[21-46b] CATHERINE (CASSEL) HOUCK, same as above, m 2d time, Oct. 19, 1850, REV. MAH- LON VAN HEIST, b Oct. 18, 1818; d July 1, 1890; s George and Elizabeth (Weber) Van Heist. Reformed Mennonite Minister. Farmer and blacksmith; Worcester, Pa.
Children (8):
When Rev. Mahlon V. Heist assumed charge of the little New Mennonite church near his home, one of the pastors thought his name too high sounding to conform to their plain mode of worship, and to in the same, he simply used the initial ““V. Heist.’ All Heists with this omission are not related. [J.C.H.