After the War, Boston settled in Screven county near Oliver, and married Sarah Elizabeth Evans, whose family survived Sherman's destruction by hiding livestock in the Ogeechee swamps. Boston and Sarah had eleven children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. [Cansas Sadler (see email below) relates that Boston had 11 siblings, not 11 children.] After Boston's death in 1903, Sarah moved to Tampa, Florida, where most of her adult children had already settled, along with many other related families from the Newington and Sylvania area.

For over sixty years, the magnificent oval portrait of my great-grandfather was kept on the bedroom wall of my grandmother's country home north of Tampa. According to her he was often asked, "How many Yankees did you kill in the war?"

He always replied, "None I hope."