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Descendants of James O'Boland


11. CLEMENT CHARLES4 BOLAND (JOHN LAWRENCE3, JOHN N.2, JAMES1 O'BOLAND) was born December 31, 1886 in Elkader, Iowa, and died July 17, 1938 in Garner, Iowa. He married MAMIE BELLE KIENE 1913, daughter of GEORGE KIENE and SANNA ROALSON. She was born March 09, 1894 in Ossian, Iowa1, and died November 25, 1979 in Omaha, Nebraska1.

Notes for C
LEMENT CHARLES BOLAND:

In 1904, Clem Boland, at age 18, lost his mother to tuberculosis. In 1906, at age 20, his father was murdered. In January of 1910 he, along with his brothers Fred and Will, each received a Land Grant from the government, signed by president William Taft, of 160 acres each; side by side in the Kadoka, South Dakota area. Unfortunately, there was a severe drought and they couldn't work the land, so they all sold their grants to their brother John and returned to Iowa.
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on February 6, 1887 and his Godfather was Christe Boland and his Godmother was Margaret Orr.

Upon his return to Iowa, Clem bought a Pool Hall business in Swea City. He was an expert pool player and a very good wrestler. He bought one of the first Model T Fords, no doors on the front, and often drove to Armstrong, Iowa with his fiance', Mamie Kiene to visit his brothers there. Eventually, Mamie (then a Lutheran) converted to the Catholic faith and they were married in 1913.

Mamie's family who lived in Swea City, Iowa, frowned on children being raised around a pool hall so Clem sold out and returned to Elkader, Iowa to farm. Shortly after Alice was born in 1923, the family moved to a farm in Ventura, Iowa. Clem's childhood friend from Elkader, Jack Malary, lived nearby in Clear Lake. After a financially disastrous fire that destroyed the barn (caused by the boys smoking in it), the family moved to Garner, Iowa in 1928. Soon after, a daughter, Madonna, was born in the house attended only by a midwife neighbor and a few years later a son Walter came along.

In 1938, with young children left to care for, Mamie lost her 52 year old husband Clem due to a brain tumor.

Notes for M
AMIE BELLE KIENE:
Mamie Belle Kiene Boland was born in Ossian, Iowa. When Mamie was age 4 her 25 year old mother passed away, due to complications from childbirth, leaving her to be raised by her Aunt Martha Knutson in Swea City, Iowa. She married Clement C. Boland in 1913. To this union 9 children were born. Two sons died shortly after birth. (Both were baptized by their father, Clem, who believed it was his Christian duty.)

Mamie loved her Grandmother Roalson and often went to visit her on the Roalson farm, and to be with her two brothers who were being raised there.

     
Children of C
LEMENT BOLAND and MAMIE KIENE are:
28. i.   DONALD CLEMENT5 BOLAND, b. November 27, 1913, Elkader, Iowa; d. September 1986, California.
  ii.   VINCENT ANTHONY BOLAND, b. August 28, 1915, Elkader, Iowa2; d. July 1978, Omaha, Nebraska2.
  Notes for VINCENT ANTHONY BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on September 9, 1915 and his Godfather was Mr. Boland and his Godmother was Mrs Boland.

29. iii.   ROBERT GERALD BOLAND, b. May 21, 1917, Swea City, Iowa; d. April 23, 1997, Omaha, Nebraska.
30. iv.   SYLVIA JANE BOLAND, b. February 03, 1919, Elkader, Iowa.
31. v.   ALICE AGNES BOLAND, b. September 12, 1922, Elkader, Iowa.
32. vi.   MADONNA ANN BOLAND, b. April 11, 1928, Garner, Iowa.
33. vii.   WALTER JOSEPH BOLAND, b. September 22, 1933, Iowa City, Iowa; d. March 18, 1994, Charter Oak, Iowa.


12. THOMAS E.4 BOLAND (THOMAS A.3, JOHN N.2, JAMES1 O'BOLAND) was born July 31, 1887. He married ROSE January 28, 1913 in At Strawberry Point, IA by Rev John Hartigan.

Notes for T
HOMAS E. BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on August 28, 1887 and his Godfather was James Boland and his Godmother was Mrs James Boland.
     
Children of T
HOMAS BOLAND and ROSE are:
  i.   DOCTOR ANNA MARY5 BOLAND, b. April 26, 1927, Armstrong, IA.
  Notes for DOCTOR ANNA MARY BOLAND:
      A former resident of Strawberry Point and a graduate of a former Cedar Rapids nursing school has received the 1992 Alumni Merit Award from St. Louis University of Medicine. Dr. Anna Mary Boland, 65, a member of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic of Maryknoll, NY, who spent much of her medical career in Korea, was honored late last month in St. Louis.
      The award has been given annually since 1955 to alumni who exemplfy the Jesuit values and credo of the university in both personal and professional times. Boland was born in Armstrong but grew up and attended high school in Strawberry Point. She received a nursing diploma from Mercy School of Nursing in Cedar Rapids in 1948 and in 1949 entered the Maryknoll order of Catholic sisters. She professed her final vows with the order in 1955.
      She received a bachelor of science degree from Good Counsel College in New York in 1958 and her medical degree from St. Louis University in 1962. After interning in St. Vincent Hospital, New York, and a residency in Carney Hospital, Maryland, she served with the Catholic missions in Korea from 1965 to 1990, most of the time as administrator of clinics and a medical doctor.
      She is now in the U.S. for congregational services and is part of the promotion team conducting mission education in churches and schools on the East Coast. She expects to return to Korea in 1994. Her family in Eastern Iowa includes brothers, Charles Boland of Cedar Rapids and John Boland of Clinton, and sisters Anita Wenger of Waverly and Katherine Corcoran of Fairbank. she also has a sister, Margaret Hardy, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
      Article from The Cedar Rapids Gazette; Fri., Nov. 20, 1992 "DOCTOR GETS MERIT AWARD."

34. ii.   CHARLES BOLAND, b. January 16, 1918.
35. iii.   JOHN BOLAND, b. June 17, 1924.
36. iv.   ANITA BOLAND, b. July 03, 1922.
37. v.   KATHERINE BOLAND, b. October 05, 1919.
  vi.   MARGARET BOLAND, m. WILLIAM HARDY.


13. JOSEPHINE4 BOLAND (THOMAS A.3, JOHN N.2, JAMES1 O'BOLAND) was born February 20, 1891, and died 1955 in Elkader, Clayton, Iowa. She married WILLIAM PAIGE. He was born 1874, and died 1966 in Elkader, Clayton, Iowa.

Notes for J
OSEPHINE BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on March 17, 1891 and her Godfather was John Boland and Godmother was Mrs John Boland.

More About J
OSEPHINE BOLAND:
Burial: 1955, St Joseph's cemetery, Elkader, Iowa

More About W
ILLIAM PAIGE:
Burial: 1966, St Joseph's cemetery, Elkader, Iowa
     
Children of J
OSEPHINE BOLAND and WILLIAM PAIGE are:
  i.   SISTER SISTER DEBRA5 PAIGE.
  ii.   MARY PAIGE, m. JOSEPH CLARK.
  iii.   JEANETTE PAIGE, m. RALPH DELOZIER.


14. WILLIAM GULRELLMUS4 BOLAND (THOMAS A.3, JOHN N.2, JAMES1 O'BOLAND) was born July 02, 1893, and died November 22, 1995 in Long Beach, CA. He married ANNA ROACH. She died May 21, 1992 in Long Beach, CA.

Notes for W
ILLIAM GULRELLMUS BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on June 6, 1893 and his Godfather was Francis Molumby and his Godmother was Mrs Julia Daly.

Funeral Mass on 11-27-1995 at Holy Innocents Catholic Church in Long Beach, CA - Father Tony Astudillo

More About W
ILLIAM GULRELLMUS BOLAND:
Burial: November 27, 1995, All Souls Cemetery - Long Beach, CA
     
Children of W
ILLIAM BOLAND and ANNA ROACH are:
38. i.   MARY JEANNE5 BOLAND, b. February 22, 1921.
39. ii.   FRANCES ANITA BOLAND, b. April 30, 1922.
  iii.   BETTY BOLAND, b. November 19, 1924.
40. iv.   RICHARD BOLAND, b. July 14, 1930.
41. v.   DAVID CLEMENT BOLAND, b. March 25, 1936.


15. LEO4 BOLAND (THOMAS A.3, JOHN N.2, JAMES1 O'BOLAND) was born November 27, 1894. He married ELLEN GERTRUDE QUINN May 29, 1923 in Strawberry Point, IA. by Rev. Casey, daughter of CATHERINE RYAN.

Notes for L
EO BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on February 10, 1895 and his Godfather was Mr. Martin Daly and his Godmother was Mrs Martin Daly.

Elkader man receives special medal in time for milestone anniversary:

      July 22 marked the 70th anniversary of Leo Boland's capture by the Germans during World War . He was recently awarded the Prisoner of War medal, which is given to any person who served as a prisoner of war after April 15, 1917.
      Leo, who served in the US Army, was taken captive near Alsace-Lorraine, France. He spent time in six different prisons. His wife, Ells, and son Bob, say he never talked much about his experiences, however Leo refused to eat sauerkraut--the only food served him during his time as a prisoner.
      When Leo's family was notified he was a prisoner, there was no immediate mention of where he actually was held. A letter from the Red Cross, dated September 20, 1918, addressed to his father, Thomas, stated, "I wish to confirm a telegram sent to advise you that Private Leo Boland has been officially reported a prisoner of war at Camp Unknown."
      Later correspondence from the War department told the family that Leo was a prisoner at Camp Rastatt, Germany. It is also known that he was a prisoner in Baden, Germany, which was near Bavaria and Luxemberg.
      It is believed that Leo was the only one from this area taken prisoner during World War I. He served as a prisoner from July 22, 1918, until December 1918, or January 1919, after the war ended.






     
Children of L
EO BOLAND and ELLEN QUINN are:
  i.   PATRICK PATRICK5 BOLAND, b. September 04, 1925; m. KATHY GIAMPOLI, May 20, 1972.
  Notes for PATRICK PATRICK BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa on September 13, 1925 and his Godfather was Ray Quinn and his Godmother was Mrs Ray Quinn.

42. ii.   ROBERT JOSEPH BOLAND, b. January 13, 1927, Elkader, Ia; d. June 07, 2001, Denver, CO.
  iii.   MARY JANE BOLAND, b. January 01, 1930.
  Notes for MARY JANE BOLAND:
Baptised at St Joseph's Church in Elkader, Iowa onJanuary 15, 1931and her Godfather was Dan Boland and her Godmother was Mary Quinn.

43. iv.   BERNADINE ANN BOLAND, b. August 07, 1933.
44. v.   BERNARD BOLAND, b. August 19, 1936; d. September 27, 1973.


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