My sister finally found the reference to the Heath that survived Custer's last stand. Several years ago she sent a newspaper article from the Sunbury PA newspaper but I had packed it away - and have yet to find it. She said there is a lot of controversy out now whether or not he did but I thought you might enjoy looking this site:
"found this today ---- www.custerbooks.com/little bighornbattle.htm
book ---- Billy Heath - the man who survived Custer's last stand
the aftermath of the battle and the eventual surrender of Sitting Bull
re: one soldier Pvt. William (Billy) Heath, a farrier for Co. L. did manage
to escape Custer's last stand
author -- Vincent J. Genovese
Also attached is a picture I found in my Mom's papers/pictures when I was looking for pictures of my brother Ted. I believe this may be Albert and his family but I'm not really sure. On the back of the picture there was a handwritten note: "These weren't taken this year. We had them addressed to send to you last year, but the mailbox is "clear" across the street from the house!" I looked for other pictures but didn't see any more but I will go back through them soon to see what I can find.
"found this today ---- www.custerbooks.com/little bighornbattle.htm
book ---- Billy Heath - the man who survived Custer's last stand
the aftermath of the battle and the eventual surrender of Sitting Bull
re: one soldier Pvt. William (Billy) Heath, a farrier for Co. L. did manage
to escape Custer's last stand
author -- Vincent J. Genovese
Also attached is a picture I found in my Mom's papers/pictures when I was looking for pictures of my brother Ted. I believe this may be Albert and his family but I'm not really sure. On the back of the picture there was a handwritten note: "These weren't taken this year. We had them addressed to send to you last year, but the mailbox is "clear" across the street from the house!" I looked for other pictures but didn't see any more but I will go back through them soon to see what I can find.
I found out that Aunt Edie has a lot of pictures on the Wood side of the family.
I think you and I have gotten my family members so excited about their family history -- my youngest brother can remember going to stay with our great-Uncle Lewis and driving around the countryside looking at where our grandfather and Lewis were raised. He just told me that there is an old bill on the wall at the Town Hall in Campbell that was submitted by Ira Seeley for work he done for the town. Of course, I told him he had to go down and ask if he could get a picture of it - preferably a scanned picture.
My brother-in-law just got a library card for the library in PA so now we have access to the PA Gen site. I could never get on as I didn't have a library card. I'm hoping that we might be able to locate some info on Nancy Owens, etc. I'm sure we will eventually find contact with them.
I looked for years for info on my Mom's side and now have found distant cousins in Michigan, Arizona and CA...who would have thought just seeing your ancestry tree on the Heaths would have given me the desire and passion again to find my ancestors. I have so much to thank you for!
BTW - my sister asked what did Uncle George do for a living - I knew he went North to work in the vineyards but was he a farmer?
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That is a picture of Albert with his wife Marie and children Antoniette (Toni), Sheldon & Theron (Chip). Sheldon Heath is a painter and has a website of his paintings. We have an old picture that he painted 40 years ago hanging in my parents' dining room.
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Wow - I just checked out Sheldon's site.
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