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Robert F Boles

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Robert F Boles

Birth
Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Death
27 Sep 1912 (aged 83)
Fentress County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Fentress County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Robert (Bob) Boles fought in the Civil War on the Union Side. He served in the 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Regiment. In the war, he was injured by a musket ball in his knee. He was captured by the Confederates and imprisoned at Bells Island but escaped. According to granddaughter Alice, Bob Boles was about 5' 8" tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and had to turn sideways to enter the front door of his home. The Bob Boles home place is located just off Sandy Mountain on the head waters of East Fork of Obey River in the Big Piney Creek area.
On July 31, 1882 Bob transferred 3,000 acres on Piney Creek in Fentress County for $1.00 and other considerations to Claiborne Beaty. There was other buying and selling of lands in Fentress and Overton Counties which was the usual for the pioneer of that period.
Bolestown, now in Pickett County new State Highway 52 west of Jamestown, is where many of the early Boles settlers are buried.

Taken from Wilma Reagan Pinckley a great niece of Robert F
and Martha Boles. Wilma is the Fentress County Historian.

Daughter Matilda Boles born 1863
Robert (Bob) Boles fought in the Civil War on the Union Side. He served in the 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Regiment. In the war, he was injured by a musket ball in his knee. He was captured by the Confederates and imprisoned at Bells Island but escaped. According to granddaughter Alice, Bob Boles was about 5' 8" tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and had to turn sideways to enter the front door of his home. The Bob Boles home place is located just off Sandy Mountain on the head waters of East Fork of Obey River in the Big Piney Creek area.
On July 31, 1882 Bob transferred 3,000 acres on Piney Creek in Fentress County for $1.00 and other considerations to Claiborne Beaty. There was other buying and selling of lands in Fentress and Overton Counties which was the usual for the pioneer of that period.
Bolestown, now in Pickett County new State Highway 52 west of Jamestown, is where many of the early Boles settlers are buried.

Taken from Wilma Reagan Pinckley a great niece of Robert F
and Martha Boles. Wilma is the Fentress County Historian.

Daughter Matilda Boles born 1863

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