Ananias Hearon (1816-1909) was born in South Carolina and died in Denver, Colorado. He was a farmer and Civil War veteran, serving in Company D of the 1st Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) of the Confederate States Army. As a young man he moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi, and began work on a plantation as a slave overseer, buying the plantation in 1850. In 1875 he moved to Denver, working as a farmer and serving as a Deacon of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1885 he was charged with violating the Civil Rights Act when he prevented an African-American girl, Ella Reynolds, from attending services at St. Paul's. In 1886 he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and subscribe to The Christian Science Journal.

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