I, Mable Evelyn Banks Tolman, was born July 21, 1897, near Wakarusa, Kansas, near Topeka, at my folks home in the country. My father had gone after my Grandmother Jordan. He had just arrived back home when I was born. My father, James Stanley Banks, was the oldest of...
(This 1930 U.S. Census record for Daniel Henry Tolman, Mabel Evelyn, and seven of their children.)
(A short history written by George Elza Tolman on his memories of his parents, Daniel Henry and Mabel Tolman as well as his own experiences growing up in Marion.) They never had electricity in their home at Marion. They used the old coal oil lamps, which were very...
Daniel Henry Tolman was born in in 1892 in the home of his parents, Joshua Alvin and Mary Jane Tolman in Marion, Idaho. He married Mabel Evelyn Banks in 1915 and they settled down right next door to where he was raised. They farmed there until almost 1940 when...
