bearing won friends among all classes; his tolerance of the faults and foibles of others was never failing; and his good deeds live after him. He was a gentleman of the old regime, a type that is fast passing away. Possessed of marked individuality, his striking figure once seen was not forgotten, and a void is left in the memories and hearts of his associates and friends.

"Dr. Joseph T. Hearne was the son of Thomas and Abigail Hearne, of North Carolina. His parents moved to Ala., and Joseph was born at the family homestead, two miles southeast of Lowndesboro, Feb. 7, 1819. He attended school in Lowndesboro, and afterwards read medicine with Dr. Perry, a successful practitioner of Lowndesboro. 1840, having decided upon his life work, for which by nature and inclination he was peculiarly fitted, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he received his degree of M.D., 1844, but remained to practice in the hospitals of Philadelphia one year longer. Having thus fully equipped himself for the practice of medicine, he returned to his native town, Lowndesboro, and was an active and successful practitioner until 1857. About this time he purchased the Graves plantation, two miles north of Lowndesboro, and devoted himself exclusively to agriculture and stock-raising. During the Civil War his entire surplus was given in aid of the "lost cause" of which he was a loyal adherent.

"1867 he returned to Lowndesboro and resumed the practice of his profession, but removed to Montgomery 1872, where he resided for several years. 1876, having to take back his plantation, which had been previously sold, he engaged again in the successful planting of cotton, which he continued till 1895, when he returned to Montgomery.

"Dr. Hearne married Feb. 17, 1853, Anne H. Elmore, daughter of General John A. and Mrs. Anne Elmore, in formerly Autauga, now Elmore Co. Two children were the issue of this marriage, John Elmore and Anna Hamlin, both of whom died in childhood, the former reaching the age of 14 and the latter 5 years. Mrs. Hearne survives her husband, and will make her home with Mr. Thomas K. Whitman, at whose house Dr. Hearne died, near Auburn, Ala.

"Dr. Hearne's last illness was contracted in the spring of the

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