now lives at Seneca, Kansas.

On invitation of Mrs. Mallie Hearne Roberts, the writer, W. T. Hearne, June, 1904, went to Corinth, Ill. On a two days notice from Mrs. Roberts, seventy-four of the tribe of Hearne gathered in the Methodist meeting house there. Revs. Purnell and Stephen Hearne, made addresses, then the song "Waiting and Watching for me." author, Marianne Farningham Hearn, was sting by a quartette of the Roberts family, then a twenty minutes talk by the author, W. T. H. on the Hearne family, chiefly his torical : last a song 'God he with you till we meet Again' with the old time general hand shake then adjourned to the beautiful Roberts woodland where a royal feast on loaded tables was partaken of most heartily by all the afternoon was spent in sweet social converse, ending a real Hearne day, long to be remembered.

EBENEZER HARNE son of Nancy Rachel and Purnell, born in North Carolina. Mar. 15, 1782, married Betsy Turner Foster, 1816. They had children born unto them in the following order: William F., born Sept. 10. 1817 : Whitson P.. born Apr. 11, 1820; Rufus W., born Dec. 25, 1821 ; Louisa F.. born Jan. 29, 1824; Alfred G., born Jan. 15. 1826 ; Orin D. born Dec. 11, 1827 ; Granderson T., born Mar. 11, 1830: Martha A.. born Sept. 12, 1832 ; Susan F., born Feb. 25. 1835 ; Robert E., born Dec. 7, 1838.

This table was furnished me, 1894, by a grandson of Ebenezer, Judge Rufus D. Hearne, of Arkadelphia, Ark., and several sketches that follow were also furnished bv him.

Ebenezer Hearne, son of Nancy Rachel and Purnell, born in Orange Co., North Carolina, Mar. 15, 1782, learned the saddler's trade in his youth and followed that business. He was the oldest son and first member of the Hearne family to move from that State to Wilson Co., Tenn., which was about the year 1800. After he had been in Wilson Co. a few years, say from 1807 to 1810, he succeeded in removing his father and family and two uncles, Thomas and George, and their families, to the same county, he making three trips to accomplish the removals. At that day, one trip was a good undertaking. He married Betsy Turner, widow of William Foster, Nov. 23, 1816.

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