This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bollinger, Fischover, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3300 Message Board Post: History of SE Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing 1888 Biographical Appendix, page 823 MRS. ELEANOR BOLLINGER Mrs. Eleanor Bollinger, widow of Daniel Bollinger, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1821, and is a daughter of Conrad and Dora Fischover, born in 1780 and 1789 respectively. Conrad Fischover was also born in the Kingdom of Hanover, and was a tiller of the soil. He died in 1847, and his widow in 1863. They were the parents of eight children, three of whom are alive. Mrs. Eleanor Bollinger, with her sister and brother-in-law, came to America in 1848. Landing at New York, they went to St. Louis, from whence they came to Southeast Missouri and located. In 1858, Eleanor was married to Daniel Bollinger, a native of Bollinger county, born in 1817. He was a farmer by vocation and after a life of great usefulness, died in 1869. To him and wife were born three children, one of whom died young; another; a daughter, was married to John Miles, and lived to be twenty-six years of age. She was the mother of two children, one of whom died and the other is being reared by its grand! mother Bollinger. Benjamin H. Bollinger, the only living child, is an industrious and intelligent young man of twenty-three years. He received a good education in the common schools, and has remained on the farm with his mother, to whom he is a great stay in her declining years. Together they own 280 acres of land in Wayne Township, Bollinger co., MO. Mrs. Bollinger is a devoted member of the Lutheran Church.