He lives in Dennison, Texas, and is in business with the Waples- Platter Grocery Company.

I now give something of the political and religious faith and principles of my ancestors down to date. Politically, from the time of the Revolution, 1775, they were Federalists and then Whigs down to 1860. Clement Hearne voted for George Washington both times, and then for both the Adams, and Clay, and lastly Taylor, in 1848, for the presidency. When the Civil XVar commenced, of those in Kentucky and Missouri, all were Union men; during the war, Cannon Hearne’s Sons divided. Jonathan and James becoming decided Republicans, and Frank and William staunch Democrats. (When I visited Delaware in 1891. I found all of them in the East Democrats). Religiously, as far back as we have any knowledge, the family were members of the Church of England and Episco- palians. The William who came to America in 1681 died in that faith, and I find on record that his son William deeded a plat of around to an Episcopal church, 1710, and Clement Hearne also did the same, 1789. Clement Hearne and his sons built and paid for the Episcopal church at Leesburg, Ky., in which the familv worshipped until Clement Hearne's death, 1851; before William Hearne, his son, died, 1852, he gave the house to be sold anci the proceeds applied to the building of an Episcopal church at Cynthiana, Ky. Cannon Hearne had all his children sprinkled in the Episcopal church by Bishop Smith, but not one of them remained in tat connection, four going to the Methodist, Robert to the Presbyterian, and William to the Baptist church. For myself, while being a Baptist of the strictest kind, I have had the greatest respect and veneration for the church and people that were those of my ancestors, remembering how sincere and faithful they were in that belief; and to the day of Bishop Srnith's death, whenever he chanced to come to Lexington or Paris, I always went to see him. I shall never forget the solemnity of the worship, as it impressed me when a child of only five years, and the instruction I received in the Sunday-school at the Episcopal church, and I have today in my library the same Testament and prayer-book given me there in 1840. Nor will I ever forget the instructions and lessons given me by my dear old grandmother, Keziah Hearne, during the same period; and now, after the lapse of more than half a century, I

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