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Subject: [PaOldC] HEALD Obituaries 4
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:48:25 -0700 (PDT)

obituary appeared in the Daily Local News dated 12
January 1887.

John Heald (Note: This should be Jacob. The Daily
Local News ran a small correction article on 13
January 1887.)
Death of an Old Friend Who Led and Active Life

John (Jacob) Heald died on Tuesday evening at the
residence of his son, Dr. Pusey Heald in the city of
Wilmington. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah
Mendenhall Heald. The Wilmington News of to-day says:
For six generations, four in this county and two in
England, his paternal ancestors were members of the
Society of Friends; his great-grandfather was
disowned, however, "for marrying one not a member,"
but his grandfather, Jacob Heald, of Kennett joined
the society upon arriving at age. He was born in
Pennsbury township, Chester county, Pa., September 13,
1800, but removed with his parents in 1805 to
Hockessin, New Castle county. He attended the
district school until 1816, when farm work permitted.
In 1819, in company with Henry Heald and Jasher H.
Dixson, all of this county, he went in a wagon over
the Nation Road, starting in Maryland to Ohio, hoping
to secure Government surveying. For this they were
too late, but continued their journey through Indiana
to Illinois. They returned home through Kentucky,
Virginia, and Maryland after three months' absence.
Henry Heald, subsequently for many years
Superintendent of the New Castle County Alms House,
wrote and published an interesting account of this
journey into the then far wilderness. Copies of this
quaint pamphlet are still in existence. Jacob Heald
then taught the district school at Hockessin for a
time, after which he spent thirteen months as a
student at Friends' Boarding School at Westtown, where
he pursed his mathematical studies. While there he
calculated a number of very accurate eclipses of the
sun and moon. He next taught the Eden district school
in Mill Creek Hundred for one year; then managed his
widowed mother's farm for one year, and subsequently
became a teacher in Westtown Boarding School,
remaining there fifteen months.
In 1826 he was married to Sarah P. Wilson,
daughter of Stephen and Lydia Pusey Wilson, of Mill
Creek Hundred. He purchased a farm in Kennett, Pa.,
where they lived for four years and where his daughter
Lydia, now a minister in the Society of Friends was
born. Selling this he purchased the farm now
belonging to John Mitchel at Hockessin, Del., where he
continued to reside until 1856, when he sold it to
Howard E. Flinn, now of Newport Del. He paid about
$30 per acre for it and sold it for $100 per acre. It
was considered at that time the finest farm in
northern New Castle county.
Jacob and Sarah Heald were prominent, exemplary
and useful members of the quiet but progressive
community in which they lived. Jacob Heald was always
a staunch supporter of the public school system of the
State, and when he and other Friends, nearly all
relatives of himself and wife, rallied each spring to
vote "for tax, the opposition knew it was useless to
oppose his leadership. He favored employing good
teachers and was generally one of the commissioners,
and for many years boarded the teachers of the
district (No. 29), at a nominal cost, in order that
they might have a pleasant home. It is believed that
his "district" was the first one in the State, outside
of Wilmington, to pay $100 per "quarter."
Both Mr. Heald and his wife were active workers
in the temperance cause from the date of their
marriage, and early banished the whisky jug from their
harvest fields, which was a serious innovation on the
practice of that day. They were equally opposed to
the use of tobacco, and frequently secured lecturers
upon physiology and health subjects, temperance, ect.,
to address the lyceum and the community of which they
were members. They early became deeply interested in
the Anti-slavery movement, and were very earnest
Abolitionist. Mr. Heald attended the Buffalo
convention in 1848, which nominated Martin Van Buren
as the Free Soil candidate for the Presidency, and his
was one of the few votes cast for him in Delaware. In
1852 he voted fro Hale, and of course for Freemont in
1856. His house was one of the "stations" on the
"Underground Railroad," and many fugitives were fed
thereat and helped by him on to liberty. For years he
had believed in extending the right to vote to women.
His wife died in 1846, and in 1852 he was again
married to Sarah Ann Tyson, for many years previously
a teacher of the Friends School in this city. She
survives him, in her 85th year. Mr. Heald, throughout
his long life, was an exemplary member of the Society
of Friends. During a former residence in this city he
was a useful and active member of the School Board.
Until his recent illness he has been almost
entirely exempt from sickness. Although not engaged
in business since he sold his farm in 1856, his had
not been an idle life; wherever he had lived since
that time he had found ways in which to make himself
useful, and until within one year has busied himself
in the garden and among the fruit at his son's home in
this city. He was a great reader and kept an active
interest in the affairs of the day, political and
reformatory, until his last illness, perusing the
daily papers with an interest and zest only slightly
diminished by the burdens of advancing years. Three
of his five children survive him; Lydia H. Price, of
Germantown, Dr. Pusey Heald, of this city, and J.
Wilson Heald, of Philadelphia.

obituary appeared in the Daily Local News dated 12
January 1887.

HEALD--Jacob Heald, on the 11th instant, in his 87th
year. Relatives and friends are invited to meet at
the residence of his son, Dr. Pusey Heald, Wilmington,
Delaware, on the 13th instant, at 2 p. m. Interment
private.

obituary appeared in Daily Local News dated 24 August
1912.

Jacob Heald
Jacob Heald, of Philadelphia, is dead aged 78
years. For several years he had resided in a home for
old men in the city named, but formerly resided in
Kennett township and also in West Chester. He was a
brother of Frank Heald, of West Chester, and Joseph
Heald of Hamorton, and has numerous other relatives in
this county.

obituary appeared in Daily Local News dated 24 August
1912.

HEALD--In Philadelphia, on August 22, 1912, Jacob
Heald aged 78 years. Relatives and friends of the
family are invited to attend the funeral without
further notice at Longwood Cemetery, on Sunday August
25 at 10 o'clock a. m. Interment in adjoining
cemetery.

obituary appeared in Daily Local News dated 26 August
1912.

Funerals
Frank Heald and wife, and Mrs. A. D. Heald, of
West Chester, attended the funeral of the late Jacob
Heald, at Longwood yesterday, where interment was
made. The deceased, formerly of this county, died at
an old man's home in Philadelphia. The funeral was
largely attended and services impressive.

obituary appeared in the Daily Local News dated 31
October 1888.

HEALD--October 21, 1888, at Kennett Square, John
Heald, in the 74th year of his age.

obituary appeared in the Village Record dated 14 May
1823.

Obituary
Departed this life on the 6th inst. after an
illness of nearly 3 months continuance, to the issue
of which he frequently expressed the most perfect
resignation, Joseph Heald, in the 47th year of his
age, leaving a widow and ten children to lament their
loss.
To eulogize our departed friends improperly would
be reprehensible, but in the present instance it may
be truly said, the prominent traits of his character
were justice, tenderness and benevolence; in him were
blended with the happiest effect, the Parent, Friends,
Neighbour.

obituary appeared in Daily Local News dated 26
February 1907.

Joseph S. Heald
Our well-known and kindly townsman, Joseph S.
Heald, died yesterday at the County Asylum for the
Insane, at Embreeville, in the 75th years of his age.
The deceased was born at the old corner house, known
as Bayard Taylor birthplace, in this borough, in 1832,
and was the only son of Caleb and Martha (Marshall)
Heald of this place. As a youth he attended Samuel
Martin's Boarding School, in this borough, and later
Benjamin Price's School, near West Chester. His young
manhood was spent in his uncle's book store, in
Wilmington, where he served for ten years as an
efficient and accommodating clerk, and working fro two
years thereafter in Joshua Heald's bindery in the same
city. In 1862, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he
enlisted in Captain Burnett's Company of the Fourth
Regiment of Delaware, served as Corporal and was
honorably discharged at Arlington Heights in 1865.
In 1882 he married Miss Sarah Migillingan, of
Kennett Square, and after forty years residence in
Delaware, returned the death of his father to the
place of his birth. The malady which slowly robbed
him of his intellectual powers, compelled his removal
to Embreeville about two years ago. Mr. Heald was a
public spirited citizen, interested in intellectual
subjects and derived his chief pleasure from reading
and study. He was a Republican in politics, a member
of the Society of Friends, from which organization he
however withdrew upon enlistment in the army, but was
reinstated after the close of the war. His many
excellent qualities of character, benevolence, loyalty
and sincerity won him steadfast friends. His wife and
only sister, the well-known minister of the Society of
Friends, Mary Heald Way, of Oxford Survive.

obituary appeared in Daily Local News dated 27
February 1907.

HEALD--Joseph S. Heald entered into rest on 2d-mo.
25th, 1907. Funeral from his late residence, Kennett
Square, on Fifth-day, 2d-mo. 28th, 1907. Meet at the
house at 1 o'clock p. m. Interment at Union Hill
Cemetery.

obituary appeared in the Oxford Press dated February
1907.

The death of Joseph S. Heald occurred on Monday
last at the County Asylum for the Insane at
Embreeville, in his 75th year. He was a native of
Kennett Square and had long been a resident of
Delaware and afterwards of his native place. A
citizen of high intelligence, character and patriotic
impulses, serving three years in the Union army during
the Civil War. His wife and only sister, Mary Heald
Way, of Oxford survive. Burial this Thursday from his
late residence in Kennett Square.






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