July 2, 1825 – Catharine Smucker – my gg grandmother – is born in Alsace-Lorraine, France.

Most family records show that the Smucker (Schemouker) family hailed from a little village called Bertrambois in Meurthe-et-Moselle of Lorraine. At age 18 (1843), Catharine and her family migrated to Wayne County, Ohio. There, Catharine married Jacob B. Boller (1849), and they were the first Bollers in my family to move to Iowa – settling on farmland in Washington Township of Johnson County in 1853.

Jacob B. Boller & Catharine Smucker – From Ohio to Iowa: Taming the Heartland.
– 1825-1853 – The Mennonite Connection.
– Johnson County’s Own – Washington Township.
– The Boller Farms of Johnson County, Iowa -1853.
– 1850’s – Surveying This New Land Called Iowa.
– 1853-1899 – The Kalona Connection.
– The Boller Children & Johnson County Schools.
– 1899-1907 – Passing Down The Family Farm.

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