P. Hearne, of Hannibal, Missouri; William T. Hearne, of Lee's Summit, near Kansas City, (now of Independence, Missouri); and J. D. Hearne, of Covington, Ky., president of the Third National Bank, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Joseph Hearne, a brother of Lowder, left Delaware and lived a while in Georgia, and afterwards in Greensboro, Alabama; they are not there now. If they left any children, I do not know it, as I have recently inquired of Major Webb, of Birmingham, but could not learn whether any of the name survived there or elsewhere.

The brothers of my father are all dead, and I think there are few of their descendants living. All that I know of are two sons and two daughters of my Uncle George, who lived in or near Laurel. The old homestead and birthplace of my father is ten miles east of Laurel and has gone out of the family. My father, mother, and grandfather Hobbs lie buried in the old Presbyterian churchyard. One-half mile northeast of Laurel, on the Broad Creek side. I have recently had an enclosure of galvanized iron fencing placed around their graves. The church is gone and the graveyard not enclosed. The place of my birth and where my father and mother died, and also where my daughter Augusta and son Edwin were born is now owned and occupied by W. W. Dashill, Esq.

My father had five sisters; three of them, Nancy, Betsy, and Sally, married three brothers, Jonathan, James, and Thomas Fooks. The eldest sister, named Priscilla, married John Wars: and Mary, the youngest, married Henry Bacon. There are several families of the Hearnes in the neighborhood of Laurel, but none of them, except those I have named, are of kin to us-at least, none that can be traced. My first wife's father, Caleb Ross, was the youngest of his family, and quiet small at the time of his father's death; he also was a self-made man, beginning with nothing, and at the age of fifty-seven died worth $130,000. His children were James J. Ross, who was murdered in Georgia, about 1834, by a man by the name of Augustus Glover. William H. Ross, of Seaford, Del., lately deceased, and once governor of the State of Delaware, was the other one. Mary, who married Dr. William H. Rider, of Salisbury, Md., was the oldest daughter, and Sally Ann, who married Samuel R. Paynter, of Draw Bridge, Del., the next; and your mother, Maria Elizabeth, was the youngest daughter. Their mother, Letitia Loff-

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