S. A. Boldman

Article taken from The Walla Walla Union Bulletin, January 29, 1954

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Stephen A. D. Boldman of Dayton, who came to the Walla Walla Valley from Kansas in a covered wagon in 1880, died in a local hospital Wednesday night at the age of 92.

Boldman, who lived at 410 North.  First in Dayton, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1861.  From 1868 until 1880 he lived in Kansas, reaching the valley here August 7 of that year after a three-month trip.

The next year he went to Columbia County, farming west of Dayton, and in 1892 married Blanche Porter, who died in 1944.  they sold their first farm in 1012, and farmed on Mount Pleasant, near Dayton.

In 1947, Boldman had his first airplane ride, a trip to Arizona, where he wintered with a brother, returning the following spring.

Surviving are two daughters, Miss Goldie and Miss Gladys Boldman of Dayton, and two sisters, Mrs. Louis Russell of Dayton and Mrs. Willard Booth of Opportunity.