none other than the Captain Hearne mentioned who fought under Oliver Cromwell.

Horatio Hearne Adams married, Jan. 22, 1896, Miss Leta McClenden, of Waco, Texas. He is living in Hearne, Texas engaged in the hardware business. A daughter, Leta McLenden, was born to them June 2, 1887

Samuel J. Adams married, Nov. 12, 1895, Miss Nettie Godbold, of Houston, Texas. He is now living on the cotton plantation of his deceased grandfather, H. R. Hearne, conducting the very large business attached to it. A daughter, Bama Estelle was born to them Oct. 20, 1896. George E. Aldredge married Miss Rena Munger Dec. 3, 1906, and Hearne Oliver Adams married Miss ..........................Mar......1907.

RHODA LEE, daughter of William and Nancy (Miles) Hearne, born Dec. 13, 1820; married Harry Lewis, and after his death married a Mr. Cox, who died Apr. 5, 1894. She was born in Alabama and lived there until 1838, when she came with her parents to Louisiana and lived there until 1867, when she removed to Texas, and now lives near Bryan in Brazos County, 1896; she has no children, but has an orphan niece, Miss Rhoda Lee Hearne, living with her. Aunt Rhoda, as she is familiary called by all the kindred, is about the oldest living representative of her family and is a universal favorite with all; she is remarkably well preserved in both mind and body and is termed the cyclopædia of the family; her knowledge and memory of the family far exceed that of anyone else, and her love for the name "Hearne" is as ardent as it is possible to be, and it is with peculiar love and pride that I record my indebtedness to her for the greater part of the history of the family in Texas, and especially for the line of tracing back to a connection with my own and then on back to the first William in America. In my correspondence with her I learned to love and think of her as a counterpart to my dear old aunt, Sally (Hearne) Wasson, who died in Lexington, KY, Aug.,1864, and I am certain there will be no faces in this book that will bring to mind more loving and tender recollections. 1897 she removed to Hearne, Texas.

Mrs. Rhoda Lee (Hearne) Cox, always spoke of her birth as on Dec. 13, 1820, Monday morning before breakfast. She said her grand mother, Tabitha Hearne was a daughter of Thomas Hearne

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