members of the Baptist Church and Mr, Hearne is a member of the Knights of Honor."
The fifth child of Asa and Mary Crocker Hearn, Margaret
Elizabeth, born August 25, 1852, married Jno. M. Wade, lives in
her native state, Mississippi, and has raised a large family of children
through many trials and difficulties. Mr. Wade died some
ten years ago and S. L. Hearn educated two of the daughters at
Blue Mountain College. He educated the oldest daughter, Lilly,
also, and she has been of great benefit to her mother. The sixth
child of Asa and Mary Cracker Hearn, William Asa, born Sept.
21, 1854, married Eliza Black, and died 1883, leaving two children,
a son and daughter, who were raised by their uncle, S. L. Hearn,
at West Point, Miss. The son, Edward Lattimore, born 1879, died
1896 of consumption, contracted while at Mississippi College. His
sister, Lulu Hearn, born 1881, married Charles Hancher, a merchant
at McCool, Miss. The seventh child of Asa and Mary
C. Hearn, Gabriella, Born Oct. 5, 1856, married John W. Pulliam,
a farmer, who lives in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and have
raised a family of eight children. The eighth child of Asa and
Mary C. Hearn, a daughter named James Ella, born Feby. 25,
1859, married Mr. Marvin Hill of Tens, and died 1881, leaving
one child, a son. Edwin Hill, who is now married and lives in
West Point, Miss., and is supt. of West Point Manufacturturing
Company. The ninth child of Asa and Mary C. Hearn,
Charles McLendon, born May 1, 1861, married Miss Mary Panamore
and lives on a farm near Cedar Bluff, Miss. He is an ordained
minister in Baptist Church, but his health is so poor he
preaches but little.
Zabel, also called Zebedee, son of Jonathan Hearne, who removed from Delaware to Georgia in 1792, was born in Putnam County, Georgia, Nov. 22, 1785, married Lydia M. Rumsey July 21, 1818. She was born Feby. 17, 1798. Children: Mary E., born Mar 26, 1830, died Sept. 18, 1872; John Wesley, born Aug. 2, 1831, died Jan. 20, 1894. Zebedee Hearne was a farmer, and he and his wife were both members of the Methodist Church South. He died Dec. 18, 1833.
John Wesley Hearne, son of Zebedee, was a farmer as well as a minister of the gospel; be married Eliza Hinton, who was born May 20, 1834, died Oct. 4, 1883; children: Amanda Eugenia, born
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