live in Salisbury and are members of the Episcopal church.

Maria, daughter of James and Betsey Hearne Fooks, born Feb. 13, 1813, married her cousin, James M. Fooks, Sept. 24, 1834, died July 13, 1893.

Mary Ann, daughter of James and Betsey Hearne Fooks, born Oct. 14, 1814, married her cousin, Handy Fooks, Jan. 9, 1840. Children: Daniel Edwin, who lived to be about thirty-six years old, and Ella, died in her sixteenth year. The father died Apr., 1885. The mother is living at Delmar.

Ebenezer Hearne, son of James and Betsey Hearne Fooks, born Oct. 18, 1819; married Rebecca Cathell 1843. Children: Dr. Frederic Ernest, an eminent physician and surgeon of Baltimore. He married Miss Ella Starchman and has one son, Walter. Ebenezer H. Fooks died Oct. 15, 1894.

May 21, 1892, Minos Henry Fooks, says:

"I am a lineal descendant, being the younger son of James M. and Mariah Fooks, who in turn were the offspring of Nancy and Betsy Hearne, daughters of Lowder and Lavinia (Cannon) Hearne.

"M. Henry (the writer), married Myra Mumford of Berlin. Md., and resides in Brooklyn, New York; has three children: Harry Lynn, aged 20; Maggie Mumford. aged fifteen, and Rupert James, aged thirteen years.

"Our family are very long-lived generally; for example, my aunt Henrietta Byrd, just before she died, when in her eighty- first year, had thirteen living cousins, all of whom were of Hearne descent, that were over seventy years of age, of whom my mother, yet living, was one."

M. Henry Fooks now lives at 582 Clinton Avenue, West Hoboken, New Jersey, Feb. 22, 1895, says:

"I, Minos Henry Fooks, son of James Minos and Mariah Fooks, was born on the home farm, the nucleus, as it were, of the Worcester branch of the Fooks family, about three miles from Pittsville, Sept. 25, 1841. There is very little of the professional strain in our family, almost all being farmers or millers, and since my recollection it has produced only two ministers and two physicians; generally speaking, in religious opinions they are Methodists, my father being the first to break away from the Episcopal church, and he was so impressed with the mission of

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