Daniel was a widower as of the 1830 census; he married Nancy Tison in Washington County in 1832. They were still in that county in 1840, as was Nancy's brother, Gideon Tison. Nancy's father, John Tison Sr., and uncle, Noah Tison Sr., had already relocated to Emanuel County by then. Daniel and Nancy followed them there, probably after the 1847 marriage in Washington County of Daniel's son, William. Daniel and his two older sons, Thomas and William, had land surveyed in Emanuel County in the late 1840's and early 1850's.
Daniel must have died in the 1850's as I could not find him in 1860. The Nancy Heath living a couple doors down from Thomas Heath in Pulaski that census, in the household of Griffin and Sarah A. Heath, is almost certainly Daniel Heath's widow, even though the age (40) is all wrong and it shows South Carolina as her birthplace. Griffin was obviously a middle name, as this is clearly Moses Heath. Thomas Heath named one of his sons, my great-grandfather, Noah Griffin.Daniel and Nancy Heath had two sons at home in the 1850 census: Moses, 17; and Isaac, 11. Moses (shown as Moses J.) married Ceney Ann Forehand in Pulaski County on 20 Aug 1857. In the 1860 census Griffin Heath has two kids - John Daniel, 2, and Samuel Malachi, 6 months. Griffin Heath did not survive the war but in the 1870 census his 12-year-old son Daniel Heath and 8-year-old daughter, Mary Heath, are living with their mother Sena Bradley and grandmother, Letta Forehand. Griffin's widow Ceney/Sena/Sarah had obviously remarried around 1866 as she has a 3-year-old son carrying the Bradley surname, but she was apparently widowed again by 1870.
Isaac T. Heath married Martha Roland in Pulaski County on 16 Jul 1857; in 1860 Isaac and Martha and their 2-year-old daughter, Nancy, are living in the household of Elizabeth Johnson, 42. This is Daniel Heath's daughter, Elizabeth, who was 32 and still at home in 1850, but married Henry Johnson 20 Mar 1851 in Emanuel County. Next door to them is Daniel's other daughter, Polly Ann, with her husband John Thomas, whom she married (as Mary Heath) on 30 Nov 1853 in Emanuel County. Isaac's widow Martha married Silas Smith on 3 Jan 1866, and their household in 1870 includes Isaac's 12-year-old daughter, Nancy Heath.
Also living in Pulaski in 1860 is Nancy Tison Heath's younger sister, Mary, who married Joseph H. Anderson on 16 May 1844 in Emanuel County. Living in the Anderson home is John Tison, 78, father of Nancy and Mary.
- Elizabeth Heath, b. ca 1818; m. Henry Johnson
- Thomas B. Heath, b. ca 1822; m. Elizabeth Tison
- Mary "Polly Ann" Heath, b. ca 1827; m. John Thomas
- William H. Heath, b. ca 1827; m. Arsenia Brady
Children with Nancy Tison:
- Moses Griffin Heath, b. ca 1833; m. Ceney Anne Forehand
- Isaac T. Heath, b. ca 1839; m. Martha Roland
When the rest of his family relocated to Pulaski, William Heath apparently moved to Johnson County, where I found him in 1860 and 1870.
William was the only one of Daniel Heath's sons who survived the war. Thomas fought with Co. F of the 12th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery and died at the prison hospital in Frederick, Maryland, on 20 Jul 1864 of complications from a gun shot wound to the shoulder. William was in the same regiment though the two brothers obviously enlisted at different times and places. William was recovering from a gunshot wound at Washington Street Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, when it was captured by Union troops on 3 Apr 1865, and he was discharged / paroled from there a few weeks later. Isaac joined Co. K, 49th Infantry Regiment (Pulaski Greys) on March 4, 1862, and though one record shows he was paroled in 1865, others indicate that he died from dysentery on 19 Nov 1862 at Mt. Jackson, Virginia, near Richmond. Isaac's widow, Martha (Roland) Heath, submitted a claim for settlement on 9 Jul 1863 and remarried in 1866. Moses served with Co. C, 10th Battalion Georgia Infantry but died while on furlough home (Sumter County, Georgia) on 26 May 1862; his widow, Ceney Ann (Forehand) Heath submitted a claim for settlement on 29 May 1863 and remarried about 1866.
