Samuel Huston Boling

BOLING, BULLOCK, CALLISON, CAVE, HEDGES, JEWELL, POINTER, ROLLSTIN, WILSON, WOLF

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 6/29/2006 at 14:32:12

Samuel Huston Boling has been an extensive landowner and for a number of years has been operating an excellent farm on section 22, Monroe township. However, he recently sold that place and intends to retire to Lorimor. His birth occurred in Indiana on the 26th of December, 1837, and his parents were Bluford and Arthusa (Lovell) Boling, both natives of North Carolina, who 'in 1831 removed with teams to the Hoosier state, where they resided until 1855, when they made the long journey to Iowa by team, coming to Madison county. They crossed the Mississippi river at Muscatine and intended to go to Missouri, but a storm coming up, they stopped in Monroe township, this county, and were so well pleased with conditions that they located on section 10, entering three hundred acres of land at the land office at Chariton. Forty acres were situated upon the road and there was a little house which served as the family residence until a better could be erected. The father died upon his farm when sixty years of age and his widow passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. V. L. Callison, in Monroe township, when ninety-eight years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Boling were the parents of ten children: Almira, the deceased wife of W. S. Jewell, of Terre Haute, Indiana; Rachel, the wife of George E. Hedges, also of Terre Haute; Benjamin F., who died in Indiana; E. L., who passed away in Monroe township, Madison county; Charles, who also died in that township; Samuel Huston, of this review; Elizabeth, the widow of W. S. Wilson; Julia A., the deceased wife of V. L. Callison; P. C., a resident of Monroe township; and Lucy A., who became the wife of J. D. Bullock and is now deceased.

Samuel H. Boling passed the days of his boyhood and youth in Putnam and Clay counties, Indiana, and there began his education, although he attended school for some time after the removal of the family to this county. Upon attaining his majority he went to Missouri, expecting to get work driving a team to Salt Lake City. However, no place of that kind was to be had and he accordingly became a farm hand. At the opening of the war he entered the employ of the commissary department of the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteers and was for four years in the government service, transporting forage or food stuff. In that capacity he was in all parts of the south and gained much knowledge of the country. He was given the nickname of Platte, as he had enlisted from Platte county, Missouri. He received excellent wages, at one time drawing one hundred and fifty dollars per month. Upon his return to Iowa at the close of the war he purchased land with his savings, and his father had bought land for him in Monroe township with money which he had previously sent home. He has at one time and another owned a great deal of land and has been very successful as a farmer and stock-raiser. He lately sold a farm of two hundred and forty acres on section 22, Monroe township, to the cultivation of which he has devoted his energies for a number of years past. He intends to retire to Lorimor, and expects to enjoy his remaining days in a leisure made possible by former toil.

In 1881 Mr. Boling married Miss Sarah E. Cave, who was born in Dallas county, Iowa. Her father, Hudson Cave, whose birth occurred in Virginia died when his daughter was two years old, but her mother, a native of Ohio who was in her maidenhood Miss Samantha Ann Rollston, is still residing in Lorimor. Mr. and Mrs. Boling have three children. Cap M, of Lorimor, married Miss Zaida E. Pointer and they have a daughter, Helen Jane. Lou Delia gave her hand in marriage to Willis W. Wolfe, of Des Moines, Iowa, and they have had three children, Samuel, Harold and Helen, but Samuel died in infancy. Samuel Earl is single and is at home.

Mr. Boling has been a democrat since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and for twelve or thirteen years served as assessor of Monroe township. He has also been school director and school treasurer for sixteen years. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic lodge at Lorimor. He has succeeded in life because of his industry and good judgment, and it is fitting that his last days should be spent in retirement from the activity of life and freedom from business cares.

Taken from the book, “The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1915,” by Herman Mueller.