William Augustus LANGEHEINEKEN

                       When Ed was young, he moved with his parents from Cowley County to Atchison County, Kansas. He attended rural school and then high school. He farmed with his father and brothers. After his marriage, he rented and worked the William O'Neal farm. In 1910 the family was found in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.  He was 36, Eva L. age 26, Melvin, 4 and Esher (Esther) age 2. He lived at Horton in 1921 for a short time. He was employed at the Rock Island Shops.

    After the separation and divorce, for a few years that he farmed on the Heineken home place south of Effingham and lived with his mother. He had a close out sale of horses, mules, cattle and implements, at the Heineken farm 6 miles south of Effingham, 2 Mar 1934. He was remarried to Eva in September of that year. In the 1930's, he did truck farming of a smaller area. He grew wonderful watermelons. I was a child and they tasted so good. When we came to California, Uncle Ed took care of our big dog, Blackie, and our old mare, Bird. He had another sale 20 Sep 1961, after his wife died. It was held at his farm located 3 miles north, 2 miles west, and 1/4 miles south of Nortonville, Kansas.

    He was tall and slender, with sandy brown hair. He was very vocal favoring socialism. Neither of their children lived near, but neighbors, Lloyd and Edith Page, were very good to them in their older years. Many friends and family joined to celebrate his eightieth birthday at the park in Effingham. After Eva died, Ed lived with his daughter, Esther & Barton Lybarger for about four years. His death was caused by a stroke.

    When he was about 90, I received a short letter from him which said. "I don't do much writing, but I want to do some explaining. Eva married a Garfield Mair, at Oskaloosa, Kansas in April 1902. After two months there was a baby to be. All he would do was lay around drunk and would not provide, so all she could do was go home to her parents. She applied for divorce in 1903. She was granted divorce, her maiden name, and gave Marvin her maiden name by law. This is all in the past and what is past is gone, and what can be done about it? My concern is the future. It may seem as a dream, but there is where we must live, there is still time to amend, so row, row your boat down the stream. Ed"
                  

                       Carrie, undoubtedly received her name from her father's mother, Carolina and her mother's sister, Isabell. As a small child, she came with her parents from Cowley County, to north eastern Kansas. She attended a rural school.  She was a homemaker. Two of her children settled in Kansas. The younger two children lived in Texas most of their lives.
    Obituary, Atchison Globe, March 24, 1957. "MRS CARRIE MATTHEWS DIES AT WINCHESTER. Mrs. Carrie Matthews, 81, died Friday morning at the Memorial Hospital, Winchester. She suffered a fractured hip in January and had been a patient in the hospital since that time. Mrs. Matthews, a daughter of William and Mary Heineken, was born Nov. 30, 1875. After her marriage to Joseph Matthews they moved to a farm near Nortonville. In 1919 they moved to La Feria, Tex., and 11 years ago returned to Valley Falls. Survivors are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Jesse Van Horn, Nortonville, and Mrs. Eva King, Edinberg, Tex., two sons, Clarence Matthews, Nortonville, and Kenneth Matthews, Burnet, Tex., a sister, Mrs. Elsie Thorpe, Easton, four brothers, Edward and Chester Heineken, Nortonville, Walter Heineken, Effingham, and Ernest Heineken, Valley Falls. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hagge Funeral home, Valley Falls. The Rev. Henry E. Millikan officiating. Burial will be in the Valley Falls cemetery." The cemetery at Valley Falls is called Rose Hill.
                  

                       Elnora may have been her name, as that is shown on the 1880 Census in Cowley County, Kansas. She was always called Nora. When her parents left for Atchison County, Kansas, she was about five or six years old. She attended a rural school. After her marriage, she and Walter lived in the old log house where he was born. It was built in 1859 by William Rogers on an 80 acre homestead. It was located about 4 miles southeast of Nortonville, Kansas. The log house was torn down in 1910 and a new house was built on the same spot. Walter's grandfather, Hiram Rogers, ran a store in South Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1840. He was a County Court Judge at Saint Joseph from 1850 to 1853. His great grandfather, John, was killed by Indians in Ohio.

    Nora was industrious, a good homemaker, and devoted to her family. She was the wife of a farmer, and often worked in the field with him. They usually had good vegetables, fruits, and fresh meat. She was a member of the Nortonville Christian Church and the Ladies Aid Society. When Carrie's family visited in the sled or lumber wagon, they quite often stayed over night. Nora was always neatly dressed and well groomed. I remember she enjoyed hats and nice clothes. Walter died at the family farm, of a heart attack, in the arms of his grandson, Melvin Gilbert Henry. Nora died at the Atchison hospital after an extended illness.
                  

                       Chet came to Atchison County, Kansas about 1883, with his parents. He attended rural school and high school. In Jun 1900 U.S. Census, he was age 18 and not living at home. I found that he was living in Benton Township, working as a farm laborer for a neighbor family by the name of George Jansen. George and his wife were from Denmark. Chet homesteaded near Parshall, North Dakota. His marriage license indicated that he was from McLean County, North Dakota. His wife, Julia, had been married before, and had one son Paul. Chet was in North Dakota by 1910. a card to Nora Rogers dated May 13, 1912 reads, "Monday. I am in Omaha, Neb. waiting for a train for Plaza. Will be there tomorrow night. Theodore started home last night. Write to Plaza North. D. C.C. Heineken." He lived there during WW I. The claim was located about 100 miles north of Bismark. The principle crops were flax and wheat. He later farmed near Nortonville, Kansas.

    An article in the newspaper 2 Apr 1943 is as follows: "Chet Heineken left on the train Wednesday afternoon for a weeks trip to Parshall, N.D. to hire someone to put in his wheat crop. Tractors are run day and night during the busy season and older men do not run tractors as they do here. Chet has 800 acres there. Parshall is about 60 miles from the Canadian border."

    Julia was living in California with some of her family when she died. They had no children. His home was located at 202 Locust, Nortonville, Kansas. When he died, Pat inherited his house and farm and half of the property in North Dakota. Ernest Heineken and Elsie Thorp were to inherit the other half. He was the executor of his parents estate and not thought highly of among most of his siblings. He died in the Atchison Hospital.
                  

                       Elsie spent most of her life in Atchison and Jefferson County, Kansas. She attended rural school. She had a pleasant and good disposition, which gained her many friends. She was married at the home of her parents on her 21st birthday, after which a dinner was served and vocal music by her cousin Mary Mitchell. Her husband, was a farmer. He was quite short. They lived near Nortonville, then Valley Falls, Potter, Dennison, Meriden and Easton. She enjoyed her children and animals. She was not a neat housekeeper. She and Charlie celebrated their 60th wedding Anniversary in 1965. When he retired, they lived at Winchester. His funeral was conducted at the First Baptist and hers at the Calvary Baptist church in Valley Falls.  She lived at the Winchester nursing home the last two years.
                  

                       He was mostly called Thee, short for Theodore by the family. He attended rural school and then farmed with his father and brothers in his early life. For several years, he farmed with his brothers in Parshall and Plaza, North Dakota. His wife was a mail order bride. She was married first to Labon Davis and had three children. She had lived at Powder River, Wyoming. When she married Thee, he was 45 and she was 46 years old. There were no children. After they divorced, Thee lived alone for many years. His farm was 7 1/2 miles south, 1 mile west of Effingham, and 5 1/2 miles northeast of Valley Falls. He and Harry Heineken farmed together for about 20 years, and he spend much time with Harry's family. He chewed tobacco. He had always enjoyed good health until a month before he died. He had a heart attack while working on his car on the road in front of his home.
                  

                       Arthur went to rural school, then farmed with his father and brothers in Atchison and Jefferson, Kansas. In April 1913, Arthur was in Plaza, North Dakota with his brother Theodore, farming. Later he farmed near Nortonville, Farmington, Larkin and Valley Falls.  He was a very nice looking, medium sized man, with dark hair. The family moved to Atchison in the 1930's and he worked for the Power & Light Company as gas foreman. In 1930 they had the largest twins on record at that time. They each weighed nine and one-half pounds. The family lived at 412 Woodlawn, 1508 Kansas Ave, and 714 Atchison Street, Atchison, Kansas. Arthur died after an extended illness due to asthma and heart trouble. He and his wife are both buried at Johnson County Memorial Gardens, Overland Park,
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                       As a youth, Walter went to the rural Hickory Grove school. He and Harry were in Plaza, North Dakota farming in October 1915. Later, Walter was a farmer near Nortonville, Kansas. His wife was always called Lottie. He and Lottie lived in the Effingham vicinity all their life. They sold the farm in 1968 and moved into town at Effingham. In 1974, Lottie was ill with gallstones and diabetes. She was always quite heavy. He was tall and slender, with light hair and blue eyes.

    They celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary February 9, 1975 at the Effingham grade school cafeteria. Lottie's mother, Anna Barneck attended at the age of 97 years old. In June 1978, Lottie was in Topeka Hospital. She had surgery for cancer of the intestines. They also celebrated their 65th anniversary, on February 3, 1980, at the Winchester Hospital Annex, where she was recovering from a fall suffered two weeks before. She died there in Winchester the next month. After his wife died, Walter admitted himself to the Winchester Retirement Home. He suffered with diabetes until he died at age 95. He was very sharp and witty. They were members of the Valley Falls Methodist Church.
                  

                       Harry was the ninth child. He attended Hickory Grove School, joint districts 70 and 98 in Benton Township, Atchison County, Kansas. It was often referred to as Sugar Bowl School. That school was organized in 1886. In 1901/2 his teacher was John C. Wasson. Other teachers were Edna Thompson, his cousin, Mary Mitchell, 1905/6, and Tillie Adams, 1907. In 1908/9 Ruth Babcock was the teacher. Pupils at that time were, Walter, Harry, and Ernest Heineken; Walter, May, and Ralph Hoffman; Russel Brown; Harry McCoy; Stella, and Charley Page; Helen, and Homer Lewton; Laura Kneen; Jesse, and Lura Van Horn. His father, W. L. Heineken was director of the school board. From his grade cards I see that Harry was a good student. He also had very good hand writing. He attended Sunday School at another country school about two miles northwest of their home, called Prairie View.
    He was mischevious as a youngster and loved to tease his younger brother. The only spanking he remembered getting was after he had done that, however it was not because of teasing, but because he ran from his Mother. He remembered not to do that again. He was very mechanically minded, he loved to invent things, and could fix anything. His older brothers learned quite early not to go too far in teasing him. One story is told about when he was a young boy, he was up on a farm building oiling a weather vane he had made. One of his brothers came by and took his ladder down. Harry threw the oil can at him and the spout lodged in his brothers head. It could have killed him, but thankfully it didn't.
    He worked on his parents farm from a young age, along with his six brothers and three sisters. His day consisted of chores: milking cows morning and night, feeding hogs, cows and horses. He worked in the field with horse power, plowing, planting, loading, and harvesting. Later he had a nice trotter horse and buggy for transportation.
    When he was around nineteen, he farmed for about four years in Parshall, which is near Fargo, North Dakota. His two brothers, Chet and Theo had a homesteaded there. He had influenza while there in 1918, and was very ill.
    In 1920 a deed was taken in his fathers name, for a half section in Jefferson County, Kansas, with a mortgage to the owner for $10,000. His father paid $8,400, and Chet, Theo and Harry each paid $6,000. The contract was taken with their father. His father died on 20 Jan 1921. Harry learned about it the next morning on his birthday. His oldest brother Ed, was to be the Administrator of the estate, but he declined and the next brother, Chet was designated. There was much mismanagement and conflict in the family over that land arrangement.
    Harry had a good ear for music, and played the violin for country dances with a neighbor friend, Walter Hoffman, who played the guitar. They could play all evening without repeating a song. He bought his first Ford car when he was twenty-five in 1920, and always did the repairs on it.
    In 1921 he met Alice Lewis of Effingham, Kansas. They were married at the Methodist Church there. He was baptized into the Methodist Church during summer of 1922, in a horse drinking tank.
    Sometime between 1926 and 1929, Harry built a two room house, barn, well,
fences, smokehouse, cave, etc. on his portion of virgin land in Jefferson County, Kansas, and moved his wife and two small children there. This place was called `the Corner'. The closest town was Valley Falls. His family lived there until 1936. Because of many circumstances,including the depression, the weather, his trust of the administrators etc., the property was taken over by the estate and his family was forced to move. There were some hard feelings because of mismanagement during that time. During the next year, he built an 18 foot house trailer from the axles up, with cooking and sleeping facilities for his family of five. In 1937 there was a public sale of their furniture, animals and machinery. They started west.
    Harry's original plan was to go to Arizona, but after meeting a minister, with his family and a trailer going to California, Harry decided to journey on to Southern California, arriving in October. He had a nephew, Melvin Heineken, living there. Work was not steady and his wife was homesick. After staying less than a year, lack of finances forced him to sell the house trailer, and the family returned to Kansas. The family lived with the sister of Alice, Helen and Todd Shell, near Effingham, Kansas, for about one and a half years. Harry was quite ill during some of that period.
    In 1940 things became so bad in Kansas, that the Shell and Heineken families, also Howard Cox, a friend of the Shell's, left for California in December. All lived together in an large old house in Venice. Harry paid the rent by roofing the house. Harry worked as a carpenter, mechanic and repair man for Barbara Ann and Helms Bakeries, May Company, and Howard Automobile Company. After six months, the Shell's and Cox's got a job and moved, Harry did not have a permanent job, and no place to live, so when school was out, back to Kansas we went for the summer. The only work available there was farm hand. It was back breaking work with little pay. In the fall, it was back to California. They found a large old house in Inglewood. They paid the rent and fed the family by taking in young men for room and board.
    In 1940, Harry and Alice bought a small home at 604 W. Spruce Street, Inglewood, California. World War II was declared in December 1941. Early in 1942, Harry took a metal burning course and was hired by the California Shipyard, then later with the Navy Shipyard at Wilmington, California. This was the first time they had permanent stability. After the war was over, the shipyards closed. Harry took a job as a crossing guard, then custodian for the Inglewood School system.
    Harry was five feet, eight and one half inches tall and weighed about 150 pounds. He had small bones, fair skin, brown eyes and black hair. His blood type was O negative and he was a very kind, pleasant, soft spoken person.  He loved people and enjoyed talking and kidding with children and adults. Every liked him. He was generous and would do for others before himself. He often helped neighborhood children fix their bicycles and balls. He enjoyed playing pool and snooker. While living in Kansas, he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows organization, and Alice joined the women's association of Rebekah's. His political affiliation was the Republican party.
    Harry smoked cigarettes and at times a pipe. Through most of his life, his health was good. However, on 1 Jun 1953, while at work, he collapsed with a coronary heart attack. Two weeks later, while he was still in the hospital, he died suddenly when an artery burst. He is buried in the Brotherly Love section, at Inglewood Park Cemetery, between Florence and Prairie.
                  

                       Ernest was raised in Atchison County, Kansas, and went to Hickory Grove rural school. He farmed with his father and brothers. His wife, Anna, came to Kansas at the age of seven from Kentucky and several years in Oklahoma. Her sister, Lottie, was married to Ernest's brother, Walter. Ernest and Anna were married in Judge Adams office at the Atchison County Court House. Harry and Alice Heineken were their attendants. In 1928, they bought a farm six miles south of Effingham, northeast of Valley Falls.

    He was a farmer until about 1978 when he retired. They rented the farm and moved to the town of Valley Falls, Kansas. Anna was well known for her cooking and canning. She took several awards in the culinary department at the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka for meat, vegetables, fruits, preserves and pickles. They belong to the Methodist Church. Not only did they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, but also their 60th and 70th. In later years he said, "The bigness of both acreage and machinery are the most profound changes he had seen, and he didn't like it. When family farms are gone, the consumers will get hurt." He inherited land in North Dakota, that had been in the family. He and Anna lived at the Winchester Rest Home in later years. He died at the Jefferson County Hospital at Winchester.