Boland Family Home Page Athens, GA

Family Photos

• Betty, Ernest, Thomas & Elizabeth, & Alden (156 KB)
  This picture was made at the big Boland Reunion at Little Mountain, S.C. in April of 2002. Our son Thomas and Elizabeth and granddaughter Alden came down from Fort Bragg, N.C. to be with us at the Reunion
• Rev. John Wesley Boland (21 KB)
  John Wesley Boland Married the second time to Esther Jane Fussell. They lived in several places in Georgia but He owned a large Farm, & Sawmill and preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Midway, Muscogee County, Ga.
• Lutheran Church in Haine Hessen-Kassel, Germany (370 KB)
  This is the church where my g.g.g. grandfather Johann Heinrich Bohland (John Boland) was baptized in 1755 and confirmed in 1769. Haine is a small village now a part of Allendorf near Haina/Kloster, Germany.
• Sons of John Wesley Boland my great grandfather (263 KB)
  This is a picture of my great Uncles front row left to right John Fletcher , William Thomas, George Gabriel, Back row left to right James David, Jeremiah Christopher, Henry Iverson Two sons are missing. My grandfather Wilburn Jackson Boland had died in 1899, and Charles Wesley Boland had gone to Texas.
• My great grandmother Edther Jane Fussell (24 KB)
  Esther Jane Fussell was a strong woman with a good mind who ran a large farm and kept up with the books and oversaw all workers on the farm and sawmill. Her husband Rev. John Wesley Boland was out looking after his church work a great deal of the time, but helped her out when he could. He was a large and vigorous man and he helped Esther Jane out when ever he could.
• This is my oldest son Barry Andrew Boland (14 KB)
  Barry is the oldest of my children. He has three brothers and one sister. Barry has always set a fine example for his younger siblings.
• This is my grandfather Wilburn Jackson Boland (45 KB)
  This is Wilburn Jackson Boland my grandfather. This picture was made right after his wedding to Annie Bell Barnes and on December 29, 1887 in Ellaville Schley County, GA (She was the daughter of Thomas Pryor Barnes and Elizabeth Virginia "Kitty" Strange)
• Family of Ernest Pope Boland (157 KB)
  This picture was made at The Bradley R. Boland, Sr. Family Reunion Christmas of 1950 at the home of Bradley & Lois Goins Boland in Pahokee, Palm Beach County, Florida. Pictured left to right: Bradley Jr. & Janie Boland and daughter Martha Ann, Jack, Lois, behind Lois is Ernest, Bradley, Sr. behind Bradley is Tom, Fred Griffith & wife Sara Boland, Glen, H.J.Smith and wife Mary Boland and children Judy & Jerry, Susan Kate Goins & husband Pope Webb. (Kate Goins is my Aunt, Mother's sister)Kneeling down front are Otis Boland & wife June Richards with son Ray
• My sons Thomas, Robby and Mike (86 KB)
  This is a picture of my sons Thomas, Robby, and Mike. This picture was made at the wedding of our adopted grandson W. Paul Argo who is like a brother to all my sons.
• Great Grand Aunt Martha Jane "Mattie" Boland (140 KB)
  This is the sister of my great grandfather John Wesley Boland. She moved to Texas with her mother and father David and Mary C. Jones, Boland in 1859. they settled in Robertson County, Texas
• This is my Aunt Mignon Boland, Urquhart & son (255 KB)
  This is a picture of my Aunt Catherine Mignon Boland, Urquhart and her son Wilburn J. Urquhart and his family.
• Annie Lois Goins, Boland (309 KB)
  This is a picture of my Mother. Not only is she beautiful she was truly a Great Lady. She was the mother of eight children two girls, and six boys. She taught them to be young ladies and young gentlemen. I think she would be very proud of the way they all turned out.
• This is my daughter Beth (18 KB)
  Beth is the beat of her father's heart. She has alwys been my pride and joy. She loves her family and all of her brothers. Her four brothers look up to her and love her very much.
• Colonel and Mrs. Ernest Pope Boland (170 KB)
  This picture was made at the time I made full Colonel in the U.S.Army. I was in my late forties just about fifty years old. Betty the love of my life is two years younger than I am. When you see how beautiful she is you will know why I love her so much!!!
• William Jackson Hamer (Uncle Billy Hamer) (30 KB)
  According to the Hamer book in Ernest Pope Boland's possession, Billy had a son named Nolon. Sarah Jane "Sallie" Anthony wrote about him in a letter she sent to the compiler of the Hamer book. In his latter years, Billy lived in Columbus with Nolon.[John Hamer Bladen County, N.C..FTW] Uncle Billy was wounded in both legs during the Civil War. He also lost the sight in one eye, and had a lot of trouble from these wounds the rest of his life. He applied for a pension in 1903 and received it. He received his pension from the State of Georgia through the year of 1907, and I guess until his death in 1930.
• There is nothing like a new grandpa and a grandson (61 KB)
  This is a picture of Bradley R. Boland III and his first grandson Logan. Logan is a keeper according to his grand dad Brad
• This is my grandmother Annie Bell Barnes (19 KB)
  This is a picture of my grandmother Annie Bell Barnes Boland
• Bradley Raymond Boland, Sr. (335 KB)
  This is my Dad. He was born on September 10, 1894, and died on May 12, 1987. He was in his 93rd year when he died. He was a man in every sense of the word.
• Rev. John Wesley Boland age 55 (29 KB)
  This is a picture of my great grandfather Rev. John Wesley Boland at age 55. He was a Methodist Episcopal South Minister of the Gospel. He was a large and vigorous man who owned a large farm and Sawmill. He bought several large parcels of land and cut off the timber then sold the land for farms. He preached in Howard, Taylor County, GA and at The Old Midway Methodist Church which was loacted at the corner of the Bunea Vista Road and the Steammill Road in Muscogee County, GA.
• These are my young cousins Jake & Rion Thompson (41 KB)
  This is a picture of my El Paso, TX cousin Betty Jo Martin's grandson's Jake & Rion Thompson their mother Lisa Ann Martin is a beauty that's where they get their good looks.
• Ernest Pope Boland About 1990 (20 KB)
  This picture was made in North Carolina at my cousin John P. Chapman's home shortly before John died. I had gone up to visit him when I found out he had cancer. I was about 66 years old when this picture was taken.
• Middleton Boland and Anna Barbara Frick (54 KB)
  Middleton Boland was the son of Abraham Boland and the grandson of Johann Heinrich Bohland (John Boland)
• Bradley, Jr., Ernest, Tom and Otis Boland (157 KB)
  This is a picture of my brothers Bradley, Tom and Otis. It was made in Columbus GA in 1946 at my Sister Mary's House. Tom, Otis and I were visiting our brother Bradley and sister Mary in Columbus, GA from Pahokee FL where we lived at that time. We were all young and spent a lot of time together as young men. Those were good old days.
• This is John Adam Boland, Sr. son of Abraham (24 KB)
  John Adams Boland, Sr. was born in 1813 and died in 1884.
• Otto Geitz and wife Lydia Müller (29 KB)
  I searched for many years to find a connection to our German Boland family. In 2002 Rev. Otto Wilhelmy a very old Lutheran Minister of Haine, Hessen, Germany who was familiar with our German family researched it for me and sent me the data for Johannes Bohland our g.g.g.g.g.g.grandfather Johannes Bohland & wife Loys Dippel. He also sent me information about our present day German cousin Otto Geitz the g.g.g.g.grandson of Katharina Elisabeth Bohland. Otto lives at the site of the original Bohland home in Haine, Hessen, Germany. We have been writing back and forth now for over a year. Cousin Otto sent me this picture of himself and his wife Lydia.
• Old John Boland Cemetery #3 (153 KB)
  This Cemetery is located on the Old John Boland Home Place in Little Mountain, South Carolina. Old John Boland and his two wives and a number of other family members are buried here.
• Emma Dendley Boland & Robert Foster Provine (30 KB)
  This is Emma Denley Boland daughter of Marion M. Boland and granddaughter of Ephraim Walter Boland and her husband Robert Foster Provine. This family of Bolands are out of the Mississippi Bolands
• This is my grand daughter Elizabeth Alden Boland (83 KB)
  We call her Alden. Her father is Thomas R. Ernest Boland and her mother is Elizabeth Boise Morgan from Clinton, S.C. Thomas is a Captain in the Army 82nd Airborne Division. They live near Fort Bragg, N.C.
• Ephraim Walter Boland and Susanah Bowers (27 KB)
  This is a picture od Ephraim Walter Boland and Susanah Bowers of Big Creek, Mississippi
• This is the village of Haine, Hessen, Germany (39 KB)
  Haine is the village where our immigrant Johann Heinrich Bohland (John H. Boland) was born on June 02, 1755. He came to America as a Hessian Soldier in July 1776. In late 1778 or early 1779 he deserted his troops and joined the South Carolina Militia as a Forager. He settled in the Dutch Fork of South Carolina and raised a large family. His descendants now reach from South Carolina to the Pacific Coast.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Gideon Cummings (View PDF)

Related Files

• Dutch Fork or Deutsch Fork (1 KB)
  This file was written by Donald W. Whitaker and explains how the Deutsch Fork got its name

Related Links

• Donald W. Whitaker's Deutsch Fork Home Page
• Robert Comer Whitehead's Website
• Ernest P. Bolands Genealogy.com Site
• Robert Whitehead's Whitehead Genealogy Site
• Ernest Pope Boland of Athens, GA Genealogy.com Web Site