Nellie Florence Bowland's family, rooted in Tiffin, Adams County, Ohio. Her marriage into the Schmidt family is covered on the Schmidt Line — she married Kenneth Schmidt, one of William Edward and Margaret "Madge" Schmidt's seven children; this page will hold her own ancestry as that research develops. Her son Richard Dean Schmidt's own life story — Kansas roots, WWII Navy service aboard USS Sumter, and his postwar decades in Peoria — is written up on the Schmidt Line and the Sumter Log.
Nellie was born in 1904 in Tiffin, Ohio, the youngest of seven children of William Alexander Bowland and Mary Florence Porter. Around 1925, in Washington, Kansas, she married Kenneth Schmidt — a son of William Edward Schmidt and Margaret "Madge" Oswald (see the Schmidt Line). She died in 1991 in Park Forest, Illinois.
William Alexander Bowland and Mary Florence Porter married in June 1878 in Seneca, Ohio, and raised seven children in Tiffin, Adams County. Birthplace and death place for William are not yet recorded in the GEDCOM beyond the dates themselves.
William Alexander Bowland's parents. No dates or places recorded yet — the current edge of the known line on this side. Note the spelling variant, "Boland" vs. "Bowland" — dedicated research into whether and when the spelling settled is flagged for a future session.
Ephraim Walter Boland's surname is recorded without the "w" — worth confirming whether this is the same family with a settling spelling, a transcription variant, or a genuine name change.
No birthplace or death place is recorded for William, only dates (1853–1911). Unresolved.
The one sibling among the seven with no spouse or family recorded. No marriage or death record located yet.