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- Excerpt from The Daily Star, a newspaper published Warrensburg, Missouri. Issue of Jan 11, 1936.
“ The Violettes represented in this county for 96 years. Mary Violette of Columbus, Missouri and W. C. McDonald, Attorney of Warrensburg, were united in marriage in 1896, and have lived here since that time. Their children Frank , Mamie and Anna Margaret finished high school here, and the first two graduated from the Warrensburg Teachers College. Frank attended the University of Chicago where he earned several degrees, the last one conferred on him, being Doctor of Philosophy. He taught in Oberlin, Ohio for several years, and has been a professor of Physics for six years, in Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He married Margaret Heinbach of Coldwater, Michigan, and have a daughter Marylynne.
Mamie McDonald married in 1924 to J.S. Fruin. They have one child Robert McDonald Fruim.[Ed. Note: Dolle uses both spellings.] Reside in Ogden, Utah. The Violette homestead was located about one mile east of the Columbus store, and there Mary Violette was born as were her brothers Harry, Walter, Lee and Roy Violett. Harry married Lydia Gillilan (Gilliland) in 1892, and in 1900 they moved to the Dakotas, where Mr. Violett died in 1900. Mrs Violett returned and bought a farm east of the old homestead, situated in Hazel Hill township, where she still resides. Their children were Bessie, Nellie , Lena, Eugene and Thomas. Bessie and Nellie graduated from Warrensburg Mo Teacher's College. Bessie married Selmar Kohlstead , and reside in Montana, had one child Howard. Nellie teaches in the Coleman district. Thomas married Erma Downing, and have one daughter Lois Frances. Eugene, Lena and Nellie live at home.
Walter Violette (brother of Mrs Mary (Violette) McDonald) as well as her brothers Lee and Roy live in the west. Walter taught in the Los Angeles public schools, resided Long Beach. Lee Violette, went to the Dakotas in 1898, and in 1910 married and went to Montana, near the town of Lothair. They have five children Francis, Jessie Lee, Mellie Marie, Willis and Archie L. Walter lives in Idaho, has a son Walter who lives in Choteau, Montana.”
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