The Thomas W. Hearn family lived in Chester County, TN their whole lives. The date of the photo above is not certain but is estimated at about 1915. [Note added by grangran57 @ hotmail.com July 2010: We estimate the photo being taken in late 1911 to early 1912 My great-grandmother was Ada Hearn Emerson. She is in the picture. She died in February of 1913 shortly after childbirth.] Thomas W. Hearn and his wife, Margaret Juanita (O'Neal) Hearn, lived in Chester County from 1848 until 1932. They had 11 children. Their children were Eula, Ora (my great grandmother), Ada, Alberti, Peal, Mildred, Farmer, John M., Robert, William Everett, and Thomas Lacy.

Thomas William Hearn was the son of William Nelson Hearn and Harriet Elizabeth Hudson, also of Chester and McNairy County. Margaret Juanita (O'Nea) l Hearn was the daughter of Christopher H. O'Neal and Margaret "Peggy" Deaton of the Montezuma Community in Chester County