‘Aunt Ollie’ to all the neighbors. My great-Grandmother Ollie was a school teacher upon Henderson Hill. At 22 years old was considered an ‘old maid’.
She net Ed while he was visiting cousins on Redmond Ridge. She said she ‘moved 42 times to be near Ed’ who was a steamship captain.
Ollie Mae Gillespie was born on August 24, 1870 in Gallia OH United States to Jehu Washington Gillespie and Mary Ann Donnally. She married Edward Allias Rogers on September 4, 1892 in Mason, Mason County, West Virginia, and they were married until Edward's death on July 23, 1941. She had children Anna Ruth Rogers, Leah Elma Rogers, Mary Louise Rogers, Mildred Ebonne Rogers, and Thomas Wayne Rogers Sr.. Ollie Gillespie died at age 81 years old on November 15, 1951 at Redmond Ridge. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ollie Mae Gillespie .
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
Genealogy addict-only became worse after retirement..lol Daughter of Paul Allen Bonecutter and Reba Jean Morrow-wife of Marion Pacula,mother of two sons, three grandchildren and one gr grandson.