Husband: Carl Archie GOULDIN
aka: "John Ottawa"
Birthdate: 8 Mar 1859
Birthplace: Kirkwood, Warren county, IL, USA
Death date: 7 Sept 1943
Place of death: Deridder, Bearegard Parish, LA, USA
Father: John W. Goulden
Mother: Loucilla Frizzell

Marriage date: 1881
Marriage place: Keokuk county, IA, USA

Wife: Laura Elizabeth BOWSER
Birthdate: 1866
Birthplace: LA, USA
Death date: 2 Nov 1936
Place of death: DeRidder, Beauregard Parish, LA, USA
Father: O.J. Bowser
Mother: Cassandra Pearson

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Child No. 1: Warren
Sex: m
Birthdate: 8 Sept 1885
Birthplace: South English, where?
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Child No. 2: Edgar Burr
Sex: m
Birthdate: 26 Dec 1895
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Spouse's name: Iona

Child No. 3: Frederick
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Birthdate: 26 June 1899
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Child No. 4: Marie
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Child No. 5: Zoa Mae
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Birthdate: 22 Feb 1888
Birthplace: Council Bluff, IA, USA
Death date: 26 Apr 1953
Place of death: Deridder, Beauregard Parish, LA, USA
Marriage date: 26 Dec 1926
Marriage place: Jasper, TX, USA
Spouse's name: Simon Cornelius Bilbo
 

Documentation:
* Oral history by Juanita Lucilla (known as Nita) Bilbo Ivey.
* According to Pat Johnson & Iona Gouldin, wife of Edgar Burr Gouldin the following: Carl Archie, name he was known by, and Laura Elizabeth married in South English, Keokuk county. Then moved to Council Bluff, IA before Feb, 1888. Traveled to Napoleonville, LA in 1907. Then to Deridder, LA in 1913. Their marriage license is signed by Laura Elizabeth Bowser (her name was Elma Louretla Bowser. Why sign it differently?)
* Nita tells us: Carl Archie made "Goody Goody candy" (taffy) in a candy shed. He sold this in a concession stand with the "Leggit Circus" owned by Jessie and Clyde Leggit. They wintered their circus in 4 train cars in New Iberia, LA. Carl's youngest daughter, Zoa Mae, performed in the circus as both a trapese artist and an animal trainer of lions! We wondered if more Gouldens or Frizzells were associated with circus life.
* Later in life Carl sold his candy from a candy wagon pulled by a white horse, Dixie, and followed by his dog, Doodle(s). I have a wonderful pic of them. Nita well remembers watching him pull the taffy and hang it from high hooks in his 'shed' to dry then bring it down on a shiny (steel?) table to shop into pieces with a 'hatchet' looking knife. Then he would bag it and sell to everyone on the street.
* Nita also remembers her Aunt Marie being so embarrassed that her mother was in the circus and would never talk about it with her daughter Joy Marie. Zoa Mae loved the life of performance and training big animals.