At 09:05 AM 3/6/99 EST, you wrote: >Jess & Leamon: >You two posted messages a few days ago concerning William Boggs and others. >My info on William: b. 6-24-1751 Baltimore, MD, d. 11-29-1848 Knox Co., OH. I >have his first wife to be Grace Jolly, and second wife Elizabeth Lawson. > >I have a James Boggs Jr. married to a Margaret Sharp and a Jane Sharp. This >James was the son of James Boggs (b. abt 1667) from Ireland. > >My branch of the Boggs family stems from a William Boggs (b. 1716), son of >James Boggs (b. abt 1667). This William would have been the brother of >Ezekial and James Boggs, Jr.. For the most part my Boggs got as far as >Belmont Co, OH and remained there. We have a lot of the same names, so there >is a link, but it appears that much of the info has been mixed up. I plan to >send you two more organized info in a day or so. > >Lou > > >==== 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/ > Lou, I received a lot of information on my line on Saturday, but haven't had time to digest it yet. It comes from a second once removed who lost several members after the Ohio census in 1850. It appears that Absolom and at least two brothers settled in various counties near Galva, IL. The counties were split in such a way that towns are in one county and the cemetaries for them are in another. That is really helpful, with all the name duplication you mentioned!! I have also noted that there seems to be a tendency for brothers and sisters and first cousing to marry people with the same first names as parents and also last names!! I'm sure it was probably a matter of there being only so many families in a given area, so there was a lot of intermarriage, especially in the early years. We have a lot of that in the Acadian families in this area, as well as the Protestants also. I'll share the information I have, as soon as I can do a better job of digestion. Later your "somehow" cousin, Becky Rebecca (Becky) B. Vincent [email protected] Librarian/ Media Specialist M.ED./MLIS Gueydan High School 901 Main Street Gueydan, LA 70542