A big thank you to Les & Joy Blevins for there donation of $20.00 to the Hugh and Hannah headstone fund. Les & Joy are the first to donate. Several have sent email telling me that they would be donating and thanks to all of them. Thanks again Les and Joy. Cousin Dave Church Researching: Church/Boggs/Blevins/Kidd/Lovely Please consider a donation to the Hugh and Hannah Boggs Headstone fund. Thanks

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Seeking parent info. on Esther 'Hetty' Boggs born 1807 Ross Co., Ohio. Married Boston Taylor in 1828 in Ohio. Raised a large family in Ohio/Iowa. Would sure like to hear from some of the Boggs family. Thanks for checking your records. Z

Here are some quotes from "Ohio County: Its Genesis and History and Genealogical Notes - Pioneers of West Virginia" This was supplied to Lemuel S. Boggs by "Cousin Ellen Caldwell." "Col. Ebenezer Zane, according to the records, settled in 1772 on four hundred acres on the hills of Glenn's run, but finally chose for his home and lands from Tenth Street to Wheeling Creek, where Wheeling now stands, and the island opposite. Jonathon Zane became a famous Indian scout, and lived with his brother Ebenezer Zane. Silas Zane first located on the "Waddington Farm," and then commenced improvements on Wheeling Creek, which he afterwards sold to Col. David Shepherd, whose son, Col. Moses Shepherd, married Lydia Boggs, who, at the death of her first husband, married Col. Cruger and built the famous "Cruger mansion," now owned by Major Alonzo Loring....[Note the difference in spelling of the Shepherds. --RSP] On the south side of Wheeling came many settlers. Among the first was Charles Swan, who, in 1769, settled on 400 acres on Fish Creek. In 1771 William McMechen settled on his 400 acres lying between Boggs' run and the Narrows. In 1772 James Caldwell settled between Wheeling creek and Caldwell's run on his 400 acres. In 1773 William Boggs settled on 400 acres lying between Caldwells' run and Boggs' run.... There isalso a fair amount in this document about the McMechens (and note the difference in spelling from what I have previously posted). This could be of interest because McMechen men married Boggs women and Boggs men married McMechen women. In West Virginia there is still a small-ish town listed of McMechen, which makes me think this is the correct spelling, not McMicken and not McMeckan, both of which I have. There are also some references to Benjamin Biggs, which I suppose could be a typo for Boggs. The piece, quite lengthy, also has any number of purple prose passages about the beauty of the area, the slaughter of Chief Logan's family (Logan of the Logan Elm) and Indian troubles of all sorts. R. Scott Perry

The attachment you sent was terrific! I had none of those descendants. Still reading it and finding it interesting and well written. Thanks! Pat

Not Lorenzo Dow Boggs-the preacher was Lorenzo Dow. Many people named a son Lorenzo Dow then their last name in his honor just like a lot of people named sons George Washington ________ or Isaac Newton ______. -----Original Message----- From: Dave and Linda Church <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [BOGGS-L] Dow Boggs >You folks are really messing me up now. I had never heard of Lorenza Dow >Boggs being a preacher. I think the preacher in the family was his brother >Clemet "Preacher Clem" Boggs. Vergil Patterson in his book does a good job >on both men. > >Cousin Dave Church >Researching: Church/Boggs/Blevins/Kidd/Lovely >Please consider a donation to the Hugh and >Hannah Boggs Headstone fund. Thanks > > >==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== >Search the BOGGS archives! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >

You folks are really messing me up now. I had never heard of Lorenza Dow Boggs being a preacher. I think the preacher in the family was his brother Clemet "Preacher Clem" Boggs. Vergil Patterson in his book does a good job on both men. Cousin Dave Church Researching: Church/Boggs/Blevins/Kidd/Lovely Please consider a donation to the Hugh and Hannah Boggs Headstone fund. Thanks

Which name? Boggs or Dow? Dow is probably after Lorenzo Dow, famous traveling preacher. -----Original Message----- From: Susan Clay <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [BOGGS-L] Dow Boggs >I would also like to know the origin of this name. > >Susan > > >==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== >Remember to enter the name (date and place, if known) in the subject line of your message so our BOGGS archives will be easier to search! > >

In response to the Pennington Gap query-who and what time period? -----Original Message----- From: Edward Boggs <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 12:29 AM Subject: [BOGGS-L] Boggs-Pennington Gap Any Boggs out there with Pennington Gap ties? thanxx-egb ==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== Help maintain free access to genealogical information on the Internet in 1999 by supporting Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html/

Any Boggs out there with Pennington Gap ties? thanxx-egb

Hi! I have been subscribing to the list for quite some time and have never seen anyone else looking for BOGGSs in Lewis Co. KY... My ggg grandfather was Joseph BOGGS, born in Lewis Co. in abt. 1818. He married Rachel MEANS in 1844. They were on the 1850 census of Lewis Co. in Dist. 2, also on the 1860 census, and on the 1880 census, Rachel appears, widowed, living with her daughter, in Tollesboro. Their son, George Robert BOGGS was living in Esculapia at the time of the 1880 census. Does any BOGGS researcher know of this branch of the BOGGS families? Thanks, Pam Clark

Can anyone tell me how the name of LORENZO DOW became popular? I have this first & middle names together in 3 different lines. Thanks, Rolayne ---------- > From: Jack Brummett <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BOGGS-L] Dow Boggs > Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:08 PM > > Dr. Cratis Williams wrote the following about Dow Boggs. > > "Dow was a farmer and well digger. His mind became affected after a fever. > As an old man he believed he was President of the United States. His > relations and acquaintenances helped him to sustain the illusion. He died > in the Lawrence County Poor House, believing he was in the White House, and > is buried on the County Poor Farm. > > Jack Brummett, Austin, TX > > > ==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== > Help maintain free access to genealogical information on the Internet in 1999 by supporting Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html/

I would also like to know the origin of this name. Susan

Dr. Cratis Williams wrote the following about Dow Boggs. "Dow was a farmer and well digger. His mind became affected after a fever. As an old man he believed he was President of the United States. His relations and acquaintenances helped him to sustain the illusion. He died in the Lawrence County Poor House, believing he was in the White House, and is buried on the County Poor Farm. Jack Brummett, Austin, TX

My apologies for misstating Lydia Boggs husbands name. in the following which I recently posted. The Berkeley Co WV histories gives it correctly as Moses son of David Shephard. Also in the past I posted to Boggs-L information about Lydia from a Berkeley Co History book. <<Is the first John Boggs in you current posting the son of William Boggs of Frederick Co VA now Berkeley Co VA and the father of Lydia Boggs who married David Shephard. I have in the past sent to the list information in Berkeley Co VA history books about her.>> I am descended from the Charles Francis Boggs of Greenbrier Vo VA. I am interested in knowing if there is any connection with this Berkeley County William Boggs and the Boggs families that are in Greenbrier Co VA pre 1800. The following might be of interest: Research by Howard Butts and printed in"The Berkeley Journal", Issue 23, 1997 by the Berkekey County Hist Soc. "On 2 April 1753 William Boggs acquired a tract of land 275 acres. The land had been surveyed on 5 March 1749 by John Mauzy and showed a barn on the land(see survey plat). The present house is in the Federal style and was built by William Boggs, Jr. about 1790. William Boggs, Sr. left a will written 8 December 1786 and probated 15 February 1791 (BCWB 2, p. 92 In his will he left his plantation, which also contained as adjoining land grant from Lord Fairfax for 243 acres on 6 October 1766, to his son William Boggs "whereon he now live containing 500 acres." To his son John Boggs 20 pounds to be paid when William sells the plantation. Son John Boggs was a Captain in the French and Indiana Wars and had left Berkeley County and moved to what became the Wheeling area of present West Virginia. John Boggs was a friend of David Shephard, son of Thomas, founder of Shephardstown. Both took up land claims on the Ohio River. Capt. John Boggs daughter, Lydia born 26 February 1766, who became well known for her fight to help establish the Nationa Road. She married Moses Shephard, son of David, of the Wheeling area and inherited the Shephard plantation for her lifetime. The story is, that many were upset because she lived to be 102 years of age. She died 29 September 1867. She was 3 years old when her father Captain John Boggs, left Berkeley County. An excellant book was written about the life of Lydia Boggs by Virginia Jones Harper, titled Time Steals Away Softly. William Boggs Jr., left a will written 2 August 1826, probated 11 July 1832. To his wife Sarah he gave one-third of both of his real estate and personal estate during her lifetime, then to his daughter Elizabeth Boggs and Jane Boggs to be equally divided. To his son John Boggs $20. Rest of his estate went to his two daughters (BCWB 12, p. 72) Elizabeth Boggs died leaving her one-half interest to her brother John Boggs and sister Jane Boggs, who had married on 22 January 1839. Thomas Harper. John Boggs and his wife Maria sold for $2,000 the interest they had inherited from the death of his sister to his brother in law, Thomas C. Harper (BCDR 49, p., 309). In 1859 Thomas C. Harper and his wife Jane gave a deed of Trust on the land which contained 306 acres to James Jennings for the use of Jane Harper. Thomas C. Harper died in 1884 To his niece Theresa A. Boggs he left my upper Farm. If I have not sold the lower farm whereon I now reside (BCWB 23, p., 210) " There is no further mention of Boggs in the article. Other surnames are Hedges, Musetter, Stone, Laing, Kinhead, Kelly. A Special Commissioner sale in 1978.....in 1997 the owners were Daniel T. Goggin and Mary M. and Richard W, Dodge. Included in the article are a ca 1975 photo of the William Boggs house and the survey for 275 acres by Mauzy 26 March 1750 showing a warrant date of 5 March 1749/50 for William Bogs of the county of Frederick. Enjoy, Phyllis

This may only muddy the waters, but it is another document in the family piles (I am not so presumptuous as to say "files") listed as compiled in August 1916, and reproduced here typos and all, to wit: "Captain John Boggs was born in Washington Co.Penn. in 1732, married Jane Irwin and lived on a small stream (Boggs Run) in Virginia. The names of his children are as follows: William born in 1763 (a prisoner with the Indians for years) Lydia (married Moses Shepard, and after his death--Cruger) Martha (married Jacob Johnson) Jane (Married John Barr) Nancy (married B McMicken) John, born May 10, 1775 at Wheeling, Va. Major John was quite a small boy when the Indians attacked their home, and he escaped to the Fort and brought help. Major John with his father Capt. John emigrated to Ohio about 1800, pre-emptied (sic) 640 acres of land in Pickaway Co. Major John married Sarah McMicken in Wheeling and brought his bride of 19 to his new home under the Logan Elm in Ohio. He received the title of Major in the War of 1812. He died Feb 3, 1831 at the home of his son, Moses, on the same day of the month that his father, Captain John (Feb 3, 1829 [the 2 in 1829 is marked over with a penciled-in 1, making it 1819 by someone --RSP]), and had each lived until his next birthday, he would have been 87 years old.. Major John's children are as follows [and the list is the same that I supplied in a message just previously -RSP] Major John married for his second wife Jane McMicken Taylor, a sister of his first wife Sarah. In War Department, Washington, D.C. adjutant general's office, there is a record of Captain John's service in the Revolutionary War, as a Captain in a Company designated, Capt. John Boggs Co. 2nd Battalion, Delaware Militia, commanded by Col. Couch. There is a sketch of Dr. William Ellison Boggs in American Biography of Prominent Men (University of Virginia) which states that the Boggs family is of Scotch Irish descent, emigrating to America in 1704. They settled in maryland and scattered to Virginia and the colonies. A daughter of Major John, Lydia, married for her second husband Evan Stevenson, and a great-grand daughter of his, Sara Stevenson Pack, licving in Georgetown, Ky (1913) has come across the following bit of history . . ." [The last paragraph reprints that continuing rumor about attachment to the Livingstons, who were among those loyal to the Stuarts having to flee and change the name to Boggs. Persistence doesn't make it true, but does make it curious. --RSP] Then it concludes: "See Delaware Archives Vol. 2, Military and Naval, p. 852, 859. Vol. 1 P. 13 French and Indian War Rolls 1754, 1763." R. Scott Perry

John: The reunion is the first Sunday after Labor Day. If you will keep me in mind and contact me a month or so before I will confirm the date for sure. It is in a little country Church on Cains Creek. Best people in the world. About half from out of Ky. and the other half natives. You have to meet Ray Williams. He has more Boggs knowledge than anyone and it is all in his head. I have been picking his brain for years and haven't made a dent in what he knows. Not just names but all the stories. And he loves to tell them. Cousin Dave Church Researching: Church/Boggs/Blevins/Kidd/Lovely Please consider a donation to the Hugh and Hannah Boggs Headstone fund. Thanks

John: I have no record of where Dow Boggs is buried, but he died in the poor house in Louisa, Ky. Could have been buried there at county expense or taken back to Blaine. He still had family there. Interested to know if you find out for sure. Cousin Dave Church Researching: Church/Boggs/Blevins/Kidd/Lovely On Cains Creek, sun up is ten AM. Depending on which side of the mountain you live on.

Does anyone know where Lorenzo Dow Boggs is buried ? He died in Lawrence Co.Ky, and died before 1900. He was the son of William Boggs and Anna Johnson. John Holbrook

Dave, do you have a date for the 1999 Boggs reunion? We have heard there was a reunion, but could never find anything about it. John Holbrook