Company "E" 1st Iowa Cavalry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
1850 Marshall County Census
MARSH (494)
Richard...Farmer...$1200...64-M...Eng.
Mary...55-F...Eng.
Hetherton, Richard...9-M...VA
Hetherton, Hannah...7-F...VA
Swarts, Harriett...17-F...PAFrom: Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: Age 21; residence, Mount Pleasant (Henry County); nativity, Virginia; enlisted in “E” 1st Iowa Cavalry on July 27, 1861; mustered in July 31, 1861. “Died of disease Nov. 10, 1861 at Benton Barracks, Missouri.”
Buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri.
Richard Heatherington, born about 1840, probably in Marshall County, was the son of Edward Dent Heatherington, born in England, and Hannah Marsh of Marshall County. Hannah, an only child, died in 1844 and is buried at Dallas Presbyterian Cemetery, Marshall County.
At the time of the 1850 census of Marshall County, Hannah’s children, Richard and Hannah Heatherington, were living with their maternal grandparents, Richard and Mary Marsh.
Richard Heatherington’s father, Edward Dent Heatherington, remarried and moved to Henry County, Iowa, which is how Richard happened to be in Iowa.
At age 43, the father, Edward Heatherington, enlisted in Co. K of the 4th Iowa Cavalry, was promoted to Captain, and served in companies K & E 8th Missouri Cavalry. Later in life, he returned to Marshall County and died in 1895. He is buried at Sand Hill Methodist Cemetery.
Richard’s sister, Hannah Rebecca Heatherington, married 2nd Lieutenant Isaac Davis Winters, Co. “I” 15th West Virginia Infantry, and they lived in Sand Hill on the farm she inherited from her grandparents, Richard and Mary Marsh.