Here is a GEDCOM file that is essentially the ancestors of Wallace Hamblin and Ida Minerva Rollins and their children.
Many stories are included in there. I hope to have all the stories listed separately on this site for ease of indexing and search engine finding.
I have also attached the "book" which contains these stories separately (in both RTF and TXT).
Thanks to Howard Bangerter for these. (click on attachments to seed downloads)
Wallace Hamblin and Ida Minerva Rollins Family.
backrow left to right: Rollin Hamblin, Eugene Hamblin, Marcene Hamblin
middle row: Lee Hamblin, Addie, Ida, Clark
bottom row: Clark, Wallace Hamblin, Lucille, Ida Minerva Rollins Hamblin
date unknown
[original photo in possesion of Joseph Carl Free as of July 2006]
written by herself
I was born of goodly parents in a very primitive cottonwood log house with a dirt roof on the 2nd day of October, 1862, in a small pioneer village situated on the banks of the Bear River in the southwestern part of Utah. The place derived its name Minersville on account of there being so many miners in that locality. My parents were James Henry Rollins, born in Lima, New York, on the 27th of May, 1816; and Eveline Walker Rollins, born the 16th of May, 1823, in or near Dayton, Ohio. They were very early pioneers of Utah immigrating from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters in February 1846 --- lived there through the year 1847 and from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City --- arrived there in October 1848.
I was my mother's tenth and last child, four of them dying while small. I spent my childhood days in Minersville. I attended school there and learned my ABC's there, as it was then called. The first school that I remember attending was taught by my father's sister, Mary E. Lightner. She taught in an old adobe meeting house which was used for church and all kinds of amusements and a school house.
Each of these stories can be (or will be) found on this web site. But they are all grouped together here in a ".zip" file for your downloading convenience. (Click on attachment)
Absalom P. Free history
Anders Gustav Blad
Annie Hicks Free history
Carl and Addie Blad history
Ida Minerva Rollins history
James B. Wheeler;Rachel T.
JAMES HENRY ROLLINS
Mina Jean Blad history
Oscar Hamblin history
Rachel D. Wheeler history
Wenlock Wheeler Free
This is an image of the 1930 census for Levi Carl and Addie Minerva Blad and their children: Phyllis, Geneviev, Jeanne, Carl, Theda, Jack, Norman, Elaine.
by Willis Robinson
A high schoolteacher to most of the Blad children,
A Bishop to the whole Blad family,
and, second husband of Jeanne Blad
The miracle begins when you shake hands with a Blad. The handshake usually turns into a hug but is always accompanied by twinkling eyes and smiling face.
I remember when Father and Mother Blad and daughters would walk into an otherwise calm and cool choir practice, being held in the little old church in Panaca. The Blad spirit took over and nothing was ever quite the same again; the music was sweeter, the refreshments tasted better and the spirit of love filled the place.
Blads come in many shapes and sizes but often, after being run through the Blad press, other lives become more open, honest, and well rounded in depth.
Every person influences every other person in the world by their personal radiation; with this family however, the positive is accentuated, "put downs" and criticisms are held to a minimum; love blooms with creativity and production following.
written by their daughter, Jean Blad Free
Carl Levi Blad was born August 13, 1886, a son of Andrew Gustaf and Mina Albertina Andersen Blad. He spent his childhood in Panaca and attended the local schools.
As a young boy he helped his father on the farm, being the main salesman for their truck garden produce at Bullionville. He later followed the carpenter and mason trade, working mostly for Syphus Construction.
Addie Minerva Hamblin Blad was born February 6, 1891, in Minersville, Utah, a twin daughter of Wallace and Ida Minerva Rollins Hamblin.
They first met about 1905 in Panaca, Nevada, the home town of Levi, when Addie, accompanied by her twin sister Ida, had come to visit their Aunt Melissa Lee and their Lee cousins, who lived there. These must have been times of fun for them, mingling with the young people of that little farming community; there were parties, hayrides, singing, dancing and much laughter on these visits.
The twins, Addie and Ida, were from Lyman, Wyoming. Their home was a ranch, which was shared with many brothers, where the western way of life was the real thing. This life style no doubt was influential in Addie's development into a capable, strong, beautiful girl; who could drive a horse and buggy or sew a pretty feather on a bonnet, as the need may be. Her trained soprano voice, her dancing feet and her happy disposition kept her in demand in the small town social circles of that day.
