the estate of the administrator, showing what could be and was done by a young man and wife in fourteen years, in that primitive day and age, entirely by their own honest efforts.

Of all the articles sold at the sale, only the brass clock bought by Burton Hearne and the secretary bought by Garland Smith are now in the possession of our family. Cannon Hearne bought the clock at a public sale for $60.00 when almost new, having originally cost $150.00 in Philadelphia.

Some thirty years ago Uncle Burton gave the clock to Jonathan D. Hearne, and he now has it on the stairway landing in his residence, Covington, Ky., still keeping good time. The secretary bought by Garland Smith was sold at his widow's sale in 1866, and bought by David Allen, and from him Jonathan D. obtained it in 1891; he had it polished up, so that it makes a handsome piece of furniture in his library. Cannon Hearne was quite a genius with tools of any kind; he could and did make the shoes for the family, built the houses, doing both the wood and stone work, and could also do blacksmithing. When his daughter Nancy was a year old, he made for her a toy three-cornered cupboard, about two feet high, similar to the large ones then in common use; this fell into the possession of William T. Hearne (the writer), and it is now the property of his little grand-daughter, Maggie Barkley Lee, at Lee's Summit, Mo.

The children of Cannon and Sally Hearne were as follows: Nancy Keziah, born Nov. 19, 1825; Franklin Perry, born June 1, 1827; Jonathan David, born Aug. 7, 1829; Robert Clement, born Sept. 14, 1831; William Thomas, born Jan. 22, 1835; James Washington, born Oct. 10, 1838.

After the death of the parents, the children were scattered, the farm rented, and the negro slaves hired out, for a year at a time. The daughter Nancy went and lived with her uncle, George Owen, until her marriage, Feb. 16, 1843, to James M. Stone, a farmer and stockman. She died July 12, 1862, at her home in Scott Co., Ky., leaving four daughters and two sons, all of whom are now grown and married, and whose names and residences are on the family tree. Mr. Stone died Mar., 1898; he and wife are both buried in cemetery at Paris, Ky.

NANCY K. STONE, ^[1] I scarcely know how to write of her; she is worthy of the highest encomium that can be passed on any mortal

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Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.

[1] A photo of Nancy K. (Hearne) Stone is found on page 330.