Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Edward Heberton is buried in the Laurel
Grove Cemetery in Waldo, Florida. His marker is a rather plain
marble stone: "Rev. Edward P. Heberton of Philadelphia, Pa. Born
Aug 13, 1830, Died Aug. 22, 1883." Why was it so important to
mention that he was from Philadelphia, and how did he end up so
far away from home? From the Necrological Reports and Annual
Proceedings of the Alumni Association of Princeton Theological
Seminary (Google Books is really a handy research tool), we
learn that Edward Payson Heberton was the son of a minister. he
attended college in New Jersey, studying the law, before a
12-year career with the U.S. Coastal Survey and U.S. Navy.
Heberton was ordained as a minister after the Civil War, in
1868, serving at churches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Duluth,
Minnesota; Columbus, Ohio; and Deerfield, New Jersey. In 1882 he
came to Florida as a missionary, became ill, and died in Waldo
on August 20, 1883. He was 54 years old, and left behind a wife
(Carrie) and five chil