considerable to buy my copy. Already I seem to know you as one whom I have met long ago.

Mrs. M. A. Hearne, Duffan, Tex.---History received and read and I prize it above any other earthly possession.

Prof. Eben Hearne, Pocomoke City, Md.---You have certainly completed a great work. I am sure every member of the great Hearne family and in fact every person in whose veins flows a drop of the Hearne blood, ought to feel very grateful to you for what you have done in collecting and recording items of family history for future generations. Long years and centuries after your bodily substance has mingled with the dust of the earth, your work will stand as a monument of your indefatigable labor of love for the perpetuation and preservation of the family name and history.

Miss Sally Dixon, Temperanceville, Accomac Co., Va.---Am highly pleased with history and shall always value it above measure, and shall regard it as a sacred book.

S. L. Hearn, West Point, Miss.---Am much interested in the book and would not like to be without it. I am afraid you will not be able to realize enough to compensate you for the great labor given the work.

Miss Alice Hearne, Center, Tex.---All of us are highly pleased with the history, and you deserve a double expression of appreciation from every family who bears the name of Hearne, or who have Hearne blood in their veins. It is very interesting indeed to read the history and trace the different families on the tree. I have heard my father and Uncle Cyrus talk of the older Hearnes of North Carolina and Tennessee, and I never could quite understand their family connection, but with the history and tree I can trace them out and see just who they were.

Hon. Ebenezer M. Hearn, Franklin, Tenn.---I congratulate you on your success. I really consider it a success under the circumstances of which you may justly feel proud. I assure you I appreciate my copy very much. I learn many things I did not know before, and I think you have conferred a great favor on the Hearne family. I only wish all had taken more interest and furnished more material. I hope at some future day you may find it convenient and agreeable to get out a new edition, that all who may have their minds stirred up may give you full information as to the various families in America.

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Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.