Matilda Becknell Heckaman, daughter of Henry Becknell & his wife Savina Richmond Becknell

Married 1877 Jacob Heckaman, son of Jacob Heckaman & his wife Elizabeth Shearer Heckaman

14 Children
6 Daughters & 8 Sons
Elva Sylvia Heckaman Hepler b 1878
Samuel Gabriel Heckaman b 1878
George Heckaman b 1880 (died as infant)
James Howard Heckaman b 1881
Stephen Arnold Heckaman b 1882
Fairie Heckaman Deisch b 1884
Mabel Stella Heckaman Huff b 1886
Vida F Heckaman Edler b 1889
Goldie E Heckaman b 1891
Schuyler C Heckaman b 1893
Walter R Heckaman b 1895
Hazel O Heckaman Wilson b 1898
Arthur M Heckaman b 1900
William Ernest "Ernie" Heckaman b 1903

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Mrs Jacob Heckaman, eighty years old, a lifelong resident of the community southeast of Bremen, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Edler, in Etna Green Friday morning. She had been in ill health since October, when she was taken to the Edler home for care and treatment.

Mrs Heckaman's maiden name was Matilda E Becknell. She was a daughter of Henry and Saivina Becknell and was born in Scott township, Kosciusko county, October 30, 1858.

On May 13, 1877, she was united in marriage with Jacob Heckaman, who preceded her in death on January 6, 1931. She was a member of the County Line Evangelical church.

Surviving relatives are seven sons, Samuel G Heckaman, Stephen A Heckaman, Walter R Heckaman, Arthur M Heckaman and William E Heckaman of Bremen, James H Heckaman of Milford and Schuyler C Heckaman of Hampshire, Texas; six daughters, Mrs Elva Hepler, Mrs Mabel Huff, Mrs Hazel Wilson aud Miss Goldie Heckaman of Bremen, Mrs Fairy Deisch of Bourbon and Mrs Vida Edler of Etna Green; one brother, Edward Becknell of Minerva, Ohio. There are fifty-five grandchildren and thirty-six great grandchildren.

One son died in infancy.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two oclock at Salem Evangelical church in Bremen Rev C W Schlemmer, pastor of the County Line church, officiated in the service and burial was in the Bremen cemetery.

Bremen Enquirer
16 Feb 1939