Our family tree keeps growing. Lots of additional people and marriages are
now in the tree ---- 13,002 individuals and 5,628 marriages. Many of the
updates are adding birth dates and locations for parents of spouses marrying
into the clan.
It won't interest most of you, but I've figured out the tree for the Bollers
connected to our family. I had a lot of old photos of the people, but didn't
know which were siblings, nephews, etc. At last I figured it out and have
been in touch with several living members of the Boller family. William
Boller (1867 - 1947), my namesake great-uncle, married Campbell Cousin Inez
Hoyt (1871 - 1934). The family were cheese makers in Wyoming and Allegany
Counties.
Some of you may find the following bio of interest. It's about William's
father, Rudolph Lous Boller, b. 1824 in Hesse (now Germany), d. bef. 1900.
It appears in the "History of Allegany County:, which Cousin Diane Owlett
Pitts kindly gave me on CD.
"R. L. Boller, son of Henry Boller of Germany, who married Louisa, daughter
of Lord Von Vultyus, was born in 1824 and is the youngest of their nine
children. When a young man, he was a clerk in a sugar refinery in Cassel,
Germany, and then traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa, as a ship agent, also
agent for a tobacco house. In 1851 he came to West Branch, Oneida Co., and
was a partner in a woolen factory and a dairy farmer until he built at Ava
in 1862 a cheese factory still known by his name. In 1865, he came to
Varysburg, Wyoming Co., and built and ran for five years, a cheese factory
between Warsaw and Wyoming, which he moved to Orangeville and ran six years,
sold it and built a factory at Perry Center, ran that six years, then sold
and rented a factory at Pike Station for one year, was at Campbell Hill one
year, at Town Line one year, at West Allen one year, then in 1883 he bought
his present cheese factory in Hume. Mr. Boller married, in 1856, Katrine
Ernest, of Ava. Their children have been John, Minnie, William, Albert,
Gertrude, Jennie, and Louisa."