Dean-Hey Heritage

"Why, when I have spent years studying music, should I suddenly decide I wanted to write? Or was it suddenly? Maybe it started when the children, though grown, began remembering stories told by grandparents. Or did one of the nephews touch off the spark by saying, 'Someone ought to write down these things'?

"Would the younger grandchildren ever wonder why their great grandfather had come to America? That in 1857 he and his brothers had run away from the army in Europe? One brother didn't make it; he had been shot climbing the wall." (from "Studying Writing," by Ruth Holtzman Hey)

Aderikus Janssen and great grandfather Henry Janssen, brothers, about 1860

Grandma's writing, introduction
Henry Johnson
Great Grandmother's memory box
Great, great, great grandmother's German home
Cooper Shop
Stone School
Abram Hey Home
Family Dairy
Hey farm

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