citizen, and was foremost in all movements to advance the interests of the town in which he lived. His virtue shone brightest in his home where he was a loving husband and affectionate father, ever ready to impart valuable knowledge to his children, as his mind was a storehouse of facts. Although not a professor of religion, he instilled in the minds of his children lessons of truth and uprightness.

Mrs. Hearne was a model woman, comparing in every respect with the woman so graphically described by the wise man in the last chapter of Proverbs. Her influence was felt beyond the circle of her home, extending throughout the whole community. Dr. Hearne's health utterly failed him in the fall of 1871 and in Dec. he was confined to his room, where he lingered until Jan. 24, 1872, when calmly and peacefully he passed away, after having given evidence that he was thoroughly penitent and trusting in Christ for salvation. Mrs. Hearne survived him but a little over three years. Her constitution was naturally frail, and she succumbed to pulmonary disease Mar. 9, 1875, in full hope of a blissful immortality.

This sketch would not be complete without a tribute to Miss Mary Margaret Hearne. She was a most studious and dutiful child, and thoroughly religious. She attended school until her fifteenth year. For two years afterwards she studied privately under her father. At the end of that time she was elected as one of the assistant teachers in the public school of Pocomoke City. For nine years she pursued the vocation of teaching, receiving various promotions during that time. In 1872 a severe attack of scarlet fever left her in a weak state physically, and after a month's illness, caused by gastric trouble, she quietly fell asleep in Jesus, Aug. 24, 1875. Her life and character shone the brighter where she was the more intimately known. Although restrained by a shrinking modesty and natural difference, yet she never shrank from any duties and responsibilities, secular or religious.

Eben, son of Dr. John Lowder Hearne. born Nov. 26, 1854. At school he pursued his studies through the successive grades, graduating at the Pocomoke High School July 1873. In Sept. same year he entered, as a bookkeeper and clerk, the store of E. H. Clarke, of Pocomoke City, and remained in his employ until Aug., 1877, when he was elected principal of Rehoboth Academy. Somerset Co., Md. He taught there five years and resigned May, 1882, and entered, as a student, the Crittenden Commercial College at Philadelphia, Pa.,

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