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Captain of the State Guards [1]
Capt. Blair Bolling
d. 03 Aug 1839
Aged 48 years 5 months
This tablet erected to his memory by his affectionate wife
Married twice.
He had two sons and two daughters :
His sons:
Will of Blair Bolling of the City of Richmond and State of Virginia. Powhatan Co., VA, WB 11, pp. 70-71, w. 30 Jul 1839, p. 5 Aug 1839. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://ancstry.me/2F9MyoW
wife Penelope Bolling - farm in the Counties of Powhatan and Goochland
As my sons arrive at the age of twenty one years, or my daughters to that age or marry...
Exrs: wife Penelope Bolling, friends Francis S. Sampson, Reuben Ragland
Wit: John R. Bolling, Arch. Robertson
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA) August 8, 1939
Enquirer, (Richmond, VA) August 9, 1839,
Daily National Intelligencer, (Washington, DC) August 9, 1839
Bolling, Captain Blair - Died, At his farm in Powhatan, on Saturday evening, the 3rd instant, Capt. Blair Bolling, in the 49th year of his age. Capt. Bolling was an officer of the Regular Army during the last war, and has been for more than 21 years, the Commander of the Public Guard in Richmond-an office embracing a variety of important and highly responsible duties, all of which he performed with a zeal, ability and fidelity, that cound not have been surpassed. In every relation of life-as a soldier, citizen, husband, father, friend, he acted well his part. To the Public his loss is irreparable-to his family, deeply bereaved as they are, there is the consolation that he has left them the richest legacy the could have received-a pure and unsullied name.
"Blair Bolling captain of the public guard to Littleton Waller Tazewell-concerning the enclosed resolution from the house of delegates for raising the Union flag over the capitol-no flag staff on the capitol and no means of getting one up by time desired"
"John N. Tazewell to Ambrose P. Hill-source of rumor that Littleton Waller Tazewell (Governor) prevented the flying of the flag of the United States above the capitol on 22 February-Hill had stated this in a letter to a constituent-Tazewell says is not right-trying to track down inventor of the tale-(see Blair Bolling to Littleton Waller Tazewell 22 February 1836)"
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