Information passed on from from Carole
Mary Celeste Collins is my generations great, great grandmother. She married Edward Allen Bolmes. I have a bible that he gave to her. I will try to send pictures of that bible. She died very young around 1864 of yellow fever and was the mother of Amelia Aureola Bolmes "Ola" . Many of us have heard great stories of "Ola". Do you remember stories to share with us?
Happy Thanksgiving,
Cheryl
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Mary Celeste Collins
(42916)
Father* William R Collins (9188) (b. circa 1805, d. Sep 1847)
Mother* Mary Margaret Compton (4987) (b. 1 Mar 1821, d. 8 Aug 1910)
Birth* 27 May 1841 St Landry Parish, LA.
Marriage* 27 Sep 1859
Edward Allen Bolmes (42917); Richmond, Fort Bend Co., TX.
Name-Marr: __ ___ 1859 Bolmes
Daughter: 6 Jun 1860
Amelia Aureola 'Ola' Bolmes (42918)
Son: 10 Dec 1862
William Theophilus Bolmes (42919)
Death* circa __ ___ 1863 Both Mary and her sister Laura died at the same time of Yellow Fever., Fort Bend Co., TX.
Reference= (Dec'd @ ~22 yrs) Children=2
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteIt is Charles Stewart
I have seen Ola Bolmes Sheppard's grave.
It is right on the Ship Channel.
Edward Allen Bolmes was in fact born on May 10, 1837.......but not in St. Louis.
Aunt Ola, always stated on the Census records, her father was born in Germany.
Because Grandfather Edward re-married in to a family very proud of their DAR heritage, he was not accurate in his information.
Gustav Adolf Eduard Bolms, born May 10, 1837 in Minden Westphalia Prussia.
He came to America in 1852, with his brother Hermann "Carl" Bolms, born 1834. They landed in New Orleans on their way to St. Louis, where their older brother Friedrich Wilhem Gustav Bolms, born 1832, had settled a few years before.
Their maternal uncle, Charles Hulsenkamp, had settled there, years before.
Ed is present at the marriage of Gustav to Stephanie Marie Van Der Male, in St. Louis, as is Charles Hulsenkamp.
They were children of Friedrich Gottlieb Bolms, born 1799 and Maria Dorthea Hulsenkamp.
Friedrich was married before to Mary Reinsch, and had a daughter, Eduard's half-sister.
She married Otto von Albedhyll.
After the death of Mary, Friedrich re-married Maria Dorthea Hulsenkamp and had Gustav, Carl, and Eduard.
My great- aunt told me, that Grandfather Bolms step father and mother, sent him around the world twice, as his education.
I don't know what happened to Carl Bolms, but it is possible he lived in London.
Eduard came back, changed his name to Edward Allen Bolmes, and settled in Ft. Bend county ca 1858, and married Mary Collins.
Gustav stayed in St. Louis, and I am in contact with his great grandson, Arthur Edward Bolms, who goes by Art.
Friedrich Gottlieb Bolms died at an early age, and Dorothea Hulsenkamp Bolms, re-married a Juengling, who was a jeweler.
They had one son.
Ed Bolmes, as he referred to himself, had three daughters and a son.
ReplyDeleteEd Bolmes fought in the Confederacy for Texas 8th Calvary in Terry's Texas Rangers, and his brother Gustav fought for the union.
They remained close.
Ed Bolms moved Ole, and his new wife Frances Mary Carter, back to St. Louis.
Gustav died in 1885, and Ed moved back to Houston, where his daughter Anita married John Stewart.
Ed always said he was born in St. Louis, but Ola always told the truth to the census taker, that he was born in Germany.
Additionally on the 1920 census, Edward tells the census taker that he was born in St. Louis, and that his parents were from Germany and spoke German.
Feel free to contact me, as I still have the same tel number I had when we last spoke.
ReplyDeleteCharlesstewart56@hotmail.com