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Class of 1903
Birth: 6 Sep 1882, Barber, Rowan County, North Carolina
Death: 21 Sep 1983
, Catawba County, North Carolina
Parents:
John William Powlas (1856 – 1899)
Margaret Amanda Victoria Miller Powlas (1859 – 1942)
Siblings:
Rosa Irene Powlas Ezzell (1880-1957)
Mary Alma Powlas Whitener (1884-1968)
Genolia Ethel Powlas Aderholt (1886-1964)
Maud Olena Powlas (1889-1980)
Annie Pauline Powlas (1891-1978)
Mabel Lucile Powlas Gilbert (1893-1982)
Pearl Miller Powlas Dunkelberger (1897-1956)
Spouse: Lawson Pettus Boland (1875 – 1966)
Marriage: 08 May 1906, Cleveland, Rowan, North Carolina
Children:
Juanita Boland Cruse (1908-1979)
Margaret Elizabeth Boland Herring (1914-1993)
Annie Barbara Boland (1916-2005)
Lawson Powlas Boland (1921-2002)
Burial
Lebanon Lutheran Church Cemetery, Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Plot: Row 13.
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 52062441.
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Comment:
Edith Boland Eubanks (7-10 Sep 2017):
“My Paternal Grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth “Lizzie” Powlas Boland, and her older sister, Rosa Irene Powlas Ezzell, attended and graduated from Mont Amoena. I heard my Grandmama talk fondly about her days there as long as she lived.
When my Grandmama Lizzie was a student at Mont Amoena Seminary for Young Ladies in the early 1900’s, there was a boys’ school right next door – Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. There was a wall between the two schools and no contact was allowed between the students. However, Grandmama and some of her friends discovered that they could watch the boys drilling on their parade grounds, marching in formation, from the girls’ room windows on the upper floors of the dormitory. So they would study in their rooms until drill time and then congregate at the windows to watch the boys. As far as I know, Grandmama and her friends did not get caught or punished. She always had a twinkle in her eye and a big smile on her face whenever she told this story.
When Grandmama Lizzie was 89 years old, her oldest grandson who lived near Charlotte was getting ready to fly his private plane to Fayetteville, NC to see his new grandson who had just been born. Jokingly, Bill asked Grandmama if she wanted to go with them to see her great, great-grandson. Much to his surprise, she said “Yes.” So off she flew to Fayetteville. My Daddy contacted the Salisbury Post who sent a reporter and a photographer to meet her when she returned to the Salisbury airport. She had flown in a plane once before during the 1940’s, just around an airport but this time she flew across North Carolina.
My Grandmama was a remarkable lady who lived to be 101 years old. Her father died when she was 17 years old, leaving her mother with nine children, three elderly folks (her in-laws and her mother-in-law’s sister) and a large farm to care for when women did not run anything. The only son was just a boy at the time and he died not long after his father. The eight daughters all went to secondary schools like Mont Amoena and became teachers, missionaries to Japan, wives and mothers.
I grew up in the house with Grandmama and she was a very strong influence on the lives of my three sisters and me. My middle name is Elizabeth for her. I hope that I inherited her spirit, spunk and love of life.”
Plane trip photo courtesy of Edith Boland Eubanks.
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From Descendants of John Boland Hessian Soldier and American Patriot, by Bernard William Cruse, Jr. (Cabarrus Genealogy Society, Concord, NC, 2007), p. 33.
Rev. Lawson Pettus4 Boland, (Middleton3, Abraham2, John1) b. 12 Feb 1875 in Little Mountain, Newberry County, SC, d. 30 Oct 1966 in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC, buried in Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery, Barber, Rowan County, NC, occupation Lutheran Minister, Residence Cleveland, NC, baptized in St. Peter’s Ev. Lutheran Church, Chapin, SC. A graduate of Newberry College in the Class of 1897, and the Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary in the Class of 1901. First pastorate was in Winston County, MS and ordained by the MS Synod in the fall of 1901. Early in 1903 he was called and accepted a pastorate at Graniteville, SC. In the fall of 1904, sometime after the death of his first wife and young daughter, he accepted a call to the Lebanon pastorate in North Carolina. It was there he met and married his second wife and in the spring of 1908 accepted a call and moved to Lone Star in Calhoun County, S C. He remained there until the spring of 1916 when he moved to Newberry, Newberry County, SC, thence in 1924 to Enochville, NC and in 1932 to Taylorsville, NC where he concluded his active ministry duties in 1940.
After retiring, Rev. and Mrs. Boland returned to her childhood home, the old Eli and John Powlas homes at Barber, where they lived several years while building their own new home on Powlas Road near the Woodleaf-Barber Road, and next to the Lebanon Parsonage built on the land that Eli had given to Lebanon for that parsonage. Even at their advanced ages, they built that home almost unassisted from lumber sawn from Lizzie’s part of the old Powlas estate and lived there the rest of their lives, except for the time Lizzie was in the North Carolina Lutheran Home at Salisbury before passing on. See further notes under their son, Lawson Powlas Boland.
He married (1) Orra Elizabeth Phillips, About 1900, b. 26 Jun 1876, (daughter of John F. Phillips and Elizabeth Fanning) d. 1 Aug 1903, buried in Springfield, SC.
Child:
i. Blandina Boland, b. 12 May 1902, d. 14 Sep 1905, buried in Springfield, SC.
He married (2) Margaret Elizabeth Powlas, 8 May 1906 in Lebanon Lutheran Church, Barber, Rowan County, NC, b. 6 Sep 1882 in Barber, Rowan County, NC, (daughter of John William Powlas and Margaret Amanda Victoria Miller) d. 30 Sep 1983 in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC, buried in Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery, Barber, Rowan County, NC, occupation Teacher, Housewife, Residence Barber, Rowan County, NC.
Children:
Juanita (Nita) Boland b. 30 May 1908.
Margaret Elizabeth Boland, 2nd b. 20 Jan 1914.
Annie Barbara Boland, b. 28 Feb 1916 in Newberry, Newberry County, SC, d. 2005 in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC, occupation Railroad Clerical, Residence Atlanta, Fulton County, GA, then Salisbury, Rowan County, NC, buried in Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery, Barber, Rowan County, NC.
Lawson Powlas Boland b. 12 Mar 1921.
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Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), 11 Jun 1972.
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