trader, how retired, living in Lexington, Ky; Democrat in politics and member of the Episcopal Church; married Zerilda Roe Dillon ^[1] (niece of his step-mother), who was born near Savannah, Mo., Oct. 3, 1846, daughter of E. E. and Jennie Letcher Dillon, formerly of Lexington, Ky. Children: Joseph Clement , born Nov. 6, 1867; is a druggist and pharmacist, living in Catlettsburg, Ky. He married Miss Anna Fay Patton Sept. 14, 1904. Wm. Franklin , next child, born Aug. 9, 1870. He was a farmer and stockman for several years, but is now living in Frankfort, Ky., awning and operating a large livery stable. On March 5, 1903, he married Miss Florence Troutman, of Brannon, Ky., and they have a son born June, 1906. Virginia Kirtley , next child, born March 18, 1873. She is a member of the Disciples Church and an active worker, filling many important positions, and doing missionary work, sometimes far from home. Charles Adams , next and last child, born May 23, 1875, is a farmer.

America, wife of Joseph Hearne, died 1845, and 1847 he married Zerilda Dillon ^[1], of Lexington, Ky., and to them two children were born, Fannie Dillon and Joseph Clement, who both died at some eight or ten years of age, of diphtheria.

In early life Joseph Hearne bought a farm adjoining his father in Bourbon Co., and improved it handsomely, building one of the first brick houses in that locality. On this farm there was the finest grove of sugar maple trees I ever saw, from which large quantities of sugar and syrup were made each season. He lived here till Mar. 1851 when be sold out and removed to a farm he bought near Lexington, where he lived till his death, Feb. 14, 1864. He was a most earnest and devoted member of the Episcopal Church all his life, and at Lexington was a member of the church with Henry Clay, and the rector, Rev. Berkley, who sprinkled Henry Clay, sprinkled both his children.

The last child of Clement and Keziah Hearne was a daughter, born 1805; she was never named, as it was intended she should name herself when grown, but she died at the age of two and one-half years, and was buried at the first family burying ground, on the farm just back of the apple orchard by a patch of cane, and her grave is now unknown, as it was neglected. A grand child, a little daughter of Sally and Joseph Wasson, was buried at the same

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[1] It is easy to mix up Zelida Roe (Dillon) Hearne and Zerilda Dillon Hearne. The key in this text is the middle initial and the name of the husband. Zerilda R. Dillon married William Hearne. Zerilda Dillon married Joseph Hearne.

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