Anna Louisa (Dewees) Heritage (1829 - 1911)

Born 31 Mar 1829 in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Apr 1911 at age 82 in Pleasantville, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Anna was born on 31 March 1829 in Holmesburg, Lower Dublin Township outside Philadelphia. Her parents were Isaiah S. and Mary Hart Dewees. She married Joseph Deerman Heritage, and the couple had nine children: Ella, Newton, Alfred, Emma, John, Lizzie, Anna, Joseph, and Mary. Anna died of liver cancer on 5 April 1911 in Pleasantville, New Jersey. She is buried with her husband and three of her children in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.

Research Notes

• Name appears mostly as Anna but also as Annie and, on her gravestone, Ann.
• Family counted twice in 1870 Census, once in July and again in November.
• Name recorded as "Heretage" in 1880 Census.
• Name recorded as "Hirithage" in 1910 Census.
• Death certificate of son Joseph (https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/interactive/5164/41381_2421401696_0885-03339?pid=752446415) gives middle name Louisa.
• Source: S16 Author: <unknown> DuckGirl73 Title: DuckGirl73 Web Site Text:

  MyHeritage.com family tree

  Family site: DuckGirl73 Web Site

  Family tree: 7517966-1 Type: Smart Matching Media: 322813-1 Record ID Number: MH:S16 Page: Ann L Deweese Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Data: Date: 17 APR 2011 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Event: Smart Matching Role: 1002748

Sources

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXR9-9W4 : 13 December 2017), Anna Heritage in entry for Joseph B Heritage, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ5B-T9P : 12 April 2016), Anna Heritage in household of Joseph Heritage, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 172, family 1181, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,909.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZRR-KYH : 12 April 2016), Annie Heritage in household of Jos D Heritage, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 45, family 353, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,937.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWJP-ZSC : 21 August 2017), Annie Heretage in household of Jos D Heretage, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 462, sheet 26A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1182; FHL microfilm 1,255,182.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WL-BVQ : accessed 16 August 2018), Annie L Heritage, Division 3 Philadelphia city Ward 35, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 907, sheet 1B, family 24, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,477.
• Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory for 1900. Philadelphia: James Gopsill's Sons, 1900, p. 1017. Accessed at AncestryLibrary, 16 August 2018.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKRY-W1G : accessed 26 August 2018), Annie Hirithage in household of Charles H Humphry, Pleasantville Boro Ward 2, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 37, sheet 4A, family 97, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 867; FHL microfilm 1,374,880.
• "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXJB-W62 : 8 March 2018), Anne L. Heritage, 05 Apr 1911; citing cn 9137, Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 1,405,420.
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 894. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Accessed at AncestryLibrary, 16 August 2018.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 August 2018), memorial page for Ann L Heritage (1839–1911), Find A Grave Memorial no. 138305503, citing Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Mary Landfair Whiting (contributor 47033353) . Find A Grave: Memorial #138305503
• LaMunyan, Mrs. Philip E. The DeWees Family: Genealogical Data, Biographical Fact and Historical Information. Norristown, Pa.: William H. Roberts, 1905, p. 48. Accessed at Internet Archive, 16 August 2018.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Dick Morse for creating WikiTree profile Deweese-169 through the import of 4j665f_9697919uoe26eoawi65048.ged on Feb 3, 2013.

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