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The Grider Family .- John Grider married Agnes Flowers in 1844 and their children were: Adolphus, killed in Civil War; Mary, born in 1848 and married George P. Sherrill; Sarah, who married Duke Glenn, and Martha, who married Monroe Harman. John's father was John, who married Nancy Gibbs, of Alexan- der County, and their children were: William, who married Amanda Rector after the death of his first wife; Cameline, who married; Rufus, who married Betsy White; Wiley, who mar-
ried Malinda - -; Sally, who did not marry, and Betsy, who did not marry; Pinckney, who married Becky Pool. All these lived in Alexander County, near Taylorsville.
Grubb Family .- The first of this family were a Grubb and his wife who started from Germany with their children, but the parents died at sea. Their sons, George and John, married two sisters of the name of Leonard and went to Indiana, while Henry, another son, married a Miss Michael, first, and then a Miss McBride; Jacob married Susannah Hedrick; Conrad and David were twins, David marrying a Young and Conrad a
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Hedrick; Frederick married a Gordon; Daniel married a Thistle, first, and then a Miss Grubb, and Jacob, whose son, John, married Martha, a daughter of John Morphew.
Hagaman Family .- Thomas Hagaman married Sarah Reese, and their children were: John, who married Mary Shoun; Hamilton, who was killed in the Civil War; M. Granville, who married Mary Winkler, a daughter of Joshua; Thomas, who married a Miss Blackwelder; Joseph, who married a Crawford; Louisa, who married Captain A. J. Critcher; James Roby, who married a Crocker of Lincolnton, and Epsey, who married Jerome Moretz. Joseph Hagaman was a brother of Thomas, but never married. Thomas was born, according to his tomb- stone on Brushy Fork, in 1810, and died about 1876. Isaac Hagaman married Joanna Reese, and his son, Hugh, married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Alexander. Their children were: Smith, who married Blanche Sherrill; Millard, who married Grace Isaacs; Emmett, who married Florence Cook; America, who married Wm. Smith; Ennis, who married Roy Dotson ; Alice, who married Ellis Moody, and Nancy, not married. Isaac Hagaman was the father of Theron, who married, first, a Greene, a sister of Jeremy on Cove Creek, and, second, Mary Dougherty, daughter of Elijah and sister of D. B. Dougherty. The children by the first marriage were: Rev. Jacob G., who married Helen Hayes; Brazilla C., who married Dilly Scott, and W. Jasper, who married Amanda Wilson, daughter of Alexander. Chil- dren of the second marriage were: Raleigh, who died at about twenty years of age, was unmarried; Isaac Hagaman, Jr., mar- ried Hilah Dougherty and moved away long ago, their three children, Annie, John and Carey, living near Asheville for awhile and then moving to South Carolina. Jacob Hagaman, son of Theron, had the following children: George, who married Mar- garet Sherrill, and Cora, who married Lee Qualls and lives in Tennessee. John Hagaman, son of Isaac, had the following children: Alexander, who married Anna Farthing; Daniel, who married Mary Harmon; Hugh, who married - -; Thomas, who married - -; Francis, who married a
Gambill; also two daughters, names not recalled by informant.
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Hardin Family .- Henry Hardin came from England and set- tled in Pennsylvania. His sons were: Wilburn, John and Richard. His daughter was named Catharine.
Wilburn married and lived on Beaver Creek, Ashe County. His children were: John, who married a Ray; Joseph, who married -; Martin, who married a Haw-
thorne; Marcus, who married ; William, who married , and Catharine, who mar- ried a Burkett, who was killed in the Civil War.
John, who lived at the old Hardin place east of Boone, mar- ried Charlotte, sister of the first Jordan Councill. On a tomb- stone in the Boone cemetery is found: "Charlotte Hardin, born April 16, 1795, died November 1, 1843." Their children were: Henry W., born December 29, 1821, died January II, 1904; his wife was Nancy Lucinda Horton, born May 27, 1824, died March 8, 1909; Sarah, who married George Snider; Martha, who married John Snider; Elizabeth, who married John Powell, and Jordan C., who married Julia Williams.
Richard married a Ray(?) and settled on Beaver Creek in Ashe County. Their children were: Hence, who married an Oliver; Frank, who married Rhoda Howell; George, who mar- ried a Ray; Catharine, who married a Graybeal; John, who married a Goodman, and Ida, who married a Reeves.
Catharine, who married Thomas Sudderth, settled in Cald- well County. Their children were: Wilburn, Tolliver and John.
Henry C. Hardin's children were: James H., born October 19, 1847, married Emma Sutherland; John F., born February I, 1850, married Martha H. Councill; William H., born February 13, 1852, married Sarah Wilkler; Jordan C., born May 17, 1854, married Nannie Kitzmiller; H. Joseph, born October 24, 1857, married Alice McRary; L. Cornelia, born April 19, 1859, mar- ried, first, Wm. Church, and then John Snider; Ida B., who was born October 13, 1862, and married Wm. Spainhour.
Harman Family .- In 1791 Cutliff Harman came from Ran- dolph County and bought 522 acres of land on Cove Creek from James Gwyn, to whom it had been granted August 6, 1791, ac- cording to Malden C. Harman in Watauga Democrat of April, 1891.
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Cutliff married Susan Fouts, and was about ninety years of age when he died in 1838, his wife having died several years before, and he having married Elizabeth Parker, a widow. He had ten children by his first marriage; none by his second. Among his children were: Mary, who married Bedent Baird; Andrew, who married Sabra Hix; Eli, who married the widow Rhoda Dyer (born Dugger) ; Mathias, who married and moved to Indiana; Catherine, who married Benjamin Ward, and went west; Rebecca, who married Frank Adams and moved to In- diana; Rachel, who married Holden Davis; Sarah, who mar- ried John Mast; Nancy, who married Thomas Curtis; Rev. D. C. Harman was a son of Eli Harman and was born April 17, 1826, and died December 23, 1904.
Hartley Family .- Waightstill Hartley came to America from Shropshire, England, in 1740, and settled near Frederick, Md. His children were: John, who married Elizabeth Becket; Mahala, who married John Dinwiddie, and Nancy, who married David Tucker. It is said that Elizabeth nursed Thomas Jeffer- son. John Hartley had seven children: Nancy, who married George Tucker; Elizabeth, who married General Wilson; Ava, who did not marry; Finley, who married Sarah Brooks; George, who married Elizabeth Davis; James, who married Anna Mc- Crary; Reuben, who married Jane Fullenwider. John Hartley was a weaver and died in Virginia, after which his family came to North Carolina in 1783, finally settling in Rowan, while others of the connection settled in Caldwell and Burke. George had six children: Clinton, Larkin, George, Alfred, Waightstill and Mahala. George Hartley, Sr., was a saddle and harness maker. He died in 1834, aged seventy-two. Clinton never mar- ried. He was a colonel of the militia and sheriff of Burke and one of the commissioners who located Lenoir. He was a Whig, and died at the age of ninety-five. Larkin never married. He was a blacksmith and a great hunter, and died at the age of fifty- three. George married Catharine Fincannon, and they had five children: Rufus, Jason, John, Polly and Mahala. Rufus mar- ried Piety Kirby, and they had four children: Jason married Sarah Ann, daughter of Waightstill Hartley; Polly, daughter of
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John W. Hartley, married W. W. Sherrill, and her son, George P. Sherrill, now lives on Beaver Dams, Watauga County.
Hayes Family .- Ransom Hayes died in March, 1868, aged about sixty-three years. He married Sallie Greene, daughter of Joseph. Joseph Green had married Elizabeth, daughter of Rob- ert Shearer, Sr. Ransom Hayes' children were: I. Joseph, who died in 1911, aged about seventy-five, on Brushy Fork. He married Eliza, daughter of Larkin Hodges, of Poplar Grove. His son, Joseph, now lives there. 2. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Storie, son of Joshua, and died in 1875. 3. Robert, who married Rebecca Hately, daughter of William, who lived about Watauga Falls postoffice. 4. John, who married Eliza Cook, daughter of Rev. John Cook, of Vergil. John died in the army at Richmond, Va. His widow is still living. Their one son, John Lee, was one of the builders of Blowing Rock. 5. William, who married Benjamin Brown's daughter, Clorinda, and lived near Todd. William lived near Poplar Grove, but went first to Tennessee and then to Oregon, where he died about 1900. 6. Thomas, who was killed in the second battle of Manassas in the 37th North Carolina regiment. He never married. 7. Nancy, who married Harvey Dougherty, of Johnson County, Tennes- see. He was a brother of D. B. Dougherty. Nancy died in Blount County, Tennessee, in May, 1913. 8. Sarah, who mar- ried W. L. Bryan December 12, 1865. They moved to Meat Camp in 1865 within a mile of Soda Hill, where farming was carried on till the fall of 1868, when they returned to Boone. 9. George, who married, first, Emily, daughter of Riley and Violet Hodges, and, second, Louisa Bumgarner, of Howard's Creek. They live near Boone. 10. Ransom, who was born in 1846 and married a lady in Texas. He died in 1910, his wife having died several years before. They had two daughters, one of whom died young and without having married, and the other, Nannie, now Mrs. Yeagel, lives in Dallas, Texas. II. Richard, born about May, 1849, and married Delphia Hayes, a distant cousin, of Caldwell County. After having lived in Mitchell County, they returned to Caldwell and now reside in the Globe.
Hodges Family .- Thomas Hodges came from Virginia and settled at Hodges Gap, two miles west of Boone, during the
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Revolutionary War. He was a Tory. His family came with him. His son, Gilbert, married Robert Shearer's daughter. Robert died about 1845.
Gilbert Hodges lived where I. W. Gross now lives, about one- half mile east of Hodges Gap. His children were: I. Thomas, who married Mary Ingraham. 2. Robert, who died in the sum- mer of 1914 near Hodges Gap, at the home of George Teague, who had married his niece. His wife was Peggy Ingraham. 3. Holland, who was born July 18, 1827, and still lives near the place of his birth. In 1856 he helped Jordan McGhee kill 432 rattlesnakes on Rich Mountain. 4. Riley, who is still alive and lives on the waters of Laurel Fork. He married Violet Moody, of Watauga. 5. Elizabeth, who married Edward Claw- son, her cousin. 6. Louisa, who married John Greene. He was killed in the Civil War. She afterwards married John Dough- erty, who still lives, having married Martha Cook after the death of his first wife. 7. Larkin, who married Miss Eliza Gragg, a daughter of John Gragg, who lived where David F. Baird now lives at Valle Crucis. Larkin Hodges lives in Buncombe County.
William Hodges lived a quarter of a mile east of the cabin in which Jacob M. Councill was killed by Stoneman's men in March, 1865. That cabin is still called the Mark Hodges house, as William's son, Mark, built it. It is almost due north from Benjamin Councill's present residence. William was a brother of Gilbert Hodges, and married a Miss Mullins, sister of Jesse Mullins, who was a great hunter and lived on the South Fork of New River three miles from Boone. His children were: I. Larkin, a preacher, who married Miss Polly Moody. 2. Adam, who married twice. He lived and died in Knox County, Tennessee. 3. William, who married Miss Morris, of New River, and lived near Todd. 4. John or Jack, who married Fanny Morris, sister of William's wife, and lived near Boone. 5. Burton, who married Miss Northern and lives in Tennessee. 6. Jesse, who married and lives in Knox County, Tennessee. 7. Demarcus, who married a Miss Calloway, daughter of Isom Calloway, who lived on Elk above Todd. 8. A daughter, who
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married Solomon Green. 9. Sallie, who married Rev. John Cook, son of Michael, Sr. 10. Delphia, who married Adam Cook, brother of John.
Jesse Hodges was a brother of William and Gilbert, and married Polly Clawson. He lived a mile and a half north of Soda Hill, at the head of Little Grassy Creek. His children were: Frank, who married Nancy Ingraham; William, who married Nancy Triplett; Elbert, who married Katie Davis; Larkin, who died young and unmarried; Jack, who was killed by bushwhackers during the Civil War; Thomas, who died in the Confederate army unmarried; Patsy, who married Jesse Stanberry; Cynthia, who married Edmund Blackburn; Eliza- beth, who married Jacob Jones, first, and then Captain William Miller, son of Hon. David Miller, and moved to Middle Ten- nessee, where they died. Jones, her first husband, was lost in the Confederate army; Nancy, who married Thomas Griever, of Johnson County, Tennessee.
Jesse Hodges sold his farm to David Lookabill about 1858 and moved to Johnson County, Tennessee, where he and his son, Jack or John, were killed by renegades in the Civil War.
Holtzclaw Family.2-James T. Holtzclaw came from Ger- many and settled first in Virginia, near what is now Gordons- ville, about 1735 or 1740, where John Holtzclaw was born, and his brothers, Henry, William, Joseph and Benjamin. John Holtzclaw served in the Revolutionary War under a Captain Lewis, after which he settled on Watauga River, near Valle Crucis, where he married Catharine Hicks (sometimes spelt Hix). Their children were: John Hicks, Henry, Benjamin, Marcus and William, Agnes and Nancy. Of these, John mar- ried Lurana Dugger and lived on Banner's Elk; John Hicks married Sallie Hartley and lived near Watauga River; Henry moved to Albany on the Ohio River below Louisville, Ky .; Joseph moved to Alabama and settled near what is now Bir- mingham; Benjamin married Nancy Hately and settled on waters of Watauga River; Marcus married Lena Green and settled on Brushy Fork four miles west of Boone; William
2 This was the original spelling, but it came to be spelt Holtsclaw.
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married a Miss Smith and lived near Cranberry Forge; Agnes married William Dugger and lived in Johnson County, Tennes- see; Nancy married James Morgan and lived in Ashe till the death of her husband, when she moved to Tennessee. To John Holtzclaw and Lurana was born one son, Rufus, and to Benja- min Holtzclaw and Nancy were born Wiley, Rufus, William and Sally. To Marcus and Laura were born Pemberton, Crawford and Wesley, Catharine, Agnes and Lena, and by Marcus' third wife, whose name was Elizabeth Munday, were born Thomas C., Lafayette, Eliza, Mary, Laura and Nancy. Pemberton mar- ried Catharine Pharr and lived in Haywood County, North Carolina; John Wesley married Martha Williams and made his home mostly in Watauga County; Thomas C. married Carrie Munday, first, and, second, a Miss Cairns, and lives in Transyl- vania, N. C.
Horton Family .- Nathan Horton settled in Rowan, near the Jersey Settlement, but afterwards moved to a farm near Hol- man's Ford in Wilkes County. Then he came to Cook's Gap in the Blue Ridge, the very gap through which Daniel Boone, in May, 1769, had passed on his first trip to Kentucky. With Horton came also his own wife and William Miller and wife, Mary, and their son, David Miller, and Ebenezer Fairchild and family. Horton went into a hunter's camp at Cook's Gap, Miller into another hunter's camp at Buck's Gap, while Fair- child went on to what is now called Howard's Creek. All these became members of Three Forks Baptist Church, which had been organized in November, 1790. There is a tradition in the Horton family to the effect that the camp into which Nathan went belonged to Richard Green, and that on one occasion, when the fire went out and Mrs. Horton went to a neighbor's several miles distant to get some live coals, she found this Green in pos- session of this camp, which was their first acquaintance with each other. But there are among the Fairchild papers receipts from Jonathan Tompkins,' tax collector for 1780, showing that he collected taxes in this settlement at that early date. There is also a knob of the Blue Ridge, near Deep Gap, which bears his
2 Wm. Temple Coles collected taxes from E. Fairchild in 1769.
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name. There is also a tradition that the Greens were members of the Jersey Settlement, and that James Jackson, William Miller, the three Bucks, Tompkins and Horton himself were members of the Jersey Settlement. They were all members of the Three Forks Church between 1790 and 1800, and the proba- bility seems that Richard Green told Horton where his camp was and invited him to take possession of it and that Buck extended the same invitation to Miller with regard to his own camp near by. Nathan Horton lost his little daughter, Hannah, at Hagers- town, Md., on his way from New Jersey, she having sickened and died there. William Horton was an infant in arms when the family arrived at Cook's Gap, and he became the grandfather of Hon. Horton Bower, afterwards member of Congress, William having married Millie Dula and settled at Elkville, Wilkes County. James, another of Nathan's sons, married a daughter of James Webb and settled where Noah Brooksher now lives on South Fork of New River, half a mile below Three Forks Church. David Eagles, named for his mother, who was born Elizabeth Eagles, married Sallie Dula and settled one mile above Elkville. Phineas, another son, married Rebecca Councill, daughter of the first Jordan Councill, and settled on the land now occupied by J. C. Horton, his house having stood in the bottom in front of J. C. Horton's present home, though Phineas after- wards built a log house on the ridge, just above the present J. C. Horton home. Sarah and John, two of Nathan's children, died when children, while Jonathan, another of Nathan's sons, married Malinda Hartzog and settled where R. F. Vannoy now lives. Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan, married Zephaniah Hor- ton, of Yancey County.
William Horton, of Elkville, had eleven children.
James Horton's children were: Colonel Jack, who married, first, Rebecca Mast, and then Mary Swift; Lucinda, who mar- ried Henry W. Hardin and lived where Joseph Hardin now lives ; Elvira, who married Mathias Bledsoe near Todd ; Eveline, who married Hamilton Ray, of Roan Mountain Station, Tenn .; William, who married a Shull and lived on Cove Creek, after- wards removing to Roan Creek, Tenn .; Polly, who married Thomas Ray, of Three Tops, Ashe County.
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COLONEL JONATHAN HORTON.
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The children of David Eagles Horton were: Thomas, who married Clara Perkins and lived in Burke; David, who married Jane Young, of Yancey, and now lives on the Yadkin one mile from Elkville; Adeline, who married C. P. Jones and lives on the Yadkin above Elkville; Larkin L., who married Louisa Isbell and lived on King's Creek; John and Jane died unmar- ried; James, who married Rosa Lynch, of Yadkin County ; Louisa, who married James M. Isbell, of King's Creek.
Phineas' children were: William, who married Rebecca Blair and settled at the J. C. Horton place; Nathan, who married Juliette Gentry, of Jefferson, and settled on the opposite side of New River from the J. C. Horton place; Jonathan and James died in the Civil War.
Jonathan Horton had no children and died in Boone Novem- ber 24, 1895. His widow, Malinda, died April 17, 1911.
Elizabeth's children were: Nathan, James and David, and lived near Burnsville, Yancey County.
The children of William, son of Phineas Horton, were: James Crittenden, who married Mary Elrod, of New River; Jonathan Blair, who married Miss Smith, of Elkin; Julia, who died un- married; Wm. Phineas, who married Emma Wyn, of Warren County, North Carolina; Emma, who married Lewis P. Moore, of High Point; Addie Elizabeth, who married J. S. Winkler, of Boone; Henry Walter, who married Susan Usher, of Charlotte, and lives in North Wilkesboro; Sallie Hill, who died when eight years old.
Col. Jack Horton's children were: James W., who married a Miss Councill, and David, who married a Miss Mast, and Mattie, who married Judge L. L. Greene.
Col. Nathan Horton was born at Chester, N .. J., February 25, 1757, and married Elizabeth Eagles in New York City July 10, 1783. She was a daughter of John Eagles. Nathan and wife removed to North Carolina about 1785. Elizabeth Eagles was born in New York City December 1, 1766, and Hannah, their first child, was born at Chester, N. J., October 15, 1784; William, their second child, was born on New River August 15, 1786; James was born there February 28, 1789; David Eagles was
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born there May 5, 1792, as was Phineas January 9, 1795; Sarah was born September 19, 1794; John was born June 1I, 1800; Elizabeth, September 15, 1803; Jonathan, February 26, 1806. Malinda, Jonathan's wife, was born May 10, 1820. Col. Nathan Horton died on New River July 22, 1824, and his wife died there May 19, 1854. Nathan Horton bought in Richmond, Va., in 1803, a negro boy fourteen years of age, and Vinie, a girl, eleven years old. Vinie's first child was born in 1806 when Vinie was only fourteen years old. This child was named Tempe. Among J. C. Horton's heirlooms is a grandfather clock seven feet high, with a mahogany case and a face showing the rising and setting of the moon, a hand to mark all the seasons and several other devices. This was Nathan Horton's property, which he hauled all the way from New Jersey to North Carolina on his journey down. There is still in the family a shot gun or rifle with a bore capable of chambering three buck shot, on top of which a bullet the size of the barrel was rammed home en- cased in buckskin, thus making a load that was apt to "git 'em, both a-goin' and a-comin'." It has a flint-lock, and it was used by Nathan in guarding Major Andre when the latter was exe- cuted as a spy. Col. Nathan Horton was buried in Three Forks churchyard, and on his tombstone is carved the fact that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He was several times in the legislature, and built the wagon road through Cook's Gap and on the Beaver Dams, called Horton's Turnpike.
Horton Family Genealogy .- In 1876 the Home Circle Pub- lishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa., published the "Horton Genealogy, or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnibas Hor- ton, of Southold, L. I., 1640." It was compiled by George F. Horton, M. D. There is a picture of the old Horton homestead, erected by Barnibas Horton, Esq., in 1660, and was still standing at Southold, L. I., in June, 1873. Barnabas was probably the son of Joseph Horton, of Leicestershire, England, and was born in the little hamlet of Mouseley of that shire. He came over in the ship "Swallow" in 1633-38 and landed at Hampton, Mass., but in 1640 he and his wife and two children were in New Haven, Conn., in company with Rev. John Youngs, Wm. Welles,
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Peter Hollock, John Tuthill, Richard Terry, Thomas Mapes, Mathias Corwin, Robert Ackerly, Jacob Corey, John Conklin, Isaac Arnold and John Budd. There, on the 21st day of Octo- ber, 1640, they formed a Congregational Church and sailed for the east end of Long Island, now Southold. They had all been members of Puritan churches in England. These were the first to settle the east end of Long Island. The genealogy of the family is then traced down to 1876 and includes the North Caro- lina family whose history has been given above.
Ingram Family .- David Ingram was reared in New England, from which section he came to North Carolina before anyone now living remembers. He married a Miss Frieze from near Winston-Salem. His son, Jacob, was born near Jefferson and married Peggy, daughter of John Greene, who then lived half a mile from Sand's Postoffice, Watauga County. John Ingram, son of Jacob, was born on New River one mile from Sands December 24, 1823. John Greene, father of Jacob's wife, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Besides John, Jacob had a son, Richard, who died in Texas during the Civil War unmar- ried, and Susan, who married Daniel Miller, of Ashe; Eliza, who married Ben. Greer; Mary, who married Thomas Hodges; Hannah, who married Isaac Greer; John, who married, first, Martha Ray, of Ashe, and, second, Louisa Gragg, widow of Edward Hodges; Nancy, who married Franklin Hodges, and Peggy, who married Robert Hodges.
Isaacs Family .- Richard Isaacs was the first of this family and came from Ireland about 1790, and his wife was a Miss Robbins, of Randolph County, from which place he moved to settle in the Cherokee country. but when he got to Morganton he heard of Watauga River and especially of Cove Creek, when he came through Linville Gap up Elk and Beech Mountain to Hiram Hix's ford of Watauga, from which place he struck up Cove Creek to the Cove Creek Church, where Wm. Williams' family now lives, close to the old graveyard. Their children were: James, born 1791, married Rachel Reese; Richard, born 1793, married Lily Swift; Solomon, born 1795, April Ist, and married Lily Giles, first, and, after her death, Sarah Eggers, a
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