Proctor-Heaton Cemetery was formally known as Heaton Babtist Cemetery. It assumed it's current name in honor of John Proctor Sr. as he is a Revolutionary war soldier buried there. John was born in 1755 in England, and was sent by his mother and father as a stowaway in a trading vessel headed for the colonies. He was sold to a Virginian to repay the cost of his transportation to a shoemaker near Norfolk. Later he served in the Revolutionary war at Strong Point under General Wayne and also at Yorktown. After the war he became a farmer in West Virginia. Over a period of time he engaged in milling, construction of boats, and coopering, shipping most of his product down river to market. John Jr. his son settled in Oslo Township in 1835 and his father soon followed. John Sr. died in 1856 at nearly the age of 101 years old. The oldest grave marked in this cemetery is that of Oliver Heaton in 1835, and the Heaton family settled here in 1835. The last burial in this cemetery seems to be that of a Mary Elliot that died in 1912.
