Elijah "Bad Eli" Bolling

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Not Elijah Bolling

1. Rebecca Roberts;
2. Nancy Bowling Roberts;
3. James "Bear Creek" Bowling;
4. Stokley Bolling;
5. Mourning Sizemore Brother of Catherine "Caty" Baker;
6. Nancy Sizemore;
7. Levi Bolling;
8. Joseph Bowling;
9. William Bolling;
10. Blevins Bolling;
11. Mary "Polly" Bolling;
12. Henrietta "Hetty" Bolling and
13. John E. Bowling

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Elijah Bolling, Circa 1785-1833 Elijah Bolling was born circa 1785, at birth place, Tennessee, to James Bolling and Sarah Bolling (born Blevins).
James was born on January 9 1756, in North Carolina.
Sarah was born in 1757, in Virginia.
Elijah had 9 siblings: Catherin Bowling, John E. Bolling and 7 other siblings.

1. Elijah married Sarah Bolling (born Anderson). Sarah was born in 1790, in Culpepper County, Virginia. They had 5 children: Rebecca Roberts (born Bolling), James Bolling and 3 other children.
2. Elijah married Nancy Herd Bolling (born Wilson) on month day 1817, at age 32 at marriage place, Kentucky. They had 7 children: Blevins Bolling, Sarah Bolling and 5 other children.

Elijah passed away in 1833, at age 48 at death place, Kentucky.

Married: Sarah Sally Anderson Birth 1786 in Kentucky Death Abt 1816 in USA
Children:

1. Rebecca Bowling 1806 – 1850
2. James Bowling 1807 – 1882
3. Nancy Bowling 1808 – 1879
4. Lydia Bowling 1812 – 1860
5. Blevins Bowling 1815 –
6. Mourning Bowling 1815 – 1890
7. Stokley Bowling 1816 –

Married: Nancy Louisa Wilson Herd Birth 1790 in Lee Co, VA Death 1850 in Kentucky, USA
Children:

1. Mary "Polly" Bowling – 1875
2. Palace Bowling 1828 – 1903
3. William "Old Speck" Bowling 1828 – 1893
4. Elijah Jr Bowling 1833 – 1880
5. Lavina Bowling 1833 – 1900

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Last name: Bowling SDB Popularity ranking: 3605

This is an English locational surname. Specificially it originates from the ancient village of Bowling, now part of the urban mass of the city of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where it is widely recorded. The origin of the place name is uncertain. It would seem to be tribal in that the 'ing' suffix would usually mean 'the people of' but this is generally followed by 'tun' to indicate settlement or village. The earliest known recording of the place name is in the famous Domesday Book of 1086 when it ap[pears as Bollinc, and later in the year 1150 as Bolling. The word 'bolla' in Olde English does mean a bowl as in a depression in the ground, a pit or quarry, and this would seem to fit with the area which is very hilly. In which case it may have literally described 'the people who lived in the bowl', although Ekwalls 'Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names' suggests that the origin may be from 'hlinc' meaning a hill, to give the bowl or valley on the hill. The surname is later, and examples taken from surviving Yorkshire church registers include Robert Bowling at Halifax Parish Church, on September 30th 1582, and Edward Bowling whose daughter Barbary, was christened at the Parish Church, Bradford on December 22nd 1633.

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The following from the Dickey Diary...

In an interview with John Eversole, the John J. Dickey Diary states: "My uncle John Cundiff killed Eli Bowling. Bowling was a bully, a man of great power. He led my uncle to old Bill Duncel's house, where old Milly Henson lived. They had a quarrel about the woman. Bowling kicked my uncle, a small man. He went away and came back with a dirk knife, called Bowling to the door and plunged it into him. He died in a few minutes. My uncle left the country and never returned. Uncle Sam Lucas took his wife to him. Eli Bowling was a bad man." He also stated, "Eli was a great rogue. I have heard him tell of stealing his neighbor's horse, put him in a cove, fattened him, cut off his tail, trimmed his ears and [l]ed him at his neighbor's door a few months afterwards and he did not recognize the horse. He would laugh when he told me."

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The following submitted by Sandra Christine

He killed him because he kicked him?? Then the killer allegedly runs away. If he was innocent why did he run away? Who's the bad man here and the reason the name "Bad Eli" started in the first place about my 3rd great-grandfather, Elijah Bolling Bowling. He was a victim not a Killer. He loved his family, enjoyed life and had a great sense of humor! He wasn't perfect, but he wasn't a killer and never a wanted man by the law! John Cundiff (uncle to John Eversole) killed my 3rd great-grandfather then runs away and another uncle to John Eversole, a Sam Lucas takes the killer's wife to him (sleeps with her)...?? No justice in this lifetime and yet we are required to forgive all. It would be easier to do if my 3rd great-grandfather didn't have the embellished exaggerations about him perpetuated on the Internet and making him out to be the bad guy by his killer's people. As far as we know he was defending an abused woman! He was a victim and she very well might have been a victim as well!

Why do people keep calling my 3rd great grandfather "Bad Eli"...his name is Elijah or Eli. It is an insult to keep adding "Bad" which is what his killers and their people want everyone to think to justify them killing him! He was never called 'Bad Eli' among his people...only among the ones who killed him when he most likely came to the rescue of a woman they were abusing! Regarding his death was he stabbed to death by a John Cundiff at a house or was he stabbed to death by a man named Sam Lucas at a fair???? Nothing is cleared up regarding the death of my 3rd great grandfather. Frankly I think it is probably Sam Lucas and John Cundiff who both conspired to kill him and then cover-up the real truth of how he was killed. They are both related to each other as cousins, even though supposedly John Cundiff ran away and Sam Lucas started sleeping with his wife! Two different reports have state either one as being the killer of Elijah Bolling/Bowling...more than likely they both took part in killing him.

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• Residence: Clay, Kentucky, United States - 1810
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