Texas. He is a farmer; children: Three girls and one son. Willie who is a Methodist preacher:

William Houston, son of A. H. and Priscilla (Hearne) Harris, born May 6, 1830, married, first, Miss Malissa Jennings, of Wilson Co., Tenn.; and second, Mrs, E. E. Wright of, Tate Co., Mississippi, a daughter of Alfred Harris Halton. He had six children by his first wife, as follows: A. Jerome, born Sept. 15, 1858; married Miss Emma Moor, and is now living in Jackson, Miss., engaged in the hardware business. Ruth A. and M. Novella (twins), born Aug. 22, 1861. Ruth A. married John L. Witt, and lives in Montgomery, Alabama. Novella married Brown Hill, is now a widow, living in Humboldt, Tenn. William H., Jr., born May 14, 1863; is unmarried and has been messen- ger for the American Express Company for ten years on the I. C. R. R. Lee born Sept. 30, 1866; lives in Humboldt, Tenn., and is engaged in truck farming. Lillie M. married John Baird, who is in the mercantile business at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. William Houston Harris lives near Humboldt, Tennessee; be is a successful farmer, and also a contractor and builder and lumber dealer.

William H.. james Gwynn, and Alfred H. Harris were all soldiers in the Confederate Army in Virginia throughout the Civil War. William H. was first Lieutenant of Company I of the 7th Tenn. Regiment of Inf., Col. and afterwards Brigadier-General Bob Halton commander. All fought under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, William H. says that Stonewall Jackson led them all over Virginia in a lively way, and kept them too busy to get sick: they had a tolerably good supply of rations, with plenty of hard traveling and fighting, but all reached home safe and sound, for which they are thankful. He also says theirs is a long-lived family, generally, with strong constitutions: they are of a religious turn, most all Methodists; all vote Democratic, alt are Southern born, and are of purely Southern blood.

NEHEMIAH HEARNE was born in North Carolina about 1747. He was a brother of the elder Purnell Hearne, and they were sons of George Hearne, who was the eldest son of Thomas and Sally (Wingate) Hearne, and grandson of the merchant, William Hearne, who died Oct. 1691. Nehemiah Hearne’s wife was

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