The Herron family was situated around Merriam at Hwy 9 and Hwy 33.  Grandma Etta (Addis) Herron  also was from around that area with her sister, Rachel Addis Gross on the Addis farm on CR 250W  (which is located next the the Sherman farm), Gertie lived on CR 50W on the west side about a .25  mile from Hwy 33.  Cyrel Addis lived by Albion, IN.  Aunt Effie had been married to a brother and  lived on the north side of Hwy 9 about a .5 mile south of Hwy 33.  Aunt Effie and her sister Ocie  babysit with Lore Lee, Linda, Brenda, Tom and Jan when we were little.

From stories we heard growing up were of the onion fields that Kenneth, Floyd, Max, Jeanette,  Mary Jane, Martha and Pauline weeded as children for their father Nicholas Herron.  The black muck  fields in the area called "Long Swamp" was good for growing most anything.  The Herrons owned a  home in Wolf Lake in the corner across from the 7th day Advent Church, it was sold after Grandma  Etta died.  Many years later Lore Lee Beezley Sherman bought the home ane haed some remodeling  done.

Jeanette Herron Beezley moved her family to an old farm house on a hill on CR 400S in 1949 just  west of CR 200W.  When we moved in I remember them hoasting furniture through a door upstairs  that had no stairs or railing.  Dad (Raymond Beezley) did major repairs to the place over the  years, one of the first was to close off doors and windows so we wouldn't walk out from 2 stories  up.  He then tore off the wooden porches, front and back and pour concrete ones and closed in the  back one for laundry.

We carried a lantern upstairs until mid 1950's until dad ran eletric.  A few years later he took  out the cistern and turned it into and indoor bathroom with a bath tub and stool.  No more walking  through snow drifts in winter.

My folks lived in that house until 1963, moving to Wolf Lake.  In 1966 they bought their first  home at Baer Lake, IN.  After dad died in 1977 mom waited a year to sell and bought a trailer and  moved it to the Sherman farm next to the "Old Addis Farm" where her grandparents had homesteaded.