pistol used by myself, for which I paid $50 in gold, during the Civil War. They are all in prime condition and regarded of priceless value. I now return to Cannon Hearne, who was a self-made man, having served his father until he was twenty-one years of age, and received from him then a horse, saddle and bridle, valued at $100. He saved his earnings for the next five years, till he married, and then bought a small farm, and in a few years sold it and bought a larger one of three hundred acres, on which he lived until his death. Both these farms were in Bourbon Co., Ky., a few miles from his father's. He bought a few negro slaves that increased by birth until there were twelve in number at his death.

The primitive style and way of living was the same in almost all respects at the time of the death of Cannon and Sally Hearne as it was forty years before, when Clement Hearne came to Kentucky. Sufficient to say, the family lived almost entirely within themselves, producing and manufacturing almost all the food and clothing used on the farm; and I can truthfully say it was more enjoyable than that of the present day, as well as more wholesome and healthful, and there surely was more contentment and real happiness than in the present day and generation, and far less of vice and immorality. The cooking was done in the oldtime, wide fireplace, and it was not uncommon on some mornings in the summer time to have to send a mile distant to a neighbor's for some fire to kindle one from to get breakfast, as there were no matches in that day, and occasionally the fire was allowed to go out.

My father, Cannon Hearne, besides being a model and very successful farmer, was also a most excellent trader, and till the day of his death handled large numbers of horses, mules, cattle and hogs. About 1827 or 1828 he became acquainted with a young man, Thomas Johnson of Montgomery Co., Ky., who was also a large trader in horses, mules and hogs to the Southern market of Georgia. That fall he sold Mr. Johnson a large lot of extra fine hogs, and a mutual friendship sprang up between them. So that the next year they entered into partnership. In answer to a letter of inquery of Mr. Johnson, then a very old man, on Feby. 4, 1901, he dictated at his home in Mt. Sterling, Ky., the following facts: "In the fall of

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