Bios: Heacock & Brunstetter: Greenwood Twp, Columbia County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Dalice Fadden. dalice@ccomm.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ Heacock & Brunstetter Family History Columbia and Montour Counties, PA J.H. Beers & Co., 1915 Jeremiah Ralph Heacock, of Greenwood township, belongs to a family of Franch extraction numerously represented in Columbia County. His great-grandfather came to this country from France, and his grandfather was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. William E. Heacock, father of Jeremiah Ralph Heacock, was born in Greenwood township, Columbia County. Having learned the trade of painter he has followed that calling for the last thirty years, and as he has an excellent education he also engaged in school teaching, regularly for twenty-seven years, previous to taking up painting. During the Civil War he was a loyal Union man, and served three years in the army with Battery F, 2d Pennsylvania Artillery, acting as topographical engineer. He was discharged in 1865 at Wheeling, W.Va. Mr. Heacock married Mary E. Smith, whose family was of German descent; her father was a farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Heacock was born three children: Jeremiah Ralph; William Earl, who died in infancy; and Ina May, who married Bion Hartman, a farmer, of Waller, in Jackson township, Columbia county. Jeremiah Ralph Heacock was born in Greenwood township, Columbia Co., Pa., Aug. 27, 1871, and obtained his education in the schools of the home locality. From early life he has been engaged in agricultural work, and for some time he was employed at lumbering. He is now farming in Greenwood township, where his industry and straightforwardness have commanded the respect and good will of all who know him. On May 31, 1905, Mr. Heacock married Lola Brunstetter, who taught for three terms before her marriage; she was educated in the common schools and at the Bloomsburg Normal, attending that institution for two years. Mr. and Mrs. Heacock have one child, Reber Ralph, born April 11, 1909. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. George Brunstetter, Mrs. Heacock's father, was a builder and farmer by occupation. His wife, Mattie R. (Kline), a native of Orange township, Columbia county, was a daughter of John Kline, who worked at painting as well as farming. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brunstetter, the only son dying in infancy. The daughters were as follows: Lola, Mrs. Heacock; Jennie, Mrs. William Kisner, of Pittsburgh; Effie, wife of G.S. Stevens, of Shickshinny, Pa., wholesale confectioner (they have one child, Glenn Z.); Zoe, married to Eli Ensor, a farmer, living at Kettle Falls, Wash. (they have one child, Paul); Ruth, wife of John Lawson, a farmer, of Kettle Falls (they have one child, Leona Roberta); and Laura, wife of William Avery, a farmer (they have one son). The mother of this family died in 1903 and is buried in McHnery's graveyard, Orange township, Columbia county.