BOSWELL LINEAGE
This information was prepared by Dorothy Holly Gerlach of Springfield Oregon,
in 1972. Individual family pages were obtained from the Johnston family through
the Boswell family from 1818 to1970. The family started with the Johnston lineage
and then follows the Bosewell's to Merle Bosewell the wife of Hugh Sackett Skinner.
The original document are in the possesion of Michael Kirtland Skinner.
Generation No 1
Samuel H Johnston, born 1818 in Monroe county Tennessee married 1840 Mary A
Duncan born 1818, and was a farmer in Pingot/Ringold county Iowa. Children:
Andrew Duncan, born 1840
Keyiah E, born 1842
Anna J, born 1844
JOHN CALVIN, born Oct 20 1845, died Jan 7 1922
Margaret A, born1847
Elizabeth A, born 1849
Hester A, born 1851
George W, born 1852
Sarah Isabel "Belle", born 1854
Samuel H Jr, born 1859
Mary Anvilla, born 1861
Generation No 2
John Calvin Johnston, b 1845, married 1871 to Amalia Ruf, b 1854 in Adrian Oregon
(father John Baptist Ruf, b 1826, and mother Mary J. Stall, b 1826, both of
Greeson Germany and farmers) and they were farmers in Iowa, Kansas, Texas and
Oregon, finally settling in Adrian Oregon. Children:
Guy Osborne, born 1872 in Lewisburg Iowa, married Ziena Doenth
Della Flora, born 1874 in Iowa, married Henry Bullock
Jesse E, born 1877 in Leadville Colorado, married Anna Mary Keller
C'CEAL, born 1879 in Sun City Kansas, married John Boswell
Lulu Nettie, born 1881 in Sun City Kansas, married Clarence Otto Thomas
Mary Orvilla, born 1883 in Sun City Kansas, married Walter James Kelly
Gentie Mae, born 1886 in Sun city Kansas, married Leroy Owen Wicklund
Grace Isabelle, born 1888 in Sun city Kansas, married William Fred Schultz
Bertha, born 1891 in Sun City Kansas, married Albert P Gibson
Agnes Rilla, born 1894 in Sun City Kansas, married John Elmer Holly
John Iel, born 1896 in Sun City Kansas, married Rosa Kelley
William Smith Boswell and Susan Frances Laing of Eldorado Oregon, child:
John, born Oct 29 1871, in Eldorado Oregon, died June 11, 1929 in Anchorage
Alaska, buried Baker Oregon
Generation No 3
John Boswell, b 1871, married in 1910 to C'Ceal Johnston, b 1879, in Vale Oregon.
John was a miner, postmaster, drugest and deputy sheriff in Malheur County Oregon,
while C'Ceal was a teacher and assistant pharmacist in Vale Oregon. Children:
John Calvin, born 1905, married Jewell Booth
MERLE DARLENE, born Aug 11 1901, in Vale Oregon, married Hugh Sackett Skinner,
Katherine, born 1907, in Vale Oregon, married James M. Lake
Marion Frances, born 1910, in Vale Oregon, died April 8, 1933 in Fairbanks Alaska
Generation No 4
Hugh Sackett Skinner, b 1909, married Merle Darlene Boswell, b 1901, in Vale
Oregon in 1930. Merle was a teacher, homemaker and artist and Hugh worked for
the game commission in Vale and Redmond Oregon. Children:
Suzanne Frances, born Jul 24 1931 in Ontario Oregon, married Kenneth Fairchild
Darlene Merle, born Nov 24 1932 in Vale Oregon, married Edward Zarosinski
Hugh Kirtland "Kirt", born Aug 3 1935 in Ontario Oregon, married Tonya
Valerie Wolf