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 1889 - 1971 (81 years)
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| Name |
Carrie Capitola Heilig |
| Also called |
Aunt Cap |
| Born |
11 Dec 1889 |
Rowan County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
29 Mar 1971 |
Rowan County, North Carolina |
| Buried |
Greenlawn Cemetery, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I165877 |
Strausstown Roots | Heilig.H, Miller.G.I011621, Rittenhouse.W |
| Last Modified |
15 Aug 2021 |
| Father |
Orlando L Heilig, b. 08 May 1860, Rowan County, North Carolina , d. 23 Jan 1920, Rowan County, North Carolina (Age 59 years) |
| Mother |
Amanda Ellen Koon, b. 25 Mar 1866, North Carolina , d. 23 Mar 1930, North Carolina (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
25 Dec 1882 |
| Family ID |
F53870 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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left to right, seated: Etta, Mary & Cap. standing: Grace & Lynn |
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| Sources |
- [S302] Reid Heilig.
Aunt Cap's house was built in 1850 by her husband's grandfather. It was a typical log cabin sided with what is called German siding. It had been 2 two story single cabins with fire places in each end. There was originally an open hallway connecting the two cabins but this was enclosed as was typically done either before or right after the War for Southern Independence. Then some time later a el addition was added on so that there was an enclosed real bathroom with a tub. Just farther out in the el addition was a large dining room and then farther was a kitchen. These three rooms were only accessible by going outside down a long open but covered porch where Aunt Cap kept her collection of house plants. She even had a coconut palm. Under the kitchen which previously had not been attached to the main house was her root cellar. It had an entrance through a covered shed area and had a most fastinating lock which Aunt Cap called the anti-yankee lock. I never understood just how she could unlock it but it seems that only she had the secret knack to opening it. She over.-wintered her plants in this cellar plus all her preserved food. The barn was a massive log structurewhich some said was the largest in the county. There was also a tractor and farming equipment shed plus a large wood shed where her cooking and heating wood was kept. She cooked on an anceint wood stove. She was extremely thrifty. She used the peelings and cores from various fruits she was canning to make juice and she made all of her vinegar on a back creened in porch where she also dried flowers, herbs and fruit. In her yard was several interesting things-a very old large boxwood that was as big as a car and a massive fig tree on the north side of the house smack dab up against the chimney to the main room of the house so that the radiant heat from the chimney would protect it during the winter and it would be shaded from the winter sun which after a cold night could cause the stems to split open and kill the plant. In the house was 2 very interesting things: the straw tick beds and the permanent grease spot on the hall way floor from the cured pork that the family hid in the bottom of a large wardrobe to keep the yankees from finding and stealing when they came thru China Grove on their way to liberate the POW camp in Salisbury. I grew up on the tales of what the yankees did just for meaness and spite to the local folk. In that light I shall never hate the Confederate flag as I had many ancestors who fought for it and a great great grandfather who volunteered at 33 to repel the damn yankees and gave his life for the Southern Cause. Aunt Cap was such a suer nice generous person who helped keep a lot of her relatives fed during the depression. Daddy often told how she would send him home after having helped her with various odd jobs with some pocket money and a bucket of buttermilk with a pound or so of butter in it and a chicken and maybe some schmeirkaese (cottage cheese to you who do not know our old words) . A very interesting fact about Aunt Cap-after her husband Rob Petrea died suddenly in 1948 she had a car -a 1940 Ford-with a standard gear shift which she had never learned to drive, She somehow learned to drive it, got her driving license and with the aid of a brick to enable her to reach the pedals she was oft and running. She was my favorite of all my 69 great aunts and uncles and aunts and uncles. It is hard these days to image having so many. Those were the days of joy! PS One interesting thing Aunt Cap had in the kitchen was some crocks decorated with PA Dutch designs!---Some time I will have to relate the dirty way her in-laws treated her when Uncle Rob died but that will have to wait until my right index finger heals from all this typing. Why in the world are some of you who know your part of the Heilig history not adding these stories before they are lost to the younger generation????????
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