born July 23, 1899; Edwin, born Jan. 6,1901; Gladys, born Sept. 30, 1903. He has charge of a mill in Winfield, La.

Lafayette, daughter of Brunette Hearn and Lafayette Walsh, married James Baker, Mar. 13, 1901. One child, Lafayette (a girl), born Jan. 9, 1902. He is bookkeeper at a mill in Bokhoma, I. T.

ALFRED G. HEARNE, born in Wilson Co., Tenn., Jan. 15, 1826. md He is the son of Ebenezer and Betsy (Turner) Hearne. He was born and reared on a farm and received a fair English education in the schools of his county. When he was quite a youth he determined on studying and practicing law as his life work. He labored on his father s farm, studying and reading as occasion would permit. He taught school in his neighborhood and studied law at the same time. The means which he received from this source enabled him more effectually to prosecute his legal studies, and 1848 he entered the Law Department of the Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn. From this institution he graduated, well grounded in the principles of his profession. In looking out for a field in which to display his talents as a lawyer, he determined on going to Ark., and 1850 located at Arkadelphia, a voting but thriving town at the head of navigation on the Ouachita River. Here he successfully practiced his profession until 1870. when, on account of failing health, he was compelled to surrender it for some other business which would give him more activity in the open air. He is a successful farmer. In his youn ger years he was a Whig, but is now a strong Democrat and takes a lively interest in its success. He was strongly opposed to secession and resisted it with all his powers. When his State seceded from the Union, however, he went with his people and served the Southern cause as a true and patriotic soldier to the end. lie is a member of the Methodist Church South, having professed religion at the noted Good Hope camp-ground in Wilson Co., and joined the church when he was quite young. He has always held high the banner of truth, honesty, and justice ; is conservative, but firm in his convictions abstains entirely from the use of intoxicating liquor, and is opposed to the sale of the same. Soon after his arrival at Arkadelphia, the members of his church

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