[The following biography is compiled from several stories written by Samuel L. Hearing.(1895-1969)  They have
been pieced together to give a more accurate account of the Hearing family.  Any updated, new or corrected
information by the compiler is placed in brackets.]

THE STORY OF THE HEARING CLAN AS PIECED TOGETHER BY ME FROM STORIED[SIC] TOLD TO ME BY
MY FATHER AND SOME OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND FROM PAPERS I HAVE WHICH
BELONGED TO MY GRANDFATHER, SAM THE "2nd"[1st]

John Adam Hearing was born in Germany 6/15/1772.  He migrated to the U.S. and settled in Lancaster County,
Penn. and in 1799 was married to Mary Catherine Loganrief[Boganrief], who was born 8/12/1781.  They had the
following children.  John George born 7/8/1800; David B. born 2/12/1802; Jacob born 2/24/1804; Mary Catherine
born 7/18/1806; Samuel born 7/16/1808; Sophia born 3/7/1811; Mary Ann born 8/24/1813; Elizabeth born
11/16/1815; Margaret born 5/1/1818; John Adam born 4/26/1820; Susana born 1/5/1823; Hannah born 11/14/1825.

 According to Coulborn's History of Perry County, Ohio, John Adam Hearing came to Perry County around 1815.
He was the second settler in Bearsfield Township in Perry County.  He is buried in a small cemetary[sic] located
on the farm where he once lived.

 Samuel, the fifth child, of John Adam Hearing, was married to Susan Helmick in Morgan County, Ohio on the 29th
of Feb. 1828.  We have reason to believe that she died and he then married Susannah Fox.  They had the
following children.  Hiram born June 5, 1831; John born April 12, 1833; Caroline born April 7, 1836; George born
April 21, 1837; Eliza born August 29, 1840; Samuel born November 6, 1842; Lucretia born December 3, 1844; David
Benjamin born August 18, 1848; Emma (Susan Emeline) born Feb. 6, 1851.

Samuel and Susannah migrated to Indiana where Hiram, John, Caroline and George were born.  They then
migrated to Putnam, Missouri where the other children were born.  Susannah Fox was born in 1810.

The following is a list of the husbands or wives of Samuel Sr.'s children:
Hiram    married Elizabeth Holland
John    married Mary Moore
Caroline   married Will R. Bay
George   married Margaret Cooper, 2nd, Mary Conner
Eliza    married John Childers[Slavens]
Samuel [2nd]   married Susan J. Taylor
Lucretia   married Fred[Charles] Bay, 2nd J. W. Emmons
Ben(David Benjamin)  married Anna G.[B.] Hadley
Emma(Susan Emeline) married Fred Twigg

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 Samuel Hearing, the first, was a farmer, road commissioner, School Director and School Clerk.  I have some of his
old papers and accounts that he carried across the plains.  In the fall of 1861, he called a meeting of all his sons
and sons-in-law and explained to them that as some of them were Southern sympathizers and some were all for the
Northern cause there was a danger they would be fighting each other.  He told them that the smart thing to do
was to sell out and head for Oregon.  He must have been a good talker for that is what happened.

 In the spring of 1862, the five older children were married and had families of their own.  They with their parents
and the younger children joined a wagon train at Independence, Missouri and started for Oregon.

After a trip of almost six months, filled with many hardships and a few amusing incidents, their wagon train
reached the Snake River,[at a point thought to be Farewell Bend] and Grandfather Samuel Hearing, the 1st, died of
the disease called at that time Mountain Fever, but which has been established as Pneumonia.  This was on
September 22nd, 1862.  Four days later, on September 26th, at where the city of Baker now stands, Grandmother
died of the same disease.  Three days later on September 29th, their son John died of the same disease.
Grandmother and Uncle John were buried side by side on the bank of the Powder River and after the city started
to expand, my Father moved the remains to Rock Creek Cemetary[sic] near Haines, Oregon.  There were a great
number of immigrants who died of Mountain Fever.  I have talked with doctors and they say that due to the
hardships and of breathing the dust of the plains their conditions were run down and when they started up the
mountains to higher elevations their lungs and heart couldn't stand the change.

One of the amusing (to me, not to them) instances was when Uncle Hiram, who had his own wagon, had pulled
into the circle of wagons and had gone to the river for a pail of water and set it on the rounds of the wagon and
had climbed up to the seat for something.  A friendly old Indian came up and started to dip a dirty cup into the
water.  Uncle Hiram motioned him away and pointed to the river, but the Indian disregarded his order and dipped
his cup and also his dirty hand in the water.  Uncle Hiram was mad so he kicked Mr. Indian under the chin.  He
kicked a little harder than he intended and broke the Indians neck which made the other Indians mad also.  They
said they would get their friends together and be back.  There wasn't much sleep in camp that night.  Next
morning just at daybreak there were a bunch of Indians that came and circled the train but evidently thought that
it was too large a train for them to fight so they rode away and didn't bother them again.

After that, another time, a friendly Indian Chief visited the train and saw Aunt Eliza's little five year old girl, who
had beautiful golden curls and a nice smile.  Well, the old Chief decided he wanted this girl to be a wife to his
young son.  He offered two of his best horses for her and was surprised when the offer was refused.  The next
day he offered three horses and continued following the train and offering more horses until he finally made his
last offer of twenty horses, but he didn't get the girl.  I visited Aunt Eliza at Canyon City in 1927 which would be
her eighty seventh year.  I asked her if she wasn't afraid the old Chief would try and steal the girl.  She said "that
girl slept in the wagon with us and the old shotgun was right beside me at all times and if he had stuck his head
through the wagon cover it would have been blown off."

With the deaths of his parents it left my father, Samuel the 2nd, the head of the family consisting of two younger
sisters and one younger brother.  This was a great responsibility for a young man of nineteen when all the
worldly goods they had consisted of one wagon and four head of oxen.

The train eventually landed in the Willamette valley and our family settled in Linn County, where my father finally
met my mother.  Hiram, George and Lucretia and their families eventually settled in Wallowa County.  Eliza settled
in Grant County.  Caroline and Ben in La Grande.  Samuel the 2nd settled at Haines, Baker County in 1872.  Emma
died when her first baby was born and she is buried in Palouse, Washington.  She died on May 7, 1897.

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 In the early 1800's, there lived in the state of Kentucky a family by the name of Carter.  The mother's name was
Elizabeth and was known about the neighborhood as Aunt Lizzie.

 They were neighbors of Mr. Thomas Lincoln and when Abe was born she acted as midwife.

 The Carter's had a daughter who married a man by the name of Smeltzer and the Smeltzer's had a daughter who
married a man by the name of Taylor.  The Smeltzer girl's name was Elizabeth and she married James H. Taylor.  To
this union was born the following children:

William [William H. Taylor]
Thomas [Isaiah Thomas Taylor]
Susan [Susan Jane Taylor] married Samuel P. Hearing
Melinda [Melinda Ann Taylor] married Joseph L. Savage
John [John Jackson Taylor]
Julia [Julia Anna Taylor] married Alonzo Long
Mary [Mary Elizabeth Taylor] married John Simons
LiZona [Minnie Lizona Taylor married John Blize, John Burnside 2nd.

 Sometime before Susan was born they migrated to Illinois and in the spring of 1852 they joined a wagon train at
Independence, Missouri and started for the Oregon country.  After six months of travel they settled in Linn
County, Oregon, near Halsey.

 Samuel P. Hearing, born November 6, 1842; died Dec. 6, 1909
Susan J. Taylor, born January 31, 1848; died November 14, 1927[November 13, 1927 death cert.]

They were married on January 11, 1866[in Linn County].  In 1872 they migrated to Baker County and built a cabin
on the bank of Rock Creek about two miles west of where the town of Haines now stands.  They lived there about
two years before buying a farm in the Muddy Creek area where they lived until Father died in 1909.  After 4 years
Mother moved to Haines where she lived until her death in 1927.  They had thirteen kids, nine boys and four girls,
I was the youngest.

Children:

[1]Viola Ellen born Oct. 9, 1866; married John Tipton; died May 19, 1886.
[2]Fidelia Ann born July 26, 1868; married Sam Harpham; died Sept. 3, 1942.
[3]James Albert born Dec. 14, 1870; married Lydia Chandler; died Oct. 27, 1947.
[4]George Allen born Jan. 4, 1873; died June 3, 1879.
[5]Henry Thomas born Feb. 20, 1875; died March 1, 1876.
[6]Oscar Lee born July 24, 1877[GS 1Yr,11Mo,4Days July 25, 1877]; died June 29, 1879.
[7]Harvey Franklin born Oct. 14, 1879; married Faitha McCullough; died Jan. 26, 1915[Jan.27,
    1915 Mortician Record].
[8]Hattie Caroline born Nov. 29, 1881; married John Yankey; died June 21, 1945.
[9]Alvia Benjamin born Aug. 31, 1884[July 15, 1884]; died Jan. 19, 1906.
[10]Nellie May born Dec. 7, 1888; married Lee C. Stanley; died March 27, 1959.
[11]Earnie Wee[Wes?] born July 15, 1890; married Margaret J. Olson; died March 23, 1942.
[12]Earl Fee born Jan. 11, 1892; married Jessie Vickers;[died April 22, 1980.]
[13]Samuel L.Z. born April 30, 1895; married Mary Eva Cook;[died Oct. 25, 1969.]

 When Viola Ellen died she left a three months old baby girl who was raised by the Hearings.  She was born on
Feb. 22, 1886 and died on Feb. 5, 1905.  Her name was Vina Jane Tipton.  She was the same as a sister to all of us.

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 I am indebted to Adam Hearing of Ohio, who is a son of Ezikal Hearing, who was a son of Jacob Hearing, who
was a son of John Adam Hearing, and to Mrs. Viola Fager[now Mrs. Viola Baum], who is a daughter of Harry
Hearing, who was a son of David Hearing, who was a son of George Hearing, who was a brother of my Father,
and to my Father and some of sisters and brothers, and to some of Grandfather's books and papers for the
information in article, but the mistakes in grammar, punctuation and spelling are all mine.

Sam L. Hearing (Sam the 3rd)
1122 Washington Ave
Vernonia, Oregon