On May 28th and September 24th, 1995 different groups of
descendents of
William Carl and
Mary Heiden met to share their family memories. The
conversations were recorded and later written transcripts were
made. Below are excerpts which relate to this person or topic..
Pictured
is what was called a cassette tape back in pre-digital
times.
Ralph Heiden - What did the family do on the farm during a typical year?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - In the fall, Pa
(right) would tell us that when we got home from
school we would have to help pick up the potatoes he would dig that
day. In the spring, we would go out and pull the wild mustard out of
the wheat fields.
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - In one bedroom upstairs we had some red material, it wasn’t
carpet, on the floor that was put down with little tacks. They had a
special tool to take up all the tacks. Then you took it out in the
yard and “beat the daylight” out of it with a carpet beater. After
it aired out a bit, you took it back upstairs and tacked it down
again.
Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden - We used to have those rugs made in strips and sow them all
together. We would take them all apart and then sow them back
together after they were cleaned.
Ralph Heiden - Who built the house at
8861 Dixon Road which became the
family homestead?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - Grandpa Heiden (August)
(left) was a mason and he built on the
dining room and kitchen after Pa bought it. Before moving there,
they lived down on South Custer Road at the Abby Place and the
Albright place.
Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden - Abby’s was right on the corner where Dixon Road and South
Custer come together.
Helma (Heiden) Nickel -
Edna and
Carl and
Leo went to school down there at the
King
School. They rented those houses before moving to Dixon Road.
(See below)
Ralph Heiden - Did Lee and Lu live where Jesse Barnes lived?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - No I don’t think so. Carl lived there. I don’t think Mary
Lou lived there.
Ralph Heiden - What about the doctor? Did he make rounds and stop by the
farm periodically?
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - I remember Dr. Kelly. You had to call him to come out. He
didn’t come to our house very often.
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - Pa would get those kidney stones. He would just lay over the
couch in such misery. The doctor would come and give him a shot. He
would just be sick the next day and lay around.
A
plat map
of
Raisinville
Township
for 1901
shows
William
Heiden
as
owning a
76 acre
farm at
the
junction
of Dixon
Road and
South
Custer
Road.
Albright
Farm
Ralph Heiden - Now, on this farm,
Grandpa owned all the land on the north
side of the road (8861
Dixon Road) to the river too? Did he sell off the parcels where
the other houses are now?
William Frank Heiden -
Leo was the first one to buy a three acre lot from
Dixon
Road back to the river. His was the one right next to Jesse Barnes’
place. Then he sold three acres to
Wally Grams
(left). The last lot went to
Paul Goetz.
Ralph Heiden - I remember Jerry and Anabel from Toledo who had a small
place there where they came out on weekends.
William Frank Heiden - Those were the Feebacks. They bought the lot from Leo.
(Lot 3)
Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - I think they sold the lot when they bought the house on
South Custer where Mother lives now.
Brick Tommelein - When
Leo bought it, were they going to live there? Wonder
why they never did.
Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - They had intentions of building. I can remember them
looking at books and books of house plans but they never did build.
Probably because they had a chance to buy the home on
South Custer.
William Frank Heiden - I think Pa sold all those lots for $1500 each.
Ralph Heiden - Someone thought that Grandpa delivered the mail at one time.
William Frank Heiden - I think they probably heard him talking about going down
to the corner when the road was muddy and getting the mail down
there and taking it to the people along the way.
Wally
Grams was, at that time, the teacher at
Bridge
School.
Over
the years, we have also received written memories and
remembrances about this person or topic from various family
members.
Pictured
is what was called a cassette tape back in pre-digital
times.
Ralph Heiden - What did the family do on the farm during a typical year?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - Grandpa Heiden (August)
(left) was a mason and he built on the
dining room and kitchen after Pa bought it. Before moving there,
they lived down on South Custer Road at the Abby Place and the
A
plat map
of
Raisinville
Township
for 1901
shows
William
Heiden
as
owning a
76 acre
farm at
the
junction
of Dixon
Road and
South
Custer
Road.
William Frank Heiden -
Over
the years, we have also received written memories and
remembrances about this person or topic from various family
members. 
Wilma, Jeanie, Wm Frank, Helma & Marie were
children of 
