Herald-Enterprise, Wednesday, September 30, 2009:

Fifty Years Ago by Mildred McCormick
31 December 1959

Mrs. Lou Boldion, 73, West Frankfort, died 31 December at a Benton nursing home. She was born in Golconda, daughter of Robert and Juliet Cowsert. She married James W. Boldion in Golconda in 1904; he died in 1923, at their home in Hodgeville. Survived by four sisters and three brothers; burial in Bethesda Cemetery.