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Descendants of James Boggs


11. WILLIAM3 BOGGS (ROBERT2, JAMES1, ANDREWA, ALEXANDERB, WILLIAMC, JAMESD) was born April 24, 1813 in Evansburg, Butler Co., PA, and died August 24, 1876 in New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA. He married (1) CYNTHIA MCDONALD Abt. 1838 in Butler, Pennsylvania. She was born 1814 in Harmony, PA, and died Abt. 1859. He married (2) MARY ELIZABETH LOPEMAN Abt. 1865 in New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA, daughter of ALFRED LOPEMAN and SARAH STIVESON. She was born January 31, 1835 in Kittanning, Armstrong Co., PA, and died February 19, 1920 in New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA.

Notes for W
ILLIAM BOGGS:
WILLIAM BOGGS, born Butler County 24 April 1813. Died 24 August 1876 in Beaver County at 7:00AM. He is buried in the Evans City Cemetery, Butler County. Tombstone gives his age as 63. William served as a Private in Company D, 40th Regiment, 11th Penn. Inf. volunteers from 5 July 1861 to 3 June 1864. His first wife, Cynthia McDonald had probably died about 1859. He married Mary Elizabeth Lopeman Welsh, after the war. Civil War discharge says he was 43 years old in 1864. Dates in census records are difficult to read. Everyone researching this person is confused as to birth year. In 1850, 1860 Census.

Tombstone says age 68 or 63 years and 4 months.

The Beaver County Centennial Directory of 1876 lists William Boggs as a plasterer and a resident of New Brighton. The 1894-95 New Brighton, PA city directory shows Mary E. Boggs (wid Wm M), res 613 6th.

See will of Robert Boggs, Sr. in his notes.

Notes for C
YNTHIA MCDONALD:
She died giving birth to twins.


Notes for M
ARY ELIZABETH LOPEMAN:
MARY ELIZABETH LOPEMAN (BOGGS), born in Kitanning, Armstrong County January 31, 1835. Died Beaver County February 19, 1920. Buried in Evans City Cemetery, Butler County. Mary E. Lopeman was the widow of John Welsh. In the 1900 census of Beaver Co. PA, Mary E. Boggs had a boarder named Isaac N. Jones and his daughter Vesta M. (born Apr 1881). Vesta later married a man named Retzer. Isaac Jones was Mary's son-in-law (had married her daughter Ada Welsh) and Vesta was her granddaughter. Vesta was the mother of Ruth Blackman with whom Mary Howe was living at the time of her death in San Angelo, Texas. Mary E. was called "Grandmother Brighton". Mary and her family attended the Boggs reunion in August of 1900. The family included all but Alonzo (Lon), who had moved to Mercer Co., PA by that time, and Roy Sylvester. Nettie Thompson and Bertha Howe, their spouses and children were there with Mary.

Mary E. Boggs moved her church membership to Plains Presb. on April 30, 1865 from Central Presb. in Allegheny City.

Information for her death certificate was given by Richard Chase Howe, her son-in-law. He gave her mother's name as Mary rather than Sarah. At death her body was placed in a vault in Beaver Cemetery and moved to Evans City two days later where she is buried. Lon, her oldest son, went from Taylor Co., TX to attend her funeral.

E-mail from Judy Davison (June 15, 2001), who is a Welsh descendant: Deposition of Mary E. Boggs, stepmother of John Milton Welsh (1912). "My age is 77 years; occupation, none; address, No. 355 East Second St., Beaver, Beaver Co., PA.

Milton Welsh was just a growing boy when I first knew him. I was married when 20 years of age to his father John L. Welsh. His father had been previously married and Milton was his only son. I don't know whether his name was John Milton or just Milton; he was never called anything but Milton. Mrs. Annie Conway is the only daughter living.

I lived with John L. Welsh until his death. I was his widow between 7 and 8 years and my eldest child by my next husband must be 45 years of age. Milton Welsh lived with me a part of the time when he was young. He had not been long away from me when he enlisted, being mustered in at Kittanning when just a young boy...When Milton Welsh separated from his wife Lana he soon went to Pittsburgh. I was then living in Evans City with my husband William Boggs. I moved to New Brighton, Beaver County, PA, and Milton Welsh visited me once there. I did not see much of him after that. I can not remember that I have seen him since I was a widow of William Boggs who died in 1877.

Once I visited in Philadelphia my son-in-law, I.N. Jones, and I was in correspondence with Milton Welsh in New York and I was going then to see him there but the cholera broke out and I did not go. I cannot fix that year unless my son-in-law can. In some way I learned Milton Welsh was dead. I don't know how I learned that unless it came through my son-in-law Mr. Jones. I never saw the wife Milton Welsh left when he died."

Deposition of I.N. Jones, husband to half-sister of John Milton Welsh: "My age is 62 years, occupation, proofreader and formerly printer, address No. 214 Dinwiddie St., Pittsburgh, PA.

I married a half sister of Milton Welsh in 1880. My wife died January 13, 1886. Previous to my marriage I was a printer in Pittsburgh and knew Milton Welsh there where he was a printer and working at his trade. There was a strike of the printers in Pittsburgh in 1873 and Milton Welsh went out on that strike and left Pittsburgh during or immediately after the strike was over. I never saw him since. There was no bond of affection between Milton Welsh and my wife, they had the same father but not the same mother...I was in Pittsburgh until 1876 and in Philadelphia until the fall of 1879, and after the death of my wife or in 1887 I was back again in Philadelphia. I can be sure that I never heard of Milton Welsh being in Pittsburgh after 1873 as already stated. Mrs. Mary Boggs, my wife's mother, visited me several times in Philadelphia after my wife died and recollect of writing a letter for my mother-in-law to Milton Welsh in New York asking him to come and see her but he replied that he could not come, and gave a good excuse, I cannot recall that it was on account of cholera as my mother-in-law states.

After Milton Welsh died I saw in the "Typographical Journal", a monthly paper, a notice of his death and told my mother-in-law, Mrs. Boggs, and I also wrote to his sister, Mrs. Annie Conway, and she replied but appeared to have heard of his death in some other way before. I never saw Milton Welsh in New York. I am the only son-in-law of Mrs. Boggs who was a printer."


     
Children of W
ILLIAM BOGGS and CYNTHIA MCDONALD are:
  i.   AMANDA4 BOGGS, b. 1840, Butler Co., PA; m. WILLIAM MADISON WHITE.
  Notes for AMANDA BOGGS:
They lived in Prospect, PA Aunt Margaret Blayney described the home of Amanda Boggs White: Their house was the big gray brick on the corner; the orchard faced the garden which was fenced in; a big pump with a big handle, a summer kitchen with everything needed, a barn with a hay mow; a barouche as they were called, like an enclosed carriage with active up or down windows; and a buggy; and a nice horse that Aunt Amanda could drive. Then a stable for the horse, and a coal-house, all in a row under one big roof. "Sweet apple" trees, and one of the old-time octagonal summer houses with grapevines twining. Aunt Amanda used to take us riding in the barouche. I was eight years old when she died. Lizzie Crowe was her daughter.



  Notes for WILLIAM MADISON WHITE:
Some have married to James Madison White.

  ii.   EMELINE G. BOGGS, b. 1842, Butler Co., PA; d. June 27, 1882, Butler Co., PA; m. SAMUEL YOUNG, Abt. 1861, Butler Co., PA; b. December 29, 1821, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA; d. March 27, 1891, Zelienople, Butler County, PA.
  Notes for EMELINE G. BOGGS:
Moved to Zelienople and founded "The Valley News".


  Notes for SAMUEL YOUNG:
Was a colomel. They lived in Zelienople, PA. He wrote a book about his life that was published in 1890 in Pittsburgh. The entire book can be found on the University of Pittsburgh website. He was editor of the Connoquenessing Valley News.


  iii.   DETMAR PASSAVANT BOGGS, b. January 15, 1844, Evans City, Butler Co., PA; d. October 29, 1906, Harmony, Butler Co., PA; m. SARAH HOFFMAN MILLER, June 23, 1868, Butler County, PA; b. May 13, 1847, Harmony, Butler County, PA; d. January 1920, Harmony, Butler County, PA.
  Notes for DETMAR PASSAVANT BOGGS:
Detmar married Sarah Miller on 28 June 1868. Stephen Kerr of Seattle, WA is a descendant of this marriage. See correspondence. Old family history, sent by Stephen Kerr, says that Detmar had a twin, Robert, who died at birth. Died of tuberculosis age 61. At the 1912 reunion Detmar hired a German tenor to sing. He sent Detmar a bill addressed to "dead box" (Det Boggs). Detmar went along with his older brothers to enlist in the army at the beginning of the Civil War. He was only 17, could not go in as a regular soldier but was allowed to go in as a musician. He had his fife and drum with him. National Archives list him as a musician. Daughter Margaret Blayney: Remember how Father would get a sure enough bob-sled and we all went to Uncle Campbell's to spend the day. Uncle Campbell had ditches near his house, filled with apples, etc. buried and covered with straw, then refilled by ground and dug out as needed. Father used to sing a hymn that was in the Presbyterian hymnal, "My Ain Countree"--Scots. I remember all the verses and, like he, loved it. When the new hymnal was issued it was omitted for some that are not so good. Father had a beautiful tenor voice, and could play hymns on the organ or piano. Sunday afternoon this Scotch one was a favorite. Was a wagon maker in Harmoy, PA
D.P. Boggs is listed in the History of Butler County as serving as an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Zelienople.

From the History of Butler County: Detmar Basse was a cultured and scholarly German who selected this area to establish his BASSENHEIM      and found a town. His daughter, Zelie, married P.L. Passavant. The town of Zelienople was named for her. It was probably because of William's admiration for the Basse and Passavant families that he named his son Detmar Passavant. He is listed as a member of Harmony Union, # 875, E.A.U. at its founding December 4, 1891.

Detmar P. Boggs served as musician in the 78th Regiment, Co. E from Feb. 21, 1865 to Sept. 11, 1865. His captain was Robert Irwin Boggs.

  Notes for SARAH HOFFMAN MILLER:
We had the death for Sara Jan. 1918 and changing to Debbie Reyes's 1920.

  iv.   SYLVESTER BOGGS, b. 1846, Butler Co., PA.
  Notes for SYLVESTER BOGGS:
Was Sylvester's name also Daniel?

  v.   NANCY BOGGS, b. 1848.
  vi.   JOHN BOGGS, b. Abt. 1850, Butler Co., PA; d. Abt. 1880; m. SARAH OTTO.
  Notes for JOHN BOGGS:
John married Sadie Otto. St. Kerr (info.)


  Notes for SARAH OTTO:
Brother Frank Otto lived in Harmony, PA.


     
Children of WILLIAM BOGGS and MARY LOPEMAN are:
  vii.   ALONZO DEBONNEVILLE4 BOGGS, b. March 14, 1867, Evans City, Butler Co., PA; d. September 21, 1926, Abilene, Taylor Co., TX; m. (1) AGNES, Abt. 1886, Pennsylvania; b. Abt. 1857, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1887; m. (2) FANNIE E. FLYNN, 1900; b. February 16, 1875, Bath, Steuben Co., NY; d. September 16, 1962, Lawton, Comanche, OK; m. (3) CLARA BELLE HORTON, October 23, 1921, Trent, Taylor Co., TX; b. February 04, 1894, Thomasville, Clarke Co., AL; d. January 30, 1984, Abilene, Taylor Co., TX.
  Notes for ALONZO DEBONNEVILLE BOGGS:
The 1900 census gives his birthyear as 1866, his age as 34. Family story tells how little Lon was taught by his mother to sew at an early age. When his father died in 1876 he was about ten years old. His mother took in sewing from a local tailor and taught him the trade. He was married in PA at about age 19 to a woman named Agnes. They had a daughter named Ada (married Bill Brown). See notes for Ada P. Boggs.

The 1885 New Brighton, PA city directory, Alonzo Boggs, tailor, res 311 E. Market. (18 years old, with mother.) The 1894-95 New Brighton, PA city directory shows L D Boggs, tailor, 914 Third Ave., res. 533 Eleventh Ave.

Soundex 1900 shows Alonzo D. Boggs, vol. 135, E.D. 162, sheet 1, line 34. Was born March 1866, age 34, born PA. Address is 8 1/2 S. Water St., Sharon, Mercer Co., PA Wife Fannie Boggs, b. Feb 1876, age 24, b. NY. Living in the same household was Maude Moore, servant, born Sep 1882, age 17, b. PA. Also Mary Parker, head, age 70, b. 1830, NY. Stella Redmond, age 18, b. PA, parents b. Ireland. Mary Parker may have been Fannie's grandmother. (Census 1900, Mercer Co., PA)

Lon Boggs married Fannie E. Flynn in January 1900. They are found in the 1900 census of Mercer County, town of Sharon, PA. He is listed as a merchant/tailor. They were living in Lawton, Oklahoma Territory in 1901. Comanche County deeds register shows that Alonzo D. Boggs bought a lot in the original townsite of Lawton on 20 April 1906 for $800.00. In 1921 he deeded this property to Fannie as part of a divorce settlement filed in Taylor Co., TX by Dallas Scarborough, attorney.
Other Boggses who purchased in Comanche Co., OK are Amelia, Willard E., Orin, and A.J. (Amelia) Boggs, Lynn Boggs (male), and Frances Boggs (female). Orin Boggs was a son of Daniel C. Boggs and grandson of Robert Boggs, Sr. We have not yet identified Willard, Lynn or Frances.

A.D. Boggs was a member of Lawton, Oklahoma Masonic Lodge # 183. He was initiated an Entered Apprentice Dec. 19, 1904, passed to Fellowcraft Jan. 23, 1905 and raised to a Master Mason on Feb. 2, 1905. Was Junior Steward of the Lodge in 1907. His York Rite data shows he was 5 ft 5 1/2 in. Color eyes Gray, color hair dark. Declared proficient in Master's degree 1/16/1906; received his chapter degrees on 1/17/1906 and council degrees on 1/18/1906. He became a Scottish Rite Mason in Jan. 18, 1906. He was suspended from Lawton lodge 1/19/1925 SNPD (non-payment of dues), which was about the time he became ill. Passed away in Sept. 1926. Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Abilene, Texas.

Baptized 25th of June 1881, New Brighton, PA Presbyterian Church. He made a down payment on some land in Florida in 1914, but apparently never finished paying for it. He left Lawton in 1918 and moved to Merkel, Texas. Was an oil driller in Jones, Taylor and Callahan Counties. Worked for a tailoring business in Abilene, later had his own shop, the Abilene Pleating Company. The 1910 Comanche Co. OK census says his marriage to Fannie Flynn was his first. He was a tailor, working on his own. They lived in a rented house, probably a boarding house, as there were several other unrelated people living there.

Obits show he died at 11:50AM Tuesday (Sept. 21, 1926). Funeral directed by Laughter Undertaking Co. Cost: $376.35.      He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Abilene, TX.

  Notes for AGNES:
Agnes, the first wife of A.D. Boggs, probably died in childbirth. It is likely she died in childbirth or soon after. See notes on her daughter Ada P. Agnes was possibly a Sackett.



  Notes for FANNIE E. FLYNN:
Fannie Flynn was the second wife of A.D. Boggs. She moved to Lawton, OK in 1901. Was a member of the Eastern Star Chapter 82 in Lawton, was secretary of the chapter for 25 years, ran a kindergarten for many years. Also a member of the Pioneer Club. Was a Presbyterian. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage due to nephritis and arteriosclerosis. Her obituary in the Lawton newspaper lists to following survivors: a niece, Mrs. Bernice Keys; two great-great nephews, Curtis Prince and Larry Keys, and a great-great niece, Sherry Prince, all of No. 3 S. Third.

When Fannie and Lon Boggs moved to Lawton, Oklahoma Territory in 1901, she began buying property, as did other members of her family, the Flynns, and also some Boggses. Her purchases were a lot in the town of Hastings, Comanche Co. on 3 May 1902, a lot in the town of Elgin on 3 June 1903 from C.P. Flynn and wife Bessie M. Flynn, four lots in the town of Elgin (also known as Cee Gee) on 3 May 1903. She and Lon together sold those four lots in Elgin to Bessie Flynn on 26 January 1906. Together they sold a lot in Elgin on 16 December 1907. Other land transactions involving Fannie were a purchase of a lot in Lawton in 1909.

History of Comanche County says the Order of the Eastern Star was Osa Chapter # 514.

  Notes for CLARA BELLE HORTON:
The Hugh Robert Horton family moved from Clarke County, Alabama to Navarro County, Texas in 1908. They lived near a village called Cryer Creek. In 1914 they moved out west to Jones County, north of Merkel in an area called Noodle Dome. In 1913, before the move west, Clara served for a time as a matron at an orphanage in Shreveport, Louisiana. We know nothing about the orphanage, but we have a picture of her with some of the orphans. After moving to Merkel, she worked for several years as a telephone operator. During this time she had the distinction of announcing over the phone lines the entry of the United States into World War I and also the end of WWI in November 1918.
A.D. (Lon) Boggs moved into Taylor County in 1918 and leased land for oil drilling. She met him when he would come to the telephone office to make long distance calls. They married in October 1921. He had property on Grape Street in Abilene and they lived there after their marriage. Mr. Boggs died in September of 1926, leaving her a widow with three tiny children under four years old. She tried to keep the Abilene Pleating Company in business, but it was impossible.
In 1931, Mr. J.T. Ball, a rancher in Nolan County, left food for the family, began coming to see her, and eventually persuaded her to marry him and move out to the ranch near Divide. In February 1932, a little boy was born to them, J.T. Ball. Mr. Ball died in January 1937.
After Mr. Ball's death, moved back to Abilene on 2740 Grape, later changed to 2874 Grape, built new home. Mother later sold this place and moved to 1334 Lillius, sold there and moved to Abilene Towers, which was known first as the Wooten Hotel, from there to Abilene North Manor. While there Mother had congestive heart failure, then later fell and broke her hip. Several years later she had cataract surgery. Martha and I, "Lonnie" went over to visit her, which we did very often, she was sitting in her chair in the sunlight with a banana, she was picking the little black things out. She said, "Lonnie, what are all these pesky black things in this banana? They have never been there before". Mom's favorite saying when you explained something to her was, "Well, garden seed." She was a great MOM.



  viii.   ANNETTA BELLE BOGGS, b. January 04, 1870, New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA; d. February 06, 1946, Michigan; m. ALONZO THOMPSON, September 03, 1887; b. October 24, 1866, PA; d. December 28, 1953.
  Notes for ANNETTA BELLE BOGGS:
Nettie Belle Boggs married Alonzo Thompson. Their daughter was Helen who married George Leaphart. She died in Florida in 1985. The 1885 New Brighton, PA city directory, Nettie B Boggs, saleslady, C. Hanauer, res cor. Fourth and Market.

  ix.   BERTHA BLANCHE BOGGS, b. March 14, 1871, New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA; d. April 30, 1954, New York City, NY; m. RICHARD CHASE HOWE, June 11, 1891, Beaver Co., PA; b. May 30, 1868, Beaver Falls, Beaver, PA; d. November 20, 1956, San Angelo, Tom Greene Co., TX.
  Notes for BERTHA BLANCHE BOGGS:
Aunt Bert married Richard Chase Howe. Their daughter Mary was a concert pianist and teacher in New York City for many years. She lived her last years with a relative, Ruth Blackman, in San Angelo, Texas, and was residing there when she died about 1975.
The 1885 New Brighton, PA city directory, Bertha B. Boggs, res 311 E. Market. (18 years old with mother.)

  Notes for RICHARD CHASE HOWE:
In 1900 the Howes lived next door to Mary E. Boggs in New Brighton. Uncle Chase was listed in the census as a bricklayer. He is in the 1890 Pittsburgh city directory listed as a brick layer. Address was 116 Colwell, Pittsburgh. In 1920 they lived on East 2nd St. in Beaver Borough, Beaver Co. Mary E., age 84, lived with them.


  x.   ROY SYLVESTER BOGGS, b. January 1876, New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA; d. December 1948, Geneva, Ashtabula Co., OH; m. LYDA JANE MCLEAN, Ohio; b. November 06, 1872, Geneva, Ashtabula Co., OH; d. December 29, 1953, Geneva, Ashtabula Co., OH.
  Notes for ROY SYLVESTER BOGGS:
Roy married Lyda Jane McLean. They had no children. They were living in Geneva Village, Ashtabula Co., Ohio in 1900. No record of when they first lived there. The 1894-95 New Brighton, PA city directory shows Roy S Boggs, wks Hollow Ware Works, res 1509 2nd.



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