 Brenda (Thorne) Lipina
reads Remembering Daniel Bolton.
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Remembering
Daniel Bolton
We are gathered here today to
remember you, Daniel Bolton, who served in the Civil War and gave the ultimate sacrifice,
your life, for what you believed was a just cause.
My name is Brenda (Thorne) Lipina and I am a great grand niece to Daniel Bolton. I am also
the great granddaughter of Daniel’s older brother Joseph, who we are also remembering
here today.
Daniel Bolton was born in 1843, in Franklin County, Alabama, about four miles from here,
near the Massey Cemetery. Daniel was the second of four children, three sons and one
daughter, born to Ephraim and Mary Bolton. In the early 1850’s Daniel’s family
moved to the Lost Creek area and lived within a quarter mile of this cemetery. While
growing up, Daniel learned the skills of farming, and most likely did carpentry work with
his father. Daniel died as a young man at the age of 20, without ever getting married.
We remember that in November of 1861, at the age of eighteen, you traveled to Iuka,
Mississippi, and joined the Fourth Battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry. The following
year you re-enlisted in Company E of the Fourth Alabama Cavalry with your brother Joseph
and some neighbors at Spencer Bell’s Blacksmith shop near Rockwood.
We remember that you were captured on November 24, 1863, at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee,
by the Union Army. You arrived at the Confederate POW Camp at Rock Island Illinois on
December 9, 1863. Rock Island is an Island in the Mississippi River. We know that you
passed away one month later on January 11, 1864, of smallpox, and you were buried at the
Rock Island Cemetery in grave number 196. There are about two thousand Confederate
soldiers buried with you in this cemetery.
Daniel, on January 15, 2006, a Civil War marker was placed in the Bolton Cemetery in your
memory. When family and friends come to this cemetery to visit the rock graves of your
parents, Ephraim and Mary Bolton, the Civil War marker of your brother Jospeh Bolton, the
stone of your sister, Mary Bolton Cheatham, and this marker in your honor, you will be
remembered. It is fitting to have a marker here to honor your life.
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