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From: Robert Wallace <>
Subject: [TnRhea] Boles
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:05:22 -0400

Greetings from a newcomer. Anyone researching my 3great grandfather
Jacob Boles? His brother George Boles also settled in the Rhea Co area.
In Greene Co. they were iron workers by trade and farmers by necessity
I suppose. Jacob and his second wife Jane Forney were married 12 Dec.
1852 I think in Rhea Co. Jacob's first wife, my 3great grandmother,
Nancy took her eight kids and went back up river to Greene Co.
traveling by barge or a raft. Oral tradition has it that they traveled
up river to Greene Co. I suspect the last part of the trip was made by
foot-power, wagon or stage coach unless a lower part of the Nolichucky
River can be poled.

That's probably more than you want to know, but if anyone is working on
Boles in Rhea Co. or knows of anyone, I would appreciate all the help I
can get.

Jacob enlisted in the confederate army in Rhea County, and he was still
kicking in 1870 when he appears in the Rhea Co. census.

I was told that a lady by the name of Mrs. Boles is into genealogy.
Anyone know her or how i might get in touch with her? Dayton's about a
45 minute drive or less up Corridor J from my house in Chattanooga.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Bob Wallace

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