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H. F. HEIDEN DIES
    SUDDENLY, CLARK
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Is Stricken While Helping
  Son With Milking-Fun-
       eral Sunday
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  H. F. Heiden of this city, living at
712 Second street N. E. passed away
very suddenly at his farm 8 miles
south of Clark, Wednesday night,
while assisting his son in the milking.
Mr. Heiden was born in Benton coun-
ty, Iowa, May 3, 1862, living there
most of his life being engaged
in farming. He and his family mov-
ed to the farm where he died in 1904.
Later in 1920, his sons taking charge
of the farm, he moved to Watertown,
making his address at the address
above stated.
  His health had been somewhat ef-
fected for a few years but not con-
sidered serious, as he enjoyed going
out to the old farm and assisting his
sons with the farm work. He leaves to
mourn his loss his widow, two sons
and two daughters. Lloyd and Roy
Heiden, both living at Clark on farms;
the daughters, Mrs. H. M. Clausen and
Mrs. John Dunlop both residing in
Watertown, besides four grand chil-
dren.
  Besides the immediate family he
leaves two brothers, J. H. Heiden
of Watertown and L. F. Heiden of Man-
kato, Minn. and two sisters, Mrs. H. F.
Bartle of Clark and Mrs. William Eb-
ert, Blaristown, Ia., besides a host of
relatives and friends who mourn his
sudden death.
  While residing in Iowa he was affil-
iated with the Lutheran church and
after moving to Watertown he became
an attendant of the First Evangelical
church in this city. Mr. Heiden was
an aggressive farmer and a good
neighbor who, through hard work and
careful business methods, built up his
home.
  He will be missed in the circle of
his friends and business associates.
Funeral services will be conducted by
Rev. Charles W. Zech, pastor of the
First Evangelical church, at the old
farm, eight miles south of Clark on
Sunday at 1:45 P. M., and at the Meth-
odist church in Clark at 2 o'clock.
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From Watertown S.D. paper in 1925




From "Centennial History of Clark County, South Dakota 1881-1981":
H.F. Heiden - Darlington Township
Henry F. and Elizabeth Heiden moved here in 1904 from Iowa.
Mr. Heiden's brothers-in-law, Henry Bartle and C.C. Pfaffle,
had come earlier and it was due to their good reports that the
Heidens decided to come.  They brought with them a family of
four: Pearl, born in 1891, married Henry Clausen and they
farmed on the Gilbert place in Section 12 until they moved to
Watertown.  Pearl passed away in 1941.  Lloyd was born in, 1896,
Mildred in 1897, and Roy in 1899.  Mildred is now Mrs. John
Dunlop and lives in Watertown.  Lloyd died in 1970 and Roy is
retired and lives in Clark.
The Heidens first lived on the Minnie Bail farm five years
until they bought the home place in 1909 and built the buildings.
The land was purchased from Syle Barber who had had a small
house and barn north of where the Heiden buildings were put up.
A patent for homestead was granted in 1889 to Silas A. Barber.
In 1920 Henry quit farming and turned it over to his sons.  He
and Mrs. Heiden moved to Watertown where they lived until
their deaths, his in 1925 and hers in 1935.
Lloyd married Evelyn Kilmer, sister of Mae Schulz of Clark.
They farmed here until 1935 when they moved to a farm in
Washington Township.
Roy was married to Thonata Olson and they stayed on the
home place.  They had three children: Roberta married Allen
Smith of Raymond, Velma married Leo Bachman of Clark, and
Darrel married Lois Johnson of Raymond and farms north of
Clark.
Roy left the farm in 1944 after his wife's death.  He now lives in
Clark.

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