After their marriage in 1928, Leo and Lucille (Smith) Heiden lived at this address for a few years. Their first child, Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann was born here in 1929. They moved a few hundred yards east to 8861 Dixon Road to live with Leo's parents. Their second child, David. was born in that house in 1935.

The original house was a small one that was often used for the hired hands at the Wakefield farm as described by William Frank Heiden. It was torn down long ago and in the 1960s the house shown above was built in about the same location.

In doing the research, several references were made to people living at the "Wakefield" farm or place. Growing up on Dixon Road nearby in the 1950s and 60s, I only knew this as the farm owned by Jesse Barnes. Eventually, I learned that, as shown on the 1890 Plat map below, the Wakefield farm at that time had two houses. The one shown here where the Barnes family lived would have the postal numbers 8750. At that time, the second house which was located on the east end of the propert on the north side of Dixon Road no longer existed.

Its house number, 8530 Dixon Road would, in the mid-1960s, be assumed by a new brick house that was built in that location. This house was next to the western property line for the farm at 8420 Dixon Road.

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.