James Robertson Bosley, Sr. (John, James, Charles, Walter) was born on 15 January 1791 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee and died after June 1868 in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

As of July 1853 he was working as a Postmaster in Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana.

James married Elizabeth Scales, daughter of Joseph Scales II and Unknown, on 18 October 1813 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee. Elizabeth Scales died in Tennessee Or Louisiana.

Children from this marriage were:

  M  Charles H. Bosley was born in 1815 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee and died after 14 December 1879.

  F  Elizabeth Bosley.

  F  Adaline Bosley.

   F  Sarah Ann Bosley.

  M  James Bosley.

  F  Eliza Bosley.