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Rh was district deputy grand master for about twenty years and a regular attendant at the sessions of the grand lodge; was prominent in the Royal Arch chapter and the Knights Templar and was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a firm believer in the Christian religion, and in early manhood became a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He was married June 9, 1875, to Dora A., daughter of James and Margaret McMullin Plunkett. Her father was a soldier of the war of 1812, and at the time of his death, in 1865, was the oldest native of Lexington. Her brother, Robert W. Plunkett, served in the Forty-second Virginia regiment in the Confederate war until disabled by a wound. Mrs. Boude still resides at the Lexington home where Captain Boude died, May 28, 1896. He passed away suddenly, with no special disease, but from the effects of his Confederate service, and was laid to rest by his comrades and Masonic brethren, in a spot he had selected years before, on Memorial day, with a Confederate flag waving over his final resting place.

Captain E. E. Bouldin, of Danville, Va., was born in Charlotte county, March 31, 1838, the son of Hon. James W. Bouldin, whose wife was Almeria, daughter of Rev. Clement R. Read, one of the first trustees of the old Hampden-Sidney college. James W. Bouldin, a lawyer of distinction, served for several terms in the United States Congress as the successor of his brother, Thomas Tyler Bouldin, who succeeded John Randolph in Congress and died suddenly while addressing that body in 1834. The grandfather of Captain Bouldin was Wood Bouldin, who married Joanna, sister of Gov. John Tyler, and aunt of President Tyler. The family is an old one in America, this branch being descended from Col. Thomas Bouldin, who built the second frame house in Charlotte county, about 174S. Captain Bouldin was educated at the university of Virginia, and after admission to the bar entered upon the practice of law in Goliad, Tex., early in 1860. In April he served under General Van Dorn in the capture of the Federal troops that were about to leave Texas for the North, and immediately thereafter he returned to Virginia and enlisted as a private in the Charlotte cavalry. With this troop he served in the Laurel Hill and Rich Mountain campaign, and soon afterward was promoted first lieutenant. In the following spring he was elected captain of the company—the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. The company participated in the Kanawha valley campaign in the battalion of Major Jackson, and later became Company B of the Fourteenth Virginia cavalry regiment. Col. James Cochrane. This regiment was part of Jenkins' brigade, the advance guard of Lee's army in the Pennsylvania campaign, and Captain Bouldin, with a squadron of cavalry, was the first to enter Chambersburg. On July 3, 1863, he commanded his regiment in the famous cavalry fight between Stuart and Gregg on the Federal right, in which half of the Fourteenth who were engaged were killed or wounded, and he was struck and painfully hurt by a spent ball. He was actively engaged in protecting the Confederate trains on the retreat, and at the Potomac river his arm was broken by the explosion of a shell which killed several of his men. After his recovery he commanded the extreme rear guard of General McCausland's command in the movement from Covington to Lynchburg before Hunter, also the rear guard in the Chambersburg raid of 1864, and on the