At 06:10 AM 3/9/99 -0800, you wrote: >I believe that I am the source of information on James Henry Boggs and >Matilda Lyons. They were my gggrandparents. James was called "Goins", >because he was always "goin'" somewhere. Apparently he had an aversion to >work, even though he had a large family to care for. He was a Civil War >veteran and a brother, Nelson, was killed in his presence just about 200 >miles from home in Lawrence County, Ky. This occured just a few months >after they enlisted. > >There is one important error in the account of the children of James and >Matilda's son, Lewis Franklin Boggs, my ggrandfather. He had one >illegitimate child, a daughter, Fanny Tilson, before he married Mary E. >Johnson, who was also his second cousin. Lewis and Mary had five children, >three girls and two boys, including my grandfather, Harry Boggs. Harry >taught school in the one room school near Blaine, Ky., on the left fork of >Caines Creek before the family moved to Portsmouth, Oh. about 1918. > >I can provide further info on this line, if anyone is interested. > >Bob Cunningham >Arnold, Calif. > > >==== BOGGS Mailing List ==== >Search the BOGGS archives! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Bob, Through friends in Illinois, I have received several census records for the Boggs family in Stark, Co. In the 1900 census, in addition to my own family, there is the following record: 184/183 Relation to head R S dob age Mar. St. BP Fbp Mbp Occ. BOGGS, James Head W M Sept. 1874 25 M(arried) IL IL IL Farmer Gertrude Wife W F Dec. 1875 24 M IL IN IN Ward V. Son W M Feb. 1898 2 S IL IL IL Harry Nephew W M Jan. 1889 11 S IL IL IL Farm Lbr I don't know the township for certain, but it is definitely from Stark, Co. I don't know if this ties into your Boggs group or not, but perhaps will help someone looking for a "Harry." It would really be nice, if they hadn't recycled names so much in the varied families. But it seems to be a family trait. Becky Boggs Vincent Kaplan, LA