When William Heaton was born on 10 March 1827, in Little Horton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jonathan Heaton, was 32 and his mother, Frances Wild O'Dwyer, was 23. He married Esther Beilby on 10 February 1851, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Saint Joseph, Mohave, Arizona, United States in 1870. In 1870, at the age of 43, his occupation is listed as farmer in Saint Joseph, Mohave, Arizona, United States. He died on 22 September 1877, in Orderville, Kane, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Orderville Cemetery, Orderville, Kane, Utah, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hēah ‘high’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’: Heaton (Yorkshire, Northumberland); Heaton Norris, Heaton under Horwich, Heaton with Oxcliffe, Great Heaton, Little Heaton (all Lancashire); Capheaton, Kirkheaton (Northumberland); Cleckheaton, Hanging Heaton, Kirkheaton (Yorkshire). This surname was taken to Ireland in the mid 17th century, and within Ireland is now mainly found in Ulster.
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After Mormon missionaries established a way station between Utah and California at Las Vegas in 1855, they received a directive from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to scout more town …
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