Mary Viley Hawkins Mary Viley Hawkins, daughter of William and Elizabeth Hawkins, was born April 15, 1876 on a tobacco plantation in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. The prominent Viley and Hawkins families had adjoining plantations breeding thoroughbred race horses and
Laura Grace Bauman Laura Grace Bauman (pronounced “Bowman”) born on February 19, 1910 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho to Solomon and Florence Hoagland Bauman, grew up with two brothers, Everett “Bud” and Warren and one sister, Phyllis. Grace’s father bought the
The story of the Tilly Mine is a favorite with the locals of Boundary County. Bernt William Tilly born May 24, 1906 in Farstorp, Sweden, had three brothers and three sisters. While his siblings, all married with children, remained in
“My parents, Odes B. and Sadie Jantz Unruh, came to Bonners Ferry in 1936 when I, their eldest son, Lawrence , was twelve years old, exchanging the nightmare of dust clouds on the horizon for the quiet, unmoving outline of
Agnes May Carleton was born on April 12, 1888 in South Berwick, Maine to Harvey and Annie Carleton. She and her three siblings attended school in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In 1911, Agnes graduated from Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plains,