Talk:Henry Heth (businessman)

more work needed

I triage cleaned this article, but am at a library with quirky ancestry.com access -- and located several counties away from metropolitan Richmond where this man lived and where the family history cited may be at a research library. Clearly, the Heth family's repeated recycling of the name "Henry" complicates matters greatly. While the War of 1812 officer was likely his son of the same name, if only because his usual honorific was "colonel" a higher rank than "captain" and "major" of the War of 1812 officer, the title "colonel" was often an honorific, and could even be a brevet rank. Furthermore, the War of 1812 figure served under a Revolutionary War veteran turned militia officer R. Porterfield about the same age as (and a rank above) this man. Neither the wikipedia article nor the UVA library blurb I cited explains how or why Heth apparently died in then-developing Georgia in 1822. I found especially odd that a younger son, not Henry Jr. (or III) inherited the Midlothian mines. That would make sense if the elder brother moved away or had tuberculosis or another condition which would complicate his ability to manage the business, in which case that physical condition could also have limited (else be caused by) the military service a decade earlier. This library does have both of Stuart Butler's volumes concerning Virginians in the War of 1812. I removed the bit about John Heth serving in that conflict, because his name appears neither in the volume concerning the Virginia militia in that war, nor the volume concerning Virginians in the U.S. Army in that conflict.Jweaver28 (talk) 23:05, 22 November 2022 (UTC)