of Center, Texas, who is upwards of seventy years of age, and a descendant of One of the North Carolina families, in which he says he still retains the final 'e' on his name, but that his family had left it off more than fifty years ago.

Sussex Co., Delaware, is divided into thirteen election districts, called "hundreds." and Edward D. Hearne, living at Georgetown, Del., told me that lie had access to the assessment lists made in 1891, and that lie counted in the first nine of these election districts one hundred and five men above twenty-one years of age named Hearne. and sixty-four of them were in Little Creek Hundred, the home of our ancestors. He says, also, that it would be an impossible task to trace the genealogy of the Hearnes in Delaware at this time.

MARIAH, sixth child of Clement and Keziab Hearne, born Feb. 6. 1801; married John D. Ward, a successful merchant and farmer, living near Leesburg, Ky. He was born May 18, 1808, and died Apr. 14, 1857. Mariah (Hearne) Ward. like her sister Sally, was a most lovable woman, devoted to her family, her kindred, and her church (Episcopal). Mr. Ward was a Presbyterian when married and his wife joined with him, but afterwards he joined the Reformation of Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, when his wife Mariah returned to the Episcopal Church, and lived a faithful and devoted member till her death, June 15, 1839. When she first united with the Episcopal Church. she and Aunt America (Kirtley) Hearne, wife of Uncle Joseph,. both demanded baptism by immersion, and they were accordingly immersed by Bishop E. B. Smith in Mudlick Creek, I heard Bishop Smith refer to it in after life, and state publicly his belief that the primitive and apostolic mode. of baptism was immersion and only immersion, and that he hoped to live to see the Episcopal Church return to that alone.

The first child of Mariah and John D. Ward, Margaret, born Feb. 28. 1829; married Dr. Bell, and died childless, 1846.

The second child. Naomi, born Nov. 27, 1830; married Apr. 25. 1849, Andrew W. Wright, a sturdy and prosperous farmer near Paris. Ky. He was born Feb. 18, 1814, and died Feb, 1906. Mr. Wright was a Presbyterian and his wife a member of the Christian Church, children: Mariah Belle, John Ward, Sally and William, who died a young man. Mariah Belle married Samuel S.

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