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during the robbery. John Biddulph, age 71, was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. His wife, Mary
<br />died five years later on September 10, 1949, and was buried next to her husband.
<br />November 3, 1947, Franklin Biddulph, age 72, passed away. He was buried in Evergreen
<br />Cemetery. His wife, Nettie, lived another twenty-five years. She and Frank are buried near the
<br />graves of John and Mary Biddulph.
<br />Ralph Biddulph continued through the years to run his Basket and Feed Company until his death
<br />in March, 1950, at age 65. Ralph's widow, Lucy (Underhill) Biddulph, wrote a brief history of
<br />the founding of the company, prior to her death in 1975. During his life in North Olmsted, Ralph
<br />Biddulph served on the North Olmsted Council for twenty years. He was instrumental in
<br />obtaining the first pumper for the Fire Department. His late brother Franklin's son, William M.
<br />Biddulph, was the North Olmsted Fire Chief when his uncle Ralph passed away at home at
<br />26903 Butternut Ridge Road. Ralph and Lucy are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, near the graves
<br />of Lucy's parents and Ralph's brothers, John and Frank. The graves of Ralph's parents and
<br />stepmother are also not far away.
<br />The three Biddulph brothers had all died within a period of six years. On December 21, 1950,
<br />their immediate heirs deeded all of the remaining farmland property on lots 4 and 14 to Fire
<br />Chief William M. Biddulph, the oldest grandson of William Biddulph. We don't know for sure
<br />what the reasons were at the time.
<br />Two years later, Chief Biddulph died in a plane crash, in August, 1952, at the age of 44. He and
<br />his father, Franklin, had both owned homes on Porter Road where they had lived with their
<br />families. Fire Chief William M. Biddulph's wife, B. Bernice Biddulph, inherited the farmland
<br />when her husband died. She sold the land on September 10, 1954 to Edward Helt, who in turn
<br />sold it in 1955 to Libbey Lee, Inc. The land was eventually resold in early 1963 to Milkap
<br />Building Co. Infrastructure improvements were added and new homes were built by residential
<br />developers, beginning in 1964. The residential development on Porter Road is still known as
<br />North Park Estates.
<br />In 1963, Josephine Limpert was a widow and still living in the 1910 Craftsman style house she
<br />had inherited from her mother, Anna Biddulph Weston. On March 13th, she sold it and its one
<br />acre of land, for $12,500. We don't know where Josephine lived after that. She died four years
<br />later, in June, 1967, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, next to her husband, Herbert, who
<br />had died in March, 1959.
<br />In 1964, Eunice Cook, by then a widow, sold the Knight-Biddulph stone house to Steve and
<br />Alfreda Flagner, of Brooklyn, Ohio (for the consideration of $10.00). The Flagners used the
<br />house as a rental property.
<br />In 1982 several fires occurred in the then "abandoned, dilapidated" old house. Neighbors were
<br />very concerned. In February 1984, the city of North Olmsted ordered the demolition of the
<br />house. On February 27, 1984, the story of the Demolition Appeal Hearing appeared in the
<br />newspaper, along with accounts of childhood memories from Ralph Biddulph's daughters, Dora
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