sent for when anyone was sick near him, physicians were not much sent for in that day, except in very serious cases, and bleeding the patient was a great panacea, in many cases my father performing that service. I remember once hearing my uncle, Thomas Owen (who was himself reputed a model neighbor), express what he considered a neighbor; he said, "I went once to Cannon Hearne's in early spring, and found him in the field, planting corn, about ten o'clock in the morning, when a messenger came and told him one of the neighbors was very sick and needed a physician; without a word he ordered the plowman to take out a horse and go for the doctor." Taking out this horse of course stopped all hands from the corn-planting till after dinner, and said Uncle Owen, "That is what I call a neighbor in its fullest sense."

MARGARET (HAWKINS) HEARNE , wife of William T. Hearne, had her picture taken in 1863, when twenty-eight years of age, in a brown calico dress, corresponding with that of her husband's in the homespun brown jeans. She died June 9th, 1864. As to her life and character, beyond what is said in obituary by her pastor, I condense very briefly, though I could write a volume. She was possessed of an unusual mind and a good education, was modest and retiring in disposition, firm and steadfast in her convictions of right and duty, even-tempered, amiable, and genial in her manners, and a loving and faithful wife and mother in the truest sense of the term. She died as she had lived, peacefully and quietly, conversing freely to the last with perfect composure.

The following is from the Louisville (Ky.) Western Recorder, July 9, 1864;

DIED, in Fayette Co., Ky., June 9, 1864, Mrs. Margaret Hearne, wife of William T. Hearne, and daughter of Henry S. and Sally Hawkins, of Bourbon Co., Ky.

In this short and imperfect notice it is not the design of the writer to pass eulogy upon the dead, but to inform the reader how one who had lived the life of the righteous could triumph over death. To those acquainted with Sister Hearne is would be useless to say anything about her Christian deportment through life, but to those who knew her not it may be said that she lived a life of piety from the day of her espousal to Christ, which was characterized by earnestness, firmness, and zeal according to knowledge.

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