Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/203 Surname: BOSO, FLINN, FANCHER, COLEMAN, MILLS, SMITH, HALE, BURDINE, HALL, BROWN, ANDERSON, OREM, INGALLS, FERGUSON, PILCHARD ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Boso Family The Boso family was forty years ago the most numerous race on the two Ponds Creeks. The first of the name to come to these parts, and the father of the line, was one John Boso, who was living in the block house at the mouth of the Hocking River, about 1790, and who settled at Muse's Bottom in 1807. Where Boso came from is not known, but he was French descent, and the family were intimately connected with the Flinns, another family prominent in the pioneer history of Pond Creek. John Boso had four sons, whose name I have been given - Charles, Joe, Jake and John. Joe and Jake married girls by the name of Fancher, Joe went to Indiana, and Jake is not mentioned further. John Boso's wife was a daughter of the Michael Coleman who was killed by the Indians. Their children were: Mike Boso, married a Mills, sister of George. He had a mill on Pond Creek, below the Flinn ford, at the mouth of Cabin Fork. John Boso (Curly John), married a Smith, sister of Sam Smith. Charley Boso, married a Flinn, sister of "Old Johnny" Flinn. He died in St. Louis. S. Greene Boso is his son. Nancy Boso married Joe Hale, and lived on a branch of Lee Creek. Barbara Boso married a Burdine. "Polly" Boso marred a Hall and lived in Ohio. Bent Boso married and lived in Illinois. "Kins" Boso (Kinsman) married a Brown. "Lafe" Boso was "in the Army". France Boso lived in Pomeroy. John Boso, afer the death of his first wife, was married to a sister of "old Johnny" Flinn, who lived at the mouth of Cabin Fork. Charles Boso, known for miles around as "Old Charley", was born in the Big Hocking Block House, some time toward the end of the Eighteenth Century, probably early in the nineties. He died at the age of one hundred and six, said his son, Isaiah. His wife was Mary Anderson, perhaps a sister of "Mike" Anderson, who lived on upper Pond Creek. Their children were: Isaiah married Mary E. Orem, a sister of Joe Orem. He was born in 1833 and died February 16th, 1908. John A. Boso married Debby Mills, a sister of Bill Mills. Nelson Boso married and Ingalls. He was the father of Charley Boso. Nels Boso was born about 1828. Probably John was the John A. who was seventy five in 1900. Willard Boso went to Indiana. Charles Boso. Eliza Boso married John Orem. Jane Boso married a Ferguson. "Uncle Charley Boso was born near the mouth of the Big Hocking River, on a houseboat, spent the early years of his life flatboating on the Ohio River. Died about three o'clock, on the morning on June 5th, 1898, at age one hundred and eight years. Was father of seven children, six of whom survived him, was in good health until two weeks before his death. Died at his son John A. Boso's on Little Pond Creek. Four hundred people attended burying." So wrote C. T. Pilchard, of Lone Cedar, in Jackson Herald for June 10th, 1898.