family are Baptists, except the daughter Fannie, who is a Methodist.

Lee, son of Joshua Hearne, born in Stanley Co., N. Carolina; removed to Franklin Co., Ala., and died there, leaving two children, John and Buck. John married a Miss Cordall, near Cherokee, Ala. Children: Malissa, married John Bishop; Lee, married a Miss Thompson.

Nehemiah, son of Joshua Hearne, was born 1780, and died Sept. 1826. He lived and died where the town of Albemarle, North Carolina now stands, and his sons donated the land on which it is built. He married Miss Nancy Almond, 1800. She was born May, 1785, and died Mar., 1847. He was a well-to-do farmer and owned a number of slaves. Children: Joshua, bor 1802; Ebenezer, born Dec. 27, 1805, died May 6, 1877; Davidson, born 1809, died 1862; Lucy, born 1810; Sarah, born June 10, 1812; Mary, born 1814; Francis, born 1816. Ebenezer, married Louise Forest, Jan. 22, 1828; she was born Oct. 5, 1810, died Apr. 8, 1879. Children: Letitia Ann, born 1830, died 1879; Isabella Jennie, born 1833; James Davidson, born 1835, died 1878; John Crump, born 1837, died 1858; William Harrison, born 1841; Elizabeth Hamilton, born 1843; Martha Frances, born 1845, died 1885; Sidney Hannibal, born 1851.

Nehemiah Hearne died when his children were small, and his son Ebenezer lived with his mother till the children were all grown and educated. He (Ebenezer) was elected sheriff before he was twenty-one years old, and filled the office for nineteen years, and was then clerk and master of the court for several years. He was a member of the convention that carried North Carolina out of the Union. Before the war he was a Whig and strong Union man till his State seceded, and since then he and his sons have been Democrats. His two sons (all that were old enough) James D. and William H. were soldiers and officers in the Southern Army, and both were wounded during the war. James D. was clerk of the Superior Court for many years, and William H. was sheriff for several years, and both were merchants. At the commencement of the war Ebenezer owned large porperty in slaves, being the wealthiest man in the county, and after the wreck of the Civil War had sufficient left to give his children as good an education as the country afforded and a good start in life. He carried on farming and merchandising both successfully. He was not a believer in secret societies, but endeavored

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