Emigrates from Ulster Scotland about 1768 living in the Yadkin Valley(Jersey Settlement), Rowan Co., NC. After marriage to Martha they move to Jefferson Co., MS in 1777.
While unmarked his burial is said to be in the Bolls Cemetery, Claiborne Co., MS since he died while at his son's (Matthew) home per the Bolls Family Book by Cathy Straley.
John Bolls, A Revolutionary War Soldier - History of Jersey Settlers, Frances Preston Mills, Volume 1, p. 903.
Also: Personal Recollections of M. W. Trimble of Jefferson Co., Miss. This article was first published in a church paper, "The Witness", in the fifties, and republished in the Memphis Commercial–Appeal of July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 1909. Furnishing the article was Mrs. T. S. Jones Russellville, Ala., Feb. 12, 1910, to Dr. Joseph H. LaConte, Atlanta, GA
"My father put all his family in flatboats, and descending the Tennessee to Bayou Pierre, he moved to the territory of Mississippi, where my brother, Robert, was living. April 3, 1811, we landed at Harmon's Landing on the Bayou Pierre; we settled near the boundary of Jefferson and Claiborne counties on land which my brother, Robert, had cleared and had been given him by his father-in-law, who received it from the Spaniards. My father here met an old and intimate friend, living a few miles distant, who had been a ruling elder at the same time with him in Hopewell church, in North Carolina, a member of the Mecklenburg Resolves and a soldier during the Revolution, John Bolls, who came frequently to see him and would remain several days at a time. It was affecting to see the two venerable men meet and to hear the talk and pray".
While unmarked his burial is said to be in the Bolls Cemetery, Claiborne Co., MS since he died while at his son's (Matthew) home per the Bolls Family Book by Cathy Straley.
John Bolls, A Revolutionary War Soldier - History of Jersey Settlers, Frances Preston Mills, Volume 1, p. 903.
Also: Personal Recollections of M. W. Trimble of Jefferson Co., Miss. This article was first published in a church paper, "The Witness", in the fifties, and republished in the Memphis Commercial–Appeal of July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 1909. Furnishing the article was Mrs. T. S. Jones Russellville, Ala., Feb. 12, 1910, to Dr. Joseph H. LaConte, Atlanta, GA
"My father put all his family in flatboats, and descending the Tennessee to Bayou Pierre, he moved to the territory of Mississippi, where my brother, Robert, was living. April 3, 1811, we landed at Harmon's Landing on the Bayou Pierre; we settled near the boundary of Jefferson and Claiborne counties on land which my brother, Robert, had cleared and had been given him by his father-in-law, who received it from the Spaniards. My father here met an old and intimate friend, living a few miles distant, who had been a ruling elder at the same time with him in Hopewell church, in North Carolina, a member of the Mecklenburg Resolves and a soldier during the Revolution, John Bolls, who came frequently to see him and would remain several days at a time. It was affecting to see the two venerable men meet and to hear the talk and pray".
Emigrates from Ulster Scotland about 1768 living in the Yadkin Valley(Jersey Settlement), Rowan Co., NC. After marriage to Martha they move to Jefferson Co., MS in 1777.
While unmarked his burial is said to be in the Bolls Cemetery, Claiborne Co., MS since he died while at his son's (Matthew) home per the Bolls Family Book by Cathy Straley.
John Bolls, A Revolutionary War Soldier - History of Jersey Settlers, Frances Preston Mills, Volume 1, p. 903.
Also: Personal Recollections of M. W. Trimble of Jefferson Co., Miss. This article was first published in a church paper, "The Witness", in the fifties, and republished in the Memphis Commercial–Appeal of July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 1909. Furnishing the article was Mrs. T. S. Jones Russellville, Ala., Feb. 12, 1910, to Dr. Joseph H. LaConte, Atlanta, GA
"My father put all his family in flatboats, and descending the Tennessee to Bayou Pierre, he moved to the territory of Mississippi, where my brother, Robert, was living. April 3, 1811, we landed at Harmon's Landing on the Bayou Pierre; we settled near the boundary of Jefferson and Claiborne counties on land which my brother, Robert, had cleared and had been given him by his father-in-law, who received it from the Spaniards. My father here met an old and intimate friend, living a few miles distant, who had been a ruling elder at the same time with him in Hopewell church, in North Carolina, a member of the Mecklenburg Resolves and a soldier during the Revolution, John Bolls, who came frequently to see him and would remain several days at a time. It was affecting to see the two venerable men meet and to hear the talk and pray".
While unmarked his burial is said to be in the Bolls Cemetery, Claiborne Co., MS since he died while at his son's (Matthew) home per the Bolls Family Book by Cathy Straley.
John Bolls, A Revolutionary War Soldier - History of Jersey Settlers, Frances Preston Mills, Volume 1, p. 903.
Also: Personal Recollections of M. W. Trimble of Jefferson Co., Miss. This article was first published in a church paper, "The Witness", in the fifties, and republished in the Memphis Commercial–Appeal of July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 1909. Furnishing the article was Mrs. T. S. Jones Russellville, Ala., Feb. 12, 1910, to Dr. Joseph H. LaConte, Atlanta, GA
"My father put all his family in flatboats, and descending the Tennessee to Bayou Pierre, he moved to the territory of Mississippi, where my brother, Robert, was living. April 3, 1811, we landed at Harmon's Landing on the Bayou Pierre; we settled near the boundary of Jefferson and Claiborne counties on land which my brother, Robert, had cleared and had been given him by his father-in-law, who received it from the Spaniards. My father here met an old and intimate friend, living a few miles distant, who had been a ruling elder at the same time with him in Hopewell church, in North Carolina, a member of the Mecklenburg Resolves and a soldier during the Revolution, John Bolls, who came frequently to see him and would remain several days at a time. It was affecting to see the two venerable men meet and to hear the talk and pray".
