Esther was buried in Payson at 45, but William died in Orderville of stomach cancer at 50.  Alvin lived to that same age. Chris, the oldest son, died the youngest at 43 -- killed by Mexican rebels. His family was brought back to Utah by his youngest brother, Fred, who also died in his forties. Jonathan, our grandfather, was 73 when critically injured dragging a road grader. At 75, Wilford lived the longest. He is the only Heaton I've ever known that smoked.

Their father was a brown eyed, 175 pound, 5' 9 1/2" tall man who devoted his life to the church he joined when 22. With his English ties he served two missions and four years in Scotland and three in England. After a dozen years in Payson, Brigham Young instructed him to help in the Muddy River region. He went and after two years he helped resettle Mt. Carmel. Then worked about six years in the United Order in Orderville until he died in 1877.  

Three of his sons married Bishop Charles Negus Carroll's girls and Charles' George married Clarissa Amy Heaton.  (After fifteen years in Heber, Charles Negus Carroll had been asked to resettle in Orderville.) The last four were in the Order until it broke up in 1900 and were given Moccasin and Fiddler's Green below Orderville. 

In 1878 Jonathan and Lucy were married.  He had dark curly hair, a clipped English mustache, brown eyes like his father's, but an inch taller than William, but a more compact, trim figure until his death. He was intelligent and a leader.  Mama thought he was handsome when she came to Moccasin to teach his children in 1905. He was 48 and Lucy 43 and their dark hair was about white. Only three of the children with Lucy Elizabeth, his younger wife, had eyes his color -- Chris, Ed and Amy -- had his brown eyes. Uncle Ed's had a twinkle, but Grandpa's were more like Grandpa's. 

Ed's oldest son, Gradon's, dancing brown eyes were more like Grandpa's . None of Papa's children had brown eyes or we didn't get Papa's intense Irish-blue eyes like his. Robin Hamblin, Brad, and Chris Stapley did get eyes like Fred C's. Dan looked the most like his father of his fifteen sons, except his blonde hair, like Mercy and Harriet, his full sisters. Only Will copied his mustache. 

He was 48 and his hair about white, as was Lucy's.  Of their eleven, only Chris, Ed and Amy had brown eyes.  Uncle Ed's Gradon's dancing brown eyes were more like Grandpa's. We had only blue, grey, or hazel in our family and none of us got Papa's intense Irish-blue eyes, but grandchildren -- Robin Hamblin, Brad and Kent Stapley did.  Many inherited a wave or bounce in their hair --  Ed, Lucy, Gilbert and Amy in Lucy Elizabeth's family; Edna, LaVerna & Ramona in Papa's.