THE CHILDREN of the pioneer Baptist preacher, Jesse Elledge, became widely scattered. Of some of these grandchildren
of the Boones there is scant record. Four of them are buried in Pike county, in widely separated burial places;
one (the eldest) is buried in Scott county; one is buried near Winterset, Iowa; one in southwestern Missouri and
one in the far west.
The story of Charity Elledge, first of the children of Preacher Elledge and his first wife, Adeline, has been related.
She married her cousin, Jesse Bryan Scholl. Her burial is in the old Claywell cemetery, southwest of Winchester.
Adeline Elledge married Isaac Woodward in Pike county, September 11, 1837. They were married by Andrew Philips,
the ferryman, then a Pike county justice of the peace. They went to the Pacific Coast country and died there.
Daniel Boone Elledge and his wife Elizabeth, who were married in Kentucky, lived in what is now Scott county in
the 1820s and early 1830s. They entered an 80 in Section 1 in Township 13 North and Range 13 West, in what was
then known as the Sangamo country. On August 27, 1832, they sold out to Joseph Wason. In the deed of transfer,
both signed by mark. They next settled in southwestern Missouri, and died there.
Martha Elledge, also of the first family of children (all of whom were born in Kentucky), married William Philips
in Pike county January 20, 1831. The venerable John Bollman of Detroit, a grandson of William Philips and Martha
Elledge, and a great grandson of Jesse Elledge, says that his grandfather Philips was a brother of the noted Nimrod
and that he was associated with Nimrod in opening the famous Illinois river ferry where now is Valley City.
The wedding of Martha Elledge and William Philips is the first Elledge wedding of record in Pike county. They were
married deep in the winter of the Big Snow (1830-31), a winter from which time was reckoned for many years in the
early settlement. There is a tradition that a young deer, taken by hand after breaking through the crusted snow,
contributed to the wedding feast, the venison being roasted to a turn over a blazing log fire in the pioneer preacher's
cabin.
William Philips and Martha Elledge began housekeeping in what is now Flint township in 1831. They were still living
there a hundred years ago (1837). Later they moved to the Blue River country and there, on Big Blue Creek, Mr.
Philips established a saw mill. This mill was located two miles north of Newburg school house and three- quarters
of a mile southwest of Bethel church.
William Philips and Martha Elledge had four children, namely, Sarah Jane, Mary Elizabeth, Sophia and Jemima Ann
Philips.
Sarah Jane Philips married William H. Ellis in Pike county, November 9, 1859, and they resided on Hinman Prairie
where Mr. Ellis worked for the Hinman family. They had one son, Henry H. Ellis, who married Susanna (Susie) Gates
of El Dara, a daughter of Aury Gates and Elizabeth Taylor. They were married April 23, 1891, when he was 24. They
had three children, Fila and Margaret, born in the vicinity of Hinman Chapel, and Austin, who was born after the
family moved to the state of Washington. Henry Ellis and his family located in Walla Walla. Sarah Jane (Philips)
Elledge died on Hinman Prairie and was buried in the grounds adjoining old Hinman Chapel.
Mary Elizabeth Philips, second child of William Philips and Martha Elledge, on January 26, 1860 in Pike county
married Martin Snow, with William W. Birchard, justice of the peace, officiating. He was a son of Leonard Snow
and Malinda Crow, who were married in pike county on March 21, 1837. Leonard Snow died and his widow, on April
30, 1844, married Braxton (Brack) Cooper, a pioneer settler in Pike county and one of the Pike county argonauts
who made the overland trip to California in the early days of the gold rush. Cooper had first married Cynthia Gibson,
who died. The Coopers lived on the hill where William Murphy now resides, on the Detroit- Griggsville road, this
being known as the old "Brack" or "Grand-dad" Cooper place.
Martin Snow and Mary Elizabeth Philips had eight children, namely, Leonard, Edward, Samuel, William, Millie, Annie,
and a girl and a boy who died in infancy.
The sons, Leonard and Edward, died young. Samuel, married, lives in Scott county. William, unmarried, lives with
his sister Millie in Naples.
Millie Snow married Henry C. Bagby of Pittsfield, a son of Elisha Bagby, on August 19, 1894. They were married
at the bride's home; E. S. Allen, justice of the peace, officiated, and Catherine Olmstead and Mary Davidson witnessed
the ceremony. They lived on the Bagby farm south of Pittsfield, later moving to Naples where he died and where
his widow still lives.
Annie Snow married Thomas Harvey and they reside near Riggston, in Scott county. They had five children, all of
whom died in infancy except the oldest and youngest sons, both of whom, married, are yet living. Taylor Harvey,
youngest son, and his wife Helen reside with his parents. They have three children, Vernon Dale, Catherine and
a baby girl.
Mary Elizabeth (Philips) Snow died in 1882, on the old Cooper place near Bethel school house in Newburg. Martin
Snow, her husband, later married a Mrs. Sisson, a widow, in Scott county, and they settled at Naples.
Sophia M. Philips, third child of William Philips and Martha Elledge, married John Morrow, Jr., in Pike county,
March 8, 1858. Warden Willis, justice of the peace, performed the ceremony. They resided in new Canton and there
were born to them three children, namely, Martha, Catherine and George Morrow. The two girls were known among their
intimates as "Mattie and Cattie." John Morrow was killed by the kick of a horse while living at New Canton
and his widow and her children later moved to southwest Missouri and settled there.
Jemima Ann Philips, fourth and last of the children of William and Martha (Elledge) Philips, was born in what is
now Flint township in 1839. She was named for Daniel Boone's second daughter, Jemima, who, with the two Callaway
girls, was carried off by Indians in Kentucky in 1776, being rescued by a party led by her father and including
Flanders Callaway, her sweetheart, whom she afterwards married.
Jemima Philips on February 6, 1859 married Michael Bollman, a son of John Bollman and an early comer to Pike county,
the wedding being at the bride's home on Big Blue Creek, where was located the Philips saw mill. Squire E. W. Hickerson,
noted Newburg justice of the early days, whose daughter Sarah was the first white child in the town of Pittsfield,
performed the wedding ceremony.
Michael Bollman and Jemima Philips had two children, both sons, John William and Edwin Bollman.
John W. Bollman, still living in the village of Detroit at the age of 78, was born on the bank of Blue River (Big
Blue Creek) on the old Seeds place October 31, 1859. On the 28th anniversary of his birth, October 31, 1887, he
married Ida E. Greathouse, a daughter of Napoleon Greathouse and Mary Ellen Lowe, who were married in Pike county
by Squire Hickerson on July 17, 1862.
John Bollman, nearing 78 as this is written, still possesses the grit of his pioneer forebears. Interviewed at
his home in Detroit in the evening of September 30, 1937, the historian found him cobbling shoes for his grandchildren.
Working in his blacksmith shop in the forenoon, he spends the afternoon digging his crop of potatoes or picking
his apple crop, and then after the day's work is over, he cobbles shoes or does some other labor of love for those
who are near to him.
"I have always worked hard," says John Bollman. His father died when he was four. He had to work instead
of going to school. He got but little schooling; a little under Fannie Fielding at Old North (the Ben Goldman school),
two weeks under Henry Moler at old Toll Gate, and part of one month in the early school at Florence. At 19 he was
unable to read or write his name in script.
Mrs. Bollman, too, is an example of self-reliance under adversity. With hands and feet numbed by arthritis, which
began creeping upon her 17 years ago, she moves about her home in her wheel-chair, doing her housework, and making
rugs, quilts and other beautiful things for friends and neighbors who come to her for her handiwork. Grasping her
crochet hook between thumb and numbed fingers, she somehow turns adversity into beauty. For each of her eight grandchildren
she has pieced a beautiful quilt, thousands of pieces of material stitched into fabrics of love. "I would
rather pound rocks than be idle," says this daughter of the Greathouse family, a family that pioneered here
in the great valley.
John W. Bollman and Ida Greathouse have two children, both sons, Daniel Arthur and Alfred Andrew Bollman.
Daniel Arthur Bollman, born April 29, 1889, married Lorena Dale Kiser, a daughter of A. L. Kiser and Ora Esther
Sanderson of Newburg township. They were married at Mt. Sterling, Brown county, in 1910. They reside in Newburg
township, near the village of Detroit, and have two children, Lorena Kiser and Lyndle Arthur Bollman.
Lorena Kiser Bollman, born at Detroit August 2, 1911, is a clerk and stenographer in the offices of the Mississippi
Valley Production Credit Association in Pittsfield. Lyndle Arthur, born September 21, 1914, is at home, and engaged
in the trucking business as a driver for Jean Sanderson.
Alfred Andrew Bollman married Pearl May Harris of Detroit, December 3, 1916, she a daughter of Beed Harris and
Catherine Foreman. They were married by the Rev. Victor Dorris, with Arthur Bollman and Beed Harris witnessing.
They have six children: Ray Edward, born August 19, 1918; Clay Eldon, born May 23, 1920; John, Jr., born November
14, 1923; Genevieve Florine, born August 2, 1925; Donald Lee, born July 2, 1927; and Ida Catherine, born June 30,
1930.
Edwin Bollman, younger brother of John W., died when yet a child, in 1863, two weeks after his father's death.
Michael Bollman, father of John W. and Edwin, died at his home in new Canton in 1863 at the age of 27. He had been
bitten by a rabid dog when he was a child of seven; twenty years later he died of hydrophobia. He is buried in
Stony Point cemetery, north of New Canton.
Jemima Bollman, widow of Michael, three years after her first husband's death, again married, her second husband
being Alexander C. McPhail, a Kentuckian. They were married by Justice A. C. Sanderson of Detroit, October 31,
1866. The day after their marriage they left for a home in Kentucky. Five children were born to them in Kentucky,
two boys and three girls, namely, Judith, Catherine, Sophia, John Dan, and Leyton Head McPhail.
Judith McPhail, the oldest daughter, married Isom Youngblood in Franklin county, Illinois. They resided for a while
in Franklin county and then moved to the state of Washington. He, a gardener, died there, being stricken by death
while at work in his garden. His widow and her children then moved to Boise, Idaho, where they still reside.
Three children were born to them, namely, Mabel, Alexander and Frank Youngblood.
Catherine (Kate) McPhail married a young preacher, the Reverend Renfro Walker, and they resided in southern Illinois,
in Franklin county, where Kate died and is buried.
Sophia McPhail was twice married. Her first husband was Thomas Dixon; her second, William Anderson. They lived
in Paris, Illinois, then in Oklahoma, and at her home her mother, a granddaughter of Charity Boone, died. Mrs.
Anderson now lives in Arkansas.
John Dan, oldest son of Alexander and Jemima McPhail, is an Illinois state food inspector, located at Royalton,
Illinois, where he and his family reside. He married Elizabeth Greenwood, and they have two girls and three boys.
Della, married, lives in California; Mary, married, lives in Royalton. Two sons, Loyd and William, are at Royalton.
One of the sons is president of a coal mining association.
Leyton Head McPhail, named for a Kentucky doctor, was in the World War and has since held the position of city
mail distributor in Boise, Idaho.
The children named above are half-brothers and sisters of John Bollman of Detroit and both they and Mr. Bollman
are great grandchildren of Old Preacher Elledge, great great grandchildren of Francis Elledge and Charity Boone,
and great great great grandchildren of Edward Boone and Martha Bryan, he a brother of Daniel Boone and she a sister
of Daniel Boone's wife.
Jemima (Philips) McPhail died in Oklahoma, at the home of her daughter Sophia, in June, 1914, and is buried in
Oklahoma.
Jemima's mother, Martha Elledge Philips, died at Kinderhook, where the family was then living. She is buried near
Kinderhook. The father, William Philips, again married, his second wife being Hannah (family name missing). They
resided in Kinderhook, in Pike county. William Philips later went to the home of his daughter, Sophia Morrow, in
southwestern Missouri, where he died and is buried.
William Philips in his later years was a carpenter and wagon maker and followed these trades when he was located
in western Pike county. John Bollman recalls that the first railway coach he ever saw was when he went as a boy
to visit his grandfather and step-grandmother at Kinderhook. He says his grandfather Philips was of Scotch-German
descent and that he was a brother of old Nimrod and of Nathan (Bud) Philips, whose sons were Riley, Nimrod H.,
Charles and John Philips. Dr. Coke Philips and Thomas Philips, the latter of whom married William Philips and Martha
Elledge, were also brothers of William.
Thomas Philips it was who in 1831 performed the wedding ceremony for his brother William and the latter's bride,
Martha Elledge. He subscribed himself to the wedding certificate as "Thomas Philips, D. M. E. C." This
is construed to mean "Deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church." In those days a deacon in the church
was authorized to marry couples.