Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Robinson Crusoe HEACOCK
In September-October 1948 Joel Gale Heacock visited West Branch, Iowa, and identified the gravestones of Hannah John Heacock, of her and Nathan's son John, of Alice Pennock Gruwell and others, many of them worn with age and difficult to decipher. He wrote of his trip as follows: "While at Brighton I made two trips to West Liberty and West Branch to check up on the Heacock families. There are none left save one 23 year old boy Clifford Heacock, great grandson of John Heacock, whose father is also dead and his mother living in Iowa City. It seems that his grandfather Robert Heacock was the big man of his day in the West Branch community for he has the only monument in the cemetery and on it he lists the names of himself and wife and their thirteen children. The old records give his name as Robinson Heacock, but his grave stone says it is Robert, also it is evident that he strayed from the Quaker faith for his is the first generation which failed to name the children with Bible names. His thirteen include such names as Elsie, Marie, Lottie, John, Frank, Rena, Harry, Agnes, Roscoe, Hattie, Fayetta, Clifford and Clifton. All seem to be dead except Clifton who now lives in Arizona. Several are buried there, probably died as children. The name Honey Grove seems to belong to a cemetery and not a community. It is four miles from West Branch and probably seldom used. Its oldest graves date back to 1868 and at least 75% of probably 100 graves in the entire cemetery are some of our related family names . . . . . Heacock, Gaskill, Gruwell, Pennock, Hawley and Wren. The West Liberty cemetery is probably 15 miles south and is more modern, has an old Quaker section and a newer part,
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