History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

HEATH, HENRY R.,  the present (1890) capable and efficient selectman of 
the town of Richford, was born in that town February 14, 1845, the son of 
Elisha and Mary (Noyes) Heath, and of their eight children the youngest but 
two.  Elisha Heath, son of the pioneer, Samuel Heath, was the first town 
clerk of Richford.  Henry R. Heath has always lived on the farm, and now 
owns and occupies the old Mark Bannister place, comprising seventy-five 
acres of land.  During the war he enlisted as a private in Company G, 
Thirteenth Vermont Volunteers, and served in all about thirteen months, first 
with the nine months' men and ten re-enlisted in the one year's service.  In 
1872 Mr. Heath married Cleora, daughter of Stephani Smith, of Richford.  
They have had one daughter.  Mr. Heath served as town representative in the 
state legislature in 1890-91.

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