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Nov. 29, 1882; Sarah Catlett, born Aug. 15, 1887, and Florence Kelly, born Sept. 21, 1888.

Mary Hearne Lockhart married Aylette Buckner June 15, 1904. Mr. Buckner is a prominent and successful young farmer in Bourbon county, Kentucky. He belongs to the famous Buckner family, who have long been noted for their broad and well cultivated acres of the finest bluegrass land on the earth.

The unbroken records of the line of families LOCKHART-HEARNE are to be found in County Armagh, Ireland, where both families have lived since the parceling of the lands of North Ireland to a few chosen Scotch families by James IV. The HOPKINS-HEARNE family in New Orleans trace back to same source.

From ARISTIDE HOPKINS, 730 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, I get some data of the Hopkins-Hearne family. He says: "My father, JAMES HOPKINS, was the youngest of his family, and came to New Orleans from Belfast, about the year 1795. He was connected with the Lockharts through his mother, who was a Miss Hearne (sister to Elizabeth, who married William Lockhart, W. T. H.). I am the youngest of my father's issue in this country, and am the last of a large family. One of my elder brothers was named Alfred Hearne, and the others were Henry James, Edward, Hugh, Charles and Octave. I think the Dunbars, wealthy linen spinners of Belfast, were related to my father, whether on his paternal or maternal side I do not know. One reason why I am so lacking in family lore is that I was sent away to school at a very early age, and then away again for four years of service in the Confederate Army, returning to find my father (whose large fortune had melted away) in a mood of despondency that carried him away. My sister, now deceased, married in the Hill family, of Upper Marlboro, Prince George Co., Md. Of my two boys, the eldest, Guy, is in charge of a department of the Southern Pacific Company, and the second, Ralph, is a physician here. My father's eldest son, who died many years ago, was named Henry, evidently named for Henry Hearne Lockhart. Early after my father's settling at New Orleans (1795) he amassed great wealth and became one of the richest sugar planters of his day. His sugar plantation home at "Gentilly," a few miles from New Orleans, was the resort of all the aristocracy of those days of festivity and lavish expenditure, and his entertainments were on a princely scale. His second sugar plantation, in the Parish of

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Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.


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