1860 Census, Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, SC:
Henry Ott 66 M Farmer SC
Mary Ott 60 F SC
Anna Ot 25 F SCLiving near Henry V. Ott and family.
On 18 March 1744 Melcher Oth paid
39 pounds 13 sh. 4 d. emigration tax for Carolina. Faust Vol.II, pg.27. On
17 Sept.1736 Melchior Ott Council Journal. May have returned to
Switzerland to settle some financial matter. On return trip ship was
captured by Spanish and Melchior Otts (Swiss) was held prisoner for two
years in Cuba. Arrived South Carolina on 31 July 1746 per Council
Journal. However, Rev. Giessendanner did record the death of Melchior Ott
(age 57) on 23 October 1755 and the death of Melchior Oth (age 60) on 9
March 1758.*On 31 Oct 1735 Melchior Ott was granted Orangeburgh(SC) Township lot
nr.29 and 350 acres of land.
1870 Census, Clayton PO, Barbour County, AL:
Zorn, Dennis 26 M W Farmer AL
Zorn, Nancy 26 F W Keeps House AL
Zorn, Albert 5/12 M W ALLiving 3 houses down from Nicholas and Sarah Zorn.
1880 Census, Cox Mill, Barbour County, AL:
D. H. ZORN Self M Male W 36 AL Farmer SC SC
Caroline ZORN Wife M Female W 37 AL Keeping House SC SC
Albert ZORN Son S Male W 12 AL In School AL AL
Walter ZORN Son S Male W 8 AL In School AL AL
Oscar ZORN Son S Male W 6 AL At Home AL AL
Alexander ZORN Son S Male W 1 AL At Home AL AL
Elijah JOHNSON Other S Male W 21 AL Laborer AL ALFrom the Henry County AL GenWeb site - copywrited 2001-2003
Dennis Harrison Zorn "Captain Zorn" as he was called by all, even by his wife and descendants, was a one-armed Confederate Veteran who moved from Lodi, Barbour County, to Beat Five of Henry County, circa 1880 and established a town known as Zornville on a twelve-hundred-acre tract of prime river land just north of the town of Smithville and Northeast of Haleburg.
Dennis Harrison Zorn was born on August 17, 1843 in Barbour County Alabama - die May 29, 1899 at Zornville, Henry County the son of Sarah and Nicholas Zorn and Alabama.
D. H Zorn, a 20-year-old mercantile businessman first enlisted on August 20, 1861 in Barbour County in a unit call the Fort Browder Roughs which became Company D, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment. || Oates) The 15th was organized at Fort Mitchell, Alabama, in August, 1861, with eleven companies recruited from Barbour, Dale, Henry, Macon, Pike, and Russell counties. With over 900 men, the regiment was moved into East Tennessee and then Virginia. It joined the main army near Manassas and was brigaded with the 21st Georgia, 21st North Carolina, and 16th Mississippi Regiments under Major General G. B. Crittenden of Kentucky (Brigade General Isaac R. Trimble succeeded Crittenden in December).When the army moved over to Yorktown, the 15th remained on the Shenandoah Valley in Major General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson's Division to participate in the Valley Campaign. It was engaged with slight loss at Front Royal (23 May 1862) and Winchester (25 May), but it lost 9 killed and 33 wounded out of 425 engaged at Cross Keys (8 June). Moving over to Richmond in Jackson's flank attack against Union Major General George B. McClellan, the 15th entered the first battle of Cold Harbor (27-28 June) with 412 men and lost 34 killed and 110 wounded. One of those wounded was D. H. Zorn. He was disabled and transferred to another regiment || Oates)
Dennis H. Zorn served as Captain, Company “D” 2nd Alabama Reserves Battalion which became the 2nd Alabama Reserves Regiment and in August 1864. Captain Zorn resigned in December 1864 before the Regiment was redesignated in March 1865 as the 63rd Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Captain Zorn married January 16, 1867 in Henry County Alabama to his first cousin Nancy Caroline Zorn who was born in Henry County on April 15, 1842 the daughter of Sarah Ann and David Zorn. The couple lived at Lodi where five of their seven children were born. Albert Corolorus Zorn was born on January 25, 1860 and died October 15, 1876 and buried at Pond Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery in Barbour County in a unmarked grave. (1999), Walter Wakefield Zorn (b. 1871), Sallie Zorn (known as Little Sallie) was born November 20, 1873 and died October 17, 1874 and buried at Pond Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery in Barbour County in a unmarked grave., Oscar Winston Zorn (b. 1876) and Alexander Hamilton Zorn (b. 1879). Sometime after the birth of Alexander, Captain Zorn took his wife Nancy and the three boys and move to Henry County and establish the town of Zornville.
After moving to Henry County, Captain Zorn's plantation soon contained a spacious, airy Southern home, a general store, a grist mill, a cotton gin, a post office (established in 1883), and a riverboat landing on the swift and muddy Chattahoochee River. This is where the other two of the Zorn Brothers were born. Fitzhue Homer Zorn (b. 1881) and Adolphus Harrison "Baby" Zorn (b. 1885).
Most importantly, however in the forks of Natural Bridge Branch (known today by locals as Zorn's Branch), the old Confederate set about making a name for himself statewide as the only legal bonded whiskey-distiller in the state of Alabama. Using the clean waters of his fern-laden streams, the fruits of his orchards and the grains of his fields, Captain Zorn distilled whiskey and shipped it by the barrel up the Chattahoochee to Columbus Georgia and south to Appalachicola Florida and beyond. The whiskey was labeled "Beat Five".Captain, Co. D, 2nd AL Reserves (63rd Regiment Infantry)