1. Wm Carl Home Farm

Ralph Heiden - Grandpa (William Carl) Heiden bought this farm in 1909 or there about. There are stories about great grandpa (August) Heiden doing the masonry work on the house. Do you know anything about that?

William Frank Heiden - I heard them talking about walking over here from South Custer when Pa was about 13 or 14 to help his dad do the brick work.

Ralph Heiden - Then that would have been about 1890. So that was when someone else owned it?

William Frank Heiden - Yes, I think it was the Langs or someone else who owned the farm at that time.

Ralph Heiden - The 1873 county plat book I think lists the owner of this farm as a man named Meyers.

William Frank Heiden - They called him “Milky Meyers.” I always heard Pa talking about him.

Ralph Heiden - The plat map also showed a piece of landlocked property located on the back of this property. There wasn’t any access from Ida Maybee Road, Dixon, Mulheisen or South Custer.

William Frank Heiden - That would be on the back end of Suhciks farm. It was the Stokes (Stock) that had an old house back in there on a hill. Could be some relation to Bill Stokes (Stock), Aunt Emma’s (right) relations.

Ralph Heiden - There also used to be a house on the north side of the road just east of here. I know Mary Lou was born there and Carl and Anita lived there for a while too.

William Frank Heiden - Carl lived next door here where Jessie Barnes lived. Verdell was born there. Edna and Henry lived in the other place for a while and Bill and Alice (Brossia) Heiden lived there too. Bill worked the farm. That was when old Jesse Wakefield owned it.

Wm Carl Heiden bought the farm on April 1, 1909 which was his 35th birthday. August Heiden was a brick mason by trade. Also, although the family of Emma (Mrs Heinrich) Heiden was often referred to as the "Stokes", but in the obituaries of other family members, they were always under the name Stock.