Soon after their marriage Mr. Wasson bought a find farm adjoining that of Clement Hearne, where he built a large and commodious house and where all the children were born and raised. He was a fine business man and eminently successful, both as a farmer and merchant, and his wife was equally successful in her sphere and department. The old-time spinning wheel, the loom, the garden, the dairy-in fact, everything in that line incident to pioneer life, were worked to perfection, and she was a model in all respects. In my childhood life there was no home I more delighted to visit and none where my joy and happiness seemed more to abound. She dearly loved the kindred and delighted to tell us of those who lived in Delaware, and I never tired of listening to her talks of them. As a christian. She was one of the purest of earth and thoroughly devoted and earnest in all that pertained to a true Christianity. In early life, when Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell first preached what was then termed the Reformation in Ky. she and her husband both united with the society founded by them, and through life were always faithful and zealous members and liberal contributors to its interests, and their children all became members of the same church. They lived on the farm until the fall of 1848, when Mr. Wasson sold out and moved to Lexington, Ky., where he lived a retired but still active life in many respects till death. Sally Hearne Wasson died Aug. 17, 1864. Her husband, Joseph Wasson, died Oct 11, 1878, and both are buried in cemetery at Lexington, Ky. Of their children, Eveline married Harvey Adams and removed to Missouri, to a farm, but not being satisfied, returned to Ky., where they raised five children; after some years Mr. Adams died and Eveline married James Allen (a brother of John G. Allen, the Lexington and St. Louis Merchant), and they removed to Saline Co., Mo., to a farm, where they lived till death, Feb., 1892, both dying of la grippe within two weeks of each other. All that has been said of Eveline's mother can be truly said of her; she seemed to have been her counterpart in all respects. From this last marriage two children were born: James, who died when just grown, and Eva D., who married John Page, and they lived on a farm near Slater, Saline Co., Mo.

Sadie, daughter of Eveline Adams, born May 3, 1838, married

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