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By WAYNE F. BALDWIN
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
The months of October and November are customarily filled with much hiking and searching for trails and clues to our past, our forefathers’ lives, and these months in 1995 were no less so filled, although the annual family gathering at the Bolen cemetery did not take place due to the inclement weather.
The fourth Saturday in October was set aside for a more intimate family gathering at my parents home in Slate Mills with our making apple butter, an all day affair, the rewards of which were nineteen and three quarters gallons of the delicious brew.
The Stetzels had been here from Newburg, Oregon and had already returned, but I did not get to see them.
Alex and Caris Johnson Smith of Richland, Washington came in late October and left on the 16th of November. This was my first meeting with them, although they had been here on a couple of trips. 1 had also corresponded with Carla for several years in genealogical matters. The ties that bind us being the connection with the Bolen family of Rappahannock County.
Our progenitor ancestors being Nathaniel Bolen (1779-1870) and his wife, Nancy Scroggins (1780-1865). Their son, Edward Bolen (1809-1876) had married twice, first in 1828 to Mary Bowen, and secondly in 1867 to Lutetia Lillard. Edward being father to 14 children by the first marriage and three others by the second marriage. Samantha Carolina Bolen, daughter of Edward and Mary Bowen Bolen, married in 1867, Samuel Robert Woodward (a son of Richard and Maria Jenkins Woodward), and are the great-grandparents of Carla J. Smith.
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