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Savage Garfield Boles Sr.

Birth: 19 Mar 1883
Fentress County, Tennessee, USA
Death: 6 Jul 1968 (aged 85)
Crossville, Cumberland County, Tennessee, USA
Burial: Boles Cemetery

Fentress County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 58012551 View Source

Savage Garfield was born at the Boles Homeplace on Big Piney Creek in Fentress Co. He and Nicie Catherine were married by Reverend Allred at Wilder. Savage worked in the Horsepounds and Wilder coal mines and in the early 1930's was a deputy sheriff at Wilder. Savage was made an Honorary Kentucky Colonel in 1963 by Lieutenant- Governor Wilson W. Wyatt under Governor Bart Combs. Savage was known in and around Fentress Co. as "Repulican" Boles. When asked to account for his long life he would answer " I never smoked, walked a lot and never shook hands with a Democrat if I could help it." Taken from Peggy Ledbetter's rendition on the Beaty Page.

Savage Garfield was born at the Boles Homeplace on Big Piney Creek in Fentress Co. He and Nicie Catherine were married by Reverend Allred at Wilder. Savage worked in the Horsepounds and Wilder coal mines and in the early 1930's was a deputy sheriff at Wilder. Savage was made an Honorary Kentucky Colonel in 1963 by Lieutenant- Governor Wilson W. Wyatt under Governor Bart Combs. Savage was known in and around Fentress Co. as "Repulican" Boles. When asked to account for his long life he would answer " I never smoked, walked a lot and never shook hands with a Democrat if I could help it." Taken from Peggy Ledbetter's rendition on the Beaty Page.

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Nicie Katherine Smith Boles

1886–1966 (m. 1906)

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Maintained by: Shirley Adkins
Originally Created by: JoAnn Stephens Graham
Added: Sep 1, 2010
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58012551/savage_garfield-boles: accessed ), memorial page for Savage Garfield Boles Sr. (19 Mar 1883–6 Jul 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 58012551, citing Boles Cemetery, Fentress County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Shirley Adkins (contributor 47315683).

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