Jackson Donaldson, from Nashville. He was at the battles of Columbus (Kentucky), Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, the seige of Vicksburg (where he was captured, paroled and exchanged), and the seige of Fort Morgan (where he was again captured). He was taken to New Orleans, where he remained one month; thence by water to Governor's Island, New York, where he remained two months in Rock Castle: and then to Elmira, New York, where he remained for three months and until he, as a prisoner of war, was exchanged after peace was made. He came home from the army in the spring of 1865. In the fall of 1865 he entered the Law School of Cumberland University and graduated from that institution, 1867. He then went to Memphis, Tenn, and began the practice of law, which he continued in that city until 1878, when he moved to Franklin, Tenn., where he still resides and continues the practice of law. 1868 he wedded Miss Louise D. James, of Memphis, by whom lie had two children, Desdie Ara and Mary Louise; both died young -- Desdie at the age of seven and Mary at five years. His wife, Louise, died at Memphis, Oct. 25, 1874. Nov. 8, 1877, he married Miss Mary Alice, daughter of John B. McEwen, of Franklin Tenn. Children: Whitson Page, born Nov. 19, 1878; and John B. McEwen, born Jan. 1, 1880.

"Mr. Hearne was a true and brave soldier, and is a prominent lawyer and a good man; he and his wife are both Methodists.

June 15, 1899, Mrs. Alice, wife of E. M. Hearn, died, and he afterwards married Mrs. Elizabeth (Gaines) Bonner, of Fayetteville, Tenn., a daughter of Francis A. Gaines, of Nashville, Tenn.

Feb. 8, 1900, E. M. Ream was appointed by Gov. Benton McMillan, Special Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, to sit upon a case involving one of the greatest and most important constitutional questions that had arisen in the State in many years. His Opinion as rendered in the case has become an authority in the State.

He was appointed by Gov. James B. Frazier, 1903, to serve upon the Vicksburg Park Commission to locate the position of the Tennessee troops during the Civil War in and around

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