Dennis Harrison Zorn Family

Source: Steve Elliott, Haleburg Historian and Zorn Descendant

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” 2^nd Alabama Reserves Battalion which became the 2^nd Alabama Reserves Regiment and in August 1864. Captain Zorn resigned in December 1864 before the Regiment was redesignated in March 1865 as the 63^rd 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 moved to Henry County and established 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".

Nancy C. Zorn, wife of D. H. Zorn departed this life at Zornville, Ala on 20th October 1899.

Adolphus Harrison Zorn departed this life April 17th 1954 at Albany, Ga and buried at Shorterville, Henry County, Ala. April 18th 1954.

Oscar Winston Zorn married Ada Brown on 16th of July 1898.

Walter Wakefield Zorn married Allie Blackshear on 1st day of September 1898.

Alexander Hamilton Zorn married Beulah Brown on 28th day of February 1901.

Note: Lodi, Barbour County, Alabama is on Alabama Highway 131 west of Bakerhill, Alabama. Zornville, Alabama is on the Old River Road 10 miles north of Columbia, Alabama and five miles northeast of Halesburg, Alabama. Walter Wakefield Zorn was known as "Coon" Zorn. Adolphus Harrison Zorn was known as "Baby" Zorn until his death at age 69. Alexander Hamilton was known as "Alex" Zorn. D.H. Zorn, Nancy C. Zorn, Little Sallie Zorn and Albert Corolous Zorn are buried at Pond Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery in Barbour County in unmarked graves (1999).

Ada Brown Zorn was born