The Saunders family was founded in America by Tobias Saunders, who was one of King's Life Guards. He and two brothers came to America. He married Mary Clark. The descendents of this marriage:

I. Stephen Saunder. II. His son. III. Tobias. IV. Luke. The genealogy of the Saunders family has been written beginning with the eleventh century.

Mary Clark was a daughter of Corow Clark, and a niece of Dr. John Clark, of Newport, who was a friend of Sir Roger Williams.

Abe Hews, father of Abe Lincoln Hews, was born in New York City in 1818, a son of James McHew. James McHew was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. For political offenses, he was driven out of Ireland, and he immigrated to America. He was still a young man, and that was prior to 1800. After coming to the new country, James McHew changed his name from McHew to Hews, which name the family has continued to adopt. Abe Hews was a veteran of the Civil War. He served in the Union army for four years and was wounded once in battle. He died

about 1890 in Indian Territory of "Choctaw fever." Permelia (Sounders) Hews was born in Ohio in 1828, a daughter of Hiram Sounders. Mr. Sounders walked from Ohio to Illinois and in the latter state remained for seven years while preparing a home for his family, and when the home was ready he returned to Ohio for them. Mr. Sounders purchased land in Henry County, Ill., in those early days for $1.75 an acre. He later sold this farm and the family moved to Fulton County, Ill., where he lived in quiet retirement with his children until his death. Abe Hews was an early-day freighter from Boonville to Chicago.

Abe Lincoln Hews received his early education in log schoolhouse near Canton, Ill. Later, he attended the city schools of Canton and supplemented his school work with a course in a mining school in Springfield, Ill. In the first part of his career, Mr. Hews followed mine inspecting as his vocation, but, upon being "blacklisted" on account of a strike, he became a metal polisher, buffer, and finisher. He was for 12 years engaged in farming in Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri. Oct. 10, 1911, he came to Boonville, and purchased the Swasky Amusement Company's establishment at the present location, which establishment is now known as the Boonville Amusement Company, at 227 Fifth Street. Mr. Hews conducts a first-class billiard room, and his place is one of the most popular "smokehouses" for young men in the county.

In 1882, Abe Lincoln Hews and Nellie Carter were united in marriage at Lewistown, III. Mrs. Hews is a daughter of Andrew and Sienda Carter, both now deceased. The Carter children, who are living, are: Mrs. Jennie Barlow, of Red Cloud, Neb.; Mrs. Lizzie Kyle, of Trivola, Ill.; and Mrs. Abe L. Hews, the wife of the subject of this review. By a second marriage, Andrew Carter was the father of the following children: A. J,, who is employed as division superintendent by the Burlington Railway Company, and is located at Aurora, Ill.; Mrs. Fannie Williams, of Canton, Ill.; James, William, and Frank, of Canton, Ill.; and Mrs. Gertrude Lent, of Canton, III. To Mr. and Mrs. Hews have been born two children: Thomas, who married Hattie Malincott, and they reside in Boonville, where he is in business with his father; and Wylia, the wife of Lt. C. J. Wilgaus, who recently received his honorable discharge from the Quartermaster Corps of the United States army, and is again following his profession as veterinary surgeon. Mr. and Mrs. Hews have two granddaughters: Nadine Wilgaus and Aileen Hews.

Since 1883, Abe Lincoln Hews has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in 1913 he became a member of the Knights of

Pythias. In a small collection of curios, which Mr. Hews has in his possession, is a bullet used in the battle of Boonville during the Civil War; a gun cartridge, which was used in the Spanish-American war; and cartridges used in the World War. As a testimonial of the high regard in which "Uncle Abe" Hews is held by the young men of Boonville and of their affection for him he has a collection of letters, postcards, and souvenirs of various kinds in. the showcase of his billiard room. The boys of Boonville, who entered the service in the World War, have remembered "Uncle Abe," no matter in what part of the world they have been stationed, and to show his appreciation of their thoughtfulness he has answered every letter and card he received from the boys at the front.