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Below is a family biography included in The History of Franklin County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ISEBRAND H. HEIKENS is a native German, born in 1839, and is one of six surviving members of a family of seven children, born to Heije and Trientje, who were born in 1804 and 1806, and died in 1858 and 1884, respectively. Our subject remained with his parents in Germany and worked on a farm until twenty-two years of age, and then, in company with a twin brother, came to America locating first in Stephenson County, Ill., and later purchased a farm in Iowa, where they remained eleven years. Our subject then came to Tennessee, and purchased the farm of 460 acres where he is now living. October 30, 1866, while in Iowa he married Aafke Jaspers, who was born in Germany and immigrated to America about the time our subject did. After having borne seven children Mrs. Heikens died August 11, 1880; and June 4, 1883, Mr. Heikens married Laura Pack, of Franklin County, Tenn. They became the parents of two children, one of whom is living, and the mother died February 13, 1886. Mr. Heikens’ children’s names are—Heije, Berend, Trientje, Hinderina and Margarethe by his first wife, and Georgia by his last wife. Mr. Heikens has never taken much interest in American politics, but is a civil and law-abiding citizen.

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This family biography is one of 83 biographies included in The History of Franklin County, Tennessee published in 1886.  The History of Franklin County was included within The History of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin & Moore Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin , Moore Counties of Tennessee

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