"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, June 26, 1919, p 1. Jeremiah Ayers Heritage was born April 3, 1835, in Cumberland County, N. J., and died at Milton Junction, Wis., June 21, 1919. He came of Quaker stock and naturally possessed many sterling qualities. He was a son of Alexander and Keziah Ayers Heritage, his father being a deacon in the Marlboro, N. J., Seventh Day Baptist church. He had four own brothers one of whom still survives him, Isaac, of West Salem, Wis. He also had one half brother who is deceased and one step brother and sister, the latter being Mrs. Dr. E. M. Tomlinson of Plainfield, N. J. Sometime in the fifties he came west, stopping first at Walworth, where he spent about a year and a half. Then he came to Milton, where he spent another year and a half, and then he went on to Edgerton where he went into the harness business with his brother Isaac. In the spring of 1864 he returned to New Jersey where he married Miss Hannah Mason. On his return he resumed his business at Edgerton but later he took up residence at Madison, Wis., where he carried on the same trade. Here part of his life was spent, except for a brief period in Virginia, until his wife died, November 9, 1911. They had one child, Mrs. Anna Heritage Fuller, of Schuyler, Neb. Early in life he made a profession of Christianity and was baptized and received into the fellowship of the Shiloh, N. J., S. D. B. church. When he settled at Edgerton he joined the Seventh Day Baptist church at that place, but later transferred it to the Albion church. After the death of his wife, he came to make his home with Mrs. Nelson Clark, a half sister, where he lived to the time of his death. His daughter being a trained nurse has afforded him many of the comforts of life. He and his surviving brother have been afflicted with blindness for a number of years, Mr. Heritage was a kind husband and father and sought in every way to provide comfort and happiness for those around him. He leaves a host of friends and relatives to morn his loss. Funeral services were conducted from his late home with Mrs. Nelson Clark, by Rev. Edgar D. Van Horn, pastor of the Milton Junction S. D. B. church, and the body was taken to Madison, Wis. for burial. Those who acted as pall-bearers were apprentices of his, who learned the harness trade - Alexander Campbell, Albion; William Davis and Harry Ash, Edgerton; Ed Davis, Lake Mills. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders