possession of grit, and I will do all I can to assist the couple to take honored places in the world.'" --New York World.

"MARGARET BELL MILTON married Dec. 6, 1888, Edward Jefferson Blackshear, a grandson of the distinguished General David Blackshear, of Georgia. Children: William Milton, born 1888; Marguerite B., born 1890. They reside in Marianna, Fla., a bright interesting family.

"WILLIAM HALL MILTON (William H. Milton, Jr.) was elected a representative in the Florida Legislature at twenty-four, was admitted to the bar at twenty-six, engaged in the banking business at twenty-seven, was elected Democratic Presidential elector 1892, and was appointed U. S. Surveyor General of Florida by President Cleveland 1894, with his office at Tallahassee, Fla., where he now resides. He married Sarah Smith Baker, of Greenwood, Fla., Nov. 23, 1893. She was born Jan. 25, 1867, and comes of distinguished North Carolina ancestry. They have one child, Lucy Hall, born Mar. 15, 1895. Mar., 1898, Wm. H. Milton, Jr., returned to Marianna, Fla., and resumed his banking business, real estate and law practice.

"ROBERTA HEARN MILTON married John H. Carter, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of Marianna, Fla., Nov. 18, 1891; have one child Wilhelmina, born May, 1896.

"JOHN MILTON, feb. 26, 1895, married Floie Lucile Daniel, her father being the present state senator from the Fourth District in Florida, a distinguished politician and a banker. He is engaged in the banking business at Marianna, Fla., and is an attorney-at-law. They have no children.

"LUCY HEARN MILTON is unmarried, and resides with her father, William Henry Milton, at Marianna, Fla."

I regret my inability to trace this family further, or to connect them with the principal American family--that is, those descending from the London merchant, William, of 1681; but I have no doubt that they are of the same English origin. Mrs. Governor Atkinson writes me: "From my earliest childhood I was taught that the Hearnes came from Normandy to England, thence to America." Michael Hearn, of Jacksonville, Fla., now seventy years old, writes: "I have often heard my father say we were descendants of royal blood, and that we had a large legacy left us in the

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