Ralph Heiden - Now, on this farm, Grandpa owned all the land on the north
side of the 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. The last lot went to
Paul Goetz.
 (Note: Walter Grams was the teacher at
Bridge School during the later 1930s and into the 1940s. He built the original
house at
8864
Dixon Road where
Ervin Heiden
and later
Arthur Heiden lived)
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.
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.
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below are excerpts from transcriptions of audio tapes of
two meetings with different combinations of the people
shown here. They occurred on May 28 and September 25,
1995. For the entire script,
