Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-28
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DEATH OF JOHN HI. HEAToN
- II Is, with the feelings olsl Of sinceMres M
sorrow that we announce the death, a
twenty minutes before ten o'clock Oh
Saturday evening the 23d inst, of ouI
ocotenlporary, J ohm II. Heaton, Editol
of the Gazette. This announcement ann
will startle our readers the more Tor the
,saddenness of the change without no
ztice ofthe falling health of the deceas
ed. It will be recollected ttat some np
months since we made a note OF ths
dangerous illness ofMr. Heaton'-ht
ailment at that time was obstruction O
the bowels, from which attack he par
TALLY recovered; since then he suffered
from similar attacks, and died during
the fourth one of that nature ON Satur
day night. He had been from the
first under rigid restrictions in the mat
ter Of diet, and a slight departure from
his usual course in this regard may
have induced the attack which termi
mated his life. His sickness lasted but
"a few days, he having been upon tht
street and attending to his editorial
duties on the Thursday previous to hi
death. No serious apprehensions were
indulged in by the family, even after
he became delirious at times on Satur.
day after two o'clock, until after dusk
John II. Heaton was born in Union
town, Fayette County, Pa, May II,
1918, and came to st. Clairsville with
his widowed mother in 1887, and be.
came foreman of the Gazette Office,
then edited by John Irons, under
whom he had learned the printing
trade in the ''Genius of Liberty" office,
in Uniontown, Pa, and in the spring
of 1S43 married the wife who is left to
mourn his loss, then Rebecca Askew.
He was deputy Clerk of the Court
under Robert FL. Miller, and was at his
death in 1851, appointed to fill the va
cancy, and in 1852 was elected unde:
the new Constitution, Clerk of the
Common Pleas Court, which Office he
filled acceptably for three years. About
the time of the expiration of his term
of office he became editor Of the Gazette
d Citizen, which for the most part he
published until his decease, covering a
period of about eighteen years.
During his editorial career he was
active and prominent both; in local and
State politics, and was honored with
nominations by his party friends, fcl
Member of the Board of Public Works
in 1868, and for Comptroller of the
Treasury in 1870 and was a member ol
the Democratic State Central Commit.
tee at the time of his decease. a.,,J q
He was a public spirited man, al
ways ready to lend support to any en-
terprise or improvement which would
benefit the community, and especially
was he in favor of increased railroad
facilities, as being the means by which
our increased wealth as a country
could be made available to subserye
the purposes of commerce and manu-
factures. AT the time of his death he
was a member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Central Ohio Railroad Com
pany.. ;s.-5 a f..3g,,s ..,..3...i :
Now, that the dull toll of the bells
and the visible emblems of mourning
by hundreds of our community have
spoken of ofbereavement, and the last sad
=.
rites have been performed, we cannot
allow the occasion to pass without lay
ing upon the grave of our editorial
brother, some token representing the
good in his life. Our flowers are gather
ed by the wayside and within one
short Year of cur acquaintance, but we
hope they represent a respectas sincere
as those more skillfulIy selected and
arranged. And first regardingithat life
with which the people were the most
familiar, his editorial career in man
aging party paper. Without refer
ing to the principles which he advoca-
ted, always those of the party with
which he was soiclosely allied and so
warmly attached, he was successful for
many years in keeping it united and
strong in this County. Absorbed in his
duties and confined too much by the
training Of a profession which too often
makes its follower slave to a party,
he forgot sometimes in the heat Of po-
litical strife TO accord Justice to his par
ty opponents. Sometimes there were
spark;es fell where they. should mott