Source: Paul Boggs
Based upon evidence of deeds and his chidrens places of birth, it can be stated that Abijah Whitt and his father, Edmund moved into Carter Co., kY about 1838-1839. when the 1850 census taken on August 26, Abijah was living in Dist. 1, nect door to his brother Richard P. Whitt, and their mother Hannah. Abijah was a farmer with $800 in propert. Abijah was the 3rd child of Edmund and Hannah.
Carter Co., KY deed Book 7, pg 544; Carter Co., KY, 1850 Dist 1, #256; 1870, pct. 6, #83-77, $500 in property, included Jeremiah Walker, 19 and Sarah.
236. Richard Price Whitt
Source: Paul Boggs
Carter Co., KY 1880 pct. 6, #281, included Nancy, 69 mother
51. Hugh Boggs , Jr.
Source: Paul Boggs
In the 1850 census, the family resided in Carter Co., KY, dist. 1, #143.
Farmer with $400 in property.
1850 Carter KY pg 259
Hugh Boggs, 36
Louisa, 22
James M., 11
John, 8
William, 6
David, 5
Whitt, 3
Abijah, 2
Benjamin F., 6/12
1860, he is listed in Olive Hill, #1031 with $1505 in property
250. Thomas P. Harper
Source: Paul Boggs
Thomas P. Harper served in the 22nd Rgt., KY Inf., Confederate. He was mustered in on April 27, 1861 and discharged three months later. He rejoined on Oct 22, 1861 as a 1st Lt. He fought in several battles and was awarded medals. On May 22 1862, he was injured at Munson's Mill near Tazwell, TN. This branch of Harpers moved to MO.
251. Samuel Harper
Source: Paul Boggs
Samuel moved to Kansas
253. Elihu Harper
Source: Paul Boggs
Elihu moved to Montana
56. Abel Boggs
Source: Paul Boggs
Paul Said: Now we have papers showing that Rebecca & 1st husband Abel Boggs also had a son by the name of Henry. Henry will be Paul Stanton Boggs g-grandfather.
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1850 Letcher Co., KY Census list the following for HH #208,
Abel Boggs, m, 37, farmer, 400, VA,
Rebecca, f, 39, KY
Jane, f, 17, KY
Elizabeth, f, 11, KY
Susannah, f, 9 KY
Silas, m, 5, KY
Nancy Mullins, 14, f, KYFrom the 1860 Census of Letcher Co., KY, house #236 from Brian K. Caudill, bcaudill@metrolink.net
Abel Boggs, m, 47, VA
Rebecca, f, 38, KY
Silas, m, 15
Jesse, m, 8
Henry, m, 5
Why Rebecca leaves out Jane & Henry in the Dickey interview is anyones guess.From Perry Co., land records, 1868
Boggs, Able,
Grantee Walker, John
Grantor Deed Book "D" Pg. 23, Acres or Lots
250 acres Troublesome Creek.Notes for Abel Boggs:
Raised in Lee Co., VA
On the Callahana Creek he was christened.
He was buried at Boggs Cemetery at Carrie, KY Knott Co.
Abel Boggs is on the 1843 & 1848 Tax list in Letcher Co., KY Cumberland River.Notes for Rebecca Maggard Boggs:
The following is an excerpt from interviews in the Dickey Diary:
Rebecca Maggard Boggs Combs, Hazard, KY, 4/26/1898, pp 2261-3; I was born in 1821 in Harlan Co., KY, on the Poor Fork. My father was Samuel Maggard. He was born in Rockbridge Co., PA. He was Dutch. My mother was Rebecca Robertson. They had 12 children to live to be grown. The children were; John, Susannah, married Henry Back, related to the Breathitt Backs. Mgt [sic] married Jesse Adams, Sarah married Samuel Caudill, Elizabeth a Creech. He was killed in the war. My father and mother were members of the Old Baptist Church, so were all my brothers and sisters. John was the father of Samuel, Rueben or Rudolph Maggard of Leslie Co. My parents died on the Poor Fork, six or eight miles from its source. My husband's name was Abel Boggs. He was raised on Callahan Creek, Lee Co., VA, a mile from the Powell's River. I was married to Mr. Boggs when I was 15 years old. We had 4 children, Jesse, who lives at Hazard; Silas, lives at Troublesome, a Baptist Preacher; Elizabeth (Huff), who lives on the head of the Ball in Knott Co.; Susannah, who married Wm. Amburgey and lives in Montgomery Co., KY. I married John S. Combs, Nov. 1875.
There is Able Boggs in the 1848 Tax List for Letcher Co., KY1850 Letcher Co., KY census HH # 208
Abel, 37, Farmer, Val. 400, VA
Rebecca, 39, KY
Jane, 17, KY
Elizabeth, 11, KY
Susanah, 9, KY
Silas, 5, KY
Nancy Mullins, 14, KY
The following is an excerpt from interviews in the "Dickey Diary":
Rebecca Maggard Boggs Combs, Hazard Co., KY 4-26-1898, pp 2261-3:
"I was born in 1821 in Harlan Co., Ky on the Poor Fork. My father was Samuel Maggard. He was born in Rockbridge, Co., Pa, He was Dutch (?). My mother was Rebecca Robertson. They had 12 children to live to be grown. The children were; John, Susannah, Henry, Rudolph, David, Mgt.[sic], Sarah, James, Moses, Samuel, Rebecca & Elizabeth.
Susannah married Henry Back, related to the Breathitt Backs.
Mgt.[sic] married Jesse Adams
Sarah married Samuel Caudill
Elizabeth married a Creech. He was killed in the war.
My father and mother were members of the old Baptist Church, so were my brothers & sisters.
John was the father of Samuel, Rueben or Rudolph Maggard of Leslie Co.
My parents died on the Poor Fork, six or eight miles from its source.
My husband's name was Abel Boggs. He was raised on the Callahoun Creek, Lee Co., VA, a mile from the Powell's River.
I was married to Mr. Boggs when I was 15 years old. We had 4 children.
Jesse, who lives at Hazard
Silas, lives at tombstone, a Baptist Preacher
Elizabeth (Huff), who lives on the head of Call in Knott Co.
Susannah, who married William Amburgey and lives in Montgomery Co., KY
I married John S. Combs, Nov 1875"Henry's mother Rebecca Maggard Boggs does not claim Henry as a son in this interview, did she forget Henry and Jane? Jane being the oldest child of Able and Rebecca, or was Henry dead at the time or did she for one reason or another disown Henry? Henry Boggs, age 22 is listed in the 1880 Perry Co., KY census with Polly Ann, wife and sons Samuel and Jesse, per Woodrow Boggs, grandson of Henry C. Boggs. Henry died abt 1881 when Samuel Marcus Boggs was only 3 or 4 years old. Supposedly had a general store in Hazard at the time of death. Boggs, was the name of the store.
Source: Paul Boggs
Silas was Baptized
Silas is listed on the 1843 Tax List in Letcher Co., KY, Cumberland River
also 1880 Census for Letcher CO., KY, Silas, Boggs, 63, VA,VA,KY
4 children:
Billy "Baptized"
Ira "Baptized"
Jesse "Baptized", Jesse died in OK
John Riley
Per V.N. Phillips:
Married by John Flanary
Polly was 2 days short of her 15th birthday
Some notes from Coming Down Cumberland
After the death of Panther Jim, Abby and son Elihu stayed on at the old home for about 2 yrs.
The late Abby Callahan of Rock Castle Co., KY and a daughter of Preacher Dave Maggard, once stayed with them for awhile, doing cooking and house work (Abby Callahan was named for her grandmother).
Elihu married in 1876. At that time the home was broken up, a sale being held to dispose of the property. After that Abby began to live around among the children. She seemed never to be happy again. It is possible she fell into the throes of involutional melancholia, with its resultant acute anxiety and depression. This may have been developing before her husband passed away. For it is said that when Panther Jim was away and left her alone and went into the mountains to hunt, she would become troubled and fearful. She would then send someone to bring him in saying that the love of Jimmy would drive the witch spells away. Most people in that area believed in witch spells, and she mistook her symptoms as being the oppression of neighborhood witches. It seems the passing of her husband and the breaking up of her home drove her deeper into gloom and despair.
The late Martha Maggard Sumpter-Back-Caudill Crase, remembered Henry coming for his mother, but the
mother did not want to go. Henry gently persuaded her, getting her bonnet and placing it on her head, and he took her to his home.
She was living with her son Henry when she hung herself from a beam with an old loom.
She was buried next to her husband in the Maggard Cemetery in Eolia, Letcher Co., KY
James Franklin (Panther Jim) Maggard
Picture of double headstone reads:
In Loving Memory
Maggard
They Have Left This Weeping World Below
James Abigail
Nov. 6, 1816 July 7, 1818
Oct. 11, 1874 Nov. 15, 1877
Safe In The Bosom Of Our SaviorSome notes from Coming Down Cumberland
James (called Jimmie) "Panther Jim" got this name by taking on a panther with a knife. That knife was forged by his brother John, an expert blacksmith, and had a two edged blade that was fourteen inches long.
Just a year or so before he got the knife he went hunting, with his younger brother Moses, far up Pine Mountain behind Maggard Cemetery. Near midnight the dogs treed a large panther and James raised his rifle and took careful aim at what he thought was a point just back of the panthers nose, but what he thought was a nose was a bend in the back leg. Injured, the panther sprang down for James and James threw the rifle to Moses for reloading, he then attacked the panther with a hatchet in one hand and a knife in the other and killed the panther before Moses could get the gun loaded.
Before Autumn harvest in 1836 he went bear hunting with the bear dogs, not long he got a shot at a huge bear but only injured it. The chase was on. Finally in the dark woods just above the valley Callahan Creek (near present Stonega, VA) Jimmy got a fatal shot. Jimmy knew he couldn't drag the bear back over Black Mountain and he had heard a girl calling a cow in the valley below and there was the smell of cornbread. He aimed to drag it down to the farmstead below, skin it out, give most of it to the family and save only a few choice pieces to carry back home the next day. As steep as the hill was he had no trouble sliding the bear downward. As it was it slid out right at the railed in milking lot. A tall girl was sitting on a 3 legged stool milking the family cow. That cow snorted a time or two, jumped sidewise, knocking the girl backward and the milk pail went sailing, pouring part of the contents over the downed girl. By then the cow had jumped the fence and bawling loudly was tearing down Callahan Creek, and the girl was soon up scolding the mountain hunter. Her father came due to the commotion. He calmed when he recognized one of the Maggard boys from over on Cumberland (his son Silas had already married Jimmy's niece). Old Eley (Eli) Boggs just called for his son Billy (who would later be the notorious "Devil Bill" Bill Boggs) to go see if he could catch the cow. Then he called his other sons to help with the "bear butcherin" and told Abigail (Abby) to go see if she couldn't hasten up supper a bit, this Maggard boy "wher hongry".
That is how my G-G-Grandfather met my G-G-Grandmother
During that winter, his father laid off a tract of land for his son. It included what was later the Dave Mullins farm and on up Cumberland to near the Maggard Cemetery. James (Jimmy) erected a small log house about where Shepherd's store (now Maggard's store) later stood. It's possible it was in the little bottom just below it. James and Abby were in that house for several years. Later he chose a new house site located further down Cumberland. Here he built another hewed log house situated up and down river. In the 1850's he added another hewed log house across the end of his older building. The front door of this portion faced down river.He became a member of the Oven Fork Regular Baptist Church at an early age, later he served as its clerk. Finally he began to preach and was ordained as a minister (Elder) on the first Sunday in September, 1868. His credentials were signed by Rev. Wiley Morris and Rev. Jim Dixon, both noted ministers of the area.
The summer of 1874 he could only occasionally rise from his bed to sit by his cabin. One day he saw a very tall figure riding slowly toward the cabin, it was unmistakenly "Long" David, then an old man, yet he had ridden all the way from Carter Co., KY to see his ailing brother.
October 11 that year "Panther" Jim was helped to his cane bottomed chair outside the cabin door. A little later he called for his Bible. His son, Elihu, took it to him. A little later, "Panther" Jim had leaned back against the cabin, his hands were folded over his Bible, and he was gone.
In those days when one died, they were simply buried. Then later a funeral meeting was called for them. It was not until next May that his funeral meeting was held. Long David once again rode from Carter Co., to attend the meeting. Later in the service Long David stood alone and sang a song which he had composed especially for his brothers service. It was Long David's last visit to Cumberland Valley, which he had come down when he was a 3 yr. old child.
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1850 Letcher Co., KY census,
James Maggard, m, 33, Val. 150, b. KY
Abigail Boggs Maggard, f, 32, b. VA (d/o Eli Boggs & Tabitha Pennington)
Sally, f, 12, KY
David, m, 10, KY
Henry, m, 8, KY
Mary, f, 5, KY
James, m, 5/12 months, KYDescendant online: Roxie G. Maggard-O'Hagan <topaz1946@gmail.com>
278. Francis Maggard
KY birth record
Name: Francis Maggard
Birth Date: 19 May 1859
Birth County: Cumberland
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Father's name: James Maggard
Mother's name: Abigal Boggs----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cause of Death: Cold-from wading the Cumberland River
59. William (Devil Bill) Boggs
Source: Russell Co. Death Registry: 1853
If this is the right connection, he died of Measles & FluxSource: Paul Boggs
William Randal Boggs is listed on the 1843 Tax List of Letcher Co., KY, Cumberland River.
William is also known as "Devil Bill", he was thought to be a witch by the local mountain folk. they believed he could bewitch dogs, guns, deer and other animals. His "formula" for becoming a witch was to go to a certain mountain, shoot toward the sun, curse God, bless the devil, whereupon the ground would begin to tremble and thunder could be heard. If one could stand his ground until the trembling ceased, he would then have the power of a witch.Received from Beverly Hall McDonald
An abstract of the Russell Co., VA death registry, which Paul Boggs received, records William Boggs death as July 18, 1853, not 1854, as his records have reflected for many years. Cause of death: Flux and measles.
Following notes - Charles Strong
Rebecca is the common link between the Boggs and Mullins families who lived on Bold Camp, primarily on the right fork or Mullins Fork, as it is called. After her first husband, William H. Boggs, Sr., died, she
married Wilson Mullins, son of David and Virginia Jane Short Mullins.
Wilson Mullins first married Rebecca Maggard, daughter of David and Susan Harrison Maggard of Letcher County, Kentucky. After her death, he married Rebecca Shepherd Boggs, daughter of William and Servilla Amburgey Shepherd, and the widow of William H. Boggs, Sr.
Lester "Big Oop" Boggs believed the first Boggs settlers on the right fork of Bold Camp were the children of Rebecca Shepherd Boggs.
Wilson Mullins first lived on the head of the Cumberland River in Letcher County, Kentucky, just across the state line from Flat Gap, in Wise County, Virginia. His marriages to Rebecca Maggard and Rebecca
Shepherd were performed in Letcher County, Kentucky.
Wilson and Rebecca Shepherd Boggs Mullins were married on February 1, 1855 and shortly moved to Bold Camp with their new family of eight children, composed of Rebecca's three surviving children (Silas, John A.and William H. Boggs, Jr.) and Wilson's five (Nancy, David "Tikki Dave," Elizabeth, William and John Mullins). [IT:Their :IT] first child, Andrew Jackson "Little Andy" Mullins, who became a well-known Old Regular Baptist preacher, was born on Bold Camp on 9 December 1855, followed by Mahala, Sevilla, Basil B., Riley, Lucinda E., Eli, Levi, and Rebecca J. Mullins. Wilson embraced Rebecca's children with love and affection and raised them as his own. Polly Boggs died young and her three surviving siblings remained on Mullins Fork of Bold camp, grew to adulthood, married, raised their families and died there.
An additional Boggs-Mullins connection was the marriage of Rebecca Agnes Mullins, sister of Wilson Mullins, to Silas Boggs, the son of William H. and Rebecca Shepherd Boggs and step-son of Wilson.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Following notes - Paul Boggs
Rebecca m. Wilson Mullins, and their son, Riley Mullins, donated the land for the Riley Mullins Cemetery located on the Right Fork (Mullins Fork) of Bold Camp Creek, near Pound, Wise Co., VA. Many connected Boggs, Mullins, Short, Hollyfield and Brummett cousins are buried in the well-maintained Riley Mullins Cemetery. Jack Brummett, Austin, TX
283. Abel Boggs
Source from Russell Co. Death Register: 1853
CNDIR0search-cgl 1.20.06 (File: dea53-61.txt) contributed by Renae Barrett Schneider.
If this is the right connection, this child died at the age of 1 mo. 21 days of Hives
60. John Boggs
Source: Paul Boggs
Paul is showing the following:
John Boggs (Eli, James L., John) born 1825 in Lee Co., VA, baptized. He married in 1846, Tabitha Dixon, born 1830 in KY, d/o Alexander and Eliza (Creech) Dixon.
Notes for John Boggs:
1870 Harlan Co., KY census list John as 45 and Tabitha as 40 with 7 children. All information comes by way of Elva, Kiezza@aol.com, Silas Boggs is her g-grandfather. There is also a John Boggs and Tabitha in the Letcher Co., KY 1860 census,
Boggs, John, 34, VA
Tabitha, 28, KY
Isaac, 12, VA
Rebecca, 9, VA
Martha J., 6, VA
Mary, 4, VA
Sarah, 2, VA
Children of John Boggs and Tabitha Dixon were as follows:
Martha, b. 1854, KY, baptized
Mary, b. 1856, KY, baptized
Sarah, b. 1859, KY baptized
Nancy, b. 1860, KY baptized
Easter, b. 1863, KY baptized
Silas
John, b. 1866, KY baptized, buried 1884My thoughts: (Roxan) These Tabitha's and the children's ages are so close, one and the same?
Source: Paul Boggs
1870 Harlan Co., KY, census list John as 45 and Tabitha as 40 with 7 children. All information comes by way of Elva, Kiezza@aol.com
Silas Boggs is her G-Grandfather.
287. Polly Boggs
http://freepages.college-alumni.rootsweb.com/~kyborn/d185c.htm (Death Certificate)
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KY death index
Name: Polly Turner
Death Date: 13 Apr 1943
Death Place: Harlan
Age: 093
RESIDENCE: Harlan
Volume: 18
Certificate: 8533
http://freepages.college-alumni.rootsweb.com/~kyborn/d185c.htm
296. John Boggs
KY death record
#4343
Widowed
Name: John Boggs
Death Date: 28 Feb 1943
Death Location: Letcher
Residence Location: Letcher
Age: 81
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 1862
Birth Location: Virginia
Spouse's Name: Lucretia Boggs
Father's Name: Elihu Boggs
Father's Birth Location: Virginia
Mother's Name: Polly Bowling
Mother's Birth Location: Virginia
63. Elisha Boggs
Source: Paul Boggs
1860 Letcher Co., Ky census:
Boggs, Elitia, 27, VA
Sarah, 29, TN
William, 5, KY
John, 3, KY
Clarinda, 2, KY1880 Letcher Co., KY census
Boggs, Elisha, 49, VA, NC, VA, farmer
Sarah, 50, NC, NC, NC
John, 23, KY, VA, NC, farm laborer
Clarinda, 21, KY, VA, NC
Mary E., 19, KY, VA, NC
Hiram, 17, KY, VA, NC
Rebecca, 13, KY, VA, NC
Jane E., 10, KY, VA, NC
Nancy, 7, KY, VA, NC
Andrew, 14, KY, VA, VA, NephewSource: Paul Boggs
1860 Letcher Co., KY census:
Boggs, Elijah, 29, VA
Juda, 19, VA
Frank, 7/12, VA
1880 Letcher Co., KY census:
Boggs, Elijah, 50, VA
Judah, 40, VA
Henry, 17, KY, VA
Elisha, 14, KY, VA
Nancy, 11, KY, VA
William F., 9, KY, VA
Aaron C., 6, KY, VA
Nelson, 3, KY, VA
Resina S., 1, KY, VA
Johnson, Caroline, 23, VA, servant
Note from V.N. Phillips
Wilson was a cripple, but in spite of his condition, lived a useful life.
V.N. recalls seeing him many years ago, as he wrote the minutes of a meeting at the Ovenfork Regular Baptist Church, of which he was clerk.
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KY death index
Name: Wilson C Mullins
Death Date: 15 Feb 1954
Death Place: Letcher
Age: 82
Residence: Letcher
Volume: 11
Certificate: 5435