Trip to “Bolder” to pick up E. Schiavon

black-woman-girl-thinking-white-cartoon-writingEntry from Journal #1: September 21, 1930

Christie Schenk, Albert Schaffer, Cid & Fran Dalin went to Boulderand brought back E. Schiavonwho staid with us for a week.


  1. Boulder.  Boulder is in Jefferson County, Montana – about 50 miles south of Marysville.
  2. E. Schiavon.  A search in Ancestry pulled up a family with the surname “Schiavon” living in Boulder in 1940.  None of the first names started with the letter “E”.  The father’s name was Louis and the mother was Mary, both born in Italy,  There was also a “Schiavon” family living in School District 20, Lewis and Clark County, in 1930.  The father was Joseph and the mother was Mary, both also born in Italy.

Chas. Lehman, Mrs. Jim Simpson, August Summers, Rick O’Connell

black-woman-girl-thinking-white-cartoon-writingEntry from Journal #1: September 20, 1930

Chas. Lehman died and Mrs. Jim Simpson died last wk.  August Summers got hurt, Rick O’Connell is ill from the effects of a hurt hand.


  1. Chas. Lehman.  A simple search in Ancestry shows there was a “Charles F. Lehman” who died in Lewis and Clark County, Montana on September 29, 1930.  I assume this is the same gentleman.
  2. Mrs. Jim Simpson.  I was unable to locate anything definitive on “Mrs. Jim Simpson”.
  3. August Summers.  Also unable to locate anything on “August Summers”.
  4. Rick O’Connell.  Well, this one was a surprise!  According to an Ancestry Family Tree, there was a “Richard J. O’Connell” who lived in Marysville in 1920, in Helena in 1930, and who died on February 2, 1931.  The surprise is that it appears he may have been born in the same part of Michigan where George Schenk was born.  George came to Montana from Michigan with his mother and siblings around 1887.  Rick O’Connell did not come until some time after 1900, as he is shown still living in Michigan at that time.  But I wonder if the Schenk family knew the O’Connell family back in Michigan?  Perhaps the Schenk family stayed in touch with the O’Connell family and at some point encouraged them to make the move to Montana? I guess I have another research project!

It only just occurred to me . . .

I was talking to a friend a few days ago about my blog and how I was mostly posting the journal entries from Journal #1 on the same day that Mary wrote them.  In other words, if Mary’s journal entry was dated September 8, 1930, I posted that entry on September 8, 2015. Well, it seemed like a great idea at the time. But it now occurs to me that it will take many years to get through that journal, let alone the other two journals, if I stay the course.  So, I’ve decided to drop that idea — and just get posting!

So here’s the next entry in Journal #1. Continue reading