Hearne, Baptist and Democrat and judge of the Orphan's Court for Dorchester Co., Md. William Williams Hearne, Baptist and Democrat. William Robert Hearne, living now near Cambridge, Md., is a farmer as are most of the family; he is a Phohibitionist and an active member of the Baptist Church; the way I learned of him was seeing his name in a Baltimore paper as clerk of Baptist Association at Cambridge, Md., and I wrote him. About all the descendants of his great-grandfather, William Hearne, are Baptists, and it is about the only family of Hearnes I have found in the East who are Baptists, but there are a goodly number in the South and West.

John Jason Hearn, Rock Mills, Ala., May 25, 1905, says: "My grandfather John Hearne, was born in Virginia. I have heard him say he was about twelve years old sometime during the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783. He came from Va. to Ga., perhaps Putnam Co., and married a Miss Lynch, who died before my recollection. Grandfather John Hearn, died in Troup Co., Ga., at the age of eighty-four years. They raised four sons and three daughters, viz: Lewis Henry, born Jun 27, 1800; Charles William, born 1808; James, born ____, died at about seventy-five years of age, left no children; John M., born ____, died 1861 to 1865; Mary, born about 1806; Elizabeth, born ____; other girls not remembered.

Lewis Henry Hearn, born 1800, died in Troup Co., Ga., Mar. 12, 1862. He married Dorcas Greer of Putnam Co., Ga.; she died Oct., 1868. Ten children were born to them, but raised only six, viz: John Jason, born June 29, 1834; James Thomas, born Oct. 6, 1839; Henry M., born 1843; Sidney F.; Mary and Mariah. Lewis Henry Hearne started in life with nothing, and by hard work farming made a good living, and accumulated good property and at time of his death, Mar. 12, 1862, owned six hundred acres of land and twenty-two negro slaves. Politically he was an old line Whig and opposed to secession, and while a very moral, just, and upright man, was not a church member. John Jason, his son is a Primitive Baptist, and officer in the church. Politically he is a Democrat, and was opposed to secession, but when his state, Georgia, seceeded, he enlisted, May, 1862 in the 56th Georgia regiment volunteers, and served to the close of the war. He was taken prisoner Dec.,1864, and

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