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33 ALBERT HEATH was born in North Carolina in 1816 and married Luzenia Tomlinson in 1837. They lived on a farm a few years but he was too much of a mechanical turn to be a farmer and moved to Muncie, Ind. where he worked at carpentering a few years and then moved to Illinois. At the outbreak of the Civil War he went south and being a well posted mason acted as spy for the union army. He told the writer that he was under arrest twice and would have been shot had it not been for masonry. All the rebel officers were masons. He was personally acquainted with rebel general Price and had frequent conversations with him. Nothing was heard of him for 15 years after he went south and all of the relatives except his mother had given him up as dead. His mother remarked to the writer that she believed he was still living and that she would live to see him again. We wrote to different papers of that part of the south where we believed him to be located and one of the notices was read at a campmeeting at which he was attending and caused him to resolve to go home and see his mother. A few days later he reaches Indianapolis, Ind. from where he writes to my father "I will be on the old farm next Sunday. Be careful how you break the news to mother." That reunion at the old farm is described in the biography of his mother on page 70. Albert, after a few weeks visiting, returned to Hannibal, Mo. where he died Feb. 25, 1905, age 89.
Delaware County, Indiana Index to Marriage Record 1827 - 1920 Inclusive Name: Albert Heath Spouse: Lusina Tomlinson Marriage Date: 28 Jan 1836 Book: C-1 OSPage: 110 County: Delaware