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- Source "An Irish Legacy" by Janet (Dunn) Kochevar, pg 223:
Wilfred Holloman, born Ca-1902, married Mary Bowling.
No children born to them. They were still living in 1982,
and Wilfred is the only one of the family to still live
in Missouri. When I talked to him in 1981, he still owned
some land on Little Carver that had belonged to his grand-
father and father. Mary had a twin sister Lucy who lived
in St. Louis. When Wilfred and Mary lived on Carver, she
taught for many years at the Carver Creek School, and my
Aunt Elsie cooked for the school and they were fast friends,
My aunt would go to visit the Lewises many times with her
daughter-in-law Mildred, who would go on to visit Kathryn
Vickery who lives in Ellington. Wilfred and Mary have lived
for years now in Annapolis, not too far from his old home.
Mary is very active in one of the local churches there and
was gone to a meeting when I visited there with my brother
Ron and his sons Jason and Jeremy, and our cousin Neale
Dunn, who took us there. We were asking Wilfred's advice
on who to see while tracing the family. It was a very hot
day and he was in back cutting the lawn with a hand mower.
Neale called him Fox, which was his nickname when he was
younger, and I guess he and my dad Jesse were about the
same age and used to pull some pranks at Halloween. They
were talking of turning out houses over, and someone had
dis-mantled a buggy and put it on the unsuspecting owner's
barn roof! I don't think that was Dad or Fox though. While
we were there, I was admiring Mary's collection of blue
and white china; she had many beautiful pieces of Flow Blue
and Canton Ware and other patterns, that Wilfred said she
had bought over 30 years ago when she used to attend yard
sales all over the area, and he said she probably hadn't
paid over 50'D apiece for them that long ago! Mary and her
sister Lucy are related to my friend Hilde Beaty, who grew
up in Madison Co., Mo. and Hilde told me a story how Mary
would go to St. Louis and solicit help for her poor students
who attended Carver School from all of Lucy's friends. Hilde
visited Mary and Fox about 4 or 5 years ago when she was
attending a Counts family reunion in Missouri.
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