ROANE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BOGGS, James R.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
October 1, 1999
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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 455

BOGGS:  Of Smithfield.
James R. Boggs was born in Greenbrier County, western Virginia, May 22, 1800, 
son of John, born in Ireland, and Susan (Drinnen) Boggs, his wife, a 
Virginian lady; John claims to have had five brothers in the battle of Point 
Pleasant. James R. was twice married; first wife, Har-riet Walkup, and their 
children were Susan, John Nathaniel and Mary J.
James R. Boggs's second wife was Lacy Ann O'Brien, whom he mar-ried in Gilmer 
County, western Virginia, year 1845, and with his family came in the next 
year and settled on Middle Henry Fork, then a part of Gilmer County.
To James R. and Lacy Ann (O'Brien) Boggs were born, on Henrys Fork, Walter 
D., 1847; Sarah, 1849; Melinda, 1852; Caroline, 1854; and Mary J., 1858.
Of this James R. and Lacy Ann Boggs family we write further:
Thaddeus Boggs, the son, succeeded to the home lands on Henrys Fork, and was 
long a well known man of the county; he was born "on Easter Sunday," 1835; on 
outbreak of the "Civil" war he enlisted in the 34th Virginia Infantry, 
transferred to the cavalry of the Confederate forces; was two months a 
prisoner at Wheeling; four months at Fort Delaware, and two months at Point 
Lookout captured each time; returned unhurt.

In the same year of his return, 1866, Thaddeus Boggs married Susan Webb, of 
his own neighborhood, yet born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1840; to 
Thaddeus and Susan were born five children as follows: Melissa, 1866; Alice, 
1867; Anderson, March 22, 1868; George W., October 17, 1872; Rebecca, 1877.

Melissa became the wife of Rev. Wilbur Spencer; Anderson married and lives in 
Smithfield District; George W. has been a resident of Columbus, Ohio, for 
several years.

Later in their lives this family acquired and made a farm out of wood-lands 
in Smithfield District of Roane.


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