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BIRTH: 03 Mar 1890 NY, NY
BAPTISM:
IMMIGRATION:
DEATH: Jul 1969 Garden City, Nassau Co, NY
BURIAL:
SPOUSE: Jennie Baldwin
MARRIAGE:
SPOUSE: Beatrice H. Smith
MARRIAGE:
HAJEK AND HEIG DESCENDANT CHART
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Children
Alton Francis Heig |
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SOURCES
Census
1920 Andrew F. Heig, Manhattan, NY, ED1090
1920 Andrew F. Heig, Shelton, Ward 3, Fairfield Co., CT.
Directories
New York City 1890
Hajek, Andrew, cigars, 1812 Third Ave.
Stratford Directory, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919
Heig, Andrew F, home Oronoque
Stratford Directory, 1920
Heig, Andrew F. removed to New York City
Death
SSDI
Andrew Heig, b.3 Mar 1890, d. Jul 1969. Residence: Garden City,
Nassau, NY
Beatrice H. Heig, b.22 July 1900, d.14 Mar 1996. Residence: Garden
City, Nassau, NY
Autobiography of Gertrude Lutze, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Heig married first Jennie Baldwin, called "Nan" by the family.
She was born about 1874 and was the daughter of Eli N. Baldwin and Harriet
Adeline Moore. Jennie was about fifteen years older than Andrew and
they had only one child, Alton Francis Heig. Alton died on May 11,
1918, age two, in a tragic accident that was reported in the newspaper.
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The Bridgeport Telegram, Monday, May 13, 1918
Little Accident Victim to Be Buried Tomorrow
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Funeral services for Alton F. Heig, the two-and-a-half-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Heig, of Putney, who was almost instantly killed Saturday
afternoon when the farm wagon in which he was riding home with his father
and mother was struck by a trolley car of the Connecticut company in North
Stratford near the Cut Spring road, will be held at Putney chapel at 3
o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
The horse was blinded by a cloud of dust which was raised by a trolley that
had just passed and walked into the path of another car which struck them.
Mr. Heig was also blinded and did not see the approach of the car. All three
occupants were thrown from the wagon. Mr. Heig received severe lacerations
and his wife is still confined to her bed from the shock of the concussion.
The baby died before the Bridgeport hospital was reached.
Four follow-up articles were printed in The
Bridgeport Telegraph.
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After Alton's death Nan went to live with her parents to recover. It's
not clear if Nan died or if Andrew and Nan divorced. In 1920 Andrew
was enumerated twice, once with his wife in Shelton, Connecticut, and again
in Manhattan, married but living alone. They had obviously separated
by this time as the Stratford Directory printed "removed to New York City." Nan spent a year in Florida, returning to visit her mother, Mrs. Eli N.
Baldwin, in September 1924, and a month later returned to Florida for the
winter. [The Bridgeport Telegram, 1924, Sept 18 and Oct 29]
The following is Courtesy of Gertrude Lutze, daughter of Jay and Margaret
Lutze
Uncle Andrew, Mother's youngest brother, was a tall, heavy set, dark haired
man, with a mustache, who had features most like Mother's [[Margaret Augusta
Heig], and resembled Walter Cronkite. In his early twenties he
married Nan, a woman twenty years his senior. They had two children
who I believe were killed in a horse and buggy accident, but this phase of
his life was rather hush-hush, so I'm not certain of its accuracy.
They divorced soon after the accident.
Uncle Andrew then went to Chicago to live, and he didn't enter our young
lives until he returned to New York to work, at which time he lived with us
in Richmond Hill for about six months. While with us he dated Beatrice
Smith, an elevator operator at the New York Daily News, where he was a
purchasing agent. She was half his size, very peppy, witty, and
unschooled. She murdered the King's English. She came from a
working class family in Detroit.
When Uncle Bill and Mother were away at one time, Uncle Andrew took charge
of us and the house. He brought us girls along when he took Miss Smith
for a ride in his new automobile. At almost every red light, they
exchanged long, noisy, wet kisses. We girls exploded into giggles and
had a hard time explaining when Uncle Andrew asked us what we were giggling
about.
Soon afterwards they were married, and Miss Smith became Aunt Bea. She
and Uncle Andrew went to live in Floral Park, near Garden City, Long Island,
where they remained throughout the rest of their lives.
Uncle Andrew adored Aunt Bea, bought her expensive gifts, gave her a fine
home, bought her a piano so she could take lessons as she wanted to, and
never heard, or ignored, the unkind remarks his family made behind his back
about the unsuitable marriage he had made again, because Aunt Bea was
considered below his class. They had no children, but they had each
other, and that seemed enough. In time, the family accepted her for
the warm hearted person she was.....
When they visited us at our house in Connecticut, Uncle Andrew arose at five
a.m. in order to arrive early at the golf course. He loved the game.
He joked with us, inquired about our doings, and seemed genuinely glad to be
with us.
In his mid-fifties he had a bad heart attack and was told he couldn't go
golfing anymore. So he took up knitting afghans with very oversized
needles. He became so expert in this he exhibited his work at fairs
and won many a first prize.
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