united with Baptist church when 14, graduated from the High school in West Point, and the Georgetown College, KyK. He was very popular in school with the teachers and students, and they honored him in many ways. After completing his education he engaged in several different enterprises, and married Miss Carrie Pryor, and went to Dayton, Ohio, employed by the Standard Oil Company. He now lives in West Point, Miss. Mary Susie, only daughter, was born Oct. 24. 1881, united with Baptist church when eleven years of age; after graduation at High school in West Point went one year to the Southern Female College at West Point, then two years to Blue Mountain College at Blue Mountain, Miss. After her school days her health failed, and she had a complication of troubles, that ended her life June 4, 1903. Harry Sylvanus, fifth son, was born Nov. 4, 1891, united with Baptist church at age of twelve years, is an unusually bright boy, and gives promise of being a blessing and comfort to his parents in old age.

The third daughter of Asa and Mary (Cracker) Hearn, Emily Alice was born Feb. 6, 1848, married John Parker and lives in Texarkana, Texas; children: Sylvanus Bunton, Jessie, Mary and Susie, the last two being twins.

SYLVANUS LATTIMORE, son of Asa and Mary (Cracker) Hearn, was barn Nov. 5, 1849. April 18, 1871, he married Miss Hattie Ware, daughter of Dr. J. A. Ware of Pontotoc County, Miss., and to them were born two daughters, Mary Ellen, born Dec. 7, 1875, and Carrie Agnew, born March 25, 1878. Dr. Ware was an eminent physician, as well as a good minister of the gospel in Baptist church. He was an exceptionally good dtizen and was cruelly hung by Federal soldiers during the Civil war, on the statement of some negroes that he had money. He owned forty negroes, who were of a class that brought no revenue to him, and he exhausted his other property in their support. Sylvanus Lattimore Hearn was left penniless at the death of his father, when he was only thirteen years of age, and though working on a farm, assumed the support of his noble and devoted mother, which was a hard struggle. He continued active life as a farmer for ten years after reaching his majority, when he removed to West Point, Miss., and engaged in the mercantile business in which he was eminently successful and has some interest in and is active in nearly every enterprise sprung in West Point, having been director, vice president and

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