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1850 US Census shows D J living in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri. Age is 41. Occupation is cabinetmaker. Value of real estate is 1700. Born in Penn. Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: M432_393; Page: 30; Image: 61. 1860 US Census shows D J living in 2nd Ward, St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. Age is 57. Occupation is "Cabinet." Value of real estate is 1500, value of personal estate is 4000. Born in Miss. Year: 1860; Census Place: St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: M653_609; Page: 0; Image: 496. 1870 US Census shows David living in St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. Age is 60. Occupation is Undertaker. Value of real estate is 8000, value of personal estate 3000. Born in Penn. Year: 1870; Census Place: St Joesph Ward 3, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: M593_762; Page: 488; Image: 161. 1880 US Census shows David (index says Jared) living in 3rd Ward, St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. Age is 71, married. Occupation is "Hotel." Born in Pennsylvania, mother born in Miss. Year: 1880; Census Place: Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: T9_675; Family History Film: 1254675; Page: 173.1000; Enumeration District: 56; Image: 0147. St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890 about David J. Heaton Given Name: David J. Surname: Heaton Residence: r 1006 Lincoln Page: 238 Graden, Debra, ed. . St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Hoye Company. St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890. Hoye CityDirectory Company, 1890. St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890 about David E. Heaton Given Name: David E. Surname: Heaton Occupation: propr Heaton's Undertaking Warerooms Business Address: 121 s 8th Residence: r 315 s 8th Page: 238 Graden, Debra, ed. . St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Hoye Company. St. Joseph, Missouri City Directory, 1890. Hoye CityDirectory Company, 1890. David J. Heaton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 16th, 1808, and with his parents moved to Butler County, Ohio. When ten years of age he lost his mother by death, and then apprenticed to learn the cabinet trade in Maysville, Kentucky, and served seven years. After working for five years in different places, he located in Ripley, Ohio, and remained there three years. He married Emily Donovan, of Augusta, Kentucky, July 31, 1832. They had seven children, three of whom are living: Mary Ann, Augusta C., and Elizabeth H. In the fall of 1834, Mr. H. went to Mississippi, and remained there until the spring of 1845, at which time he came to this city, and started a cabinet shop. St. Joseph at that time contained about three hundred inhabitants. He commenced here very poor, but immediately started a good business, but by the signing of a sheriff's bond had $3000 to pay. In 1857, he lost a warehouse by fire, losing $6000. He kept at work enlarging his business and was very successful. He was the first undertaker in the city, and continued in the business until 1881, when he sold out to his son, David E. He was the first City Marshal, and in 1858 and 1859 was elected City Councilman from the Third Ward, and was chairman of that body. In 1876, he commenced keeping a boarding-house, and in 1877 he built additions to his house, and opened the Heaton House, on Sixth Street, now the St. James. Mr. Heaton has always been a Democrat, but when the rebellion broke out he was a strong Union man and assisted in every way to do his duty as a loyal citizen. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1839. In 1849, his wife died, and in 1851 he married Miss Lucinda King, of Boone County, Missouri. They had five children, four of whom are living: Laura, David E., Bell and Melsonia. Ancestry.com. Buchanan County, Missouri History [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri. St. Joseph, MO, USA: Union Historical, 1881. Page 769. Birth: Dec. 6, 1808, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Death: Apr. 28, 1898 In June 1827 he became a professional undertaker and funeral director, being the first in the US for which he was presented in 1890 -over 190 contestants- with a gold headed cane by the "Sunny Side", the oldest undertaker's journal in the world and pronounced the "first undertaker and veteran of veteran's." Burial: Mount Mora Cemetery, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Record added: Jul 9 2000 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Heaton&GScnty=1407&GRid=10506& References
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