shall, also James Wm. Freney married Miss Annie Gordey, Oct. 20, 1896. Mrs. Eliza Jane Ellis died April 14, 1896.

George Hearne, the elder son of Lowder, born July 3, 1783, married Pattie Cathell and lived thorugh life at the homestead, raising a large family of children, and died there Dec. 6, 1845.

I met a number of his children on my trip East, 1891. One of these was Mrs. Harriet Cannon, who was living in Laurel, who welcomed me in true "Hearne" style, and who suffers no one to lead her in her devotion to her kindred and love for the name "Hearne," and is thoroughly posted as to the family connection in the East, giving me much valued data for my work. Her older sister, Mrs. Mary Long, wife of Mr. Jesse L. Long, was living in Laurel at the same time, and she also gave me a joyous welcome. She had an only daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Horsey, living with her, who has an only child, Master Charles L. Horsey, a bright little fellow of some eight or ten summers.

Two sons of George Hearne, John M. C. and William C., also live in the vicinity of Laurel and are farmers.

George Washington Cathell Hearne son of George and Pattie Cathell Hearne, born near Whitesville, Little Creek Hundred. Sussex Co., Del., Dec. 11, 1823. resided on his native farm until Dec., 1854. when he bought a farm near Millsboro, in said county, and removed to it. Feb. 17, 1858, he married Miss Julia Ann Hill Dingle of Baltimore Hundred. Sussex Co. Children: Edward Dingle, born Jan. 22. 1859; Mary Ann, born Nov. 20, 1860; Lizzie Lee, born Dec. 1, 1866. He resided on the farm until his death, Jan. 5, 1871, from pneumonia; he was buried in the family burying ground on his native farm in Little Creek Hundred.

During the last sixteen years of his life he was largely engaged in farming, fruit growing, manufacturing lumber and the manufacture of quercition bark, which was shipped to England and used as a mordant.

Nov. 20, 1882, his daughter Mary Ann married Edward B. C. McColley of Milford, Del. Children: Mary Edna, born Nov. 22, 1883, and Julian Hill, born Apr. 15, 1886.

Lizzie Lee, daughter of George W. C. Hearne, married Albert Bacon, of near Laurel, Del., Jan. 30, 1889. Children: George Hearne, born Jan. 28, 1890; Emma Gertrude, born Mar. 2, 1892. and Walter A., born Mar. 26, 1894. Albert Bacon and family removed

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