Grayson County, Texas - M.L. Boling CSA Obituary By Rusty Williams EBFMktg@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Note: This obituary appeared in vol. XXIX, September, 1921, p. 346 of "The Confederate Veteran Magazine". M. L. BOLING M. L. Boling died at his home, in Sherman, Tex., on April 3, 1921, at the age of seventy-three years. He is survived by his wife and one son, of that city, also a sister of Tucson, Ariz. Comrade Boling was born on April 10, 1847, in Marshall County, Miss. He enlisted in April, 1864, at Holly Springs, Miss., in Company C, 18th Mississippi Cavalry, Chalmers's Brigade, Forrest's Division, Wheeler's Corps. His company was escort for General Chalmers. He participated in the Harrisburg or Tupelo fight, also in the battles of Johnsonville, Franklin, and Nashville, and many other smaller engagements, the last being at Selma, Ala., and surrendered at Gainesville, Ala. He went to Texas in 1876 and settled in Grayson County, where he had since lived.