David J. Heaton was born in Philadelphia in 1808, moved with his parents to Butler County, Ohio, and served seven years as an apprentice cabinetmaker at Maysville, Kentucky. After stays at Ripley, Ohio, and in Mississippi, he came to St. Joseph in the spring of 1845, when the town held about three hundred people, and opened a cabinet shop that grew into the city's first undertaking business. He was the first City Marshal, sat on the city council in 1858 and 1859, and in 1877 opened the Heaton House on Sixth Street. He had seven children with his first wife, Emily Donovan, who died in 1849, and five with his second, Lucinda King, whom he married in 1851. Their son David E. Heaton, born in St. Joseph in 1855, joined his father in the business in 1871 and carried it on after his father retired. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Buchanan County history.
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Cabinetmaker and St. Joseph's first undertaker
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