Mabel V. Bolig was born October 11, 1889 in Snyder County,
Pennsylvania to Jonathan Howard Bolig and Adda Berger. Mabel started school with a slate for her
lessons. She wore her long auburn
hair braided down her back. Her
father was a carpenter. He died when
she was five so she lived with her maternal grandparents for ten years. Her mother married Sylvester Wagner. They came by train to a farm south of
Hooper, Nebraska. In 1908 they moved
to Orchard where Mabel married George Mathers on November 3, 1908. They moved to a farm north of
Orchard. This was the farm where the
fossils were found and dug up for the museum. They sold the farm in 1914 and moved to a farm south of
Hooper. They were the parents
of: Bernice, Raymond, Irene, Ivan and
Ruby Jean. In 1928, Mabel moved the
family to Neligh. Bernice married
Jack Jones, two children; Raymond married Edna Huwalt, one child; Emery
married Bernice Van Horn, ten children; Irene married Lynn Buckland, one
child; Ivan married Maybelle Humrick, two children; Ruby married Harold
Bearinger, five children. Mabel moved
to California and worked in a defense plant during the war. On July 31, 1946 she married Albert Wilson. They moved back to Neligh in 1954. Albert died February 15, 1970 and Mabel
July 2, 1976.
Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in July 2007