[This family information will be of most interest to the descendants of William Carl Heiden and Herman Heiden. In the 1890s picture of the Rambow Family below, William's wife, Mary, is standing at the far right of the back row. Herman's wife, Fredareka is in the middle of the standing row]

Although we do not know for sure, it would appear that Heinrich Rambow and his wife, Wilhelmina (Milhan) and August Heiden and his wife, Fredericka (Knaack) probably knew each other in Germany. They were all from the small village of Gross Wokern which only had a few hundred people residents during the late 1800s. August and his family emigrated to America in 1873 and the Rambows followed one year later. Both clans ended up in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan. Finally, two of Heinrich's daughters (Mary and Fredareka) married two of August's sons (William Carl and Herman, respectively).

One more "coincidence" was that the Rambows settled on a farm on South Custer Road only a few miles from the home of August Heiden who was a brick mason and builder. Family stories say that August built the Rambow house for them probably in the late 1870s. The first generation Rambows lived their until their deaths and then their two youngest children, William and Wilhelmina "Minnie" lived there until her death in 1962.

Wilhelmina Rambow's maiden name was Milhan and some of her relatives also came to America at the same time and settled nearby in Raisinville Township. Her brother, Carl Christian Johann Frederick Martin "Fred" Milhan (left) settled only a mile or so away from the Rambows at 7950 South Custer Road.