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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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SAMUEL V. HEATH, farmer, post office West Elizabeth, was born in 1802 on the farm now owned by him in Jefferson township, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Heath, former of whom was born at Fort Pitt, latter in New Jersey. His grandfather, Samuel, a native of Ireland, came from Wilmington, Va. The Heath family have occupied prominent positions in the history of the country. Brig. Gen. Heath was appointed one of a number to receive Gen. Lafayette when he landed in this country. John Heath was an officer in the Revolution, and commanded the garrison at Fort Waterford. Henry Heath was in the war of 1812. The meeting held for the purpose of perfecting the organization of Allegheny county was held at the residence of Andrew Heath, now the residence of Samson Stilly, of Jefferson township, and the Virginia courthouse stood near the graveyard on Lobb’s farm, where justice in Allegheny county was first dispensed. The father of Samuel L. was in the whisky insurrection, and was a rebel, and the origin of the cemetery on Lobb’s farm can be attributed to the fact that the federal soldiers encamped there and used it as a burial-place. The Heath family descended from three brothers who went from Ireland to England and from there to Virginia, where one of them made a permanent settlement, and the remaining two settled in Western Pennsylvania, where they married and reared families.
Samuel Heath, grandfather of Samuel L., reared a family of ten children: Robert Heath (born Nov. 5, 1762), Margaret (Oct. 1, 1764), Susanna (Sept. 27, 1766), Henry (Sept. 29, 1768), Elizabeth (March, 1770), Samuel (Aug. 1, 1773), Ruth (Oct. 30, 1775), Orpah (June 8, 1780), Adamson (Sept. 23, 1784), Naomi (Sept. 26, 1787). The farm now owned by Samuel L. Heath has descended from father to son for three generations, each time being owned by one of the family named Samuel. Samuel L. is one of a family of seven children, but two of whom are yet living, the other being Elizabeth, now Mrs. Harvey Hankins, of Sabina, Ohio. Our subject married, in 1870, Mrs. Amanda Martin, widow of John W. Martin, by whom she had one child, Mary, now Mrs. William B. Elliot, of Forward township. Mr. Heath was a member of the Jefferson Guards, and with them was present at the reception of Gen. Lafayette at Pittsburgh.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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