Hearne History - Page 692

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R., born June 30, 1873. The wife, Rachel, died Apr. 23, 1875. George R. Hearne married Miss Carrie L. McFarland 1894; she was born Apr. 8, 1874. They live at Monmouth, Illinois. Children: Cora Elizabeth, born Mar. 14, 1896; George McFarland, born Nov. 12, 1898, and Mary Catherine, born Apr. 27, 1900.

Jan. 14, 1879, Campbell S. Hearne married, second wife, Emma Felt, who was born Feb. 15, 1858; children: Warren Felt, born Nov. 5, 1879; Mary Catherine, born Dec. 29, 1882; Thomas Campbell Luke, born Feb. 28, 1892. Warren Felt Hearne married Fannie A. Hearne, daughter of Jacob Luke, July 23, 1904, and they live at Adams, Ill., R. F. D. No. 2.

Major Campbell S. Hearne was living in Southwest Missouri when the Civil War commenced, and he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private and served to the close of the war, and then settled in Illinois, and he now lives in the suburbs of Quincy, engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is a strong Democrat and engages actively in politics. He and his family are active and zealous members of the Methodist Church. At the great Confederate reunion at Washington Park, Kansas City, Aug., 1891, by the merest accident I met him, and had him come and stay a day and night with me at my home here in Independence, when we learned that it was the first meeting of any of our respective families since his grandfather came to Kentucky in 1790. Campbell S. Hearne, though living in a strong Republican state, was elected on the state ticket a member of the board of equalization, a very important position, and was also elected to the state legislature several times, and is now, 1906 and '07, a member of that body.

Robert S., son of Warren amd Jane Hearne, born Dec. 25, 1837. He served a gallant Confederate soldier through the Civil War as captain of a company. Oct. 1, 1868, married Lizzie G. Toon, who was born July 23, 1843; children: Harry T., born Oct. 25, 1870; Jeanette C., born Sept. 17, 1873; Mary Russell, born Sept. 23, 1878. Robert S. Hearne lives now in Georgetown, Kentucky. His daughter, Jeanette, married Feb. 20, 1894, Albert West Craig, an insurance man in Georgetown, Ky., and they have one child, Elizabeth Hearne, born Jan. 22, 1896. Mary Russell Hearne married Dr. Fred D. Keppel, Oct. 16, 1901. They live in Georgetown, where

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