she married louis bolden (1892–1955) in 1908, 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. 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.