Zachariah Heath : 無料・フリー素材/写真
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| 説明 | Company E, 143rd Illinois InfantryHistory of Neosho and Wilson Counties Kansas, Published by L. Wallace Duncan, Monitor Printing Co., 1902. Pages 316-317ZACHARY T. HEATH--Prominently identified with the farming and feeding interests of Neosho county and widely known as an early settler is Zachary T. Heath, of this review. He is one of that large class of settlers who went through the scourges and afflictions of the early time and yet remained, and is today among the substantial and influential men of Centerville township. Mr. Heath is a native of Parke county, Indiana, born October 11, 1847. His father, Walter Heath, was a native of Kentucky and his mother, Margaret (Bradford) Heath, was a Pennsylvanian by birth. In his early life the father was a builder of flat boats on the Ohio river and followed that and the Mississippi rivers as a boatman for many years. Leaving the trade and traffic of the rivers he settled in Parke county, Indiana, and was engaged in farming there till 1856 when he moved to Illinois and died in Clarke county, that state in 1861 at the age of fifty-five, and his wife surviving him several years, well advanced in age. Eight children were born to the parents of whom five still live. The youth of Z. T. Heath found him on a farm in Illinois, spending his winters as a pupil in the country schools. He left the farm in April, 1864, and enlisted in Company E, 143rd Illinois volunteer infantry, and did duty chiefly in Tennessee and Arkansas through the remainder of the war. He was discharged at Mattoon, Illinois, and became a farm hand in that state till his departure for Kansas. He came to Osage Mission in Neosho county in 1867 with a horse and a mule and $25 as his earthly belongings and again went to work as a hand on the farm. In time he took a claim near Galesburg, built a small cabin on it and began a modest career as a farmer. He traded his horse and mule for a yoke of cattle, the first workable team he had in the state. He worked and maneuvered around till he got together three yoke of cattle and then went into the timber along the Neosho river and Ogeese creek and began "logging." He followed this business four years, in the meantime giving his claim the attention required to hold it and living for a time a bachelor's life in his little cabin home. As he views it now in retrospect those were among the most cheerful and happy times of his life. He pulled through the mud and slush of winter and through the heat and dust of summer, while he was laying the foundation for a substantial career. May 7, 1871, he was united in marriage with Rosa Remmy, a German who reached the United States on the 21st of June, 1847, and settled in Ohio. Peter Remmy married Maria Aller, a German lady. In 1863 they moved to Illinois and in 1865 cast their lot with the pioneers of Neosho county, Kansas. Here Mr. Remmy died in 1899 at the age of seventy-eight, surviving his wife from 1870, when she died at thirty-nine years old. Two children comprised their family, viz., Mrs. Heath and Mrs. Ida Berry. Mr. and Mrs. Heath took possession of his claim shanty immediately after their marriage, and after securing a patent for and partially improving their farm, sold it and purchased a raw quarter section, the nucleus of his present home. Everything that is done on this farm has been the work of their hands. The planting of trees and shrubbery--which resemble now a shady grove--and the general work of fencing and building to protect and accommodate the products of the farm. The accumulations of their labors of years is represented chiefly in their ownership of seven hundred acres of land, improved and convenient for the handling and feeding of stock. In this latter occupation Mr. Heath has well merited success. From modest beginnings he has come to be an important factor in the cattle-feeding industry of Neosho county. With the exception of the winter of 1901 he has for years, turned off from five to eight hundred head of cattle--with hogs to follow--ate up his several thousand bushels of corn left over from the year before. Mr. Heath's path has not been strewn with roses all the way. He has had storms to weather, as other financiers have had, and the secret of how to make money out of cheap cattle has had to be fathomed, the hardest problem of all. He has met the various trying conditions, one after another, and shown his capacity to cope with the most unfavorable elements in a farmer's career. Comprising Mr. Heath's family are three children, only one of whom, the son, is still, at home. Isetta is the wife of Elbert Green, of Neosho county; William; and Ella, wife of John Bullock, of La Junta, Colorado. Politically Mr. Heath is a Republican but he has not had the time to devote to any office larger than that of a member of the school board. |
| 撮影日 | 2007-08-05 17:23:34 |
| 撮影者 | jajacks62 , Chanute |
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| 撮影地 | Galesburg, Kansas, United States 地図 |
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