Ouachita Baptist College at Arkadelphia, Ark., and also from the Nashville College for Young Ladies at Nashville, Tenn. She is a devout member of the Methodist Church South and is consistent and earnest in all her religious duties. Her whole life is universally consistent with her profession. In her are beautifully blended the Christian graces.

Alfred Gilliam, son of Alfred G. and Sallie (Spence) Hearne, born Apr. 13. 1874. He has a well balanced mind and a strong determination to educate himself; he is a student of the famous Webb School at Bellbuckle, Tenn., and has great promise of being a useful man. He is a member of the Methodist Church South. Dr. Alfred Gilliam Hearne (son of A. G., Sr.), married Miss Anna L. Davidson of Chicago, Apr. 25, 1900. He is a medical missionary in a hospital in Huchow, China. Children A. G., born Mar., 1901: Knox, born Mar. 1903, and a son born Apr. 12, 1905. Alfred G. Hearne, Senior, died Feb. 9, 1903.

ROBERT E. HEARNE, son of Ebenezer and Betsy (Turner) Hearne, born Dec. 7, 1838. was killed in a cavalry engagement near Atlanta. Georgia. 1864. (luring the famous campaign of Sherman's advance from Chattanooga on Atlanta. He was a brave and efficient Confederate officer. In his (the cavalry) service it often became necessary to assign important and dangerous duty to a small detachment of men in command of a skillful and courageous officer. When such demands were made upon his regiment. Lieutenant Hearne was usually as signed to the command. He was connected with Stearne's cavalry regiment. He was well educated, considerate and kind, and an elegant gentleman of refined and cultivated tastes. Above the many noble qualities which adorned his life was the exalted love which he cherished for his mother. His constant solicitude for her welfare, the faith which he had in her good judgment, and the respect which he accorded to her authority were sublime. A cruel ball had passed through his body, the pain was great, and he was aware that it would kill him, but he did not complain nor was he dismayed at the approach of death, but that which troubled him most was that he was dying away from his mother, whose presence and care he needed so much. He was buried in Georgia, but when the cruel war had terminated, his

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