Walter Tschudin & William C Ostrander Families:Information about Henry Peter Bolton
Henry Peter Bolton (b. 16 January 1823)
Notes for Henry Peter Bolton:
Sometime in the late summer of 1855 or 1856, the Henry Peter and Margaret Jane Bolton
family drove their covered wagon up to a neat little, doorless cabin in Linn Grove, Cedar County, Iowa. Another earlier, pioneer family had deserted the cabin and run because of fear of wild Indians who still roamed Cedar County occasionally marauding and often stealing. It was assumed that like the old couple in the Grimms Fairy Tale the previous family had taken the door with them. Henry Peter and his wife, Jane, and their three little children: Anne Eliza, James Peter, and Mary Frances, knew that they were very fortunate to find any kind of a dwelling already built. Margaret Jane was expecting another child, who was born the following April in the little cabin.
Henry Peter and Jane were not entirely alone and on their own. Henry Peter was the eldest
son of Peter and Mary Falls Bolton, who along with their other sons: James Francis, Thomas Burl, and George (then about 17 yrs old) and their only surviving daughter, Adaline, had sold their ___? in Giles County, VA, to Henry Bolton, who was called Henry, Senior, after the death of the father, Henry, and driven several covered wagons across the Alleghenies and through Ohio and Illinois to Iowa. For the most part, the young men and Adaline rode horseback.
A number of other Boltons were already in Cedar County. William Henry Bolton, brother of
Peter, had gone to Iowas in 1836. His family was one of the first 12 families in Cedar County.
Another brother of Peter's, George, went to Iowa in 1842. Three nephews of Peter's, sons
of Jacob Bolton, went to Cedar County about 1852. These three sons of Jacob Bolton were: Absolam B. Bolton, Jacob Bolton, Jr., and George Bolton. (Note: there were at least 3 George Boltons in Cedar County during the 1850's)
Linn Grove was not a town at all, not even a small settlement, but a rural area that had been
at least partially cleared and had a few little farms already established. It had a beautiful grove of trees and a mill. Some say it had a stage stop. The old people still mention Tipton as the only town of any size anywhere near Linn Grove. Tipton is the county seat of Cedar County.
Peter and his brother, Jacob, were sons of Henry Bolton I, of Virginia, and Henry's first wife, Catherine Chapman, whom he married in 1786. Catherine Chapman died when the boys were very young. Jacob was five and Peter only two when their mother died in 1798. Henry married again in 1799, to Nancy Mann. He had, in all, 21 children. All are listed in a paper by Peter's son, James Francis, which is included in this book. (Some say that one of the girls was the daughter of his brother, Conrad, and that Henry had adopted her.) Some information on these branches of the family will be included also. Sarah A. Bolton Knipe said that Henry I was married three times, first to a Sarah who died young. They knew of no
children of Sarah's and (the author) have not found any other record of her. (Sarah may have been his sister. It may also have been his mother's name.)
Ref: From a typed transcript of a portion of the book, THE HENRY BOLTON FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, by Mrs. Paul E. Sarnoff. Also available from the LDS Family History Center, Microfilm #
0987412.
(Reference 32)
More About Henry Peter Bolton and Margaret Jane Burton:
Marriage: January 1847285