The house that stood on this farm through the 1950s has been torn down. What was an outbuilding on the left in the picture appears to be used as a house now and the old chicken coop on the right still stands.

According to the 1940 and 1950 census, Frank and Martha Regelin (left) with their son, Edward, lived at this address. In the very early 1950s, they moved a short distance away to 440 Nieman Road.

During the early 1950s, Florence (Roggeman) (right) and her husband, Charles "Chuck" Toburen, with their children, Gordon, Carol (Foreman), Stanley,  Melvin, Marvin, Mary (Stankewich)  and Donald lived at this farm which was next door to Art and Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden 

Florence was Mildred's cousin although her father used the name Roggeman without the second "r". This was unlike Mildred's father who spelled his name, Roggerman as did everyone else in the family.

Later, Florence and Chuck moved to a farm in Onondaga in Ingham County, Michigan. They lived there for the rest of their lives.

Florence Toburen lived about 200 yards east of us when we lived at 12444 Dixon Road. I was a couple of years older than her son, Melvin, and I would often walk over to their house to play. I remember that they had sulfur water from their well which you could smell and taste. It wasn't bad, just different. Florence had an old set of encyclopedias and I spent time sitting on the linoleum floor looking through them discovering the wonders of the world.

One time my brother, Ron and I were fishing on the River Raisin on the north end of the farm. Stanley Toburen (right) who was in his teens was with us. Stan went to cast his line out and on the back swing, the hook caught my clothing and nearly pulled me into the water.

I was fishing with a pole made out of a 3 foot long piece of 2 by 2 wood that had a metal eye hook on the end where the line would go through. An old sewing thread spool acted as the reel. I actually caught a small sucker on this rig once.