Working Lineage for Stockton Heth

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Introduction

There are a number of alternative interpretations of the ancestry of Stockton Heth, of Radford VA. Note in particular the article in Virginia Magazine of history and Genealogy, by Lee, 1936, which gives several alternative views.

The lineage below is a "working lineage" this individual, drawing on Lee, 1936, and on Ancestry family trees. This tree will doubtless change, perhaps drastically, as more information is developed.

The family of John Heth and Margaretta L. Pickett is relatively certain. His parents and grandparents are more questionable. Stockton's parents died when he was young. The children seem to have been dispersed among various families, some at considerable distance from the family homesite in Chesterfield County VA. This makes identifying Stockton's brothers and sisters difficult. It is not know whether his father or mother left wills identifying their children. Given the unusualness of his name we can be fairly confident that the Stockton shown in the 1850 household of Richard Cunningham in Culpepper County, is indeed the son of John Heth. A Mary Heath appears in this same household and is presumed to be Stockton's sister. Both are of the appropriate age in this census record to be the children of John Heth and Margaretta; in addition, their ages match those commonly given to them by genealogists. What relationship Richard Cunningham had to Stockton and Mary is unknown.

Also in 1850, a Henry Heth, age matching the age commonly given to Stockton's brother, appears in the household of John and Emeline Martin in Glocester County, VA, along with a James Heth. James is presumed to be Henry's brother. Henry and James could be (probably are) Stockton's brothers.

There are numerous indications that the Heth family was tied into the Tidewater Virginia plantation aristocracy, including ties to the Lee, Randolph, and Pickett families. This would explain the prominance of Stockton's brother Henry in the Confederate Army (Brigadier General, commanding a division at Gettysburg.). The apparent dispersal of John Heth's children to widely separated families, may also reflect these relationships.

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