Brooking Dew was accidentally killed when he was sixteen years of age; Walter D. is a jeweler in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is unmarried, and lives at the old homestead with our mother; he is a gifted musician, and if I can claim a talent for anything myself, it is for music. I, Caroline Virginia, am the only daughter of my parents; I married Col. Ignatius Elgin Shumate, of Virginia, but who has lived in Georgia for thirty years; he is a distinguished lawyer and a good man; our home is in Dalton, and we have no children. My brother Albert is a jeweler and has two sons, Brooking and Leslie. My aunt Rosine married John Newton, an Eastern man, and they are both dead, leaving an only child, John H. Newton, of 217 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. He is a general fruit and produce commission merchant, doing business at 327 Washington Street, New York, and has four children. Mrs. Caroline V. Shumate died July 26, 1896.

REV. WM. CROGHAN HEARNE, D. D., son of Wm. R. and Elizabeth Hearne, born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 23, 1829. Part of 1846, all of 1847, and to Aug., 1848, he served as a soldier in the war with Mexico, enlisting when seventeen years of age. He was converted and joined the Methodist Church 1849, and 1850 married Lucy Peterson; that union was blessed with seven childern, four boys and three girls; all have passed over the river of death except one son and one daughter. He was granted license to preach 1854 and was admitted to the Alabama Conference Dec. of the same year and was on circuits until the late war occurred, when he enlisted as a Confederate soldier, and was two years at the front as chaplain, captain, and lieutenant-colonel, retiring, broken down in health, after the Kentucky campaign; when his health improved, he again commenced preaching, and 1864-5 was stationed at Demopolis, Ala.; x866, at Dayton, Ala.; 1867-8, at Columbus, Miss.; 1869-70-71, at Pine Bluff, Ark.; 1872-3-4, at Little Rock, Ark.; 1875, at Denver, Colo.; 1876-7, at Birmingham, Ala.; 1878-79-80-81, at Huntsville, Ala.; 1882, at Talladega, Ala., when he broke down in health and spent 1883 at Hot Springs, Ark., and was stationed again in 1884-5 at Talladega, Ala., and was then put on the superannuated roll, where he has been ever since, and where he says he will remain to the end. He wrote me Apr. 23, 1894, saying:

Rev. Ebenezer Hearne was my uncle, and came as a missionary

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