Abijah was the son of Elijah (Abijah) and Elizabeth Smith Heaton. He married Laura B. Camp and she remarried after his death.
Information from family records.
DAILY REVIEW 3/1/1898
THERE HAS SELDOM BEEN A LARGER CONGREGATION THAN THE ONE THAT ASSEMBLED AT LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10:30 A. M. TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL EXERCISES OF ABIJAH W. HEATON. REV. A. M. DANELY PREACHED THE FUNERAL SERMON. THE CHOIR OF THE CHURCH RENDERED IN A PLEASING MANNER APPROPRIATE HYMNS. THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
THE DECEASED WAS A NATIVE OF GREENE COUNT, PA., WHERE HE WAS BORN MAY 31, 1853. AFTER REACHING HIS MAJORITY HE DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS. HE CAME TO MACON COUNTY IN 1875 AND ENGAGED IN TEACHING SCHOOL FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. JUNE 27, 1878, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LAURA B. CAMP, DAUGHTER OF A. B. CAMP. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS, ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTH OF LONG CREEK STATION. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL AND HE LEFT THE FARM TO ENGAGE FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS, BUT HE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON BUSINESS ENTIRELY AND SEEK HEALTH IN A WESTERN CLIMATE. HIS LAST TRIP WAS TO WICHITA, KAN. BUT ALL WAS TO NO PURPOSE, THAT DREADED DISEASE CONSUMPTION STEADILY PREYED UPON HIM UNTIL THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1898, WHEN HE QUIETLY PASSED TO HIS FINAL REST, SURROUNDED WITH HIS LOVING WIFE AND TWO FOSTER CHILDREN, RODNEY STROUSE, AGED 21 AND LENA WRIGHT AGED 11.
THE REMAINS ARRIVED IN DECATUR ON SATURDAY AND WERE TAKEN AT ONCE TO THE RESIDENCE OF A. B. CAMP NEAR LONG CREEK STATION FROM WHENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE CASKET TO THE LONG CREEK CEMETERY.
THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF STERLING WORTH, WHO HAD MANY FRIENDS AND NO ENEMIES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED WITH RESIGNATION AND IN GREAT PEACE. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GEORGE W. CARMEAN, W. M. DAVIS, ALVIN FLOYD, J. W. MYERS, H. P.CLARK AND I. S UNDERWOOD.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
Information from family records.
DAILY REVIEW 3/1/1898
THERE HAS SELDOM BEEN A LARGER CONGREGATION THAN THE ONE THAT ASSEMBLED AT LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10:30 A. M. TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL EXERCISES OF ABIJAH W. HEATON. REV. A. M. DANELY PREACHED THE FUNERAL SERMON. THE CHOIR OF THE CHURCH RENDERED IN A PLEASING MANNER APPROPRIATE HYMNS. THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
THE DECEASED WAS A NATIVE OF GREENE COUNT, PA., WHERE HE WAS BORN MAY 31, 1853. AFTER REACHING HIS MAJORITY HE DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS. HE CAME TO MACON COUNTY IN 1875 AND ENGAGED IN TEACHING SCHOOL FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. JUNE 27, 1878, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LAURA B. CAMP, DAUGHTER OF A. B. CAMP. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS, ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTH OF LONG CREEK STATION. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL AND HE LEFT THE FARM TO ENGAGE FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS, BUT HE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON BUSINESS ENTIRELY AND SEEK HEALTH IN A WESTERN CLIMATE. HIS LAST TRIP WAS TO WICHITA, KAN. BUT ALL WAS TO NO PURPOSE, THAT DREADED DISEASE CONSUMPTION STEADILY PREYED UPON HIM UNTIL THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1898, WHEN HE QUIETLY PASSED TO HIS FINAL REST, SURROUNDED WITH HIS LOVING WIFE AND TWO FOSTER CHILDREN, RODNEY STROUSE, AGED 21 AND LENA WRIGHT AGED 11.
THE REMAINS ARRIVED IN DECATUR ON SATURDAY AND WERE TAKEN AT ONCE TO THE RESIDENCE OF A. B. CAMP NEAR LONG CREEK STATION FROM WHENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE CASKET TO THE LONG CREEK CEMETERY.
THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF STERLING WORTH, WHO HAD MANY FRIENDS AND NO ENEMIES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED WITH RESIGNATION AND IN GREAT PEACE. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GEORGE W. CARMEAN, W. M. DAVIS, ALVIN FLOYD, J. W. MYERS, H. P.CLARK AND I. S UNDERWOOD.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
Abijah was the son of Elijah (Abijah) and Elizabeth Smith Heaton. He married Laura B. Camp and she remarried after his death.
Information from family records.
DAILY REVIEW 3/1/1898
THERE HAS SELDOM BEEN A LARGER CONGREGATION THAN THE ONE THAT ASSEMBLED AT LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10:30 A. M. TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL EXERCISES OF ABIJAH W. HEATON. REV. A. M. DANELY PREACHED THE FUNERAL SERMON. THE CHOIR OF THE CHURCH RENDERED IN A PLEASING MANNER APPROPRIATE HYMNS. THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
THE DECEASED WAS A NATIVE OF GREENE COUNT, PA., WHERE HE WAS BORN MAY 31, 1853. AFTER REACHING HIS MAJORITY HE DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS. HE CAME TO MACON COUNTY IN 1875 AND ENGAGED IN TEACHING SCHOOL FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. JUNE 27, 1878, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LAURA B. CAMP, DAUGHTER OF A. B. CAMP. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS, ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTH OF LONG CREEK STATION. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL AND HE LEFT THE FARM TO ENGAGE FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS, BUT HE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON BUSINESS ENTIRELY AND SEEK HEALTH IN A WESTERN CLIMATE. HIS LAST TRIP WAS TO WICHITA, KAN. BUT ALL WAS TO NO PURPOSE, THAT DREADED DISEASE CONSUMPTION STEADILY PREYED UPON HIM UNTIL THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1898, WHEN HE QUIETLY PASSED TO HIS FINAL REST, SURROUNDED WITH HIS LOVING WIFE AND TWO FOSTER CHILDREN, RODNEY STROUSE, AGED 21 AND LENA WRIGHT AGED 11.
THE REMAINS ARRIVED IN DECATUR ON SATURDAY AND WERE TAKEN AT ONCE TO THE RESIDENCE OF A. B. CAMP NEAR LONG CREEK STATION FROM WHENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE CASKET TO THE LONG CREEK CEMETERY.
THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF STERLING WORTH, WHO HAD MANY FRIENDS AND NO ENEMIES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED WITH RESIGNATION AND IN GREAT PEACE. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GEORGE W. CARMEAN, W. M. DAVIS, ALVIN FLOYD, J. W. MYERS, H. P.CLARK AND I. S UNDERWOOD.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
Information from family records.
DAILY REVIEW 3/1/1898
THERE HAS SELDOM BEEN A LARGER CONGREGATION THAN THE ONE THAT ASSEMBLED AT LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10:30 A. M. TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL EXERCISES OF ABIJAH W. HEATON. REV. A. M. DANELY PREACHED THE FUNERAL SERMON. THE CHOIR OF THE CHURCH RENDERED IN A PLEASING MANNER APPROPRIATE HYMNS. THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
THE DECEASED WAS A NATIVE OF GREENE COUNT, PA., WHERE HE WAS BORN MAY 31, 1853. AFTER REACHING HIS MAJORITY HE DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS. HE CAME TO MACON COUNTY IN 1875 AND ENGAGED IN TEACHING SCHOOL FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. JUNE 27, 1878, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LAURA B. CAMP, DAUGHTER OF A. B. CAMP. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS, ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTH OF LONG CREEK STATION. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL AND HE LEFT THE FARM TO ENGAGE FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS, BUT HE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON BUSINESS ENTIRELY AND SEEK HEALTH IN A WESTERN CLIMATE. HIS LAST TRIP WAS TO WICHITA, KAN. BUT ALL WAS TO NO PURPOSE, THAT DREADED DISEASE CONSUMPTION STEADILY PREYED UPON HIM UNTIL THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1898, WHEN HE QUIETLY PASSED TO HIS FINAL REST, SURROUNDED WITH HIS LOVING WIFE AND TWO FOSTER CHILDREN, RODNEY STROUSE, AGED 21 AND LENA WRIGHT AGED 11.
THE REMAINS ARRIVED IN DECATUR ON SATURDAY AND WERE TAKEN AT ONCE TO THE RESIDENCE OF A. B. CAMP NEAR LONG CREEK STATION FROM WHENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE CASKET TO THE LONG CREEK CEMETERY.
THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF STERLING WORTH, WHO HAD MANY FRIENDS AND NO ENEMIES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LONG CREEK M. E. CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED WITH RESIGNATION AND IN GREAT PEACE. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GEORGE W. CARMEAN, W. M. DAVIS, ALVIN FLOYD, J. W. MYERS, H. P.CLARK AND I. S UNDERWOOD.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
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