a half sister of Dr. John Loffland, "The Milford Bard," died suddenly in Laurel, Del., several years before her husband, Caleb C. Ross, who died Nov. 1841.
WILLIAM LOWDER HEARNE, born Laurel, Del., Sept. 24, 1818, married Mariah Ross, July 15, 1837; born Feb. 12, 1820. Children: Julia Augusta, born Sept. 11, 1838; Edwin Ross, born Feb. 4, 1841; Orlanda, born Nov. 5, 1844; Francis James, born Sept. 25, 1846; Thomas Payson, born Aug. 23, 1848; Mary Corne, born Sept. 18, 1850; William Henry, born June 16, 1852; Sally, born Oct. 26, 1853; Albert Loffland, born Jan. 11, 1856; Annie Paynter, born June 18, 1858; Robert Houston Griffith, born July 23, 1869. Mrs. Maria (Ross) Hearne died Sept. 17, 1864, and William L. Hearne married Miss Laura Ford, Nov. 21, 1865. She was born 1837. Children: Joseph Ford, born Aug. 1, 1866; Julian Green, born Aug. 6 1868; David Garth, born June 24, 1870.
William L. Hearne has been a most devout Christian all his life, and member of the Presbyterian Church; has always been a liberal contributor to the various objects of Christian benevolence but it remained to the latter part of his well-spent life to place the crowning sheaf and cap-stone on his deeds of benevolence by building and donating to the public, at a cost of some $30,000, the magnificent Tabernacle building in Wheeling, West Virginia, his adopted home, a notice of which is here inserted from the Wheeling Daily Register, July 3, 1893:
The new Evangelistic Tabernacle on South Street, erected by Mr. Wm. L. Hearne, was yesterday formally dedicated to the service of God. The exercises were of unusal interest, from the fact that a number of Prostestant ministers of different denominations took part. The commodious and beautiful edifice, with a seating capacity of nine hundred people, was nearly filled by numbers of the different church congregations. The addresses were all impromptu and were necessarily brief. They were listened to with close attention by the congregation, especially the address of Mr. Hearne, which was very touching and impressive.
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