Individual Details
Margaret Ann Randolph "Mag" BOLLING ¤
(24 Mar 1840 - 12 Oct 1917)
Events
Families
Spouse | Rev. Thomas Thweatt JONES ¤ DD (1836 - 1903) |
Child | John Bolling JONES MD (1871 - 1950) |
Notes
Birth
Alternate date: 1843, i.e. she was five at the time of her mother's death on 16 Aug 1848 (Bolling 1959:10)Description
"I suppose you want to hear something about my daughter, she is a beautiful child now -- (and then lest it sound like bragging, Lucy says:) -- but I reckon she will turn ugly like all the rest. Her eyes are very black and I expect her hair will ber a dark auburn as it is darker than it was at first. She is very sprightly and good but can't walk yet. Mary is my nurse and a very good one." (Bolling 1959:8-9)Immigration
Raised from the age of 5 after mother's death in home of Robert Randolph.Education
Where she met her future husband, Thos. Thweatt Jones.Census
Age 20Emigration
Mag and her first two children, Lucy and Sally, sought the protection of her father and stepmother Hattie in Texas at the start of the Civil War.Census
Age 30Census
Age 40Burial
Her tombstone inscription: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear the Lord and keep His commandment, for this is the whole duty of Man."Endnotes
1. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959), p. 10.
2. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959).
3. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959), p. 10, 15.
4. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959), p. 15.
5. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959), p. 15.
6. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959), p. 92.
7. Ruth J. Bolling, Tales of a Texas Ranch (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1959).