Elizabeth Flook are:

K1 Ethel Routzahn Horine, born April 24, 1894.

K2 Miriam Elizabeth Horine, born January 26, 1897 in Myersville, Maryland; died December 12, 1956.

K3 Cyrus F Horine, born 1897 in Myersville, Maryland; died February 26, 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland.

K4 Dawson Joshua Horine, born April 23, 1900 in Myersville, Frederick County, Maryland; died May 02, 1956 in Hagerstown, Maryland.

K5 Alvey H. Horine, born September 03, 1907 in Myersville, Maryland; died July 1984 in Westminster, Maryland.