to 1808. You will notice from the foregoing statement that my wife's grandfather and my grandmother were brother and sister. Wilson Hearne and Jacob Hearne were the most prominent members of the family in Tennessee, both being very learned and popular ministers of the Methodist Church; the latter being the only man I ever knew who could repeat any chapter in the Bible from memory alone. He was as familiar with both the Old and New Testaments as I am with the Lord's prayer. About the year 1820 he went as missionary to the Indians, with whom he lived twenty years. He lived to the age of ninety-one years, and died near Alexandria, Tenn., 1886.

Wilson Hearne, being one of the older members of the family who came from North Carolina to Tennessee, was the first to drop the e from the name; hence all the Tennessee representatives spell the name Hearn.

Mary C. Andrews, Newman, Ga., Jan. 21, 1895, says:

My father, Rufus W. Andrews, died Nov. 21, 1893. One fact that may be of interest to you is that the Rev. Jacob Hearne knew the Bible, from beginning to end, by heart. My father knew him well, and other members of the family have told me this extraordinary fact.

Margaret Vandergrift Hearne, as shown on the lefthand side of the family tree, great-grand-daughter of Thomas and Nancy Wilson Hearne and daughter of William R. and Elizabeth (Dickson) Hearne, was born in Tuskaloosa, Ala., July 11, 1821. Married Elijah Marquess Burton, of Falmouth, Va., and lived in Tuskaloosa, Ala., till her death. Jan. 26, 1892. She was the mother of six children, all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood; namely: Haywood Isaac, killed at battle of Chickamauga, aged twenty-one years; Arthur Carbin, wounded at Chickamauga and died at Ocean Springs, Miss., 1875 aged thirty years (both members of Phelan's Light Artillery, C. S. A.); Montgomery Inge, now residing at Tuskaloosa; Fitzhugh, residing at Tuskaloosa; Oliver Hearne, M.D., residing at Hot Springs, Ark.

Mrs. Burton was universally respected and much loved by those who knew her best; she was a good angel in the sick-room, where she was often found ministering to the temporal comfort and wants of the afflicted, and her benevolence was widespread and

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