made one of the Hearne’s a stopping place when he went in that section and always sold him what mules and horses he needed. It seems to me that there was one of the Hearne’s he used to stop with, who was called Rash, It is possible it was Horatio. They claimed kin, In the winter of 1869, lie was feeding a lot of mules at my house W. A. H.) he knocked a small piece of skin off the back of his hand about the size of a pea, which never healed, but remained about the same for four years it finally developed into a cancer, eating his hand off, and after many months of suffering died on Feb. 13. 1884, and was buried with Masonic honors, having been a member of that order for nearly forty years. Joseph Hearn was six feet tall and straight. Complexion and hair light with blue eyes. He was full of life and untiring energy; very indulgent to his family - and generous to a fault, a great lover of company: his house and barn (which was always well provided) was always open to his friends, who were many. It reminded me more of a hotel than a farm house. I never knew of his turning away any one who would ask to stay over night and never charged anyone for a night’s lodging nor would he receive any pay when tendered it. He was known among trading men over a wide range not only in his own state but other states as well. In the fifties and sixties the range was fine, nearly everywhere in Texas, and nearly every settler owned a little stock or a few cattle and would have a few beeves to sell any season, and he used to (without having to pay a dollar down or giving the scratch of a pen) buy from them until he had as many as he wanted to drive. None would ever ask for a cent to be paid until he returned, after which he would rest a day or two at home, then take the round’s, pay each what he owed and contract for next drive, etc. But when the railroads from the north reached Texas, buyers from St. Louis and Chicago began to come in with the money to pay for cattle which made a complete change in that mode of doing business and beef cattle was ever after as staple as cotton (cash on delivery.) All of Jos, and Elenor (Adamson) Hearn’s children were raised and married in Texas, where they all live yet except W. A. and L. A., who in 1893 moved to Southern California, they both lived to see all their children married and settled. In comparing Joseph Hearn’s picture with some of the older ones in the history, I notice a striking family resemblance in the following especially.

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