Hearne, who died in 1822, lived there till death, and were both buried there. They were successful in accumulating real estate, slaves, and personal property, and raised a family of five saris and five daughters. Lowder Hearne also died intestate and George, his oldest son, accepted the home farm, “Bow Back”; he married Patty Cathell, and had a large family of children, seven sans and seven daughters (three of them, however, dying in infancy); he also died intestate, 1845, and his eldest son, Joseph, accepted the homestead; he married Amanda Wailer, and bad only one child, a daughter, Martha, and died intestate. Soon after his death, the farm was sold to his brother, Wm. C., who lived there ten years, when his health failed him so that he had to abandon farming, and he sold the farm (374 acres), for $6,100 to Isaac N. Hearne, grandson of Thomas, brother to Lowder. It had been in possession of Eben Hearne and his descendants between one hundred and fifty and two hundred years, and was heavily timbered with oak and pine. The present owner, Isaac N. Hearne, settled a saw mill on it, cut up the timber, cleared up the land, and has divided it into three farms and willed it at his death to his daughter, Cordelia, who married Eli White, so, after the death of Isaac N. Hearne it will no longer be in the name of the Hearne family.

Lowder Hearne was a man of very mild disposition, even temperament, and an exemplary member of the Episcopal Church; be always took his family, both white and black to church at Christ Church, Broad Creek. I have a vivid recollection of my great-uncles, Thomas and Ebenezer, Lowder’s brothers. Uncle Thomas was only a medium-sized man, but Uncle Ebenezer was a very tall man, large and raw-boned, fair complexion and blue eyes; their descendants are very numerous, scattered far and wide. Of my great-uncle Joseph Hearne, who was a saddler by trade, as well as a fanner, I know but little, he having left Del. 1798, going first to the Mississippi Territory and then to near Greensboro, Ala., where I learn he died previous to 1840. He prospered in early life and became wealthy, owning a large cotton plantation and slaves, but, on account of paying heavy security debts, he was in reduced circumstances at his death. He had only two children that we know of, Priscilla and George K., who was a physician. He attended the medical college in Philadelphia in the early

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