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John O. Boggs, Sr. was listed on the first tax list, March 10 , 1822, of Lawerence Co., KY (the part of Lawerence Co., that was formerly a part of Floyd Co., KY). He and his wife are buried in the N.T. Rice Cem.
Tombstone reads: Here lise the body of John Boggs Bornd March the 31 1778 and departed this life July the 5 1843 being in his 65 year.
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Welsh descendent, also show a birth date of 2-2-1783
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John O. (Junior), born 30 Oct 1818 in Lee Co., VA; deceased 1900 in MO. He married in 1857, Peace Kennedy.
John, Jr. was reared to manhood on a Kentucky farm and became familiar with all the labors incident thereto, but his schooling were exceedingly meager and he is mostly self educated.
In 1839 he went to Jackson Co., MO, and made his home 3 miles north of Lee's Summitt.
For 6 years he worked for others and then began trading in the stock business.
In 1849, attracted by the discovery of gold in California, he crossed the plains with ox teams, leaving Jackson Co. on the 7th of May, and arriving at the gold diggings on the 7th of Sept. He made the trip in safety and there engaged in trading hogs, cattle, mules and horses. In this venture he won considerable success and the following year he returned home by the way of New York.
Mr. Boggs was living upon his farm when the war begun. He had over 300 acres of land, all fenced, owned a few slaves and was doing well, but both armies invaded this region and from his farm took whatever they desired. Fences were torn down and it seem that ruin reigned in the neighborhood.
He entered the Confederate service and participated in the Battle of Lone Jack.
He then went south, joined Captain Longhorn's Company, which formed a part of Colonel Upton Hayes Regt. and Shelby's command. He was afterward commissioned Captain, was assigned to Colonel Slayback's Regt. and was in the commissary department. He took part in battle of Prairie Grove and in the campaign against the Red River expedition of General Banks, also the engagement of Marks Mill, where over 1500 prisoners were captured. He was all through the Arkansas campaign and in the various battles and skirmishes until the surrender of General Shelby at Shreveport, LA.
He next went to Baton Rouge and drew rations for the Regt. at thatplace and St. Louis. He assumed command of the Regt. after General Slayback went to Mexico, and returned hjome with and disbanded the troops. He was never wounded or captured, but returned to his farm to find the labor of years had been all swept away, the crops used for food for the armies and the fences and houses burned to the ground.
With characteristic energy, he began again the work of making a food farm, erected new buildings and continued the improvement until 1873 when he sold out. He still engaged in the stock business and was also for a time engaged in selling dry goods.
Politically, he has always been a Democrat, has frequently served as a delegate to the party conventions and deeply interested in the success of the democracy.
He belonged to the Masonic Fraternity, and his religious belief was that of the Baptist Church, in which he served both as a trustee and clerk of the congregation at Lee's Summit.
He had been Mayor of the City and for 20 years was Justice of the Peace.
Reference: A Memorial and Bio. Record of Kansas City and Jackson Co., MO., Illus. Chicago, The Lewis Pub., Co., 1896
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Listed as early settler of Wise Co., VA
The family records of Hugh Boggs were owned by Mary Whitt Thompson, deceased.
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Listed as early settler of wise Co., VA, email from mikeshoney; her reference is "Memories of Mother" by Bob Hall, a homemade family history located in the Harry Caudill library in Whitesburg, KY.
Do you have any idea who James L's son William married 1st, I know he married Rebecca Williams 2nd. They married 24 Oct 1838 in Carter Co., KY.
I (mikeshoney) have a copy of a court case between Rebecca Williams and her 2nd husband Benjamin F. Crawford against John and Rebecca Boggs Holbrook, it is about land James L. had left to William but never made a deed to him before his death. I (mikeshoney) know that William had two children from his 1st marriage, one daughter, Jane who married a Siers, and one son, Franklin. I have a deed of Jesse Johnson Hiers from Lawerence Co., kY and there are two William Boggs' who signed the deed. I know that one of the Williams' is John O. Boggs' son who married Jesse Johnsons' daughter Ann, but I truly believe that James L's son William married a daughter of Jesse Johnson also. I was wondering if you know anything about William Boggs. Thank you Aita Skaggs.
1860 Letcher County, Ky Census
231 231 Boggs, Ely 71 Male Va
Boggs, Sarah 54 Female Va
Boggs, Rebecca 21 Female Va
Boggs, Isaac 19 Male Va
Boggs, Aran 6 Male Va
Boggs, Mary 3 Female Va
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He married Mary Tabitha "Polly" Pennington in 1811. (Barbra Brown gives a wedding date of April 12 1810). Mary "Polly" Pennington was born Dec. 14, 1786 in SC
Children: Abel Boggs, Silas (Old Si) Boggs, Abigail Boggs.
He married Sarah (Sally) Eldrige abt 1823 in NC, Sarah was born in 1805, she died in 1875
Children: John Boggs, Elihu Boggs, b. 1829 in Lee Co., VA, James Boggs, Elijah Boggs, b. 1831 in Lee Co., VA, Levi Boggs, b. 1841, Elisha Boggs, Andrew Boggs, b. 1835, Henry Boggs, b 1838, Rebecca Boggs, b. 1839, Isaac Boggs, b. 1841Excerpt from "Rugged Trail To Appalachia" by Mary T. Brewer, A history of Leslie Co., Kentucky and its people: While Eli Boggs was living in Wise Co., VA, tradition has it that he was implicated in the murder of Alexander Goins, a man of the Melungeon people of southwest VA and TN.
The story is told here to show how pioneers dealt with horse thieves.
The murder supposedly took place on a ridge of Nine Mile Spur of Black Mountain, known as Goins' Ridge, and about 300 yards northwest from where Mud Lick Creek empties into Callahan Creek.
Eli lived in a bottom just west of the grave site of Goins. James Taylor Adams visited the grave in the 1930's and placed the date of the tragedy around November 10, 1844. The following account was written by Mr. Adams, and given for history by Emory Hamilton of Wise, VA.
"The grave is now, as shown by the head and foot stone, twelve feet long by actual measurement. It is now enclosed by Interstate Railroad property fence. Mystery has always surrounded Goins' grave. That is why it has attracted so many visitors. There are two traditions of the killing, both of which seem to have been accepted as historical facts by different writers. First, the one handed down through the Church family, who were residents of the immediate community at that time, and second, the one handed down through the Maggard-Craft, who lived in Kentucky a few miles across Big Black Mountain (and who have Boggs ancestry). The Church tradition, and it has the backing of the descendents of Goins, is that Alexander Goins was a respectable trader, dealing in fine horses, which he drove from Kentucky to South Carolina to sell. He supposedly lived in what is now Lawerence Co., and operated a race track, and breeding farm at Louisa. On one of his trips, and as he was returning home, he was ambushed on Callahan creek near the present mining town of Stonega, and escaped to return down the stream to the home of Eli Boggs, where he had stopped on other trips through the county. Boggs was a member of the ambushing party, and the next morning he offered to show Goins a nearer way up Nine Mile Spur. Where trails crossed, the robbers awaited their coming, and as they approached, shot Goins. His horse became frightened and Goins fell dead from his saddle near the mouth of Mud Lick Creek. The descendents of Goins tell about the same story, only that he was on his way to South Carolina to buy horses, instead of returning, and that he carried $9,000 in cash, and that a young man, named William Holbrook, who had been employed by Goins to help him drive horses from South Carolina, played sick, not able to go on the last trip, followed him and led the band who killed and robbed him.
This tradition finds substantial strength in a Holbrook family tradition, which tells us that William Holbrook had been employed in the Big Sandy country of Kentucky by Alexander Goins and on one trip he discovered his employer was stealing horses instead of buying them, quit him enroute south, and arrived at an Uncle's house in North Carolina on Election Day in the month of November 1844.
The Maggard-Craft tradition finds support in the Holbrook tradition, as well as in the Goins tradition. It says that Alexander Goins was a horse stealer, a bad man in every respect. The late John P. Craft, a respected citizen of Wise, VA, says that Goins stopped overnight with his grandfather Maggard on Cumberland River the night before he was killed on Callahan Creek, and that when he was getting ready to leave the next morning, he pulled down a fine deer skin, and without as much as "buy your leave" he cut it up into trupe, which he hung on his saddle horn and rode away. The Maggards knew his reputation as a killer and let him go in peace. Mr. Craft also remembered hearing his grandmother tell of how Goins took two Negro slaves, who had displeased him, tied them in sacks with heavy stones and threw them in the Big Sandy River. He believed that Eli Boggs and his neighbors did kill Goins, but that they did it because he had previously stolen their stock, and not for his money......If anyone was ever legally accused of his murder there is no record to be found of such accusation.
The grave was left to the briars and bushes for many years. Before 1908 someone had built a pen around it. More recently it has been fenced in with other parts of the Interstate Railroad right of way.
Gabriel Church, born 1814, a pioneer settler of Gabe's Branch of Roaring Fork of the Powell River was living near the scene of the tragic incident, and he memorialized the event in a ballad.
Church is said to have written other ballads, but this one is the only one in existence:
POOR GOINS
Come all you young people
Who live far and near,
And I'll tell you of some murder
That was done on the Nine Mile Spur.
They surrounded poor Goins
But Goins got away
He went to Ely Boggs'
He went there to stay.
Ely Boggs, he foreknew him,
His life did betray, Saying
Come and go with me
And I'll show you a nigh way
They started up the Nine Mile Spur
They made no delay
Till they come to the crossroads
Where Goins they did slay
When they got in gun shot
They were lying mighty still
Your money is what we're after
Your life is in our hands
Sweet Heaven! Sweet Heaven!
How loud did he cry
To think of my companion
And now I have to die
When the gun did fire
It caused his horse to run
The bullet failed to kill him
George struck him with his gun
After they had killed him
With him they would not stay
They drank up all his whiskey
And then they rode away
Mrs. Goins she was sent for
She made no delay
She found his grave
Along by the way
Go kill a man for his riches
Or any such thing
I pray the Lord have mercy
Till the Judgement kills the stingEli Boggs was born 1784 in Wilkes Co., NC
He appeared on the census 1810 and 1820 in Lee Co., VA.
He appeared on the Census 1830 in Lee Co.
4 males 0-5 years, (John, Elihu, Elijah, Elisha?)
1 male 5-10 years (Willaim "Devil Bill?)
1 male 10-15 years (Silas?)
1 male 15-20 years (Abel?)
1 male 40-50 (Eli)
3 females 10-15 years (Abigail, ?, ?)
1 female 30-40 years (Sarah?)He appeared on the census in 1850 in Lee Co., VA.36 Parts of Lee Co. and Russell Co., VA became Wise co. in 1858. Eli was in wise Co. at one time before he moved to Letcher Co.
Elijah (Eli) 65 years old with wife was 49 years old.
Children:
John, b. 1825, Elihu, b. 1827, Elijah, b. 1829, Elisha b. 1831, Andrew, b. 1833, Levi, b. 1835, Henry, b. 1837, Rebecca, b. 1839, Isaac, b. 1841, Elizabeth, b. 1842.
1850 U.S. census, Lee Co., Dist. 31, HH 365/380, pg. 54, Aug. 12, 1850,
Eli Boggs, 65, Farmer, 600 (value real estate), All b. VA
Sarah 49, Elihu 22, Elijah 20, Elisha 18, Andrew 16, Levi 14, Henry 12, Rebecca 10, Isaac 8,
Elizabeth 7.He appeared on the census in 1860 in Letcher Co., KY, All born VA
Ely Boggs 71, Sarah 54, Rebecca 21, Isaac 19, Aron 6, Mary 3,
He lived first at the mouth of Calhoun Creek in Wise Co., VA. Later he moved to the headwaters of the Cumberland River, Letcher Co., KY. Settling above the mouth of Franks Creek. In his old age, he would sit on his front porch and read his Bible. He died the day of the "great sun eclipse".
He died on Aug. 8, 1869 as a result of stroke, in Letcher Co., KY, buried in Ice Collier Cemetery, Letcher Co., KY.
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It was brought to my attention that the headstone of Eli reads his birth year as 1781 and death as 1869.
By looking at the following information, it appears that Elizabeth was an Elizabeth Smith. could the Boggs have come from another marriage? Or is this the one and same Elizabeth? Unkown at this time.
Or is it possible this is the wrong Abel that she is associated with in the Pennington files.
Abels wife applied for pension in 1871, said she was Elizabeth Smith, m. in Harlan Co., KY. (6) Jan. 1814, that she was now 80. A John Pennington (age 76) and Rachel Pennington (age 73) vouched for them.
Pennington Pedigrees 13-2, p. 38: In 1812 Abel enlisted in Garret County, Kentucky Volunteers at Harlan, Kentucky for a six month term. He received his discharge in 1813 and returned to Harlan to marry Elizabeth Smith in 1814. She is thought to be the daughter of Jonathon Smith. Abel got a land grant of 100 acres on the Poor Fork of the Cumberland River. Then in 1833 he applied for land in Lawrence County. In 1848 he received another 50 acres. In 1856 he received 4 grants of 200 acres, 131 acres, 125 acres, and 69 acres...In 1871, Elizabeth
17. Temperance Boggs
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James McGuire's will dated 18 Nov. 1845, recorded in willbook 1, pg. 4.
The 1850 census of Carter Co., KY, dist. 1, #285, list Temperance McGuire, 52, born NC; she owned one male and three female slaves. Several of the James & Temperance McGuires children married Boggs's
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A James McGuire served in the 40th Regt. KY. Vol. Mtd. Inf. Co. "K" (Union), as a 2nd Lt. in 1863-1864. His mother was one of the wealthiest women in Carter Co., KY., in 1850, with property value at $4,500 and several slaves.
Nancy & James moved to Uniontown, OH
84. John Pennington
International Genealogical Index (R)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997
Batch# 7922516, Source Call# 1260581, Sht# 42
John PENNINGTON; Sex: M
Birth: 5 Oct 1802; Lee, Virginia
Father: Edward PENNINGTON
Mother: Martha FLANARY1850 US Census, Lee County, Virginia; Page 340B, HH 523/family 542, Dist. 31
Edited by Dr. John F. Schunk, S-K Publications, P.O. Box 8173, Wichita KS 67208-0173
Enumerated in the family of John & Rachel Pennington
John Pennington; age 47; M; Occup: Farmer; RE Val: 3500; born Va1860 US Census, Lee County, Virginia;
Family Quest Archives; Page: 910
HH 1560/family 1599, Western Dist., Jonesville P.O.
Enumerated in the family of John & Rachel Pennington
John Pennington; age 56; M; Occup: Farmer; RE Val: 16000; PE Val: 4000; born Lee Co, Va
I may be mistaken, but I believe this may be the one and the same Rebecca Flanary Flannery, d/o
John and Phoebe Boggs Flanary, married to Henry Cox