Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Capt. Peter W. Boli and Mary Emma McPherson Wilkins




Husband Capt. Peter W. Boli 1 2

           Born: 21 May 1854 - Port Perry, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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           Died: 16 Dec 1927 2
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         Father: Philip Boli (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Keziah Carvey (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 1881 1



Wife Mary Emma McPherson Wilkins 1 2

           Born: 1856 2
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           Died: 28 Jul 1915 2
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         Father: William Wilkins (1826-1884) 2
         Mother: Rebecca McPherson (      -      ) 1 2




Children
1 M William Wilkins Boli 1

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2 F Enid Boli 1

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3 M Robert Ferry Boli 2

           Born: 24 May 1896 - Turtle Creek, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Jane Angeline Taggart (1897-      ) 3
           Marr: 8 May 1920 2



General Notes: Husband - Capt. Peter W. Boli


He was reared at Port Perry, Pennsylvania, went on the river when thirteen years old, and gradually worked his way up to captain, commander of the steamboat Lioness. For ten years he was pilot on the Ohio, and then spent some years on the lower Mississippi. He settled at Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1886, where he purchased a handsome home.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 618.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 186.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 183.


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