 from "Sandra's Notefiles" Check this out! Among other relationships shown in the article below, our Bollings were related to President Thomas Jefferson through the marriage of Thomas's sister, Mary Jefferson, to a Bolling.  ~Sandra |
from "Sandra's Notefiles" Check this out! Among other relationships shown in the article below, our Bollings were related to President Thomas Jefferson through the marriage of Thomas's sister, Mary Jefferson, to a Bolling. ~Sandra |
Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, No.4, September, 1995, p.86. By permission. Clay County. |
 Benge, Kentucky, June 15, 1898 My great grandfather, Jesse Bolling, came to Kentucky in 1810. My grandfather, Elijah Bolling was born at the Three Forks of Powell River in Lee Co., Virginia in 1798, and when he was 12 years old his father removed to Perry Co., Ky. Daniel Duff baptized by great-grandfdather, Elijah Bolling. Rev. Andrew Baker baptized my great-grandfather at Blackwater Church, now Hawkins County, Tenn. My great-great grandfather was Major John Bolling. He had 19 sons. I do not know that there were any daughters. One of these sons, William Bolling married Martha Jefferson, sister of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. Other sons were, Jesse, above mentioned, Benjamin the oldest born in 1752 or 3. Jesse was born 1765. Roberta the wife of U. S. Senator Archibald Dixon, was the daughter of Dilaney Bolling of Missouri and the granddaughter of Major John Bolling, aforesaid. Gov. John Young Brown's wife was a daughter of Archibald Dixon. (Roger Cornett, son of the original William Cornett built the house where Hamp. Coldiron lives, in 1802, he married Zilpha Callahan. This makes the date of the Cornett's coming to Kentucky 1796-1799 probable. Men from Crug's Ferry at mouth of Sexton were at the raising. Roger Cornett was into slaves and land. He owned the Coleman Survey, patented in 1783 of 5,600 acres.) There are some Bollings in western Kentucky. One went to Congress some years ago, perhaps 1870 or 1872. The first Bolling who came to America was Colonel Robert Bolling of London, England. I think old Cava Baker made the rhyme on the "Cattle War," I have always heard it that way. Old Julius Bob Baker and William Neal were in St. Clair's defeat. Baker held a Major's Commission. They are both buried at Buffalo, Owsley, County. Neal requested to be buried beside Baker. John Gilbert and John Amis married sisters of James Bowling [sic]. From Eli, John (grandfather of Judge Josiah Combs' wife), Christopher, William, Joseph, Nancy (Sizemore) another sister of these, have descended most of the Bollings in Clay County. Jesse Bolling, my great grandfather married Mary Pennington of Lee County, Va. He was born in North Carolina at Hillsboro. His father was born in Virginia. David Pennington, her brother, was living during the War of the Rebellion. My grandfather, Elijah Bolling stayed with him in Lee Co. during the late war. JESSE BOLLING HAD TEN CHILDREN AS FOLLOWS: Hannah married Huff; Mary married Abram Barger; Justice married ??; John married Polly Lewis; Jesse married Lewis for his second wife; William married a daughter of Daniel Duff; Elijah married Roberts; George married Lewis; a daughter married Joseph Spencer; Betsey married Abel Pennington; another married Maggard; another died single. A.P. Hill and Basil Duke married sisters of John Morgan. His mother was the daughter of John Hunt, the first millionaire in Kentucky. Dr. Foster of Kentucky was reared by Mrs. Hunt. ~~~~~~ (Bolling Duff Baker Jefferson Dixon Brown Cornett Coldiron Callahan Crug Coleman Baker Neal St.Clair Gilbert Bowling Comb Sizemore Pennington Huff Barber Lewis Duff Roberts Spencer Maggard Hill Duke Morgan Foster =ThreeForks-Lee-VA Perry-KY Hawkins-TN England Owsley-KY NC) |
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