After living with his parents from his marriage in 1930 to after the birth of his first child, Velda (left) in 1931, Carl Heiden and his wife Anita (Kroeger) moved about 1/4 mile east to a house at 8530 Dixon Road. It was here that their second daughter, Verdell (Geibel) was born in 1934.

They then moved to a house on North Custer Road, "across from the airport" according to Velda Heiden where they lived for 3 or 4 years. Then they went back to the Dixon Road house  before moving to their final home at 600 Ida Maybee Road in 1950.

The airport mentioned was the Custer Airport at 2800 North Custer Road so they probably lived around 2380 North Custer Road on the south side of the street.

In doing the research, several references were made to people living at the "Wakefield" farm or place. Growing up on Dixon Road nearby, I only knew this as the farm owned by Jesse Barnes in the 1950s onward. Eventually, I learned that, as shown on the 1890 Plat map below, the Wakefield farm at that time had two houses. The postal numbers would be 8750 where the Barnes family lived and 8530 Dixon Road which through the 1950s was farm land with no house. In the mid-1960s, someone bought the lot on the east side of the Barnes' farm and west of the boundary for the farm at 8420 Dixon Road and the house shown above was built on the site.

In a conversation in 1995, Wm Frank Heiden offered the following:

"There was another small house down the road on the east end of the Wakefield farm and that is where Mary Lou was born. They had that little house for the guy who worked the farm to live in.

Wakefield lived where Jesse Barnes lived (to the west at 8750 Dixon Road) and they didn’t want to work the farm. Old man Wakefield gave me a cow on the condition that I would give them some of the milk. I used to take over a couple of quarts a day to them.

When Wakefield died, he gave me a gold watch and he left Art a horse and buggy. I’ve had it seventy years and I rarely carry it in my pocket, yet it’s all worn off. Old Wakefield must have carried it for a long time before he died.