{"id":1475,"date":"2026-10-31T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1475"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:32:52","slug":"roling-john-louisa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1475","title":{"rendered":"John Frank and Louisa Roling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=7\">Roling family<\/a> \u203a John Frank and Louisa Roling<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">Their American family records, marriage and children\u2019s weddings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure id=\"jf-louisa-header-photo\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"max-width:560px;margin:24px auto 32px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table.webp\" alt=\"Man and woman seated at a table set with a cloth, dishes and serving pieces.\" class=\"wp-image-686\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table.webp 1536w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roling-history3-14-john-frank-and-louisa-bickel-roling-at-a-dining-table-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"margin-top:0.75rem\">John Frank Roling and Louisa Bickel Roling at a dining table, identified by the paired reverse inscription. Date and location are unconfirmed. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1550#family-photo-686\">Photo identification and album context<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"earlier-generations\">The documented American family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Franklin Roling\u2019s 1947 Missouri death certificate names Bernard Roling as his father and Magdalena Wentz as his mother, and reports that both were born in Germany. This is an important record connecting the Salisbury family with the earlier Quincy household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bernard and Magdalena married on January 7, 1855, at St. Boniface in Adams County, Illinois. The diocese\u2019s review of the original register found that neither spouse\u2019s parents were recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1900 Quincy census records Bernard and Magdalena under the spelling \u201cRolling.\u201d Both reported immigration in 1854, and Bernard was marked naturalized. The immigration year is a retrospective report; a passenger vessel has not been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"jf-roling-quincy-report-1947\">John F. Roling remembered in Quincy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News of John F. Roling\u2019s death reached the city where he had grown up. The <em>Quincy Herald-Whig<\/em> reported on November 23, 1947 that Frank Roling, 83, had been struck by a train at a crossing between his Salisbury home and business the previous Friday, November 21. The notice recalled his schooling at St. Mary in Quincy, named his late wife as Louise Bickel, and described his work with two sons in the machine-shop and farm-implement business. <a href=\"https:\/\/quincypublicil.advantage-preservation.com\/viewer\/GetPdfFile?109663964\">Read \u201cFrank Roling, Former Quincyan, Killed by Train,\u201d page 18, column 7.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a separate report from the Wabash-train clipping preserved by the family. The Quincy article does not name a railroad or train number; the newspaper, issue date and page of the family-held clipping remain unidentified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Louisa Roling\u2019s memorial card<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memorial card preserved in the family collection names Louisa Roling and gives her birth as June 17, 1863, and her death as July 15, 1934. A typed family sheet instead gives June 19, 1863, for her birth, while a separate undated family account gives June 1934 for her death. These differences remain unresolved; the dates are retained as each source presents them. The card does not itself establish her maiden name or marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright.png\" alt=\"A woman standing in a snow-covered yard with outbuildings behind her.\" class=\"wp-image-435\" style=\"width:720px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright.png 1536w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/louisa-bickel-roling-snow-upright-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Louisa Bickel Roling in a snowy yard, identified on the accompanying handwritten reverse. Date and location unknown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John and Louisa\u2019s marriage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preserved obituary clipping reports that John F. Roling married Louisa Bickel in Chicago on October 17, 1890. The typed family sheet instead gives a November 1890 marriage in Chicago. The sources disagree, and the date remains unresolved pending an original marriage record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0530.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0530.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and a woman standing beside the porch of a wooden house.\" class=\"wp-image-432\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0530.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0530-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0530-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Frank Roling and Louisa Bickel Roling outside a house, identified on the accompanying handwritten reverse. Photograph undated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"roling-family-weddings\">Weddings and new households<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shop and the family often appeared in the same newspaper story. When Benjamin Franklin Roling married Katherine Marie Korte in October 1916, the wedding report described him as a mechanic working with his father, J. F. Roling. Ben and Katherine had been friends since childhood and were former schoolmates. Their ceremony at Glasgow\u2019s Catholic church began at 9:30 a.m., with Margaret Korte, Flora Roling, Joseph Roling and John Korte as attendants. A five-course dinner at her parents\u2019 home east of Glasgow was followed by a dance and dinner in Salisbury\u2019s young men\u2019s club rooms above Bertsch Bros. and Huber\u2019s restaurant. They planned to make their home in the former Rose residence on East Second Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following spring it was Joseph\u2019s turn: he and Ida Bange married at St. Joseph Church, with her brother Frank and his sister Agnes standing beside them. A reception at the bride\u2019s home east of town and a dance at the Pastime Club followed. The couple had rented a home on Lafevre Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By January 1928, another notice announced Ben\u2019s marriage to Grace Panos in Hannibal. It described him as working with his father and brother, and identified Grace as Fred Ebert\u2019s daughter. These two wedding reports belong to different chapters of Ben\u2019s life; the notices alone do not explain how his first marriage ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agnes Roling and Clarence Widmer\u2019s August 1929 wedding brought the shop into the family news once again. Clarence was a machinist there; Agnes was associated with the Savings Bank. After the ceremony at St. Joseph, fifty guests gathered for dinner at the Roling home. The newlyweds planned to settle into the cottage recently vacated by Ben\u2019s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Sources for this story<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Salisbury Press-Spectator<\/em>: October 20, 1916, p. 1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/1362236242\/\">original page<\/a>); April 20, 1917, p. 1; January 13, 1928, p. 1; August 23, 1929, p. 1. These are reported weddings; the announced household plans are not proof of completed moves. Newspapers.com may require an account.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=7\">\u2190 Roling family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1477\">Back to Family line<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1476\">Louisa\u2019s Bickel family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1505\">Record descriptions and source notes<\/a><\/nav>\n\n\n<script>(function(){function revealTopicTarget(){var name;try{name=decodeURIComponent(window.location.hash.slice(1));}catch(e){return;}if(!name){return;}var target=document.getElementById(name);if(!target){return;}var node=target.parentElement;while(node){if(node.tagName==='DETAILS'){node.open=true;}node=node.parentElement;}}revealTopicTarget();window.addEventListener('hashchange',revealTopicTarget);})();<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Roling family \u203a John Frank and Louisa Roling Their American family records, marriage and children\u2019s weddings. John Frank Roling and Louisa Bickel Roling at a dining table, identified by the paired reverse inscription. Date and location are unconfirmed. Photo identification and album context. The documented American family John Franklin Roling\u2019s 1947 Missouri death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475\/revisions\/1852"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}