Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph Scarlett HEALD
26 February 1907.
Joseph S. Heald
Our well-known and kindly townsman, Joseph S. Heald, died yesterday at the County Asylum for the Insane, at Embreeville, in the 75th years of his age. The deceased was born at the old corner
house, known as Bayard Taylor birthplace, in this borough, in 1832, and was the only son of Caleb
and Martha (Marshall) Heald of this place. As a youth he attended Samuel Martin's Boarding School,
in this borough, and later Benjamin Price's School, near West Chester. His young manhood was spent in his uncle's book store, in Wilmington, where he served for ten years as an efficient and
accommodating clerk, and working fro two years thereafter in Joshua Heald's bindery in the same
city. In 1862, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Captain Burnett's Company of the
Fourth Regiment of Delaware, served as Corporal and was honorably discharged at Arlington Heights in 1865.
In 1882 he married Miss Sarah Migillingan, of Kennett Square, and after forty years residence in
Delaware, returned the death of his father to the place of his birth. The malady which slowly robbed
him of his intellectual powers, compelled his removal to Embreeville about two years ago. Mr. Heald was a public spirited citizen, interested in intellectual subjects and derived his chief pleasure from reading and study. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the Society of Friends, from which
organization he however withdrew upon enlistment in the army, but was reinstated after the close of the war. His many excellent qualities of character, benevolence, loyalty and sincerity won him steadfast friends. His wife and only sister, the well-known minister of the Society of Friends, Mary Heald Way, of Oxford Survive.
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