. Progressive men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida counties, Idaho. gland at avery early date of the settlement. In themomentous events preceding and leading upto the war of the Revolution and in that con-flict, as well as in the earlier French and In-dian wars, various members of this familyrendered valiant service in both military andcivil life, while their blood has been shed fortheir country in every war in which it has con-tested from that time to the present. Thepaternal grandparents of the one of whom wenow write were Harford and Mary Heath,lifelong residents of Massac
. Progressive men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida counties, Idaho. gland at avery early date of the settlement. In themomentous events preceding and leading upto the war of the Revolution and in that con-flict, as well as in the earlier French and In-dian wars, various members of this familyrendered valiant service in both military andcivil life, while their blood has been shed fortheir country in every war in which it has con-tested from that time to the present. Thepaternal grandparents of the one of whom wenow write were Harford and Mary Heath,lifelong residents of Massachusetts and Mis-sissippi, and in Hinds county in the latter the birth of their son, John , the father of our pioneer. John W. Heath passed his early life inMississippi and in 1850, at the age of thirtyyears, he commenced his connection with thepioneer life of the West by crossing the plainswith an ox train of emigrants, keeping hismarch steadily westward until lie reached LosAngeles, Calif., returning from his ac-tivities there four vears later and sfoins: to. J. E. HEATH. BINGHAM, FREMONT AND ONEIDA COUNTIES, IDAHO. 215 Utah, where he first located at Farmingtonin Davis county, from there later removing toWeber Valley, where he was one of the firstto engage in successful farming operationsand continued to reside for fifteen years. Fromthence he migrated to Ogden Valley, and thentwo years afterward returning to Weber Val-ley, from which locality one year later, in1875, he made his way to Idaho and locatedon Willow Creek, his being one of the firstthree families to form a residence within thelimits of Bingham county. From his advent in this region until theday of his death, in 1900, at the hale old ageof seventy-six years, Mr. Heath was a con-spicuous and a forceful factor in every ele-ment of the rapid growth and improvementof the community, developing, with the as-sistance of his industrious and most capablewife, one of the most attractive homes to beseen
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