PERSONAL SYNOPSIS...
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin (aka: "Gram") was a wonderful grandmother who loved to travel, see new places, and meet new people. Her stories were endless, ranging from the time as a girl when a horse in her family barn stomped her, to her parents clearing the land in Windfall, Tipton, Indiana and building a log home. She had a fabulous memory, illustrated by her relating 150 years of Heflin and DeLong heritage -- names, dates, and locations -- one little piece of scratch paper at a time!
Mabel was always busy with some endeavor -- be it taking her small grandchildren to visit the swans in the pond at Horace Mann High School that was located across the street from her apartment in Gary, IN, later attending weddings of these same grandchildren, playing pinochle with her "cronies", engaging in Chinese Checkers or the Ouija Board with the grandkids, or eating her favorite pie. (And she LOVED pie!)
EVERY single Christmas, Mabel would dress up as a "punk" Mrs. Santa, with long beads, bright red rouge, and short red skirt! AND, when she was trying to "get your goat", she'd tell you that she was going to go "eat worms"!!! (Although, no one ever actually SAW her do this!)
On about the last day of Mabel's life at 96 years, 9 months, Mabel said that she was ready to go "be with Pop". AND, there she is...
"Two lights are from one household gone,
Two voices we loved are stilled:
Two places vacant at our hearth,
Which never can be filled." Author unknown
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DEATH NOTICE...
Heflin, Mabel A. -- Age 96, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 1988.
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin was a Lake County area resident for 58 years, formerly of Elwood, Indiana. Member of the Christian Church of Merrillville and the Order of the Eastern Star. Preceded in death by son Burl Earl Heflin and daughter Wilma Catherine Beach.
Survived by daughter Evelyn Ann (Don) Morfee of Sarasota, FL; son, Ross Eugene Heflin of Newport Beach, CA; six grandchildren; many great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Stilinovich and Wiatrolik Funeral Home, 7535 Taft Street (@Cleveland Street), Merrillville. Rev. Fred D. Perry officiating. Burial at Calumet Park Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m.
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
Elwood Call-Leader
30 Dec 1959
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Heflin...
The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 24 Dec 1959. Mrs. Heflin was the former Mabel DeLong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus DeLong. Married 24 Dec 1909. Mr. Heflin worked at the Elwood tin mill and then at the Gary Mills. He was a Mason. Mrs. Heflin was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. 4 children: Mrs. Noel Beach of Elwood, Ross Heflin of Hartford City, Burl Heflin of Gary, and Mrs. Donald Morfee of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
NEWSY NOTES!
1. Marriage: Earl C. Heflin -- December 24, 1909, Madison Twp., Tipton Co., Indiana, performed by the Reverend Burl M. Bechdolt. (This is the man for whom their son, Burl Heflin, was named.) HHB has the framed Certificate of Marriage of her grandparents on which is an ODD ODE...
"Poem to the Betrothed..."
There comes a day
When love, that lies asleep,
The fairest island in the mighty deep
Wakes on our sight;
There do we stay awhile,
But soon again
We trim our sails to seek
The open main;
And now, whatever winds
And waves betide,
Two friendly ships are sailing
Side by side…
2. Mabel was a long-standing member of the Christian Church, as well a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
3. Grammar School: Mabel graduated from Madison Township Public Schools at 8:00 p.m. on June 11, 1909 at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hobbs, Tipton, IN at 8:00 p.m.; TRUSTEE: J. M. Wilburn; County SUPERINTENDANT: L. D. Summers; MOTTO: "At Learning's Gate"; COLORS: Old Gold and Green; CLASS FLOWER: White Rose; MUSIC: Parish Orchestra; PRAYER: Rev. Bechdolt. The graduates were: Fay Hinds, Loran W. Warner, Grace Hobbs, Ruth L. Jones, Chester Heflin, Wayne Avery, Clara Decker, Lannia Dellinger, Laura Castor, Dallas G. Warne, Grace Morris, Noel Good, R. B. Good, Wilie Barnes, Beatrice Jack, Carrie Scott, Bertha Terwilliger, MABEL DeLONG, Merie Van Horn, Celia E. Tyner, Ethel Frazee, Ray E. Sutton, Irene Masters, Mabell Masters, Edna Lee, Ottis Kirtley, Alpha Whisler.
4. Famous Words of Wisdom: When someone was pouting, Mabel always said, "Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go eat worms." WONDER FROM WHENCE THAT DITTY CAME???
5. To correct the record: Gram's Certificate of Death states that her mother's maiden name was RODEBAUGH. (Perhaps, it was the coroner’s office that spelled the name that way. Interestingly, on Gram's grandfather's death certificate, Benjamin Raudebaugh's surname was entered incorrectly as well, as Benji Rodebaugh.) That was NOT the way that Gram spelled it, and she was a VERY GOOD speller! Although there are about ten different ways to spell this surname (originally being Reidenbach), this line of the family in Ohio spelled the name RAUDEBAUGH. Continuing on that subject, after a SIXTY-YEAR QUEST, the mystery of Ben's father has been resolved. Since it is UNKNOWN as to where this man died, posting that link on FAG is (or WILL be "illegal"; however, his name is John Henry Radebaugh, 11 Apr 1789/Franklin Co., PA-Bef. 07 Jun 1842/probably Fairfield Co., OH. His wife's name is unknown. HOWEVER, JH's parents were John "George" Rodabaugh/Radabaugh (06 Aug 1763/Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA-10 Apr 1837/Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH). George's wife was Mary "Elizabeth" Riegel, born/died the same locations. Her father was Revolutionary War participant and Grebsweiller, Rheinland-Pfalz, German immigrant JOHANNES "JOHN" RIEGEL, Sr.; mother was Catharina Elisabetha Shirmann. George's father was Revolutionary War participant and Becherbach or Otzweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) immigrant, JOHAN PETER RODABAUGH/RADEBAUGH. They both died in Bern Twp., Berks, PA, in and after 1784.
6. RECIPE FOR GRANDMA "DEE'S" BANANA BREAD...
(NOTE: For THIRTY YEARS, years, Mabel's granddaughter has a kept the last piece of Gram’s banana bread in her freezer. CRAZY??? HB)
1/2 cup shortening (Gram used lard.)
1 cup sugar
3 crushed bananas
3 well-beaten eggs
1 tablespoon sour milk or water
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Mix as for butter cake. Bake for 1-hour in a greased, medium-sized loaf pan at 350 degrees...
YUM YUM!!!
7. MABEL'S MEMORIES...
**Quite horrifyingly as a teenage girl, Mabel was stomped on in her home corral by her horse named "Lady"!
**Another interesting curiosity was discovered through RESEARCH and NOT by way of Mabel's information, which she SURELY KNEW! Mabel's father's mother's sister (Caroline DOTSON Powell) was married to Andrew Jackson Powell of Ohio, who was the father of Charles Dotson “C.D.” Powell -- the second husband of Earl C. Heflin's mother (Catherine Matilda “Tilly” Heflin). So, Caroline Dotson Powell was the step-grandmother of EC Heflin and the great aunt of Mabel!!!
**Mabel really did not like – or ever use – her middle name, AUSTIE. She told her granddaughter that the name came from that of an Ohio relative who died within three months of birth -- Austie M. Bowsher (21 Oct 1890/Lima, Allen, Ohio- 14 Jan 1901/Lima, Allen, Ohio). The namesake girl’s mother, Mary Dotson Bowsher, was the sister of Catharine Dotson, Mabel’s grandmother.
Actually, there were TWO relatives with that name. The other one was Austie Louise Bowsher (13 Mar 1907/Carleton, Michigan-29 Jan 1982/Lima, Allen, Ohio). This Austie was the granddaughter of Mabel’s grandmother’s sister, Mary Dotson Bowsher. Mabel was born in between the two Austies. A thought to ponder is to wonder if the “M” in Austie M. Bowsher’s name was perhaps MABEL??? Perhaps that is just too coincidental???
**The “other” name that Mabel was particularly stuck on was the name CATHERINE, as many of her way-back family were given that moniker. So, when her great gdau changed the spelling of her first name to a “K” from a “C” because it "just wasn’t her", Mabel had to "get over it"!!!
**Finally, Mabel shared 150 years of BY MEMORY names/dates with her teenage granddaughter before the youngster’s family removed to California in 1962. Mabel stated that her grandmother’s family she couldn’t quite remember, but it seemed that the mother’s first name was Melhisis. Hmmm…. What a strange name! However, lo and behold over FIFTY YEARS from that little “sit down” at the dining room table, the name was FOUND, and it was NOT Melhisis but MATHIAS – actually, Matthaeus, and HE was Gram’s great grandfather from the Village Canton of Aargau in the north of Switzerland (either in the Village of Wölflinswil (state of Laffenburg) or Village of Magden (state of Rheinfelden). HOORAY!!! LONG STORY and FULL CIRCLE...
8. Words etched into an over-sized mug and saucer owned by Mabel:
GOD SPEED THE PLOW: Industry, Productivity, and Wealth... -- Farmer's Arms; B&L England
"Let the wealthy and great,
Roll in splendour and state,
I envy them not, I declare it.
I eat my own lamb,
My own chickens and ham,
I shear my own fleece, and I wear it.
I have lawns, I have bowers,
I have fruits, I have flowers,
The lark is my morning alarmer...
So, jolly boys now,
Here's God Speed the Plough,
Long life and success to the farmer...
AMEN, boys and girls. OBVIOUSLY, this GRAM (MABEL AUSTIE DeLONG HEFLIN) was well-loved and left an indelible mark... HHB
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin (aka: "Gram") was a wonderful grandmother who loved to travel, see new places, and meet new people. Her stories were endless, ranging from the time as a girl when a horse in her family barn stomped her, to her parents clearing the land in Windfall, Tipton, Indiana and building a log home. She had a fabulous memory, illustrated by her relating 150 years of Heflin and DeLong heritage -- names, dates, and locations -- one little piece of scratch paper at a time!
Mabel was always busy with some endeavor -- be it taking her small grandchildren to visit the swans in the pond at Horace Mann High School that was located across the street from her apartment in Gary, IN, later attending weddings of these same grandchildren, playing pinochle with her "cronies", engaging in Chinese Checkers or the Ouija Board with the grandkids, or eating her favorite pie. (And she LOVED pie!)
EVERY single Christmas, Mabel would dress up as a "punk" Mrs. Santa, with long beads, bright red rouge, and short red skirt! AND, when she was trying to "get your goat", she'd tell you that she was going to go "eat worms"!!! (Although, no one ever actually SAW her do this!)
On about the last day of Mabel's life at 96 years, 9 months, Mabel said that she was ready to go "be with Pop". AND, there she is...
"Two lights are from one household gone,
Two voices we loved are stilled:
Two places vacant at our hearth,
Which never can be filled." Author unknown
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DEATH NOTICE...
Heflin, Mabel A. -- Age 96, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 1988.
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin was a Lake County area resident for 58 years, formerly of Elwood, Indiana. Member of the Christian Church of Merrillville and the Order of the Eastern Star. Preceded in death by son Burl Earl Heflin and daughter Wilma Catherine Beach.
Survived by daughter Evelyn Ann (Don) Morfee of Sarasota, FL; son, Ross Eugene Heflin of Newport Beach, CA; six grandchildren; many great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Stilinovich and Wiatrolik Funeral Home, 7535 Taft Street (@Cleveland Street), Merrillville. Rev. Fred D. Perry officiating. Burial at Calumet Park Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m.
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
Elwood Call-Leader
30 Dec 1959
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Heflin...
The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 24 Dec 1959. Mrs. Heflin was the former Mabel DeLong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus DeLong. Married 24 Dec 1909. Mr. Heflin worked at the Elwood tin mill and then at the Gary Mills. He was a Mason. Mrs. Heflin was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. 4 children: Mrs. Noel Beach of Elwood, Ross Heflin of Hartford City, Burl Heflin of Gary, and Mrs. Donald Morfee of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
NEWSY NOTES!
1. Marriage: Earl C. Heflin -- December 24, 1909, Madison Twp., Tipton Co., Indiana, performed by the Reverend Burl M. Bechdolt. (This is the man for whom their son, Burl Heflin, was named.) HHB has the framed Certificate of Marriage of her grandparents on which is an ODD ODE...
"Poem to the Betrothed..."
There comes a day
When love, that lies asleep,
The fairest island in the mighty deep
Wakes on our sight;
There do we stay awhile,
But soon again
We trim our sails to seek
The open main;
And now, whatever winds
And waves betide,
Two friendly ships are sailing
Side by side…
2. Mabel was a long-standing member of the Christian Church, as well a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
3. Grammar School: Mabel graduated from Madison Township Public Schools at 8:00 p.m. on June 11, 1909 at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hobbs, Tipton, IN at 8:00 p.m.; TRUSTEE: J. M. Wilburn; County SUPERINTENDANT: L. D. Summers; MOTTO: "At Learning's Gate"; COLORS: Old Gold and Green; CLASS FLOWER: White Rose; MUSIC: Parish Orchestra; PRAYER: Rev. Bechdolt. The graduates were: Fay Hinds, Loran W. Warner, Grace Hobbs, Ruth L. Jones, Chester Heflin, Wayne Avery, Clara Decker, Lannia Dellinger, Laura Castor, Dallas G. Warne, Grace Morris, Noel Good, R. B. Good, Wilie Barnes, Beatrice Jack, Carrie Scott, Bertha Terwilliger, MABEL DeLONG, Merie Van Horn, Celia E. Tyner, Ethel Frazee, Ray E. Sutton, Irene Masters, Mabell Masters, Edna Lee, Ottis Kirtley, Alpha Whisler.
4. Famous Words of Wisdom: When someone was pouting, Mabel always said, "Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go eat worms." WONDER FROM WHENCE THAT DITTY CAME???
5. To correct the record: Gram's Certificate of Death states that her mother's maiden name was RODEBAUGH. (Perhaps, it was the coroner’s office that spelled the name that way. Interestingly, on Gram's grandfather's death certificate, Benjamin Raudebaugh's surname was entered incorrectly as well, as Benji Rodebaugh.) That was NOT the way that Gram spelled it, and she was a VERY GOOD speller! Although there are about ten different ways to spell this surname (originally being Reidenbach), this line of the family in Ohio spelled the name RAUDEBAUGH. Continuing on that subject, after a SIXTY-YEAR QUEST, the mystery of Ben's father has been resolved. Since it is UNKNOWN as to where this man died, posting that link on FAG is (or WILL be "illegal"; however, his name is John Henry Radebaugh, 11 Apr 1789/Franklin Co., PA-Bef. 07 Jun 1842/probably Fairfield Co., OH. His wife's name is unknown. HOWEVER, JH's parents were John "George" Rodabaugh/Radabaugh (06 Aug 1763/Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA-10 Apr 1837/Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH). George's wife was Mary "Elizabeth" Riegel, born/died the same locations. Her father was Revolutionary War participant and Grebsweiller, Rheinland-Pfalz, German immigrant JOHANNES "JOHN" RIEGEL, Sr.; mother was Catharina Elisabetha Shirmann. George's father was Revolutionary War participant and Becherbach or Otzweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) immigrant, JOHAN PETER RODABAUGH/RADEBAUGH. They both died in Bern Twp., Berks, PA, in and after 1784.
6. RECIPE FOR GRANDMA "DEE'S" BANANA BREAD...
(NOTE: For THIRTY YEARS, years, Mabel's granddaughter has a kept the last piece of Gram’s banana bread in her freezer. CRAZY??? HB)
1/2 cup shortening (Gram used lard.)
1 cup sugar
3 crushed bananas
3 well-beaten eggs
1 tablespoon sour milk or water
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Mix as for butter cake. Bake for 1-hour in a greased, medium-sized loaf pan at 350 degrees...
YUM YUM!!!
7. MABEL'S MEMORIES...
**Quite horrifyingly as a teenage girl, Mabel was stomped on in her home corral by her horse named "Lady"!
**Another interesting curiosity was discovered through RESEARCH and NOT by way of Mabel's information, which she SURELY KNEW! Mabel's father's mother's sister (Caroline DOTSON Powell) was married to Andrew Jackson Powell of Ohio, who was the father of Charles Dotson “C.D.” Powell -- the second husband of Earl C. Heflin's mother (Catherine Matilda “Tilly” Heflin). So, Caroline Dotson Powell was the step-grandmother of EC Heflin and the great aunt of Mabel!!!
**Mabel really did not like – or ever use – her middle name, AUSTIE. She told her granddaughter that the name came from that of an Ohio relative who died within three months of birth -- Austie M. Bowsher (21 Oct 1890/Lima, Allen, Ohio- 14 Jan 1901/Lima, Allen, Ohio). The namesake girl’s mother, Mary Dotson Bowsher, was the sister of Catharine Dotson, Mabel’s grandmother.
Actually, there were TWO relatives with that name. The other one was Austie Louise Bowsher (13 Mar 1907/Carleton, Michigan-29 Jan 1982/Lima, Allen, Ohio). This Austie was the granddaughter of Mabel’s grandmother’s sister, Mary Dotson Bowsher. Mabel was born in between the two Austies. A thought to ponder is to wonder if the “M” in Austie M. Bowsher’s name was perhaps MABEL??? Perhaps that is just too coincidental???
**The “other” name that Mabel was particularly stuck on was the name CATHERINE, as many of her way-back family were given that moniker. So, when her great gdau changed the spelling of her first name to a “K” from a “C” because it "just wasn’t her", Mabel had to "get over it"!!!
**Finally, Mabel shared 150 years of BY MEMORY names/dates with her teenage granddaughter before the youngster’s family removed to California in 1962. Mabel stated that her grandmother’s family she couldn’t quite remember, but it seemed that the mother’s first name was Melhisis. Hmmm…. What a strange name! However, lo and behold over FIFTY YEARS from that little “sit down” at the dining room table, the name was FOUND, and it was NOT Melhisis but MATHIAS – actually, Matthaeus, and HE was Gram’s great grandfather from the Village Canton of Aargau in the north of Switzerland (either in the Village of Wölflinswil (state of Laffenburg) or Village of Magden (state of Rheinfelden). HOORAY!!! LONG STORY and FULL CIRCLE...
8. Words etched into an over-sized mug and saucer owned by Mabel:
GOD SPEED THE PLOW: Industry, Productivity, and Wealth... -- Farmer's Arms; B&L England
"Let the wealthy and great,
Roll in splendour and state,
I envy them not, I declare it.
I eat my own lamb,
My own chickens and ham,
I shear my own fleece, and I wear it.
I have lawns, I have bowers,
I have fruits, I have flowers,
The lark is my morning alarmer...
So, jolly boys now,
Here's God Speed the Plough,
Long life and success to the farmer...
AMEN, boys and girls. OBVIOUSLY, this GRAM (MABEL AUSTIE DeLONG HEFLIN) was well-loved and left an indelible mark... HHB
PERSONAL SYNOPSIS...
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin (aka: "Gram") was a wonderful grandmother who loved to travel, see new places, and meet new people. Her stories were endless, ranging from the time as a girl when a horse in her family barn stomped her, to her parents clearing the land in Windfall, Tipton, Indiana and building a log home. She had a fabulous memory, illustrated by her relating 150 years of Heflin and DeLong heritage -- names, dates, and locations -- one little piece of scratch paper at a time!
Mabel was always busy with some endeavor -- be it taking her small grandchildren to visit the swans in the pond at Horace Mann High School that was located across the street from her apartment in Gary, IN, later attending weddings of these same grandchildren, playing pinochle with her "cronies", engaging in Chinese Checkers or the Ouija Board with the grandkids, or eating her favorite pie. (And she LOVED pie!)
EVERY single Christmas, Mabel would dress up as a "punk" Mrs. Santa, with long beads, bright red rouge, and short red skirt! AND, when she was trying to "get your goat", she'd tell you that she was going to go "eat worms"!!! (Although, no one ever actually SAW her do this!)
On about the last day of Mabel's life at 96 years, 9 months, Mabel said that she was ready to go "be with Pop". AND, there she is...
"Two lights are from one household gone,
Two voices we loved are stilled:
Two places vacant at our hearth,
Which never can be filled." Author unknown
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DEATH NOTICE...
Heflin, Mabel A. -- Age 96, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 1988.
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin was a Lake County area resident for 58 years, formerly of Elwood, Indiana. Member of the Christian Church of Merrillville and the Order of the Eastern Star. Preceded in death by son Burl Earl Heflin and daughter Wilma Catherine Beach.
Survived by daughter Evelyn Ann (Don) Morfee of Sarasota, FL; son, Ross Eugene Heflin of Newport Beach, CA; six grandchildren; many great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Stilinovich and Wiatrolik Funeral Home, 7535 Taft Street (@Cleveland Street), Merrillville. Rev. Fred D. Perry officiating. Burial at Calumet Park Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m.
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
Elwood Call-Leader
30 Dec 1959
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Heflin...
The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 24 Dec 1959. Mrs. Heflin was the former Mabel DeLong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus DeLong. Married 24 Dec 1909. Mr. Heflin worked at the Elwood tin mill and then at the Gary Mills. He was a Mason. Mrs. Heflin was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. 4 children: Mrs. Noel Beach of Elwood, Ross Heflin of Hartford City, Burl Heflin of Gary, and Mrs. Donald Morfee of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
NEWSY NOTES!
1. Marriage: Earl C. Heflin -- December 24, 1909, Madison Twp., Tipton Co., Indiana, performed by the Reverend Burl M. Bechdolt. (This is the man for whom their son, Burl Heflin, was named.) HHB has the framed Certificate of Marriage of her grandparents on which is an ODD ODE...
"Poem to the Betrothed..."
There comes a day
When love, that lies asleep,
The fairest island in the mighty deep
Wakes on our sight;
There do we stay awhile,
But soon again
We trim our sails to seek
The open main;
And now, whatever winds
And waves betide,
Two friendly ships are sailing
Side by side…
2. Mabel was a long-standing member of the Christian Church, as well a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
3. Grammar School: Mabel graduated from Madison Township Public Schools at 8:00 p.m. on June 11, 1909 at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hobbs, Tipton, IN at 8:00 p.m.; TRUSTEE: J. M. Wilburn; County SUPERINTENDANT: L. D. Summers; MOTTO: "At Learning's Gate"; COLORS: Old Gold and Green; CLASS FLOWER: White Rose; MUSIC: Parish Orchestra; PRAYER: Rev. Bechdolt. The graduates were: Fay Hinds, Loran W. Warner, Grace Hobbs, Ruth L. Jones, Chester Heflin, Wayne Avery, Clara Decker, Lannia Dellinger, Laura Castor, Dallas G. Warne, Grace Morris, Noel Good, R. B. Good, Wilie Barnes, Beatrice Jack, Carrie Scott, Bertha Terwilliger, MABEL DeLONG, Merie Van Horn, Celia E. Tyner, Ethel Frazee, Ray E. Sutton, Irene Masters, Mabell Masters, Edna Lee, Ottis Kirtley, Alpha Whisler.
4. Famous Words of Wisdom: When someone was pouting, Mabel always said, "Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go eat worms." WONDER FROM WHENCE THAT DITTY CAME???
5. To correct the record: Gram's Certificate of Death states that her mother's maiden name was RODEBAUGH. (Perhaps, it was the coroner’s office that spelled the name that way. Interestingly, on Gram's grandfather's death certificate, Benjamin Raudebaugh's surname was entered incorrectly as well, as Benji Rodebaugh.) That was NOT the way that Gram spelled it, and she was a VERY GOOD speller! Although there are about ten different ways to spell this surname (originally being Reidenbach), this line of the family in Ohio spelled the name RAUDEBAUGH. Continuing on that subject, after a SIXTY-YEAR QUEST, the mystery of Ben's father has been resolved. Since it is UNKNOWN as to where this man died, posting that link on FAG is (or WILL be "illegal"; however, his name is John Henry Radebaugh, 11 Apr 1789/Franklin Co., PA-Bef. 07 Jun 1842/probably Fairfield Co., OH. His wife's name is unknown. HOWEVER, JH's parents were John "George" Rodabaugh/Radabaugh (06 Aug 1763/Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA-10 Apr 1837/Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH). George's wife was Mary "Elizabeth" Riegel, born/died the same locations. Her father was Revolutionary War participant and Grebsweiller, Rheinland-Pfalz, German immigrant JOHANNES "JOHN" RIEGEL, Sr.; mother was Catharina Elisabetha Shirmann. George's father was Revolutionary War participant and Becherbach or Otzweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) immigrant, JOHAN PETER RODABAUGH/RADEBAUGH. They both died in Bern Twp., Berks, PA, in and after 1784.
6. RECIPE FOR GRANDMA "DEE'S" BANANA BREAD...
(NOTE: For THIRTY YEARS, years, Mabel's granddaughter has a kept the last piece of Gram’s banana bread in her freezer. CRAZY??? HB)
1/2 cup shortening (Gram used lard.)
1 cup sugar
3 crushed bananas
3 well-beaten eggs
1 tablespoon sour milk or water
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Mix as for butter cake. Bake for 1-hour in a greased, medium-sized loaf pan at 350 degrees...
YUM YUM!!!
7. MABEL'S MEMORIES...
**Quite horrifyingly as a teenage girl, Mabel was stomped on in her home corral by her horse named "Lady"!
**Another interesting curiosity was discovered through RESEARCH and NOT by way of Mabel's information, which she SURELY KNEW! Mabel's father's mother's sister (Caroline DOTSON Powell) was married to Andrew Jackson Powell of Ohio, who was the father of Charles Dotson “C.D.” Powell -- the second husband of Earl C. Heflin's mother (Catherine Matilda “Tilly” Heflin). So, Caroline Dotson Powell was the step-grandmother of EC Heflin and the great aunt of Mabel!!!
**Mabel really did not like – or ever use – her middle name, AUSTIE. She told her granddaughter that the name came from that of an Ohio relative who died within three months of birth -- Austie M. Bowsher (21 Oct 1890/Lima, Allen, Ohio- 14 Jan 1901/Lima, Allen, Ohio). The namesake girl’s mother, Mary Dotson Bowsher, was the sister of Catharine Dotson, Mabel’s grandmother.
Actually, there were TWO relatives with that name. The other one was Austie Louise Bowsher (13 Mar 1907/Carleton, Michigan-29 Jan 1982/Lima, Allen, Ohio). This Austie was the granddaughter of Mabel’s grandmother’s sister, Mary Dotson Bowsher. Mabel was born in between the two Austies. A thought to ponder is to wonder if the “M” in Austie M. Bowsher’s name was perhaps MABEL??? Perhaps that is just too coincidental???
**The “other” name that Mabel was particularly stuck on was the name CATHERINE, as many of her way-back family were given that moniker. So, when her great gdau changed the spelling of her first name to a “K” from a “C” because it "just wasn’t her", Mabel had to "get over it"!!!
**Finally, Mabel shared 150 years of BY MEMORY names/dates with her teenage granddaughter before the youngster’s family removed to California in 1962. Mabel stated that her grandmother’s family she couldn’t quite remember, but it seemed that the mother’s first name was Melhisis. Hmmm…. What a strange name! However, lo and behold over FIFTY YEARS from that little “sit down” at the dining room table, the name was FOUND, and it was NOT Melhisis but MATHIAS – actually, Matthaeus, and HE was Gram’s great grandfather from the Village Canton of Aargau in the north of Switzerland (either in the Village of Wölflinswil (state of Laffenburg) or Village of Magden (state of Rheinfelden). HOORAY!!! LONG STORY and FULL CIRCLE...
8. Words etched into an over-sized mug and saucer owned by Mabel:
GOD SPEED THE PLOW: Industry, Productivity, and Wealth... -- Farmer's Arms; B&L England
"Let the wealthy and great,
Roll in splendour and state,
I envy them not, I declare it.
I eat my own lamb,
My own chickens and ham,
I shear my own fleece, and I wear it.
I have lawns, I have bowers,
I have fruits, I have flowers,
The lark is my morning alarmer...
So, jolly boys now,
Here's God Speed the Plough,
Long life and success to the farmer...
AMEN, boys and girls. OBVIOUSLY, this GRAM (MABEL AUSTIE DeLONG HEFLIN) was well-loved and left an indelible mark... HHB
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin (aka: "Gram") was a wonderful grandmother who loved to travel, see new places, and meet new people. Her stories were endless, ranging from the time as a girl when a horse in her family barn stomped her, to her parents clearing the land in Windfall, Tipton, Indiana and building a log home. She had a fabulous memory, illustrated by her relating 150 years of Heflin and DeLong heritage -- names, dates, and locations -- one little piece of scratch paper at a time!
Mabel was always busy with some endeavor -- be it taking her small grandchildren to visit the swans in the pond at Horace Mann High School that was located across the street from her apartment in Gary, IN, later attending weddings of these same grandchildren, playing pinochle with her "cronies", engaging in Chinese Checkers or the Ouija Board with the grandkids, or eating her favorite pie. (And she LOVED pie!)
EVERY single Christmas, Mabel would dress up as a "punk" Mrs. Santa, with long beads, bright red rouge, and short red skirt! AND, when she was trying to "get your goat", she'd tell you that she was going to go "eat worms"!!! (Although, no one ever actually SAW her do this!)
On about the last day of Mabel's life at 96 years, 9 months, Mabel said that she was ready to go "be with Pop". AND, there she is...
"Two lights are from one household gone,
Two voices we loved are stilled:
Two places vacant at our hearth,
Which never can be filled." Author unknown
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DEATH NOTICE...
Heflin, Mabel A. -- Age 96, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 1988.
Mabel Austie DeLong Heflin was a Lake County area resident for 58 years, formerly of Elwood, Indiana. Member of the Christian Church of Merrillville and the Order of the Eastern Star. Preceded in death by son Burl Earl Heflin and daughter Wilma Catherine Beach.
Survived by daughter Evelyn Ann (Don) Morfee of Sarasota, FL; son, Ross Eugene Heflin of Newport Beach, CA; six grandchildren; many great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Stilinovich and Wiatrolik Funeral Home, 7535 Taft Street (@Cleveland Street), Merrillville. Rev. Fred D. Perry officiating. Burial at Calumet Park Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m.
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
Elwood Call-Leader
30 Dec 1959
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Heflin...
The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 24 Dec 1959. Mrs. Heflin was the former Mabel DeLong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus DeLong. Married 24 Dec 1909. Mr. Heflin worked at the Elwood tin mill and then at the Gary Mills. He was a Mason. Mrs. Heflin was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. 4 children: Mrs. Noel Beach of Elwood, Ross Heflin of Hartford City, Burl Heflin of Gary, and Mrs. Donald Morfee of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
NEWSY NOTES!
1. Marriage: Earl C. Heflin -- December 24, 1909, Madison Twp., Tipton Co., Indiana, performed by the Reverend Burl M. Bechdolt. (This is the man for whom their son, Burl Heflin, was named.) HHB has the framed Certificate of Marriage of her grandparents on which is an ODD ODE...
"Poem to the Betrothed..."
There comes a day
When love, that lies asleep,
The fairest island in the mighty deep
Wakes on our sight;
There do we stay awhile,
But soon again
We trim our sails to seek
The open main;
And now, whatever winds
And waves betide,
Two friendly ships are sailing
Side by side…
2. Mabel was a long-standing member of the Christian Church, as well a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
3. Grammar School: Mabel graduated from Madison Township Public Schools at 8:00 p.m. on June 11, 1909 at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hobbs, Tipton, IN at 8:00 p.m.; TRUSTEE: J. M. Wilburn; County SUPERINTENDANT: L. D. Summers; MOTTO: "At Learning's Gate"; COLORS: Old Gold and Green; CLASS FLOWER: White Rose; MUSIC: Parish Orchestra; PRAYER: Rev. Bechdolt. The graduates were: Fay Hinds, Loran W. Warner, Grace Hobbs, Ruth L. Jones, Chester Heflin, Wayne Avery, Clara Decker, Lannia Dellinger, Laura Castor, Dallas G. Warne, Grace Morris, Noel Good, R. B. Good, Wilie Barnes, Beatrice Jack, Carrie Scott, Bertha Terwilliger, MABEL DeLONG, Merie Van Horn, Celia E. Tyner, Ethel Frazee, Ray E. Sutton, Irene Masters, Mabell Masters, Edna Lee, Ottis Kirtley, Alpha Whisler.
4. Famous Words of Wisdom: When someone was pouting, Mabel always said, "Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go eat worms." WONDER FROM WHENCE THAT DITTY CAME???
5. To correct the record: Gram's Certificate of Death states that her mother's maiden name was RODEBAUGH. (Perhaps, it was the coroner’s office that spelled the name that way. Interestingly, on Gram's grandfather's death certificate, Benjamin Raudebaugh's surname was entered incorrectly as well, as Benji Rodebaugh.) That was NOT the way that Gram spelled it, and she was a VERY GOOD speller! Although there are about ten different ways to spell this surname (originally being Reidenbach), this line of the family in Ohio spelled the name RAUDEBAUGH. Continuing on that subject, after a SIXTY-YEAR QUEST, the mystery of Ben's father has been resolved. Since it is UNKNOWN as to where this man died, posting that link on FAG is (or WILL be "illegal"; however, his name is John Henry Radebaugh, 11 Apr 1789/Franklin Co., PA-Bef. 07 Jun 1842/probably Fairfield Co., OH. His wife's name is unknown. HOWEVER, JH's parents were John "George" Rodabaugh/Radabaugh (06 Aug 1763/Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA-10 Apr 1837/Lancaster, Fairfield Co., OH). George's wife was Mary "Elizabeth" Riegel, born/died the same locations. Her father was Revolutionary War participant and Grebsweiller, Rheinland-Pfalz, German immigrant JOHANNES "JOHN" RIEGEL, Sr.; mother was Catharina Elisabetha Shirmann. George's father was Revolutionary War participant and Becherbach or Otzweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) immigrant, JOHAN PETER RODABAUGH/RADEBAUGH. They both died in Bern Twp., Berks, PA, in and after 1784.
6. RECIPE FOR GRANDMA "DEE'S" BANANA BREAD...
(NOTE: For THIRTY YEARS, years, Mabel's granddaughter has a kept the last piece of Gram’s banana bread in her freezer. CRAZY??? HB)
1/2 cup shortening (Gram used lard.)
1 cup sugar
3 crushed bananas
3 well-beaten eggs
1 tablespoon sour milk or water
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Mix as for butter cake. Bake for 1-hour in a greased, medium-sized loaf pan at 350 degrees...
YUM YUM!!!
7. MABEL'S MEMORIES...
**Quite horrifyingly as a teenage girl, Mabel was stomped on in her home corral by her horse named "Lady"!
**Another interesting curiosity was discovered through RESEARCH and NOT by way of Mabel's information, which she SURELY KNEW! Mabel's father's mother's sister (Caroline DOTSON Powell) was married to Andrew Jackson Powell of Ohio, who was the father of Charles Dotson “C.D.” Powell -- the second husband of Earl C. Heflin's mother (Catherine Matilda “Tilly” Heflin). So, Caroline Dotson Powell was the step-grandmother of EC Heflin and the great aunt of Mabel!!!
**Mabel really did not like – or ever use – her middle name, AUSTIE. She told her granddaughter that the name came from that of an Ohio relative who died within three months of birth -- Austie M. Bowsher (21 Oct 1890/Lima, Allen, Ohio- 14 Jan 1901/Lima, Allen, Ohio). The namesake girl’s mother, Mary Dotson Bowsher, was the sister of Catharine Dotson, Mabel’s grandmother.
Actually, there were TWO relatives with that name. The other one was Austie Louise Bowsher (13 Mar 1907/Carleton, Michigan-29 Jan 1982/Lima, Allen, Ohio). This Austie was the granddaughter of Mabel’s grandmother’s sister, Mary Dotson Bowsher. Mabel was born in between the two Austies. A thought to ponder is to wonder if the “M” in Austie M. Bowsher’s name was perhaps MABEL??? Perhaps that is just too coincidental???
**The “other” name that Mabel was particularly stuck on was the name CATHERINE, as many of her way-back family were given that moniker. So, when her great gdau changed the spelling of her first name to a “K” from a “C” because it "just wasn’t her", Mabel had to "get over it"!!!
**Finally, Mabel shared 150 years of BY MEMORY names/dates with her teenage granddaughter before the youngster’s family removed to California in 1962. Mabel stated that her grandmother’s family she couldn’t quite remember, but it seemed that the mother’s first name was Melhisis. Hmmm…. What a strange name! However, lo and behold over FIFTY YEARS from that little “sit down” at the dining room table, the name was FOUND, and it was NOT Melhisis but MATHIAS – actually, Matthaeus, and HE was Gram’s great grandfather from the Village Canton of Aargau in the north of Switzerland (either in the Village of Wölflinswil (state of Laffenburg) or Village of Magden (state of Rheinfelden). HOORAY!!! LONG STORY and FULL CIRCLE...
8. Words etched into an over-sized mug and saucer owned by Mabel:
GOD SPEED THE PLOW: Industry, Productivity, and Wealth... -- Farmer's Arms; B&L England
"Let the wealthy and great,
Roll in splendour and state,
I envy them not, I declare it.
I eat my own lamb,
My own chickens and ham,
I shear my own fleece, and I wear it.
I have lawns, I have bowers,
I have fruits, I have flowers,
The lark is my morning alarmer...
So, jolly boys now,
Here's God Speed the Plough,
Long life and success to the farmer...
AMEN, boys and girls. OBVIOUSLY, this GRAM (MABEL AUSTIE DeLONG HEFLIN) was well-loved and left an indelible mark... HHB
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