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From: "Kristina Kuhn Krumm" <>
Subject: [OHWYANDO-L] Martin (1793-1848) and Catherine (ALDRICHS) HIESTAND - bio
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:29:56 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

>From "Biographical Memoirs of Wyandot Co." John Heistand entry p.349
Martin Heistand "in 1830 came by wagon from Fairfield Co. to Wyandot Co.
and settled in Sycamore township, where he put up a pole shanty, which he
occupied as a dwelling until he erected a hewed-log house. The family was
amongst the first white ones to settle in the section and the first tract of
land owned there by him consisted of 40 acres, which by good management he
increased to 80 acres before death overtook him in 1848. He had lost his
wife in 1843 and both died in the faith of the German Reform church, of
which they had been active members from their youthful days."

>From "Biographical Memoirs of Wyandot Co." Isaiah Heistand entry p. 426
Martin Heistand " was a native of Virginia, and was in his early manhood
one of the bravest of the brave who gallantly resisted the attempt of
Albion, the perfidious" to crush the young American republic in 1812-15-the
United States then being an infant in the family of nations."
"On this umbrageous tract, Mr. Heistand built a hewed log house, in which
the subject of this sketch had his nativity. Martin Heistand cleared up from
the dense forest 60 acres of land, and on the place he and his wife passed
the remainder of their days; at their death their remains were interred on
the premises. They were faithful and active members of the German Baptist
church, and were during life among the most respected of the pioneers of
Sycamore Twp."



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