Naomi Rollings

Naomi Rollings

Born in 1871, in England, She passed away in 1962 at age 91. She was my Great Grandmother and one of the organizers of the Groveville Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary and its first president. She also operated the Company Store for Morris and Company, owners of the Mill and most of Groveville.

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Married to George B. Rollings, engineer and owner of the Groveville Water Company and an organizer of the Groveville Volunteer Fire Company. They had five children, Benjamin Rollings, Katharine Rollings Johnson, Joseph Rollings,Edith Rollings Jones and a daughter Alice Rollings Vanderpool, that passed away during the 1918 Flu Epidemic, soon after the birth of her child, a son George Vanderpool, who also died soon after, both are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton Township.

Here she is standing in front of her house across from the Groveville Elementary School, the house is no longer there.