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- NICHOLAS HIETPAS, whose seventy-four acres of valuable farming land lie one and one-half miles from the city limits of Appleton, and a like distance from the village of Little Chute, in Grand Chute township, was born in what is now Vandenbroek township, Outagamie county, Wisconsin, April 15, 1874, a son of Albert and Harriet (Williams) Hietpas, natives of Holland, the former born in Galden, August 28, 1838, and the latter in Geinert, July 30, 1841. Albert Hietpas came to the United States with his parents in 1850, and immediately located in Outagamie county, where the grandfather became a landowner in Vandenbroek, then Kaukauna township, as did also Albert Hietpas, who spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits there and died November 26, 1907, his widow surviving him until December 12th of that year. Albert Hietpas served seven months as a member of Company G, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and although he never was wounded, he suffered a breakdown in health from which he never fully recovered. He and his wife had a family of twelve children: John, a fireman in the paper mills at Little Chute; Henry, a farmer of Little Chute township; Anton, an agriculturist of Vandenbroek township; Peter and Barney, twins, the former deceased, and the latter a millwright in the village of Little Chute; Nicholas; Frank, who is deceased; Dinah, the wife of Lawrence Sall, a resident of Little Chute, employed in the paper mills; Joseph, who is deceased; Mary, the wife of Anton Vervort, a Vandenbroek township farmer; Joseph, employed in the paper mills at Little Chute; and Albert, who is deceased. Nicholas Hietpas received his education in district school No. 8, Kaukauna township, and as a young man started to work in the Kimberley mills, although he made his home with his father. When he had reached the age of twenty-eight years he had accumulated enough to purchase seventy-eight acres in Grand Chute township, later adding twenty-six acres, but he subsequently sold a tract of thirty acres, and now has seventy-four acres under cultivation, which he devotes to general farming. His land is well equipped with solid, substantial and modern buildings, and his property is well cultivated and very productive. Mr. Hietpas was married June 28, 1898, to Christena Weyenberg, who was born June 14, 1872, in Little Chute, daughter of John and Mary (Johnson) Weyenberg, natives of Holland, the former born in Braband, in 1837, and the latter in Gelderland in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Hietpas have had four children: Dora, born June 19, 1899; John, born May 28, 1902; Jacob, born May 16, 1908; and Albert, born September 23, 1909. Mr. Hietpas is a member of St. John's Catholic Church at Little Chute, and is connected with the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is a democrat.
- APPLETON POST CRESCENT
5/18/1949
Nicholas Hietpas, 75, route 3, Appleton, died at his home at 8 o'clock this morning following a short illness. He was born April 15,1874,in the town of Grand Chute. Practically all of his life he operated the route 3 farm where he died. He was a member of the Vandenbroek Court No. 450, Catholic Order of Foresters, Little Chute, and of the Holy Name Society of the St. John Catholic Church, Little Chute.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Roman Salm, Appleton: four sons,John, Jake, Bert, and Harold, all of Appleton: two brothers, John and Joseph Hietpas, Little Chute: one sister, Mrs. Dinah Sol, Kaukauna: and 29 grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the St. John Church. The Rev. Msgr. John J. Sprangers, pastor, will be in charge. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the Verkuilen Funeral Home, Little Chute, after 7 o'clock Thursday evening. Rosary will be recited at 8:15 both Thursday and Friday evening.
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1874 - 1949 (75 years)
