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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Frank Isaac Willmott: Birth: 1 Sep 1911 in Jones, Oklahoma, OK. Death: 7 Jan 1970

  2. Ora Elizabeth Willmott: Birth: 23 Apr 1913 in Jones, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Death: 19 Oct 1987

  3. Nina Boone Willmott: Birth: 17 Aug 1923 in Puyallup, Pierce, WA. Death: 24 Sep 2009 in Washington D.C.Temple

  4. Carl Grayum Willmott: Birth: 4 Feb 1926 in Puyallup, Pierce, WA. Death: 23 Oct 2008 in Puyallup, Pierce, WA

  5. Boone Willmott: Birth: 21 Apr 1927 in Puyallup, Pierce, WA. Death: 26 Sep 2002 in Graham, Pierce, WA


Notes
a. Note:   r identical twin sister Edna did their share in the fields and garden. She was educated by her mother and in the elementary schools until she passed the State examinations. After a summer course in the Normal School at Edmond, she passed the teachers' examination and at age 16 began to teach in schools near Jones. After her marriage to Boone Willmott, they built a concrete block home which is still occupied. They farmed for 10 years. In 1920, they came to Puyallup in a Model T Ford to visit Eva's parents and brother William, who had already settled in Puyallup. Instead of going on to California as they had planned, they bought a house with 2 1/2 acres of orchard and berries for $5,250. In 1942, her husband returned to Oklahoma and they were divorced the next year.
  Beginning in the 1930's, Eva worked at various jobs outside her home--in the cannery, selling insurance, cooking at Fort Lewis and at YMCA camp and selling margarine, (uncolored, before the state permitted stores to handle colored margarine), and Rawleigh products door to door on a bicycle. Years later, she wrote that she made only $7 a week from delivering 200 pounds of margarine at 3 1/2 cents profit per pound (when her customers paid for it). As she rode her bicycle around Puyallup she learned much about people and about real estate values. About 1943 she began buying low cost rental properties. She converted a chicken house at her home into a duplex. A friend persuaded her to go into real estate selling, which she did in the spring of 1951. In the next year she moved into a rental house, converted part of it into an office, and opened the Willmott Real Estate business. A young lawyer reviewed all legal documents. Her son Carl joined the business in 1955, and her daughter Nina joined in 1963 and became head of the firm in 1979. The success of her real estate business was partly due to her rigid insistence on honesty and to her concern for people, especially people who were struggling to make ends meet. Many times she forgave payments which were overdue, gave temporary employment to a tenant, or loaned a purchaser money to make a down payment.
  Eva was a great air traveler, either in a two-seater piloted by her son Boone or in a commercial jet. In 1958, Ora, then living in Rome, insisted on her mother agreeing to fly to London to join Ora in attending the Edinburgh Music Festival and then in visiting Geneva and Rome. In 1960 she gave up her position as designated broker and flew to Copenhagen, toured Scandinavia and Germany with Ora's family, saw the Olympic Games in Rome, and then flew to the Holy Land and around the world. In 1971 she flew to Athens, visited many places in Greece and Turkey "in the steps of St. Paul" and made her second visit to the Holy Land.
  She was an independent, self-reliant woman. She made her own decisions until after she was 91. She kept her real estate broker's license until the end, and she used it, making two sales in 1980. She kept her car long after cataracts prevented her from driving herself. She was an inspiration to her children and to many friends and clients.
  She was a member of Eastern Star and of the Christian Church in Puyallup, where she taught Sunday School for several years when her children were small.
  CENSUS: 1900 - U.S. Federal Census of Springfield Twp., Gallia Co., OH; shows Charles W. Grayum, Sep 1861 38 OH OH OH, wife Ora H. Jun 1865 35 OH OH OH m. 35 yrs, 4 ch., 4 lv., William H. Sep 1887 12 OH OH OH, Edna M. Aug 1889 10 OH OH OH, Eva H. Aug 1889 10 OH OH OH, Hazel A. Feb 1897 3 OH OH OH. 1940 - U.S. Federal Census of Puyallup, Pierce Co., WA: shows Boone Willmott 64 1yr coll KY farmer, wife Eva 50 4yrs hi sch OH, dau. Nina 16 WA, son Carl 14 WA, and son Boone Jr. 12 WA.
  SOURCE: Information from Luther W. English. Writings of Edna Grayum Koontz. Hebard Family chart, Grayum family chart. Eva's obituary. Information from Nina B. Willmott Tucker Gibbons.
Note:   Eva's family moved to Oklahoma in 1901, settling in Jones. The family farmed, and Eva and he


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