My Grandmother Minnie Isabelle Dillion was born to the parents of Elias Winfield and his wife Louisa Adeline Lee Dillion on the 4th of December, 1883. Siblings are William Arther 'Art': 1872 - 1958, Frances May: 1876 - 1934, David Wesley: 1877 - 1932, Charles: 1878 - 1887 (age 10 years old), Hannah C. 'called Anna': 1879 - 1881 (age 2, buried in the old Perlee Cemetery in Fairfield, Iowa) Rosetta Lela: 1880 - unknown death date,( could have passed from T.B. Too?), John Amos: 1888 - (Twin, to George. Enroute to Colorado Will his brother dropped him off in a orphanage in Thumber, Texas, next child was George Allen: 1888 - 1972, Herman: 1890 - 1985 and Ester Alnura Janett: 1892 - unknown death date. **** While Minnie was cooking breakfast Sunday, she suffered a hemorrhage probably caused by the rupturing of a blood vessel in her throat during a severe coughing spell the night before and died a few minutes later in the arms of her husband Kamel Stolns, who is a threshing machine operator. She had been subject to bad coughing spells which her physician feared was tuberculosis. She was given orders to sleep outdoors and was apparently improving. Saturday night she had a severe coughing spell and nearly strangled. She got up Sunday and went outside to cook breakfast, coughed hard with her last breath and went to meet her Lord and Savor; ** Funeral at Trezise's. Burial at Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, Colorado. She passed at the age of 30 on the 20th of September in the year 1914. She left behind a grief stricken husband and a heartbroken son who had watched his mothers demise. She left to mourn her loss many relatives and friends in the Boulder and Lafayette area.

*** Minnie only had one child who was John Loadvickous Stolns, who was my father.***