Harry Lewelling HEINEKEN

Birth:
21 Jan 1895
Effingham, Atchison, Kansas
Death:
15 Jun 1953
Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Burial:
20 Jun 1953
Inglewood Park, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Marriage:
1 Oct 1922
Effingham, Atchison, Kansas
Sources:
Affidavit of Birth, Atchison County, Kansas
Certificate of Death, Los Angeles, California, 344243
Ancestral File - Version 4.19
Internet IGI (May 2006)
Notes:
                       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.
                  
Amanda Alice LEWIS
Birth:
26 Dec 1895
White Cloud, Doniphan, Kansas
Death:
10 Mar 1966
Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Burial:
14 Mar 1966
Inglewood Park, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Sources:
Delayed Certificate of Birth, State of Kansas
Notes:
                       Alice was born on a farm called Shore Place at White Cloud, Kansas the day after Christmas. She was never happy about that date. This was near the Kickapoo Indian Reservation. Her parents were older, having waited several years when her brother came along. She was born a year later and they had three more girls later. She was small, about five feet one inch tall and had light hair and grey eyes. She was somewhat of a tomboy, always loving to climb trees or up in the barn to look in bird nests. She had several scars from her adventures. She went to a rural school and finished the 8th grade. About 1901, the family moved to another farm, called the Hub Goodwin place. Later they lived at the Martin Evans place.
    Her mother was not too well after 1904. Alice was only nine years old, but was called on for much of the cooking, washing, cleaning, gardening and care of the two younger girls. When she was eleven, her folks moved to Hunnewell, Kansas, on the Oklahoma border. That proved to be a bad venture, as crops failed. They moved back to a farm southeast of Hiawatha. They were two miles from school, but she attended Belview School and Sunday School there, as well. After two years, they moved one mile north where she changed to LaGrange School.
    In the spring of 1913, her father bought a farm south of Everest, Kansas. When she was seventeen while they lived there, her youngest sister, Helen, arrived. Her mother was very ill and almost died before and after the baby was born a month early. Alice worked very hard to care for the family, her mother and the new tiny new baby. During that time her father was president of a farmers grange at Clear Creek School. She and her brother joined also.
    The Lewis family lived at Everest when WWI was declared. In 1918, that farm was sold and another purchased west of Effingham, Kansas. They did well there and bought their first car. Later her father sold that farm and bought a big house in Effingham, Kansas, across the street from the High School. During some of that time, she managed the household, and cooked for a well to do dentist's family in Hiawatha, Kansas. The only time she worked away from home.
    After she married in 1922 she became a farmer's wife near Valley Falls, Kansas. She came to California with Harry in 1937. In California after 1940, she worked very hard cooking meals and changing beds to help support her family when they took in young men for room and board.
    Later after Harry's death, she learned to drive a car at age 58 and worked in food services for Hughes Aircraft. She lived alone and was then able to take herself to the doctor, work and market.
    She was a very clean, bright, strong willed, hard working person. She loved to crochet doilies, make quilts, sew, and flowers, especially African violets. She was a member of the Methodist Church, but was baptized into the LDS Church on her birthday in 1953. She suffered with severe colon problems and had a colostomy in 1957. She had two other surgeries after that. In 1965 she sold her home in Inglewood and bought a small home in Fullerton, California. She died at Centinella Hospital in Inglewood.

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Harry Lewelling Heineken - Amanda Alice Lewis

Harry Lewelling Heineken was born at Effingham, Atchison, Kansas 21 Jan 1895. His parents were William Augustus Langeheineken and Mary Ann Helme.

He married Amanda Alice Lewis 1 Oct 1922 at Effingham, Atchison, Kansas . Amanda Alice Lewis was born at White Cloud, Doniphan, Kansas 26 Dec 1895 daughter of Elbert Sidney Lewis and Mary Emily Ebert .

They were the parents of 3 children:
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Harry Lewelling Heineken died 15 Jun 1953 at Inglewood, Los Angeles, California .

Amanda Alice Lewis died 10 Mar 1966 at Inglewood, Los Angeles, California .