Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885, Webster Co. ELLIS HEARIN was born July 23, 1839, in what is now Webster County, Ky. At the age of twenty-one years, he bought 100 acres of land, and engaged in farming on his own account; continued to increase his possessions and now owns about 320 acres of land, about one-half of which is in cultivation. He has just completed a comfortable residence at a cost of about $1,000. Mr. Hearin was married in 1864 to Elizabeth A. Russell, of Webster County, Ky., and to them have been born seven sons and two daughters. Hearin Russell = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/webster/hearin.e.txt