Will grew up the eldest of 4 sons and 1 daughter of Morris P Jolley and Sarah Virginia Evans Jolley, of Ohio then Kansas, Morris a Civil War veteran. Will attended Baker College and Jefferson Medical school, set up his first practice in Rawlins, Wyoming, on the frontier. There he met and married Annie Florence Stuart. They had 2 children, Ketura and Malcolm, but lost Ketura as toddler. Will was a surgeon, called up for the Colorado Mine wars, 2 tours in WW 1, and did home duty in posts in California, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. Along the way he witnessed much history, along with being in the same convoy as the one which included the stricken Lusitania, of which he left a written record, witnessed the range wars, escaped capture in Serbia and kept his surgical practices growing.
An avid photogrpaher at a time when few carried a camera, Will recorded his home life and career, leaving a wonderful record for his family to remember him by.
Will and Annie raised their 2 grandchildren with their son when his wife Peg died of Tb. The children remember the kind, fascinating man who taught them so much, and miss him alll these years later.
An avid photogrpaher at a time when few carried a camera, Will recorded his home life and career, leaving a wonderful record for his family to remember him by.
Will and Annie raised their 2 grandchildren with their son when his wife Peg died of Tb. The children remember the kind, fascinating man who taught them so much, and miss him alll these years later.
Will grew up the eldest of 4 sons and 1 daughter of Morris P Jolley and Sarah Virginia Evans Jolley, of Ohio then Kansas, Morris a Civil War veteran. Will attended Baker College and Jefferson Medical school, set up his first practice in Rawlins, Wyoming, on the frontier. There he met and married Annie Florence Stuart. They had 2 children, Ketura and Malcolm, but lost Ketura as toddler. Will was a surgeon, called up for the Colorado Mine wars, 2 tours in WW 1, and did home duty in posts in California, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. Along the way he witnessed much history, along with being in the same convoy as the one which included the stricken Lusitania, of which he left a written record, witnessed the range wars, escaped capture in Serbia and kept his surgical practices growing.
An avid photogrpaher at a time when few carried a camera, Will recorded his home life and career, leaving a wonderful record for his family to remember him by.
Will and Annie raised their 2 grandchildren with their son when his wife Peg died of Tb. The children remember the kind, fascinating man who taught them so much, and miss him alll these years later.
An avid photogrpaher at a time when few carried a camera, Will recorded his home life and career, leaving a wonderful record for his family to remember him by.
Will and Annie raised their 2 grandchildren with their son when his wife Peg died of Tb. The children remember the kind, fascinating man who taught them so much, and miss him alll these years later.
