Attended class of 1870

Birth: Nov. 16, 1855, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Death: Sep. 12, 1929, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, USA

Parents:
Lawson Gilbert Heilig (1831 – 1889)
Mary Ann Shimpoch Heilig (1837 – 1882)

Siblings:
Horace Edgar Heilig (1858 – 1862)
Mary L. Heilig Betts (1860 – 1906)
Clarence Gilbert Heilig, Sr. (1862 – 1941)
Cora Regina Heilig (1864-1864)
Charles Augus Heilig (1866-1866)
Lawson Edwin Heilig (1867 – 1910)
Lewis H. Heilig (1870 – 1923)
George John Heilig, Sr. (1872-1944)
Caleb Paul Heilig (1875 – 1875)
Grace Gertrude Heilig Hall (1876 – 1947)
Thomas Bayard Heilig (1882 – 1882)

Spouse: Sidney Hannibal Hearne (1851 – 1936)
Marriage: 20 Oct 1880

Children:
Mary Louise Hearne Townsend (1881 – 1954)
Lottie Jane Hearne (1882 – 1948)
Ebenazar “Eban” Lawson Hearne (1884 – 1951)
Nelle Ellen Hearne Groves (1885 – 1970)
Elizabeth “Bess” King Hearne Triplett (1886 – 1972)
Sidney George Hearne (1888 – 1889)
David Luther Hearne (1889 – 1891)
Helen R Hearne Gillis (1891 – 1962)
Laura F. Hearne Henning (1892-1949)
Ruth Letitia Hearne Triplett (1894 – 1974)
Rosebud Heilig Hearne Nicolson (1896 – 1983)

Burial:
Hearne Cemetery, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 52064088.

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Albemarle Press (Albemarle, NC), 19 Sep 1929, p. 1

Mrs. S. H. Hearne Answers Call of Death at Age 73
SFuneral Services Held at Home Saturday
Biographical Sketch Reveals That Deceased was Leader in Civic and Religious Life

Mrs. Ellen Heilig Hearne, 73, wife of Sidney H. Hearn, passed away quietly at her home on Thursday morning of last week. She was stricken some four weeks ago and it became apparent that the end was not far off, but death came without apparent suffering and as on falling on sleep.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Heilig Hearne, 73 years of age, and wife of Sidney H. Hearne, who died at her home here last Thursday morning following a protracted illness, were conducted at the home Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. G. H. Rhodes, pastor of First Lutheran Church of Albemarle, and Rev. V. C. Ridenhour of Lincolnton and a former pastor of First Lutheran Church of and friend of the Hearne family, officiate. Mrs. Donald McCreight, Mrs. F. B. Patterson, Mrs. R. L. Brown, and Miss Pauline Thompson sang two quartets, favorites of the deceased.

The floral offerings were very beautiful and profuse, many States of the Union being represented in the tributes bestowed. Burial was made in the Hearne cemetery.

The pallbearers were: J. D. Heath, A. P. Harris, R. L. Sibley, A. L. Patterson, W. L. Mann, and C. L. Litaker.

Mrs. Hearne was born in Mt. Pleasant, November 16, 1855, a daughter of Major and Mrs. Lawson G. Heilig. She was educated at Mont Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, and old Barwell school in Charlotte. She was married to Stanley H. Hearne of this place on October 20, 1880.

Mrs. Hearne was one of Albemarle’s most prominent women, having taken an active part in church work and social affairs. She was one of the six first member of the First Lutheran Church of Albemarle. She organized the Women’s Missionary Society in her church, and was president of the same during her years of active service. She was afterwards made honorary president for life.

Up until becoming an invalid several years ago, Mrs. Hearne was one of the most active workers in the local Lutheran church. Possessed of a pleasing personality and fine Christian character, Mrs. Hearne made friends easily and was one of the best known and best beloved women in Albemarle and the county.

The Hearne family is one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Albemarle, and the deceased’s husband, Mr. Sidney H. Hearne, is one of the best-known men in the county, he and his father having donated lands for public institutions in Albemarle, the former being the donor of a public park for the children of the city. Members of the Hearne family have been prominent in the county government from the time of the county’s organization.

Besides her husband, the deceased is survived by nine children, two brothers and one sister. The children are; Mrs. O. C. Townsend, of Lima, Peru; Mrs. C. H. Triplett, Jr., and Mrs. F. H. Triplett, of Pine Bluff, Ark.; Miss Lottie Hearne, at home; Eben L. Hearne, Mrs. J. A. Groves, Mrs. Angus Gillis, Mrs. E. M. Hennng and Mrs. Robert Nicholson, all of Albemarle. The brothers are; Clarence G. Heilig, of Mt. Pleasant, and George J. Heilig, of Jonesboro, Ill., and the sister, Mrs. E. A. Hall, of Chester, S. C. Also fifteen grandchildren survive.

Biographical Sketch
Ellen Hilig was born in Mt. Pleasant, November 16, 1855, died September 12, 1929. She was the daughter of the late Major and Mrs. Lawson G. Heilig.

She enjoyed youth as a child, developed normally into young womanhood, with beauty of features and grace of bearing.

Her early education was from Mt. Amoena Seminary at Mt. Pleasant, attending Salem Academy at Winston, and finishing at the Burwell school in Charlotte.

A friendship begun in 1879 between S. H. Hearne and Miss Heilig resulted in their marriage October 20, 1880. Eleven children were born to the wedlock.

Mrs. Hearne brought into her home that piety which characterized her maiden days, and to Albemarle was given one whose strength of character expended itself on the entire community, and she was loved by all who came to know her.

If perfect motherhood can be pictured, Mrs. Hearne represented the type. Her life was happy, and none ever loved her home and church more than she. There was naught in her life but the highest type of Christian womanhood, which she exemplified to a high degree.

Mt. Pleasant and Albemarle became neighbors. Of Lutheran parentage, she brought er church with her. To Mrs. Hearne, more than to all other influences, was given the responsibility of building a church, and later a parsonage, and building a small congregation of six members to one of the struon influences of our town. She filled every position to which her church called her. Her entire life was spent in doing good in accordance with her interpretations of God’s will through her life.