SAMUEL & SARAH BOGGESS

Our Boggess line is documented* to Norfolk, Virginia, 1 April 1644, Deed Book B: 37a and through over 360 years to date, starting with Robert Boggus, A1.



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SAM & SARAH BOGGESS MONUMENT

In Methodist church's 1964 abandoned Point Pleasant cemetery, Harrison county, West Virginia, duplicate monument in Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri (upper right).

pic by Leanne Williams (2003)

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=califia1&id=I2036 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=califia1&id=I2037 SAMUEL BOGGESS (1811VA-1888WV), G209, my great, grandfather, was born 14 March 1811 in Eagle district of Harrision county, Virginia (now West Virginia), to John BOGGESS, F49, (1775-1815) and Magdalene ROBINSON (ca1788-1814). He married twice, first 1830 to Tabitha WAMSLEY (1803VA-1872WV) having six known children and second (Bk 5, pg 90), 1873 to Sarah Elizabeth WOOD (1835VA-1918MO) having three known children, Died of 'uremia', 2 February 1888 (Bk 2, pg 8), buried 4 February in Point Pleasant cemetery, abandoned in 1964 by the Methodist church.

KNOWN CHILDREN WITH TABITHA: David Wamsley Boggess H711 b: 17 JAN 1834 in Harrison county, Virginia, d. 3 JAN 1897, Harrison county, West Virginia Mary Malvina Boggess b: 1 MAY 1836 in Harrison county, Virginia, d. 15 JUN 1880 Harrison county, West Virginia Sarah Magdalene Boggess b: 30 SEP 1837 in Harrison county, Virginia, d. 11 NOV 1917 John Robert Boggess b: 11 NOV 1839 in Harrison county, Virginia, d. 13 JUN 1902 Weston, Lewis county, West Virginia Matthew Boggess b: 11 JUL 1842 in Harrison county, Virginia, d. 9 NOV 1867 Elizabeth Ann Boggess b: 15 MAY 1844 in Harrison County, Virginia, d. 3 May 1849, Harrison county, Virginia

KNOWN CHILDREN WITH SARAH: Samuel Cleveland Boggess H717, b: 12 AUG 1874 in Cherry Camp, Harrison county, West Virginia, d. 27 JUN 1946, Rochester, Minnesota Thomas Howard Boggess b: 24 JUL 1876 in Tenmile district, Harrison county, West Virginia, d. 11 MAR 1938 Des Moines, Iowa Hale M. Boggess b: FEB 1879 in Bristol, Harrison county, West Virginia, d. 1 AUG 1942 Carthage, Missouri(ah) All three interned with their wives in Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri(ah)

Samuel, G209, and sister Caroline, were orphaned with death of father in 1815, who in 1805 married Magdalene Robinson whom I believe may (?) have died during/after birth of fourth child, Mary Magdalene Larson, August 20,1814. Others list her death as "1874", and I feel strongly, that's a typographical error, or miss-read from tombstone, wherever that might be!! Strange, --- her sister Susanna (1795-1815), wife of John's brother Alburtus Boggess, F59, gave birth 1 August 1814 and named her daughter, Mary Magaline, I would like to believe, in honor of her sister and niece. Third child reportedly, Robert, born 10 August 1812 also aparently died early. History and burial sites are unknown except for Sam and Caroline. The surviving two children, Sam and Caroline, were by court, placed in custody of uncle Caleb Boggess, F54, (1784-1852) (Harrison County sheriff in 1837) who on 4 November 1817 married their mother's younger sister Mary Robinson (1791-1855). Caleb started his family of nine known children November 1818. Caleb was involved for an aunt in dispute over grandfather Robert Boggess', D7, estate and found in his 23 JUN 1843 letter:             "... my brother John [F49] deceased leaving the children Samuel & Caroline." Caroline (married a Robinson) and Samuel are listed next to each other on some later census, possibly (?) both inherited the 100 acres of land given father by mother's father, Major Benjamin Robinson. (Boggess & Robinson families inter-married a lot) Samuel fathered six known siblings in first union (1830) with Tabitha Wamsley. First son, David Wamsley H711, Ree Jarrett's great-grandfather, was born forty years before first of three known sons of second marriage (1873) with Sarah, my grandfather, Samuel Cleveland H717.

INTERESTING SIDE-NOTE: ~ ~ ~ ~ Sarah and Samuel's second son, Rev Thomas Howard Boggess, H718, a grandson of Caleb's, F54, a brother of John, F49, whose orphaned son, Samuel, he raised, became a Baptist minister with first assignment at Carthage, Hancock county, Illinois where Caleb's, F54, grandson, Caleb Rezin Boggess H780, s/o Dr Benjamin Robinson Boggess, G243, wife Ella, youngest kids, Bessie, Sara and Carl, Jr were in the congregation from April 1914 to December 1915.

1908-1915


Post card; Kenneth I Boggess (J927) via JoAnn Smith.

SARAH & DAVID BOGGESS

David Wamsley married Sarah Ann Harden in 1859, built their home in 1860, (remodelled several times but still standing in 2005),

(Sarah Ann was Noah Keesy's sister-in-law)



pic from Ree Jarrett

1913

House when Matthey purchased it.

1994

House photographed by Ree Jarrett 1994.

(Bertha Webb's late husband, Bud, did much work on it. Bertha being lady who guided restoration of Point Pleasant cemetery in 2004)

David helped start the now existing Bristol United Methodist church with first services held in 1861 at his "Tannery" until church building was dedicated in 1866. He bought its bell in 1880, now hanging in the 1927 building as relocated for highway #50 expansion, and in which it remains today, also existing are separate stained glass windows with Samuel and Sarah's names. www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/bristolhis.html John Robert Boggess, H714, (1839-1902), second son (married a Robinson whose mother was a Boggess), horrifically murdered his wife and one of five known daughters September 1881 by beating them to death with a poker iron while the other children looked on. He was taken to the Weston Asylum hospital by a Robinson where he died and with no one claiming his body was buried.

CHURCH WINDOWS

Existing Bristol United Methodist Church's windows dedicated to Sarah and Sam Boggess, he father of church organizer, David Wamsley Boggess.


pic by Ree Jarrett

Reportedly, both with paternal grandfather being veteran of the Revolutionary War, Samuel and second wife Sarah lived in a house north across the Salem branch of Tenmile creek from son David's home, near its confluence with Cherry Camp run, standing in 1994 gone in 1997

1994

Reportedly, Samuel and Sarah's home near Cherry Camp run confluence with western (Salem) branch of Tenmile creek.



pic by Ree Jarrett

according to Ree Jarrett, a great-granddaughter of David Wamsley who in 2004 shared much of her gathered research information and pictures with me with strong objection of my exposing John Robert Boggess' 1881 actions.

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=califia1&id=I2037 Sarah Elizabeth Wood was born December 9, 1835, near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, on 8 March 1836, eastern area with plantations and Shenandoah river valley, where she was born, renamed Clarke county.  She was second of eleven known children born to Cassandra Hess (Brown) (1813-1864) and John Wood (1808-1861). Their 1832 wedding was reportedly a 2 to 3 day affair, receiving five slaves as a present from her father. Sarah's name sakes were her grandmothers, Elizabeth Hess,d/o Colonel Henry Hess, believed to have died in War of 1812 and James Brown and Elizabeth (Kirk). Her grandfather, Alexander Wood (1766-1830), was a revolutionary war veteran of Valley Forge, who married in 1796. Cuz Joe Baughman (descended from Alexander, Jr (1805-1887)), has deeply resarched them and has found much, including Alex's complete Revolutionary War records; muster, payroll, and bounty offer. He stayed the cold winter at Valley Forge with Washington. His last record is dated in 1783. He later was (for eighteen or more years, until 1828), overseer of Washington's old Audley plantation in Frederick county (1810 census with 80 slaves), and also the Lewelyn plantation for Major Lawrence Lewis (1767-1839) and Nellie Parke Custis' (1779-1852) of Woodlawn Plantation in Fairfax county, both plantations east of Berryville (formerly Battletown), about three miles apart, since 8 March 1836 in Clarke county. Audley was a wedding gift from George Washington (1732-1799) and is where they moved in 1830, ad she stayed following husband's 1839 death to pass her remaining years, disappointed with life her daughter was living in New Orleans.  (www.clarkehistory.org/ search: Alexander Wood) John and Cassandra removed their family to Jefferson county ca 1845 first across from Charleston-Harper's Ferry, then with Joe Johnson who married Eleanor, John's sister, widow of Cassandra's older brother Henry Brown, by wagon west to Harrison county's upper Tenmile creek area in spring of 1851, within half a mile of Mount Morris Episcopal Methodist church which moved due to railroad construction south next to school house, becoming Point Pleasant Episcopal Methodist church, (10 years after her father, James Brown, freed his slaves and year her favorite uncle, John, died) along the 1835/7 built Northwestern Turnpike (now U S #50). Later, they reportedly visited the older brother Alex Wood, Jr & family (with 114 slaves), near Millwood, Clarke county during the John Brown (no relation) incident at Harper's Ferry, 12 October 1859, --- up all night at windows with guns in hand. Best it can be determined from obituaries and family letters, --- this was the Tuleyries estate which is now the Virginia Arboretum. If one is going to Millwood on U S # 50 from Washington DC, instead of turning right to go to Millwood, you continue on west for about 2 miles. The Arboretum is on the left. Sarah with older brother James Alexander Wood (1834-1914), father of Clarksburg 1908 Mayor, architect, Edward John "Ned" Wood (1863-1943), http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/harrison/bios/wood.txt taught school at Point Pleasant free school #7, on Wizzardism Run, up Carpenter Hollow from Jarvisville road, on a site reportedly by Susan (Ritter) Lynch (1869-1958), where a log school building existed in 1830 in which her grandmother Mary (Colvin) Ritter (1789-1870), taught. --- possibly where church was held during earlier relocation years. This was next westerly to 1855/6 relocated 1837 created Mount Morris, later Maken/Pleasant Point Methodist Episcopal church which was used for school when the school building burnt, with church's cemetery, abandoned 1964, on its 1858 deeded property. www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/lynch.html Samuel Boggess and Sarah Elizabeth Wood were married thursday, 18 September 1873 by Rev C Conner in Salem (Bk5: pg 90). Their first born, in 'extinct town' Cherry Camp, was my grandfather, Samuel Cleveland known as "SC" or "Sam", next, Thomas Howard near Bristol, then Hale Matthew at Bristol. 1880 census lists family, with younger sister Henrietta Jane Wood (1847VA-1928OK) in household, among 58 Boggesses in Harrision county. Samuel died 2 February 1888 (Bk 5: pg 8), was buried in Point Pleasant cemetery on the 4th (1964, abandoned by Methodist church) where, preceeding him, were buried Sarah's parents, John and Casandra, two brothers, William and Charles, two sisters, Frances and Lucy plus one niece, Adalide.

2003, before cemetery restoration.

Leanne Williams of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania visited the Point Pleasant cemetey on my behalf, with Bertha Webb greeting her April 2003. She took pictures of the deplorable condition found. They were unable to find Wood family stones, but discovered ours overturned and broken, with trash, overgrowth, and livestock manuer everywhere. We discovered the Methodist church abandoned the cemetery earlier in 1964.

Quite different when aunt Edith and daughter Jane visited it in 1948.

NEW SIGN

http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/harrison/cemetery1/ppleasant.txt




pic by Bertha Webb

2004, after cemetery restoration.

www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/boggessobit.html

Quite different in 2004 after being restored by surveying corners, installing fence, gate, sign, foot bridge and steps, cleared rubbish and trash with guidence under Bertha Webb. Stone restoration to be done by descendents.

(12/30/07 letter of Bertha's said her husband, Bud, restored many stones before his demise.)

We concluded best not to do anything with our marble mounument my grandfather had installed due to its weight and broken condition.




pic by Bertha Webb

August 2007

Result of attempt in July 2006 of raising the stone against our instruction to leave as found.

19 December 2007, I learned from Ree Jarrett, the "Boggess Family Association", who held their 2007 reunion at Bridgeport, Harrison county, West Virginia, engaged Bertha Webb to oversee erection of the Boggess monument in 1964 abandoned Methodist church Maken/Point Pleasant cemetery.

Phoned Bertha 20 December and she said that her husband took it upon himself to raise the large stone before his untimely death to cancer, and the Boggess Family Association has pledged funds to help pay cost of it being erected.

I apologize for thinking the association took it upon themselves to do the work.

She says she has contacted a firm who may, when time permits, do the work if they can get equipment to it without damage to other stones.

Our family had decided in 2005, best to leave our stone as found, --- but in so far as it has been disturbed, we will share in costs of righting and affixing the broken top.






pic by Joe Baughman, descendent of Alexander Jr

BOGGESS MOUNUMENT AT CARTHAGE, MISSOURI

Block 33; Lot 98, Park cemetery





pic by Elmer Thorn

Fifty-three year old widow Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, her three young sons, Samuel Cleveland, 15, Thomas Howard, 13, Hale M, 10 y/o and her sister Henrietta Jane (1847VA-1928OK), arrivied in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri from Bristol, Harrison county, West Virginia September 1889. We believe Sarah moved to Carthage following Samuel's 1888 death, because her brothers, Thomas Kennerly Wood (1842VA-1918MO) to Missouri 1868 following civil war where he served 20th Virginia Cavlary, CSA, becoming a Union prisoner at three prisons and George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO) both proceded her. George, who lost his son ca 1885, became a successful builder of First Methodist church, High school (later known as Manual Arts building), Home Telephone company's system, Carthage Collegate Institute, Washington and Irving schools, H S Cowgill's Grand avenue home plus much more, thus providing possible future for her three sons. It isn't known if brother Robert Albert, (1849VA-1926TX), joined in her western journey. Henrietta became second wife of William L Jarvis (1845VA-1918OK), married ca 1890, a building contractor also from Harrison county, West Virginia, moving to Texas then Oklahoma, widowed 1918, living in Claremore, Oklahoma, and brother Robert Wood in Dallas, Texas at Sarah's death June 28, 1918. Henriette died 1928 at home in Oklahoma, Robert in 1926 in Texas. Sarah occupied her home at 412 E. Third street built by brother George to raise her three sons.

Sarah and her sons

From left, Thomas Howard, Hale Matthew, & Samuel Cleveland

Emma & George Wood

George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941M)), brother to Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, arrived 1882 in Carthage after their river boat trip from Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia to Saint Louis then a Frisco train ride, with two daughters, becoming a successful contractor. They lost a son born 1885. At time of George's death, he had lost his wife six years earlier, his oldest daughter, librarian Laura May Wood (1876OH-1947MO), was living with him at 1320 south Main street, across street from niece, Mrs Edwin H Irwin (1870IN-1953MO), oldest child of brother "T K" who died January 1918 in sister Sarah's home where June 1918, she died, neither due to deadly 1918 flu epedimic while her son S C was mayor. Their sister, Henrietta Jane (Wood) Jarvis (1847VA-1928OK), and George's family, except Laura who is buried in Marionville, Lawrence county, Missouri, are buried in Carthage's Park cemetery, Block 33, Lot 100, his parents buried in 1964 abandoned Methodist church, Maken/Point Pleasant cemetery, Harrison county, West Virginia, with sisters Sarah, Frances, Lucy and brothers William and Charles.

WOOD HOME

The George Brown and Emma J (Howell) WOOD home at 1320 south Main street, Carthage.



pic by David L Owings (January 2007)

Built as; The Rose House - Victorian Vernacular built in 1899 by G. A. Rose who owned Rose Mercantile Company. It is mainly a combination of Queen Anne and Classical Revival features. Doric columns on stone piers with balustrade support the porch roof. It has an unusual decorative floral frieze under the second floor bracketed cornice.

spending her remaining active life till 1918 death there! www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/boggessobit.html Sarah's body was returned to West Virginia, interred with husband Samuel, her parents, John Wood (1808VA-1861VA & Cassandra Hess Brown (1813VA-1864WV), two of Sarah's brothers, Charles Homer (1857VA-1860VA), William Franklyn (1845VA-1867WV) and two sisters, Lucy Ellen (Wood) Ford (1841VA-1875WV), Frances Adelaide (Wood) McKinley (1838VA-1858VA) plus daughter Adelaide Nelson McKinley (1858VA-1859VA) of the eleven siblings, in Maken/Point Pleasant cemetery near Bristol, with 118 other known buried, in this cemetery abandoned by the Methodist church in1964. A group, all living more than 234 miles away, partially restored Point Pleasant cemetery in 2004 http://community.webtv.net/billboggess3/MAKENPOINTPLEASANT inspired by Bertha Webb, who with her late husband Bud restored and lived in easterly (Susie Ritter's) of "Twin Houses" built ca 1904, southwest corner of highway #50 & Jarvisville road, --- a neighbor of the cemetery. We had property corners established, installing foot bridge, steps, fence & gates, clearing rubbish and overgrowth, and an identification sign, leaving damaged monuments and gravestones for family members to do with as they wished. The Boggess monument had been topelled and was broken. It's to heavy to re-erect, being a duplicate of one in Carthage Park cemetery, Blk 33, Lot 98, made of Georgian Marble and placed by M T FRUM MARBLE WORKS of Salem, West Virginia following Sarah's 1918 burial. Her parent's, John and Cassandra, stones weren't found in 2003 search by Leanne Williams and Bertha, but found in 2004 by David L Owings and Bertha, partially buried and broken,

WOOD's FAMILY STONES

Sarah's parents, brothers, sisters and a niece.





pics by Bertha Webb

CASANDRA H WOOD

Sarah's mother, my 2nd great, grandmother. NOT found 2003, uncovered in 2004 and repaired 2005 by descendants, Owings family of Kansas City.

pic by Bertha Webb

"T K" WOOD FAMILY

Top: Neville Miller, Georgia, Walter, Mable, Bert Ernest
Bottom: Henry C, "T K", Barbara Ellen (Miller)







Thomas Kennerly Wood (1842VA-1918MO) s/o Casandra and John Wood from whom the Owings family decsend, died about 3 oclock, the afternoon of 17 January 1918 in sister Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess' east Third street home, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. He was in town from Kansas City where he lived since before 1910, visiting first born child, Georgia Sue, Mrs Edgar H Irwin (1870IN-1953MO), 1321 south Main street, across street and trolly tracks from her uncle George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO), both brothers were in Carthage when widow Sarah arrived 1889. They with several children, are buried in Block 10, Lot 25, Park cemetery, Carthage.


"T K" first arrived in Jasper county after marriage December 1869 in Lafayette county, Missouri moving immediately east of Carthage, near Avilla with his bride after serving in CSA (a Union prisoner at three different prisons). 1870 census has them in McDonald township. Moved into Carthage, 1880 census, on Bois De Arc street in the livery business. 


pic from David L Owings

Irwin House, South Main, Carthage, Missouri

"T K"'s daughter Georgia's (mother of my school teacher Virginia) home at 1321 south Main street, west, across from uncle Geo Wood.




pic by David L Owings (January 2007)

Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri

Block 10, Lot 25







pic by David L Owings (January 2007)

Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri

Block 10, Lot 25







pic by David L Owings (January 2007)

of as were many other stones throughout this one-plus acre cemetery, likely trampled and broken by illegally roaming livestock since 1964 when the Methodist church abandoned these 127 known graves on an acre of land a relocated cemetery, formerly the Mount Morris cemetery started 1837, lost to railroad constructon ca 1855 along norh side of what now is highway #50. Also, since 1899, oil and gas has been pumped from beneath this property, with its mineral rights intact, with NOT ONE RED CENT in payment from those profiting from selling it, starting over 100 years ago, 1899, at $1.56/barrel. Just doesn't seem fair, 'big oil' ripping off 'a little old abandoned graveyard'!! 189 years following Samuel's 1811 birth, beginning year 2000, thirty descendants from marriage with Sarah are found in California, Connecticut, Florida, Lousiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Oregon, and Texas.

Prepared by: Compiled 03/05/06 by William (Bill) Samuel Boggess (Luke, Samuel Clevelad, Samuel, John, Samuel, Robert, Henry, Henry, Robert) raised at Carthage, Missouri(ah). Much of above from the following sources: *'Baugus, Boggus, & Boggess Footprints On The Sands Of Time', Vol. I, 1993, Vol. II, 1994 & Supplements. Copyrighted by Joanna Fox, Drakesboro, Kentucky & JoAnn Smith, Vida, Oregon David L Owings and Joe Baughman for "Wood" Ree Jarrett for "Boggess". www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/bristolhis.html www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/lynch.html