Heston, Samuel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 439, Astoria Township
Samuel Heston, deceased, was a native of Bucks Co., Pa., where he was born in 1820. Growing to manhood in that State he married, in 1849, Hannah Heaton, of England. In an early day Mr. H. with his family moved to Ohio, where he remained 8 years, and then came to Astoria township, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred in Nov., 1867. To the care of his wife he left 8 children, - David, Eliza, Mary Ann, Sarah J., Ann E., deceased, Harriet, Lydia, Christiana and Rachel.