more than half a century he literally walked with God, “and was not, for God took him,” June 25th, 1840, aged 80 years and 3 days.

Edward Hart married in Blount County, Tennessee, was the father of nine children, and died in his 76th year.

Thomas married in Blount County, and was the father of one son and nine daughters. The son died in infancy. The daughters are all still living, and bringing up children. Thomas, with all his family, emigrated to Indiana, and settled on Clifty Creek in 1846, where he died in July, 1866, aged 74 years.

Elizabeth Hart was married to Mr. William Trotter, of Blount County, Tennessee, in September, 1821. She became the mother of eight children. The family emigrated to Indiana, and settled on Clifty Creek in 1834, and in 1839 settled in Clarke County, Indiana, nine miles east of Charleston, where he died in 1869, aged 74 years.

Gideon Blackburn was married to Miss Hetty Ann Taylor,. of Bartholomew County, in 1825, and was the father of nine children. He was at one time sheriff of his county, and for many years held the office of school commissioner. He represented his county in the state legislature one term. He died in 1854, aged 56.

Joseph Hart, Jr., married, and settled in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., where he died without children.

Silas Hart married Miss Susan Strain, of East Tennessee. They had but one child, Silas Hart, Jr., now living in California. Silas died in East Tennessee about the year 1824.

In 1832 Samuel, the seventh son, went to Mississippi, and settled at Carrollton as a merchant, where he still eontinues in business. In 1840 he married Miss Amanda Ayres, of Elkton, Ky. They have had ten children. Samuel Hart served his county for many years as probate clerk.

James Harvey, the eighth son, served an apprenticeship to the tailoring business, in Columbus, Ind., and in September, 1836, when the Ohio River was very low, he, with two shop-mates, purchased a skiff at New Albany, Ind., in which, with fishing tackle and guns, they made a journey of 600 miles, to the mouth of the Wabash River, thence to Shawneetown, where he still resides as a merchant tailor. He was married to Miss Achsa Gold, of Shawneetown, in 1857. They have had four children.

Charles Coffin Hart was born in Blount County, Tennessee, March 29th, 1820, and accompanied the family to Indiana in 1821. He served an apprenticeship to the cabinet making business in Salem, Washington County, Ind., from February, 1836, to February, 1840, and worked as a journeyman for two years. He graduated at Marietta College in 1848, and at Lane Theological Seminary in 1852, and was ordained