Madison County KyArchives Biographies.....Heath, M. C. March 26, 1845 - unknown
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Author: Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 3rd edition, 1886

M. C. HEATH, M. D., a leading physician of Richmond, was born March 26, 1845, in
Lancaster County, S. C. and is a son of Moses C. and Mary (Morrow) Heath, who
were born in South Carolina in 1806 and 1909 respectively and had a family of
eleven sons and four daughters, twelve of whom were reared. Moses C. Heath was a
leading cotton planter, and died in 1866; his wife is still living in good
health. He, in turn, was a son of Moses C. Heath, who married a Miss Chapel,
both natives of Virginia, and of English descent. The family were all planters
as far as known. The Doctor was reared on a plantation and received a good
English education. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Seventeenth South Carolina
Infantry; and in Gen. N. G. Even's command; as in the Jackson (Miss.) campaign,
Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg, Va.; also in the battle of Five Forks, and at
the surrender at Appomattox. After the surrender he returned to South Carolina
where he remained two years; then he went to Georgia; in 1868 he located in
Lexington, Ky., and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Sweeney. He
attended his first course of lectures in Louisville, and graduated from
Bellevue, New York City, in 1871, and immediately located in Camilla, Ga. In
1874 he located in Richmond, Ky., where he has continued to practice with
success. He is one of the active members of the State Medical Association, also
of the Madison County Association. He was united in marriage in December, 1872,
to Mary Emery, a daughter of Zalton and Martha
(Fostes) Emery. The issue of this marriage was seven children, four living:
Nannie C., Flora H., Moses C. and J. J. The Doctor and wife are members of the
Presbyterian and Christian Churches. The Doctor is a member of the F.& A.M., and
in politics is a Democrat.


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