--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 2 published: 1920-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Jonathan Heaton and His Fifteen Sons," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 2 (December 1920): 143.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2402unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2402unse start_page: 143 end_page: 143 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2402unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Jonathan Heaton and His Fifteen Sons AMERICA 143 the Lord did bring Mulek into the land north" (Hel. 6:10). The "land north" is still especially known by that glorious name, which, in a broader sense, coven, as on Mercator's map, two great continents. And thus, that name, in its modern form, America, is an omnipresent, unimpeachable witness for the truth of the Book of Mormon. JONATHAN HEATON AND HIS FIFTEEN SONS It is doubtful whether anywhere in the country, except among the Lat- ter-day Saints, a picture such as the above can be produced. It is a photo of Jonathan Heaton and his fifteen sons, taken in 1905-6. Mr. Heaton is a resident of Moccasin, located in the Arizona strip. The names, commencing with the father, who stands at the head, to the right are: Jonathan Heaton, William H., Jonathan B., Israel H., Charles C, Ira H., Fred C, Junius, Christopher C, Edward C. Front: Daniel H., Lynn, Sterling, Harold, Gil- bert and Tomiltz, H. Tomiltz died about three years ago, that is, in 1917, as the result of a horse falling on him, and William H. was killed while cut- ting wheat two years ago. One remarkable characteristic of the whole family is that not one of them has tasted tea, coffee, tobacco or liquor of any kind. A number of them have filled missions and some of them are counselors to stake presi- dents and bishops, and all are workers in the stakes and wards of the Church, in the places where they live. All of them, except Tomiltz, were registered in the last world war.