Seth Boles, Sr.

Seth Boles and Gorden Albright were married March 22, 1905 in Dardanelle, Arkansas. To them was born six children, four boys and two girls. They appeared on the scene as follows: Gorden Boles - March 23, 1906, Seth Boles, Jr. - July 21, 1911, Nina Boles - December 11, 1913, twins: John Keith Boles- Nov 18, 1915 and Catherine Boles, and Neil Boles - Oct 19, 1919

Seth Boles, Sr. was born near Bluffton, Yell County, Arkansas on January 29th, 1858, attended the neighborhood schools which were taught in a log house 20 x 24 feet withz a chimney at the north end of the house, from which the children enjoyed the heat there from, while they sat on the split log benches set up on sticks to hold it up off the cold, rough floor. On the south side was a window (without any glass) to give light for the children to study, and on the west side of the house half of one log was split off to give light for the children so they could see to write. Just below this opening holes were made and sticks stuck in them to hold a plank hewed out of the log for the children to learn to write with Polkberry ink. After attending the above schools for eight or ten years at the rate of 3 to 6 months a year, and were then sent to Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, where I attended two terms, which brought to a close my school days. My folks then moved to Daranelle, Arkansas, and with my stepfather, embarked in the merchantile business, and stayed with that for one or two years, and then I decided to teach school. I stood my examination and got a license to teach and taught two public schools in the neighborhood where I was born and raised. Was then summoned as a petty juryman to serve in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and Indian Territory. After my services were completed as Juryman, was commissioned U.S. Deputy Marshal for the Western Districk of Arkansas and Indian Territory, working in this capacity for something over four years. My service in the above office was during the years from 1882 to 1886. Had some experience with cattle, having taken them across Indian Territory to what was known as the "Strip" during this time. Quit the cattle business and went to Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas and went into the livery business, saddle horses, Drummer rigs, wagons, buggies, etc., was there about a year then sold out and went to southwest Kansas, went broke (during Cleveland's administration) and from there drifted back to the old homestead near Bluffton, Yell County, Arkansas and farmed for twenty-five years, raising hogs, cattle, horses, mules, oats, weat, corn, potatoes, molasses, and some cotton. I rented out the farm and moved to Dardanelle and was appointed Postmaster at Dardanelle by President Harding and again by Coolidge. Now retired and living in Dardanelle, Arkansas.

Mr. Seth Boles, Aged 93, Died Yesterday

Mr. Seth Boles, aged 93 years, died Wednesday, August 8, 1951 at the home of his daughter, Mr. Rankin Baker, in Russellville. Mr. Boles was born at Bluffton in the southwest part of Yell, County, but for the past half-century had resided in Dardanelle.

As a young man he taught in the schools of Yell County. From 1872 to 1876 he wasd deputy U. S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, serving largely in the old Indian Territory. At that time the Indian Territory (nowOklahoma) harbored many of theOld West's outlaws and desperadoes, and Marshal Boles had a part in the arrest of many of the desperate characters that terrorized the Arkansas-Indian Territory border.

Later Mr. Boles engaged extensively in farming and stock raising. He helped to organize and for years served as President of the old First National Bank of Dardanelle.

Under the Hoover administration he served as Postmaster of Dardanelle. He was a life-long member of the Methodist Church.

Mr. Boles is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Charles Hunt, of Dardanelle; and Mrs. Rankin Baker, of Russellville, with whom for the past few months he had made his home; four sons, Seth Boles, Jr., of England, Keith Boles of the Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, and Neil Boles of Fort Smith, and 11 grandchildren.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday at the Methodist Church here by Rev. Ray McLester, Pastor, and Rev. M. O. Cockerham, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Burial under direction of the Cornwell Funeral Home, will be in Brearley Cemetery.

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