Elizabeth (Jones) Bolden (1890 - 2006)

Born 15 Aug 1890 in Somerville, Fayette, Tennessee, United States

Wife of Louis Bolden — married 24 Dec 1908 in Fayette, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 2006 at age 116 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth (Jones) Bolden is Notable.

Elizabeth (Jones) Bolden was a centenarian, living to age 116.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was a supercentenarian. The daughter of former slaves, she lived to be 116 years old.^[1]

Elizabeth Jones was born in 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee, the daughter of freed slaves Annie and Ambrose Jones.^[2]

Elizabeth married Louis Bolden (1892–1955) on Christmas Eve in 1908,^[3][4] and their first child, a son, Ezell, was born on September 21, 1909. Elizabeth and Louis Bolden had three sons and four daughters and raised cotton and subsistence crops on farmland near Memphis until the 1950s.

In her final years she resided in a Memphis, Tennessee nursing home that she had lived in since she was 109, and was described by her family as unable to communicate. She died in 2006^[2][5] and is buried in Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.^[6]

Only two daughters were living at the time of Bolden’s death in 2006; they were Queen Esther Rhodes, who died in 2007 at age 90, and Mamie Brittmon. At the time of her 116th birthday in August 2006, Bolden had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great-grandchildren.^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bolden
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Social Security: "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007"
   Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007
   Ancestry Record 60901 #48757325 (accessed 22 July 2022)
   Name: Elizabeth J Bolden [Elizabeth Jones Bolden] [Elizabeth J Jones]; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 15 Aug 1891; Birth Place: Somerville, Tennessee; Death Date: 11 Dec 2006; Father: Ambors Jones; Mother: Annie Jones; Death Certificate Number: TN DTH CERT 044578; Citizenship or Alien Status: U.S. citizen.; Type of Claim: Evidence other than birth record submitted; U.S. citizen or alien allowed to work.; Signature on SSN Card: Elizabeth J Bolden; Notes: 19 May 2000: Name listed as ELIZABETH J BOLDEN; 29 Apr 1976: Name listed as ELIZABETH JONES BOLDEN.
3. ↑ Marriage: "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8TH-8P8 : 27 January 2020), Lizzie Jones in entry for Lewis Balden, 1908.
4. ↑ Marriage: "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNZF-DVK : 4 December 2014), Lewis Boldin and Lizzie Jones, 24 Dec 1908; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 274, Fayette, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
5. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBZH-GJ8 : 12 January 2021), Elizabeth J Bolden, 11 Dec 2006; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102162662/elizabeth-bolden: accessed 20 August 2022), memorial page for Elizabeth “Lizzie” Jones Bolden (15 Aug 1890–11 Dec 2006), Find a Grave Memorial ID 102162662, citing Galilee Memorial Gardens, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Family Hunter (contributor 46799451).
7. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4G-38N9 : accessed 20 August 2022), Mrs Elizabeth Bolden, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 12 Dec 2006; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Commercial Appeal, The, born-digital text.
8. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKR2-SBGM : accessed 20 August 2022), Elizabeth Or Lizzie Bolden, Oklahoma, United States, 12 Dec 2006; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Lawton Constitution, The, born-digital text.

• 1910 Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFH-CFY : accessed 20 August 2022), Lizzie Bolden in household of Lewis Bolden, Civil District 8, Fayette, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet 15A, family 270, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1498; FHL microfilm 1,375,511.
• 1920 Census: "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN53-FG1 : 3 February 2021), Elizabeth Bolden in entry for Lewis Bolden, 1920.
• 1930 Census: "1930 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1930; Census Place: District 2, Shelby, Tennessee; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0167; FHL microfilm: 2342006
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6224 #66547250 (accessed 22 July 2022)
  Lizzie Bolden (37), wife, in household of Louis Bolden (39) in McLemore Road, District 2, Shelby, Tennessee, USA. Born in Tennessee.
• 1940 Census: "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4ZY-L8N : 3 February 2021), Elizabeth Bolden, 1940.

• "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSHM-1MH : 1 March 2021), Elizabeth Jones in entry for death of daughter Ethel Bell Redick, 14 Sep 1935; Death, White Station, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
• "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPN7-1CK9 : 13 November 2019), Elizabeth in entry for death of daughter Ohmer Ira Queen, 4 Aug 1968; citing Death, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 102122939.
• "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJP-PQH : 10 February 2018), Elizabeth in entry for death of daughter Ohmer Ira Queen, 04 Aug 1968; citing Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, v 26A cn 26037, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,983,291.