at the family burying ground at his brother Joseph's, and his remains were removed May, 1861, to the Cemetery at Lexington, Ky. His wife, Sally, died Aug. Aug. 21, 1839, and was buried at the family burying ground at the residence of her father, Robert Owen, ten miles east of Paris, Ky., and her remains were removed in May, 1861, to the cemetery at Lexington, Ky., and placed beside those of her husband.

It is pardonable in me giving a fuller account of my own immediate family than of others, because of a natural inclination and because, also, I know it better; and before I give the children of Cannon and Sally Hearne I will make a brief mention of the ancestors of Sally Hearne, whose maiden name was Owen. Her grandfather, Thomas Owen, was born in Montgomery Co., Md., 1750; he removed to Clark Co., Ky., at an early day and died there in 1800.

Thomas Owen is the great-grandfather of the author of this history. In May. 1897, I obtained from the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., this information:

"The records show that Thomas Owen served as a private in Capt. John Dandridge's company, in Colonel Charles Harrison's regiment, 1st Artillery, Continental Troops, Revolutionary War. His name appears on the roll for the month of October, 1777, which bears the remarks; "Enlisted January 9, 1777, for three years.' 'Sick in garrison.' This regiment was assigned to the State of Virginia under the act of Congress of October 3, 1780.

F. C. Ainsworth,

"Colonel U. S. Army, Chief of Office."

Sally, his wife, whose maiden name was Farmer, was born in Frederick Co., Md., in 1750, and died in Bourbon Co., Ky., at the home of her son, Robert, Dec., 1842, at the age of ninety-two years.

Though a boy of less than eight years at the time of her death, I remember her very distinctly. She had retianed her mental faculties in a remarkable degree, and was unusually active and bright for one her years. I remember of saying to her: "Grandmother, you look mighty old." And her reply was: "Why, child, I am not very old; my mother lived

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