Circuit in western Tennessee. June 7, 1824, he wrote to his father's family. and also Apr. 4, 1825, in both of which he earnestly entreated his father to be a Christian and a praying father, that he might bring his children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; he said he had covenanted with three persons to pray for his father's conversion, and had done so for many months, and should continue to do so as long as he lived, or until his conversion. Nov. 19, 1828, he writes and says he is on the way to Ark., and acknowledges the receipt of a letter from his brother Matthew telling of the death of Skein Hancock, a relative. He must now have been on his way to preach among the Indians. Apr. 20, 1830, he writes his mother from Jacob Skein's, seven hundred miles from home, and tells of his great exposures and dangers. etc. he mentions his uncle. John Skein, who taught school till he was eighty-four years old and then united with the Methodist Church and died happy four years after, in Mo. 1870 he notes:

I have nine children, and have lost none; all have good homes and are prosperous; the youngest is a preacher, and all are in the Methodist Church except one only one has not joined the church. hut I hope he will, though his wife is a Baptist.

Aug. 15, 1874, he notes:

I am eighty years old. My dear old father (George Hearne) (lied July 9, 1850, without making an open confession. Mother (Tabitha) died happy Mar. 6, 1856. For my first and second year in conference I got but thirty-five dollars a year, and part in common clothes: but the Lord has prospered me. I lost fifteen hundred dollars in the war, A few months ago I divided my land amongst my children (all but one hundred and four acres), six hundred acres (I was thought to be worth about $20,000), giving them a beast, bridle and saddle, cow and calf, five sheep, five bee-hives, six chickens, and two shoats. Each of the three last years I have read the Bible through, and this year I have read the Testament and Psalms through three times, and worked considerably I have never walked with a cane, and have not shaved on Sunday in fifty years, except once Cousin Ebenezer shaved me while we were in Jackson's army. I have not often failed fasting on Friday ; on that day my Savior was crucified; once I fasted one week. I have always been so I could read common print without "specks." I still preach once in a while, and pray from

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