Wilona Jenkins was born Wilona Marie Standings to a couple in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 23th, 1838. Her father, Joseph Standings, was a president of a prominent bank in Boston and her mother, Marie, a well-regarded member of Boston Society.
She grew up with her two younger sisters in the very privileged surroundings, attending a boarding school for Young Ladies as well as the very exclusive Ladies Finishing School in St. Laurence.
Her parents were longtime friends of the Reardons', a relationship that encouraged the idea that one day Wilona would marry their eldest son, John. John was also well educated and upon graduation from college was taken under Joseph Standings wing as an employee of his bank.
During Wilona's eighteenth year she became Mrs. John Reardon, setting up a lovely apartment in the heart of Boston. They attended every event of high society and for all outward purposes, they were a very happy couple.
After four years, however, Wilona had still yet to conceive a child, a fact that did not go unnoticed by the socialite crowd the couple mingled in. When she finally announced her pregnancy in 1860 a rash of speculative rumours that Wilona had taken a lover followed it. Outraged that even John did not believe himself to be the father, Wilona packed a small suitcase, emptied her savings account at the bank and disappeared. She never looked back to Boston, her family never heard from her again.
Very little is known about Wilona during the eight years she travelled from Boston to Maddock, Montana. When she arrived in Maddock in 1868, she won the Grey Horse Saloon in a poker game and has been it's proprietress ever since. Her son Travis joined her in Maddock the following year, apparently he had been in the care of a friend of the family in Selby.
Once arriving in Maddock, Wilona earned quite a reputation among the more respectable ladies; A known consort of Karl Quintan, she then was seen in the company of Marshal William Tucker later becoming engaged to him.
Doomed to constant interruption, the marriage was not to be. John Reardon arrived, still quite married to Wilona. A long drawn out divorce ensued. During this time, Wilona and Tucker drifted apart and the man took up with a young Indian woman named Zylle.
Wilona continued to run the Grey Horse Saloon for several years with her silent partner Ylsa Mendez. A saloon that burned down in the Maddock fire of 1877.
Originally planning on relocating to Great Falls, her plans were superceded by the reappearance of Marshal Tucker. It would appear that old flames die hard, if at all, for she quickly returned to Maddock and is often seen hanging around the new Sheriff's office.