William Carleton Heaton (1888 - 1957)

Born 10 Mar 1888 in Farmington, St Francois, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Oma Cook (Wagner) Heaton — married 8 May 1909 in Fort Worth, Texas

Husband of Lillie Bell (Stephenson) Heaton — married 4 Feb 1920 in Basehor, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States

Descendants

Died 22 May 1957 at age 69 in Purcell, McClain, Oklahoma, USA

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Biography

William was born in 1888. He served as a Methodist minister in Oklahoma and other conferences. He passed away in 1957.

After his wife, Oma passed away in 1919, Will was left with 2 young children. He remarried Lillie Bell Stephenson a year later and the children were raised by their father and step-mother.

The 1940 Census lists his mother-in-law, Mary Stephenson, age 78 living with them.

The following is his memoir from the 1957 Methodist Church Oklahoma Annual Conference Journal:

Will Carleton Heaton was born in Farmington, Mo., on March 10, 1888. He died on May 22, 1957, in a Mangum, Oklahoma hospital, after a long illness, and was buried at Purcell, Oklahoma, where he made his home. Brother Heaton has served as an active minister in the Methodist Conference in Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico for over 38 years, before his retirement, because of failing health, from the pastorate at Beaver City, Oklahoma, in 1950. In all, he served more than twenty churches during his long ministry. He had served as Conference Missionary Secretary; as Chairman of the Conference Relations Committee; as Dean of the conference undergraduate school for pastors. He had served as pastor-in-charge, during the building of ten new churches and parsonages. He is survived by his wife, Lillie B., of Purcell; a daughter, Mrs. J.O. Smith, of Tulsa, a son, Rev. Loren Heaton, of Mangum First Methodist Church and five grandchildren.

Conference Membership: 1911 Received on trial to the Oklahoma Annual Conference 1911-1914 Served the Homestead Methodist Church 1913 Admitted into full membership and ordained Deacon 1914 Transferred to the Kansas Annual Conference 1917 Transferred to the Oklahoma Annual Conference 1917-1920 Served the Buffalo Methodist Church 1925 Transferred to the Kansas Annual Conference 1931 Transferred to the Oklahoma Annual Conference 1939 Entered the East Oklahoma Conference when the Oklahoma Annual Conference split 1941 Transferred to the West Oklahoma Conference 1950 Retired

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=130323285

Year: 1940; Census Place: Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma; Roll: T627_3330; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 66-6

Methodist Church Oklahoma Annual Conference Journal, 1957.