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Johnathan Wesley “John” Heath

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Birth	:	27 Aug 1813 New Jersey, USA
Death	:	14 Sep 1877 Iowa County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Pilot Grove Cemetery, Williamsburg, Iowa County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.6300011, -92.0849991
Plot	:	SECTION 24
Description	:	CEMETERY IN PILOT TOWNSHIP, 4 MILES S/O WILLIAMSBURG. John Wesley Heath is the son of John Heath, Jr. and Mary Burrack/Barrack/Berrick of Hunterdon County, New Jersey and his brother is Austin Heath of Shelby Co., Ohio. Austin's biography in the History of Shelby County, Ohio, refers to his mother's maiden name. In a letter found in Ancestry under Austin Heath to a Hunterdon County, NJ neighbor, Austin mentions his father's brother, Garrett Heath. The letter also mentions Austin's brother-in-law Mahlon Corson, who was married to Sarah Heath. MEMORIAL ID 49741633 Contributor: D L... Read More	CEMETERY IN PILOT TOWNSHIP, 4 MILES S/O WILLIAMSBURG. John Wesley Heath is the son of John Heath, Jr. and Mary Burrack/Barrack/Berrick of Hunterdon County, New Jersey and his brother is Austin Heath of Shelby Co., Ohio. Austin's biography in the History of Shelby County, Ohio, refers to his mother's maiden name. In a letter found in Ancestry under Austin Heath to a Hunterdon County, NJ neighbor, Austin mentions his father's brother, Garrett Heath. The letter also mentions Austin's brother-in-law Mahlon Corson, who was married to Sarah Heath. MEMORIAL ID 49741633 Contributor: D L Tunison (47905497) • [email protected] AUSTIN HEATH, Farmer; P. O. Plattsville. MEMORIAL ID 19460606 Created by: trish rivera About the year 1760 or 1765 four brothers came from England to the American colonies. Upon their arrival they separated. One located in Richmond, Va.; one in Boston, Mass.; one in Trenton, N. J.; the fourth we cannot learn where he located. One of these brothers afterward became one of the original major-generals of the Revolutionary army; one became a brigadier-general, and one a captain. John Heath, one of these brothers, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He located in New Jersey. He left at his death a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. John Heath, Jr., one of these two sons, was born in Hunterdon County, N. J., in 1788, and married Mary Burruck. They reared a family of seven children. Austin, the subject of this sketch, was the third son of this family. He was born in the same county and township as that of his father. He was born June 4, 1814. He remained in New Jersey until the fall of 1839, when he came to Ohio and located near Urbana, Champaign County, where, in the year 1845, he married Miss Eliza Lyon, who was born in Champaign County in 1826. In the fall of 1855 they moved to Shelby County and located where they now reside, in Green Township. They have raised a family of ten children, nine of whom are still living. Mr. Heath from the year 1834 to 1854 made school teaching a profession exclusively. From 1855 to 1872 he taught during the winter season and worked on his farm during the summer. He has during life devoted much time and thought to be study and investigation of the science of Geology - having traveled throughout nearly State and Territory in the Union east of the Rocky Mountains, as well as the Canada's; having been all along the sea-cost form Maine to the reefs of Florida. He has within his possession a very large and fine collection of specimens of corals and shells from the seashore; minerals from every State east of the Rocky Mountains, among which may be found an aerobatic stone which he dug up in the State of Iowa within one hour after it fell. He has a large collection of fossils, representing all the formations from the lower Silurian up to the latest; also a fine collection of archaeological specimens known as Indian relics. Among his collection are several hundred specimens gathered in Shelby County, consisting of the bones of the Orthoceros, found near Sidney; some exceedingly fine specimens of the Pentemeris, gathered near Pontiac; also Trilobites from the same place, and numerous specimens of crinordal and coral rock, all collections from this county.

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Johnathan Wesley “John” Heath death on 14 Sep 1877 in Iowa County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 41.6300011
Longitude: -92.0849991

Family Members:

Spouse

Rachel Kelsey Van Norman Heath

(1809 - 1855)

Dolly Hartle Heath

(1835 - 1911)

Children

Mary Jane Heath Taylor

(1834 - 1901)

Hiram Heath

(1836 - 1907)

Naomi Eliza Heath Rowland

(1842 - 1912)

Sarah Elizabeth Heath Holden

(1847 - 1928)

Flora Ann Heath

(1850 - 1854)

Ruth Kelsey Heath

(1852 - 1855)

Albert Hartle Heath

(1857 - 1930)

Laura Catherine Heath

(1860 - 1862)

William Chilson Heath

(1866 - 1922)

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