THE BOGGESS FAMILY

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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JASPER COUNTY COURT HOUSE

pic by Richard Bliss

Carthage is county seat of 1841 created Jasper County Missouri(ah). Court House was built 1894/5.

There was at least one Boggess in Carthage, Missouri(ah) since September 1889 when fifty-three year old widow Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess arrived with three young sons until death of her oldest grandson, seventy-five year old Luke J Boggess my father, passing away, 5 November 1974.    Widow Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, with younger sister Henrriette Jane Wood, arrived September 1889 with her three young sons, Samuel Cleveland, 15, Thomas Howard, 13 and Hale Matthew, 10 y/o, from Bristol (formerly, Cherry Camp), Tenmile district, Harrison County, West Virginia where her husband Samuel died 2 February 1888 (BK 5; pg 8), buried 4th of February at Point Pleasant cemetery (abandoned 1964 by Methodist church). They had two brothers preceeding them, one in 1869 other in 1882, plus one nephew for a short period ca 1882.

Pic; Jane Hough

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from left; Thomas Howard, Hale Matthew, Samuel Cleveland with mother, Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess

Samuel Cleveland, "S C" or "Sam", went into minning, banking, insurance, etc, was Mayor during the 1918 national flue epidemic, then lived four years in Kansas City (1921-1925), balance in Carthage. First marriage with five children, three to adulthood, Luke J, lived in Omaha, Nebraska, Kansas City and Carthage, had two sons, three grandchildren, Edith married lived in Carthage, Washington D C area and overseas, had one daughter with one grandchild and S C, Jr, lived Carthage, St Joseph, St Louis, Webster Groves, Missouri, Dearfield Beach, Boca Raton, Florida with summers on Cape Cod, married, raised three kids, had six grandchildren. Thomas Howard became a Baptist minister married, was childless, raising eight orphans, served at Carthage, Illinois, Kansas City, Missouri & Kansas, Omaha & Lincoln, Nebraska, Mount Ary, Iowa. Hale Matthew, Carthage banker, had one daughter, Elizabeth, no grandchildren. Sarah's three sons and five of six grandchildren are at rest with spouses, in Park cemetery, Carthage, S C jr and wife are at Seaside cemetery, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.    My brother, L Jack, was born 11 June 1924 in Omaha, Douglas county, Nebraska to Frances Elizabeth Flora and Luke J Boggess, while dad was manager of branch office for Industrial Loan and Investment Company. I was born 15 February 1927 at Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri after dad had set up books for Mr C L Brown and his United Telephone & Electric Company in Abilene, Kansas (2005 becoming Sprint Nextel Corporation, 2006 spinning off Embarq Holding company) while working for accountants, Arthur Andersen & Company. We moved to Carthage following early April 1928 deaths of my mother and dad's mother, 14-hours earlier. Aunt Edith, 21 y/o, returned from University of Missouri and assumed being the women of the house. We lived with grandfather, S C, at 1217 S Main street. I first, spent time in Pueblo, Colorado with maternal aunt's family, the Hopkins, until dad was settled in at Carthage from our home, 7325 Pennsylvania avenue in Waldo community of Kansas City, Missouri.    Dad remarried 6 April 1932 to widow, Muriel Margaret (Haight) Busboom (1897NE-1983MO), with a daughter, Mary Margaret (1924NE-1992MO), so we moved in with them at 1218 S Maple street. Brother Jack (1924NE-2001OR) left for prep-school in 1941, graduating from U S Naval Academy in accelerated (three year) Class of 1946, married 1951, had three daughters with six grandchildren. I went to New Mexico Military Institute in 1942, later Wentworth Military Academy, enlisting in U S Army Air Corps 10 August 1944, discharged December 1946, graduating from Finley Engineering College of Kansas City, December 1949, never married.

PREPARED BY: William(Bill) Samuel Boggess (Luke, Samuel Cleveland, Samuel, John, Samuel, Robert, Henry, Henry,Robert) *'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. billboggess@webtv.net www.shellpoint.org 03/05/2006