lives. Has raised nine children, the youngest, a boy, born 1890. One daughter married Dr. N. F. Walton. Joseph Garland went through the war, a Confederate color bearer, without the mark of a bullet, and though his colors were riddled at Helena, he brought the staff out all right. After the war he married Miss Anna Parrish, and is farming near Mena, Ark, Sallie Garland married Calier Street.

Wm. Wirter, son of Sophronia (Hearne) and Rev. T. L. Garland, born Jan. 3, 1835, married Miss Elizabeth McKnight Dec. 19, 1854. In 1857 moved to White Co., Ark., and opened up a little farm, June, 1862, he took twenty of his neighbors to where a company was organized and joined the 36th Arkansas Infantry, Confederate army, and was elected 1st Lieut. of his company, and had command of it in nearly every engagement till the end of the war. He surrendered at Camp Marshall, Tex. He was severely wounded twice during the war. When he returned home and found his little farm occupied by another, he went to Augusta, Woodruff Co., Ark., where he served first as constable, then deputy sheriff, then mayor, then tax assessor for six years. 1880 he moved to Morrillton, Ark., and engaged in mercantile business till 1898, when his health failed and he retired to private life. He and wife are active and useful members of Methodist Church South, and having no children, they raised and educated four orphan children.

Isham G., son of Rev. Isham and Amy Hearne, was a physician and minister of the Gospel, and commanded a company in Confederate army, and was killed in battle at Shiloh, 1862. He was a very talented and promising young man. Margaret Hearne married a Mr. Lovelace and died in Texas. Her twin sister, Martha, married her cousin, Stephen Hearne, and lives at Montezuma in West Tennessee, and is the last one left of the children of Rev. Isham and Amy G. Hearne.

JOHN HEARN, son of Thomas and Nancy (Wilson) Hearne, born in Montgomery Co., N. C., 1760 to 1762, married Annie Chesney and settled on Walker's Creek, in what was then Wythe Co., Va., but now Bland Co. He brought several negroes with him, among others the negro wench called Sue, willed to his father by his grandfather, and also the negro girl called Peg, willed to his Aunt Sarah by his grandfather. John Hearn died of dropsy 1837.

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