May 12, 1875; Laura Letitia, born May 12, 1878; Alexander Park, born Dec. 24, 1880; William Graham, barn Feby. 18, 1884. They live at Middleton, Tenn. Joseph Orren Moore, the eldest child, is a dry goods merchant, living at Hillsboro, Texas. He married a Miss Boone and has three children. Walter Hearne Moore is also married and has one child.

Jesse Cyrus, son of Cyrus Robert and Charlotte Alexander Hearne, born about 1844, married Miss Eugenia Norwood of Louisiana about 1877 and has three children, Robert Alford, born 1879. Mamie E., born 1881, and Anna, born 1894. Robert A. is now living in Dallas, Texas, in the shoe business. He spent four years in the U. S. navy and was honorably discharged Mar. 31. 1905. His travels while aboard ship took him to all parts of the world. He is an exemplary young man, of fine business habits.

I have not the date of the death of Charlotte, wife of Cyrus R. Hearne, nor the date 6f his second marriage to his second cousin, Jane Ann, daughter of Rev, Isham Hearne and cousin of U. S. Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee. To the second marriage were born children: Cynthia A., Frank Pierce, Joseph 0., born Nov. 22, 1859, and William H.

Cynthia A., first child of Cyrus and Jane A. Hearne. married a Mr. Pate, who soon died and left her with one child: she afterwards married Dr. Alford, and now lives in Shelbyville, Texas. where the doctor has a fine practice. The second child of Cyrus R. and Jane A. Hearne. Frank Pierce, born 1853, Jan. 15, 1873, married Thomas McKnight, a merchant, living in Center, Texas, children: Orren A.. born 1873: Florence E., born 1876; Thomas S., born 1882; Delta T.. born 1885; Grace, born 1887; Rhoda, born 1890.

REV. JOSEPH ORLANDER HEARNE, son of Cyrus R, and Jane Ann (second wife), was born in Montezuma, Madison Co., Tenn., Nov. 22, 1859. When quite a small boy his father moved to Devall’s Bluff, on White river, in Arkansas, and the last year of the Civil War he “refugeed” to Texas and lived a few years in Shelbyville, and then bought a farm four miles out in the country, where Joseph O. was raised to manhood. At the age of sixteen hc joined the Methodist Church, but soon went back to the world, and he said: “The last state of that man was worse than the first.” June 18, 1883, he married Miss Nannie Biggar and Jan., 1889,

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