Horton and Bryan Family History

In 1777, he was born in what is today Russell County, Virginia. He was the seventh of nine children of Drury Puckett Sr (1733-1794) and Judith Lowry (1737-1794). By the mid-1790s, Drury had migrated to Kentucky, settling in an area that today is near a town called Burning Fork in Magoffin County. At the time, this part of Kentucky was in Mason County and in 1800 it became part of Floyd County. In about 1795, Drury married Elizabeth Allen (1779-1863). Drury and Elizabeth had six children in 12 years, two of them daughters about whom we have no information—they may have died young—and four sons who lived to adulthood. Drury Puckett at age 36 enlisted as a private in the U.S army on 22 September 1814. On 17 February 1815, less than six months after enlistment, he and seven others would be executed by a firing squad in Nashville, Tennessee for the crime of desertion from the army. The order of execution came from none other than Andrew Jackson, a legendary officer who had led the army leader in Tennessee and who led the enlistment drive in frontier areas. Later he would become U.S. president.

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