Does anyone know more about the Hearne/Owen connection, and whether these folks in the obit ar connected to Helen's family? FYI, we're leaving this Friday morning for Arkansas! I can send my "itinerary" to anyone who would like it...already planning on hooking up with Jann Woodard & Alice Cabe in Benton Friday evening. Hope to see more friends & cousins in Monticello at the book signing this coming Sunday... --Melissa ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 12/14 12:17 AM Received: 12/14 9:55 AM From: Helen C. Leigh, musicgal@uswest.net Reply-To: musicgal@phnx.uswest.net To: ARDREW-L/Jones, Melissa, tsaritsa@ix.netcom.com Hi, Melissa - I have forgotten if you're still in town, but I had an old obituary that I picked out of the Dallas Morning News (1981) when I was still back there, as follows: OBITUARY - HEARNE/OWEN (Collateral?) Dallas Morning News (Texas) - April 15, 1981 SUTPHEN Glenn David, 7343 Eccles, Dallas. Survived by wife, Frances Sutphen, brothers, Jack Sutphen, and Jim Sutphen, sisters, Jessie Mae Garrity, Ruth Vanacek, all of Dallas; Zelma Langdon, Burbank, CA. Services 3 p.m., Wednesday, Dudley M. Hughes, Buckner Chapel, Rev. Wayne Smith and Rev. Dan Carroll, officiating. Interment Pleasant Mound Cemetery. Pallbearers: Wendell Hearne, Carl Hearne, Bill Hearne, Murl Owen, Bill Owen, Ronald Bateman. The reason I picked it up is that my great-grandmother Eugenia Ann Yates McCann had a sister named Josephine Yates, who married a Hearne and lived in Monticello, Drew County, AR. They had a daughter named Mable A. Hearne, who married an Owen. Her children were Hellums Owen and Hearn Owen. This was just too much to be a co-incidence. I have no knowledge of the Sutphen family (that I can remember), but if you think this would be a proper listing, would you place it on the list? It is/was (do you know the meaning of "is?") my gr-grandmother, Eugenia Ann Yates who married John Wiley McCann. Helen Leigh ----------------- End Forwarded Message -----------------