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Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association

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Portions of the text that follow, are from the Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association-sponsored history
and genealogy publication, Ancestors and Descendants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb.

Estelle "Esty" Crislip

1873–1927

Estelle “Esty” Crislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4) [384], born 1873; died 1927; married, 15 June 1898, Albert S. Heck, son of Henry and Nancy Heck.

“My mother was a large woman, but she was a fashionable woman. She had a very feminine figure. She was very much loved and well known in the community, because any time anyone was sick off she went with her mustard plasters, her hot soups, and her various home remedies. Any number of people in Spencer said that she saved their lives during the World War I, before I was born. She would let babies that were dying be wet nursed, as they called it, by her. She had children and a lot of milk all the time, so she was always going where she was needed. The whole town loved her and she loved them.” Carol Heck Turner, 1994.

“My Aunt Estelle’s funeral was the largest ever seen in Roane County, West Virginia.” Carolee Morford Snyder, Vienna, West Virginia.

Estelle Crislip’s husband, Albert S. Heck, was Spencer, West Virginia’s foremost businessman, as reported in the following:


“Being spectacularly successful, he developed the Liverpool oil field and became fabulously wealthy. In 1926, he built a mansion for his wife, Estelle. The mansion and grounds were designed specifically for Heck’s family. Each bedroom was built for an individual. A tennis court with adjoining locker room was constructed to satisfy Heck’s interest in the game. A large fishing pond was placed on the lowest point of the property. Heck imported exotic tree varieties for planting. The mansion incorporated the latest technology and many unique architectural features.” https://www.livingappalachian.com/history

Heck Mansion
Heck Mansion

The Albert S. Heck Mansion, Spencer, West Virginia.


Included among the house’s furnishings was an oil portrait of Estelle that hung over the fireplace. Unfortunately, Estelle died a year after the house was built; her husband remarried. As a result of the great depression, the mansion was later sold to F. F. McIntosh, a renowned breeder of thoroughbred horses. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places, Albert and Estelle’s home was for many years available for receptions, parties, reunions, and other events.


Children of Estelle Crislip and Albert S. Heck

  • Ardiz Virginia Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [386], born 11 August 1899, Roane County, West Virginia; died 18 February 1980; married Byron Leslie Morford, born 3 November 1897; died May 1936.

  • Estelle Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [387], born 1904; married Byron Dewey “Red” Perkins.

  • Henry A. Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [388], born 1906; married 1st, Gaye Wright; married 2nd, Gladys Driscoll.

  • Edward Timmel Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [388], born 1910; died 1992; married Thelma Ireland, died 1981.

  • Katherine Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [389]. “The fifth child had died, Katherine, After WWI. She had some terrible things that adults and children got – flue, and so on. So, I was born after the death of that little girl which influenced quite a bit of the whole family. She was a very beautiful little, blond, frail youngster that they all adored. My father, especially, loved Katherine.” Carol Heck Turner. “The House on the Hill,” p. 4.

  • Carol Evelyn Heck (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Jacob Crislip II3, Jacob Asbury Crislip4, Estelle Crislip5) [389], born 9 January 1919, Spencer, West Virginia; died 1 January 2002, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; married Richard Turner. Divorced. Carol Heck Turner was a teacher, actress, and Shakespearean scholar..


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