[2] Boles graduated from Burritt College, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1900.

[2] He attended the Nashville Bible School, later known as Lipscomb University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1906.

[2] He earned a PhD from the Southern School of Divinity in Fort Worth, Texas in 1927.

[4] Boles was a member of the International Council of Religious Education and Uniform Lessons Committee.

They had a son, Leo Lipscomb Boles, and they resided at 4100 Granny White Pike in Nashville.