David Bollinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 10 Jul 1851. He died 3 on 10 Dec 1876. He married 4 Sarah Bollinger on 10 Mar 1870.
Sarah Bollinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 21 Mar 1850. She died 3 on 7 Mar 1879. She married 4 David Bollinger on 10 Mar 1870.
Henry F. Monk Bollinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 3 Sep 1870 in Patton, MO. He died 3 on 15 May 1931 in Patton, MO. He married 4 Ellen Sarah Grindstaff on 10 Jan 1900 in Patton, MO.
Ellen Sarah Grindstaff 1 was born 2 on 10 Jan 1875. She died 3 on 23 Nov 1970. She married 4 Henry F. Monk Bollinger on 10 Jan 1900 in Patton, MO.
They had the following children:
M i Henry Monk Peter Bollinger 1 was born 2 on 1 Jul 1901. He died in 1902/1991. F ii Mary Sallie Bollinger was born Private.
William LeClere Cole was born Private. He married Mary Sallie Bollinger.
Mary Sallie Bollinger [Parents] was born Private. She married William LeClere Cole.
They had the following children:
F i Margaret Genelle Cole was born Private. M ii Eldon Willard Cole was born Private.
Eldon Willard Cole [Parents] was born Private. He married Charlotte DeEtte Godfrey.
Charlotte DeEtte Godfrey was born Private. He married Eldon Willard Cole.
They had the following children:
F i Deanna Lynn Cole was born Private. M ii Scott Eldon Cole was born Private. M iii Brian Douglas Cole was born Private. F iv Kelly Ann Cole was born Private.
William Bollinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 21 Jun 1849 in Bollinger Co. MO. He died 3 on 28 Sep 1923 in Bollinger Co. MO. He married 4 Sarah Hartle on 2 Mar 1869.
Sarah Hartle 1 was born 2 on 19 Apr 1851 in Bollinger Co. MO. She died 3 on 27 Mar 1911 in Bollinger Co. MO. She married 4 William Bollinger on 2 Mar 1869.
They had the following children:
M i Henry Joeseph Bollinger was born on 20 Jan 1884. He died on 13 Feb 1968.
Henry Joeseph Bollinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 20 Jan 1884 in Bollinger Co. MO. He died 3 on 13 Feb 1968. He married 4 Ethil Ellis on 11 Jul 1909.
Ethil Ellis 1 was born 2 in 1889. She died 3 in Feb 1963. She married 4 Henry Joeseph Bollinger on 11 Jul 1909.
They had the following children:
M i Lloyd James Bollinger was born Private.
Lloyd James Bollinger [Parents] was born Private. He married Evedean Carter.
Evedean Carter was born Private. She married Lloyd James Bollinger.
Theodore Curtis Channel , Jr. was born Private. He married Linda Kathleen Wilson.
Other marriages:Box, Jean Marie
Linda Kathleen Wilson [Parents] was born Private. She married Theodore Curtis Channel , Jr..
Charles Monroe (Mon) Wilson [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 16 May 1906 in Patton, Missouri. He died 3 on 1 Mar 1997 in Boise, Ada Co., Idaho. The cause of death was Stroke on February 16, 1997. He married 4 Mildred Etta Cowman on 19 Sep 1933 in Moscow, Idaho. Charles was born 5 on 16 May 1906.
Other marriages:Janet, ???
Schlag, Evelyn F.
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The following is Charles (Mon) Wilson's reminiscences of Big Creek,Idaho, where he lived and worked part of the time in the 1930's. Thisstory is as he told it to me (Linda K. Wilson Channel, youngest daughter)on September 6, 1993. Items in brackets are my words:
Dick Cowman [brother to Mildred Wilson] went up to Big Creek in about1934. He, Wilmer [Shaver], and Joe Bayock [brother to Dick's wife,Sophie] all worked for the Forest Service at the ranger station at BigCreek. Wilmer would leave Big Creek every fall and pasture his horsessomewhere in Middleton over the winter. He would stay with dad and mom[Mon and Mildred] some of the time until it was time to take the horsesback to Big Creek. Dick built the lodge, the Post Office, and the storeat Big Creek. He had trouble getting permission to open the Post Officebecause he had been born in Canada and there was some question about hisU.S. citizenship. He owned the buildings but not the property. He had amining claim and, to keep the lease on it, he had to put in so many hoursworking it.
Dad began helping Dick build the cabin at Big Creek in about 1936 andworked there about 2 years. He bought a 2-ton Rio truck to haul lumberand supplies. He could haul about 7 tons in a load. Dad was paid somuch a pound but didn't remember how much. The road was paved only fromBoise to Cascade. Dad would leave Big Creek early in the morning anddrive to Boise, getting in about 11:00 a.m., load up his pickup, anddrive back to Big Creek all in one day. Sometimes he would have to maketwo trips and would drive all night and get into Big Creek about 6 a.m.the following morning. He slept in the back of the store when he hauledstuff in until the cabin was built. He, Mom, Joan (about 5 years old atthe time) and Chuck (about 2 1/2 years old) would stay in Big Creekduring the summer. Dad would continue helping Dick until about October.One time the snow was so deep it was up to the headlights on the truckand Dad could only drive about 3 or 4 mph. Once a big white deer jumpedout of the woods onto the road right in front of him. A bear also oncecame out in front of him and ran down the road. On one occasion, Dad hadto take a load of hay down to Smith Creek from Round Valley on a verynarrow road that had been bulldozed out of the side of the mountain. Hesaid he knew his outside wheels were not on the road part of the time!
There was an airport at Big Creek, and the airplane, which had skis onit, would fly back and forth all winter. Dick and some other guys wouldwalk down the runway abreast to clear a path for the airplane to land.Once Dad was using Dick's little bulldozer to clear the snow and it fellinto a ditch and he couldn't get it out.
The Olivers [John and Bessie (Mildred's cousin)]; one of Bessie'sbrothers, Norbert; her parents, Maude and Tony Wolfe; the Whipples[family friends]; and the Millers [family friends] all visited at BigCreek during the time Dad was helping to build the lodge. They stayed intents. Mom helped run the lodge and cook.
Dad took Sophie, who was a nurse in California, to Big Creek with one ofher friends to see her brother, Joe Bayock, and that is where she metDick. She visited for about a week and later went back with Dad andstayed at Big Creek. She and Dick were married in 1938.
After the buildings at Big Creek were built and Dad wasn't working forDick any more, he went back a few times to go fishing.
Dick sold the Big Creek property in about 1940. The first man who boughtit didn't have it very long. One morning his wife opened the door and abig bear was there standing up on its hind legs. She passed out and thebear walked away. It wasn't long after that that this man sold it.Another man called Russ Fereday owned the property at one time.
--End of Big Creek Reminiscences--
The following are several reminiscences of Charles (Mon) Wilson's earlylife in Missouri, as told to me (Linda K. Wilson Channel, youngestdaughter) in the early 1990's.
In 1908 or '09, when Dad was 3 or 4 years old, he received a pocket knifefor Christmas. One day he was playing with it, running it through a holein the knee of his overalls. The knife caught, and when he tugged toloosen it, it gave suddenly and struck him in the right eye, blindingthat eye. He has been blind in that eye ever since. In those days, thenearest large town with a doctor was Rochester, Minnesota, so they didn'trely on doctors much for treatment. Dad said if they had gone to adoctor, his eye might have been saved. Nevertheless, his blindness inthat eye never slowed him down.
In the winter of 1910, when Dad was 4 and his younger brother Ed was 2,his Uncle Amon (Dad's father's brother) came to visit them from Montana.Amon came into the house wearing a long, black cowhide overcoat, longfurry gloves, a black furry hat, and big black boots. He hugged the kidsand scared them to death and they ran and hid under the bed!
Dad started to school in 1914 when he was 8 years old, in the fourthgrade. He attended a one-room schoolhouse and his teacher was a man, butDad doesn't remember his name. Their subjects were reading, spelling,arithmetic, history, and geography. His favorite subjects were historyand geography. Each morning they said a prayer, the pledge of allegiance,and then sang a song. Once a week they had a geography contest. Theteacher would say the name of a city or something, and the students wouldrun up to the front of the classroom to the world globe and point itout. Dad always did very well in this contest. Whenever theymisbehaved, they had to go out and cut a willow switch to be whippedwith. Dad said he never had to go cut himself a willow switch! He quitschool in the eighth grade because every fall he had to help with thehaying and every spring he had to help plant the crops, so it didn't domuch good to try to keep up with school.
The following is a short chronology of Charles (Mon) Wilson's life inIdaho, as told to me (Linda K. Wilson Channel, youngest daughter) in theearly 1990's.In 1925, Dad's Uncle Amon (brother of Charles Thaddeus, Dad's father)traveled from Fairfield, Idaho, to Missouri to visit Dad's family). Amonhad moved from Montana to Fairfield to homestead, and he wanted Dad tocome back with him and help him farm. Dad talked it over with his folksand they agreed it would be a good opportunity for him because there wasno work in Missouri for him; he had 8 brothers and sisters and the familydid not have much land. In fact, the family was renting their farmland,and a percentage of the money they got from the harvest each year wasused to pay for the rent. Dad's father had given him 1 acre of land tofarm, so when Dad decided to leave Missouri for Idaho, he told his fatherhe could have the profit from his small crops that year. Dad's fathergave him $100 (it was probably all the family had at the time), and Dad,then 19 years old, came out West on the train with Amon. He had neverbeen away from home before. The trip took them about 4 days and nights.He remembered that the black soot from the coal-fired engine filtered inthrough the windows. He said he had never seen so much snow as duringthe winters in Fairfield (called "the prairie"). He said it seemed tohim that then, the winters were milder in Missouri and harder in Idaho,but that now (1990's), winters were not as hard in Idaho.
The farming was all done by horses. They had about 40 head of horses. Inthe winter, they used a team of horses hitched to a log to roll the roadsto pack the snow down. Each fellow rolled his own section to keep itlevel so everybody could get around.
Dad was 19 and away from home and pretty shy. He was scared to death ofgirls. His boss and wife went to dances and Dad stayed home any baby-sattheir kids. Everyone told him what a terror the missus was and what atemper she had, and he had a few misgivings when he first arrived but hegot along fine with her. The missus knew a girl named Grace Thornton.She wanted Dad to meet and she conspired with the girl's mother to getthem together. One time Dad went to a social where they bid on cakes,trying to get the lady's cake they wanted. Dad's boss wanted him to buyhis wife's cake. The girl stood behind a blanket and all you could seewere the ankles. So Dad's boss told him which one she was and Dad boughtthat cake. They had a dace afterwards. After the dance, they had it alllined up that Dad was going to take Grace Thornton home. He didn't havea sleigh, since he had come with his boss and his wife, so his boss andthe missus went home with another couple. So Dad got a sleigh and tookGrace home. He said she was a real nice girl, but on the way home, theyhardly said three words to each other. When ever Grace's mother'shusband Tom, wanted to go to town, Grace's mother wanted Dad to chaperonehim because he liked to drink. Dad was the only one she trusted to gowith him.
The first time Dad saw Boise was in the winter of 1927, when Amon'sbrother*, who worked in Boise at St. John's cathedral (at that time theonly Catholic church in Boise) in the boiler room, offered Dad a jobworking for him because there was nothing to do on the farm during thewinter. His Uncle Amon had a Willis Knight automobile. It had acombustion engine, 6 cylinders, and no valves. Someone named Harry droveDad to Boise in that car. All the roads were gravel. (This must havebeen quite a trip in those days). Dad had intended to work in Boise onlyfor that winter, but, as he said, "I'm still here." He helped run theheating system, shoveled snow, cleaned, made repairs, just about anythingaround the church there was to do. His salary was $60/month.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*Although this is the information in my notes, Amon had no brother inIdaho at this time. Perhaps Dad meant that Amon himself worked at St.John's in the winter, but Dad never mentioned Amon working at St. John'sat any other time.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________During some short period in the late 1920's, he worked as a stoneengraver for Jellison Monuments. He carved the lettering honoring theDaughters of the Revolution on the granite monument situated on the westlawn of the Capitol Building (the monument is still there). He also didodd jobs such as house painting and wallpaper hanging.
It was in 1927, while he was in Boise, that his mother died ofhemorrhaging while giving birth to Eugene. His family couldn't get holdof Dad since he was in Boise and nobody knew where he was staying. Theoldest girl in the family, Flossie, was only 13, so one of Dad's uncles,Robert, and his wife Trecie, raised Eugene.
Boise is where he met Evelyn Schlag. The families used to get togetherand play cards. They went over to Isabelle's (Evelyn's sister) to playcards, and her mother made German cake.
During his years working at St. Johns, he met Mom (Mildred Cowman), whosemother, Nellie, was the housekeeper for the priests at St. John's. Dadand Mom married in 1933. Dad continued to work at St. Johns, but in thesummers he also worked at the Morris Hill Cemetery, mowing the lawn anddigging graves. He said he mowed 5 acres of lawn with a 16-inch pushlawnmower. He walked from the church on 8th Street all the way to theCemetery (a distance of perhaps 2 miles), mowed lawns all day, thenwalked back. At some point, he and Mom actually lived in a little houseon the cemetery grounds, and that is where their daughter Joan was born,in 1934.
Dad worked at St. Johns for 13 years. Their son Chuck was born in 1936.It was at about this time that, during several summers, Dad and Mom andtheir two children lived at Big Creek, Idaho, where Mom's brother, DickCowman, built a tiny tourist "resort" for hunting and fishingenthusiasts. Mom cooked and cleaned cabins, and Dad drove a supply truckfrom Boise to Big Creek and helped uncle Dick build cabins. In 1938,another daughter, Deanna, was born.
In 1940, an acquaintance of Dad's, a Mrs. Smith, who knew Mr. Chaffee,Dean of the 3-year old Boise Junior College, told Mr. Chaffee about Dad'swork at St. Johns, and Mr. Chaffee invited Dad to send in an applicationto run the heating plant for the college. Dad, one of 60 applicants, waschosen for the job on August 15, 1940, at a salary of $125/month [letterinforming Dad that he had been selected for this job is in the "WilsonFamily Album, 1900 to 1952"). Dad worked at the college for about 3years. From about 1940 to 1944, the Wilson family lived in the "LittleBrown House" on Pearl Street in Boise, behind the train depot. In about1942, an incident occurred at the college which caused Dad to look forwork elsewhere. A Mr. Brown, who was Dad's supervisor and who "rubbed[Dad] the wrong way" and "had his eyes on Mr. Chaffee's job" when Mr.Chaffee was called to serve in the military during WWII, apparentlywanted to impress Mr. Chaffee---one day one of the mechanical parts ofthe heating system broke and, instead of sending Dad to purchase the partand repair the problem, Mr. Brown claimed he knew what needed to be doneand went and purchased the part himself. Mr. Brown came back with a partDad knew wouldn't work. Dad had a mechanical mind and was thoroughlyfamiliar with all aspects of the heating system. But Dad installed thepart just to prove to Mr. Brown that it wasn't going to work. And itdidn't. So Mr. Brown went somewhere else and got another part, whichalso was wrong. Dad said he blew his top and told Mr. Brown if he wantedto run the heating plant, he could run it. The Dean tried to get Dad tostay by getting him a $25/month raise, but Dad didn't want a raise, he"wanted Mr. Brown out of his hair!" Evidently, the situation did notimprove, so after another week, Dad went up to the office, turned in hiskeys, and said he was "goin' fishin." He had borrowed a tool from Mr.Eiden, of Eiden's Plumbing, so he went to return it. While there, hetold Mr. Eiden he had just quit his job, and Mr. Eiden offered him ajob. Dad worked for Mr. Eiden for about 2 years.
In 1944, the family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Dad andMom ran a motor court and lived with Mom's father, J.H. Cowman, until1946. In 1946, the Wilsons moved back to Boise, and Dad became a sheetmetal worker for John Miller, who owned a heating and cooling business.The family lived first in a cabin in a tourist camp called EvergreenCourt, below the Depot, then in the basement of Evelyn Schlag Perron'sbrother's house. Then they lived on Lincoln Street, near Morris HillCemetery, for about a year. In 1946, Dad bought a lot for $1,800 onFederal Way that stretched from Highway 30 back to the railroad. He hadthat lot for 3 years before he could build a house. In the meantime, thefamily lived at 1616 Helen Street, again behind the train depot. Dad hadto rebuild the house with lumber from the barn, which had apparently beenused at one time for raising hogs. He said he could still smell the hogsafter he rebuilt the house. In 1949, Dad started his own heating andcooling business, which he owned until 1975, and the Wilson family beganbuilding the house at 1931 Federal Way in Boise. Dad and John Oliver, aneighbor, were both building houses with basements, and a man dug theirbasements for $75 each. Dad, Chuck (who was then 13 years old), John(don't know whether this was John Oliver or John Miller), and a couple ofDad's friends built the house. Even Joan and Deanna were involved, asthey remember nailing up drywall. Mostly Joan remembers babysitting me,born on Thanksgiving in 1949, while everyone else was busy working on thehouse. And she remembers this so clearly because, at the time, I wascutting teeth or some other unpleasant business and I was "a holyterror." Another neighbor, Mr. Anderton, who was a carpenter, putshingles on the house and garage for $60. [I may have misunderstoodthis, but I think Dad said he built the whole house for $2,500.] Thefamily moved into the house in the summer of 1950. Dad lived there until1980, when he married Evelyn Schlag Perron, after Mom's death in 1966,and bought a mobile home at 2512 Barrington Lane, where he lived untilhis death in 1997.
--End of chronology of Charles (Mon) Wilson's life in Idaho--
Mildred Etta Cowman [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 3 Jan 1909 in Galveston, Texas. She died 3 on 5 Jan 1966 in Boise, Ada Co., Idaho. She married 4 Charles Monroe (Mon) Wilson on 19 Sep 1933 in Moscow, Idaho.
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When Mildred Cowman was in her late teens or early 20's, she worked in abutcher shop in Kansas City for a short time. She may have been visitingher brother, Dick, and her father, J.H. Cowman, who lived there.
They had the following children:
F i Joan Marie Wilson was born Private. M ii Charles Raymond Wilson was born Private. F iii Deanna Rose Wilson was born Private. F iv Linda Kathleen Wilson was born Private.
J.R. Hitchcock 1 was born in 1841/1873. He died in 1898/1960. He married 2 Laura Emma Thompson on 1 Jan 1893.
Laura Emma Thompson [Parents] 1 was born in 1863/1881. She died in 1898/1969. She married 2 J.R. Hitchcock on 1 Jan 1893.
They had the following children:
F i Myrtie Hitchcock was born Private.