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When Arthur Weston died, his will directed that his one-third ownership of Anna's property be
<br />shared by his two brothers, Burton and Charles Weston, and his sister Lucy Scheuring. Three
<br />months later, on July 31, 1933, Weston's brothers and sister deeded their shares of the property
<br />to Josephine Limpert and Ruth Schindler.
<br />In 1939, the Biddulph brothers began selling off individual parcels of land located along the
<br />western edge of their property, on Biddulph Drive. They named the area containing the parcels
<br />"Thirza Park Acres," after their mother. It appears the sales continued for about eight years,
<br />eventually ending in 1947, after the deaths of brothers John and Frank Biddulph.
<br />In a 1940 Census entry, Josephine Limpert, husband Herbert H., and their five children, lived in
<br />her mother's 1910 house at 4322 Porter Road, on the one acre parcel of land that had been
<br />carved out of the Biddulph farm by Josephine's father, William Biddulph. The next entry in the
<br />census lists Herbert's brother and sister-in-law, Fred and wife Louise Limpert, as renters in the
<br />house next to 4322 Porter Road at "4320" Porter Road. They lived there with their daughter, son-
<br />in-law and granddaughter. The house next to 4322 is 4302 Porter Road. Perhaps 4302 was
<br />transposed to "4320" in the 1940 census, or the address of 4302 in 1940 actually was 4320. In
<br />any event, it appears the Limperts were renting the stone house from their in-laws' family, the
<br />Biddulph brothers.
<br />On April 26, 1944, Ruth (Schindler) Biddulph, then divorced and single, sold her share of the
<br />4322 Porter Road property to her sister, Josephine, for $2,300. Josephine now had full ownership
<br />of that properiy. Ruth remarried (Maurice Hanning) and lived in Shaker Heights for over thirty
<br />years.
<br />In 1944, big changes were in the air. Land description inconsistencies had occurred over many
<br />years due to descriptions in wills, and the various land transfers that had occurred between the
<br />farm land on Lots 4 and 14, and the one acre of land that was 4322 Porter Road. These
<br />inconsistencies were cleared up with a few deed transfers between the Biddulph brothers and
<br />Josephine Limpert, for a very important reason.
<br />On June 6, 1944, an important date in history no less, John, Frank and Ralph Biddulph
<br />completed the sale (for consideration of $10) of two parcels of land encompassing an area of five
<br />acres, and containing their father's stone house. The buyers were David and Catherine Williard,
<br />and their son and daughter-in-law. The sale also included a right-of-way, (over adjacent
<br />Biddulph land) which was needed to access the five acres of properiy that was isolated from
<br />Porter Road. The Williards owned the property for two years before selling it in 1946.
<br />On June 14, 1946, Eunice Cook (wife of Harrison C. Cook) purchased (for $10) the stone house
<br />and its five acres of land, including the right-of-way, from the Williard family. The Cook family
<br />would live in the stone house for eighteen years.
<br />In 1946, John Biddulph had already been dead for two years. He was shot during the robbery of
<br />his gas station, on July 23, 1944, in Cleveland. He died the next day, from the wounds suffered
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