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David, if you've had no answer to your query you might try contacting Don Wright as he is head of the Bolling County site for GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobollin/bcgenweb.htm
I have Bollingers in my tree and started looking for roots in Bollinger County to no avail but was glad I went down as the old Bollinger Mill area and the old covered bridge on Whitewater River is gorgeous.
I live in South County and found a family history of the Bollingers of Bollinger County. It was facinating reading and I'm sure they must have received a copy of this from someone at the county historic. It goes into the first Bollinger to settle there and how they had to clear the land and build a 'house' within a certain time or the French would take the land away. Some of the Bollingers were involved in a lawsuit with Daniel Boone over their land but I forgot what year it was; must have been pretty early. I think there were settlers in that area as early as 1700 although no counties were set up until the first five in 1810.
My Bollingers arrived in the mid-1850's and settled in South County. Luckily they were E&R so I found their records and gravestones in St Johns Cemetery. Franz (Frank) Bollinger of So. County was a blacksmith and had a large 2-story shop and home above it on the corner of Lindbergh Blvd. and Hwy 61-67 (Lemay Ferry). He was married to a Mary Anna Grotz. They were both born in 1837 in Germany and died within days of each other in 1918 in the Spanish Flu Epidemic. On the 1880 census he is 44 yrs old; Mary is 43 yrs old. Their children were: Lizzie, Katy, Emma, Frank, Anna, Fanny, Theresa and George.
My direct Bollingers were George and Barbara ? who came from Prussia. He is listed on the 1870 census as a Gardiner. Their children were: Kate, Lena, George, Lizzie, Henry and August. Henry was a bricklayer and was my ggrandfather and they lived in St Louis City in the Carondelet area.
Hope this explains the difference between the Bollingers of Cape Girardeau and the Bollingers of St Louis. Also hope that Don Wright can help you with what happened to yours.
Sharon
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