...from the Memoirs of Heenanville. This was written by Bertha Wultzen. "My father, William Henry Wultzen, was born south of Streator in Reading, October 31, 1858. My mother, Carrie Lorena Sopher, was born in Brownsville, Penn., March 31, 1863. My parents were married in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Streator, November 16, 1880 by the Reverend J. S. Millsop. They moved to Heenanville where my father worked as a miner. He was also a laborer on the farm and a carpenter by trade. When the mine was closed, he helped move some of the houses to Cherry where the men would secure employment in the Cherry mine. Four sons and four daughters were born to our family --Henry, Rena, Fred, Margaret (who married Herman Mackey), James, Ella (Mrs. Ella Locke, who lives in Earlville), Charles and Bertha (I live in Streator). Some of us attended the Heenanville School. I was in school until the age of 12 when our family moved to Streator. The tragic event in our family was the death of my brother James during the first World War. He left home for Camp Grant to train for overseas service for our country. As a member of Company C, 64th Infantry, in the latter part of August, 1918, he arrived in France. Shortly upon his arrival, he was ill with pneumonia. This was during the terrible flu epidemic. James died September 15, 1918. His body was laid to rest in the Arlington National Cemetery."