A Wilson Family Tree

Notes for Lute Ottaway Bollinger

Full name is from a chart by H.F. Hunter Jr. in the Katherine Gentry Bushman Papers, 1961-1997 (Accession 35743, Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA). With the chart was this short personal note:

LUTE OTTAWAY BOLLINGER

Grandmother Hunter (1861 - 1944) was a frequent summer visitor at our home in Trenton. Mother and Dad Hunter occasionally used this opportunity to take a few days vacation, leaving my brother Lee (Bud) and me with Grandmother. Bud and I did not especially look forward to these occasions. Grandmother was a product of a strict Swiss heritage and of austere times. For her, summer was the time to collect and preserve garden produce for leaner days ahead: when Mother and Dad disappeared, bushels of tomatoes, beans and corn arrived on our back porch to be peeled, strung, shucked, washed and cooked. She was also fond of soup, which we had for lunch and supper on a regular basis without variation. At this time she was some 70 years of age and probably considered her grandsons to be lazy and slothful, but she never complained.

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