BIOGRAPHIES - BOULDEN, John W. Bourbon County, Kentucky From: Bob Francis http://www.shawhan.com Date: 07 Feb 2000 The biographies are taken primarily from William Perrin's "The History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky" and E. Polk Johnson's "The History of Kentucky and Kentuckians," Vol. III. Many Bourbon County, Kentucky, researchers have pointed out mistakes and they are notated. Name: John W. BOULDEN _________________________________________ Birth: August 21, 1841 Father: Ephraim BOULDEN Mother: Mary BAKER Spouses _________________________________________ 1: Mattie EVANS Father: A. T. EVANS Marriage: March 28, 1872 JOHN W. BOULDEN,1 grocer; P.O. Millersburg; of the firm of Boulden & Bedford. Thomas Boulden visited Kentucky early in the present century, returned to the State of Delaware, removed his family to Kentucky, and settled in Bourbon County, south of Paris; he subsequently died, as did his wife, in Millersburg. His wife, Sally Boulden, was his cousin and native of Pennsylvania; their children were John, Jesse, Ephriam, James, George, Nathan, Sally, Polly and Cassandra; Sally, eldest daughter married John West, and died of cholera in 1832, at the residence of James Nicholas, below Cynthiana, as she was returning on horseback from Cincinnati; Polly died young ; Cassandra married P. Hagan, whose brother, Dr. Hagan, an editor of a paper, at Natchez, was killed in a duel, resulting from some article published in his paper. Hagan removed to St. Charles, Mo., and was drowned from a steamboat while on a trip with horses to Kentucky. His widow returned to Kentucky and afterward married John K. Ashurst, of Bourbon. Three of Thomas Boulden's sons were in the war of 1812: John, Jesse and Ephraim; after their return home, John went to Indiana, married, raised a family and there died; Jesse had two children, a son and daughter; James died a bachelor; George married Julia Lee, and had one son who lived to the age of 22 years; Nathan married Betsey Young, by whom he had two children, William. T. and Mattie A. William, c ommonly called Bill, was a prominent union man during the rebellion, and was several times the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Bourbon County, and polled next to Grant, the heaviest Republican vote ever cast in the county. The Bouldens are related to many of the most prominent families of Bourbon County, and are also descendants of Powhatan as Thomas Boulden, came to this country with John Smith, settled at Jamestown, and married a sister to Pocahontas, (see Emma Willard's history of U. S.) The father of our subject was apprenticed to Boone Ingels, of Paris, where he learned the hatter's trade, and engaged in business for himself at Millersburg; he was twice married, fiirst to Nancy, daughter of Reason Talbott, of Bourbon; by her he had one son, Jesse (see history); the mother died of cholera in 1833, and in 1837 he married Mary, daughter of Maj. John Baker, of Mason County, Ky., by whom he had four children, viz: Rezin B., John W., Nannie J., and Holman T. Our subject was born in the house in which he now lives, on Ang. 21, 1841; he attended school until his fourteenth year, when he began clerking in the dry goods store of J. L. Taylor ; in the, capacity of clerk he continued until Sept. 10, 1861, when he enlisted under Capt. Lawson, Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge, and afterward the 9th Ky. Cavalry, with which he served faithfully for three years; was taken prisoner near Bowling Green, Ky., in October; and exchanged in November, 1862, in time to take part in the "Christmas Raid," he afterward continued with the Army of the West; was paroled at Washington, Ga., and returned home broken down in health, on account of which he was unable to engage in business for a few months; he lived at Catlettsburg and Maysville about a year and a half, when he returned to Millersburg, and engaged in mercantile business, where he has since resided. He was married March 28, 1872, to Mattie, daughter of A. T. Evans (deceased) a business man of Millersburg. He and wife are members of the M. E. Church South. He is running the insurance business in connection with his mercantile pursuits, is Deputy Clerk of the County, and a member of the Royal Arch Masons. Sources 1. 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