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Lytal. ************************************************************ BOGGS FAMILY CEMETERY Near the Clay Community & about 1/4 mi. west of the southeast corner of Sect. 29, Township 9 north, Range 7 west, there are signs of an old house place. This was the home built by Robert Israel Boggs soon after he married Jennie Whisnant, Nov. 12, 1867 in White Co., Ark. About 300 yards north across a meadow and at the edge of the woods is a rock pen about 30 by 40 feet and about 3 1/2 feet high. Inside the fence are 11 graves. 1. Charles Edward Boggs (unmarked) - born 1876 - died Dec. 1884. Second child of Robert Isreal Boggs & Jennie Whisnant Boggs. When he died the creeks were in flood & it would have been very difficult to reach Mt. Pisgah where the Boggs family were buried, so this place was chosen & a family cemetery was started. 2. John Wesley Boggs (unmarked) - born July 7, 1888 - died 1894. 6 th child of Robert Isreal Boggs & Jennie Whisnant Boggs. Other children of Robert Isreal Boggs & Jennie Whisnant Boggs: Mary Ida Boggs - born 1870 & died in infancy - buried Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. James M. Boggs - born Mar. 29, 1872 - living in 1962 Robert Cuba Boggs - born June 22, 1882 - living in 1962 Annie J. Boggs Henderson - born Sept. 22, 1884 - living in 1962 3. Jennie Boggs, wife of R. I. Boggs, Nov. 26, 1849 - July 6, 1914. Tombstone. She used the name Martha J. when she married but her daughter says her name was Eliza Jane but all names definately refer to the same person. She was born near Oxford , Miss. & was the daughter of Nicholas Whisnant & Nancy Smith Whisnant, both natives of South Carolina. Other children of Nicholas & Nancy Whisnant were: Sallie Whisnant Stahle; John Whisnant; George Frank Whisnant; Robert Henderson Whisnant - Nov. 19, 1839-May 24, 1916; Jim D. Whisnant; Will Whisnant; Hughie M. Whisnant - Sept. 13, 1846-Nov. 26, 1897; Margaret Catherine Whisnant Stahle; Nancy Whisnant Short - Jan. 24, 1852-1910. 4. Robert Israel Boggs, Pvt. McGee's Ark. Cav. CSA. - died July 15, 1925 - Tombstone. He was born June 1843 in Miss. & was the son of John W. Boggs of South Carolina & Catherine J. Smith Boggs of Miss. John W. Boggs was born in 1815 & attended school in Yorktown, S. C. He went to Miss. in 1840 & married Catherine J. Smith, daughter of John & Martha Smith, in 1841. In 1853 they moved from near Oxford, Miss. to White Co., Ark. because of the land available here & he was opposed to slavery & especially the increase of mulattoes on his neighbors plantation. He was not a minister but was a very religious man & helped to organize churches in his community & neighboring communities in White Co. After the death of his wife, he went to Texas with some of the children. They lived near Cleburne, Texas. Two rooms of the old Boggs log home are still standing about 3/4ths mi. from Hwy. 16 on the Clay Road. Other children of John W. Boggs were: Mandy Boggs; Joseph W. Boggs; James P. Boggs - Nov. 10, 1844-Jan. 21, 1919 - Rosebud family; Newton J. Boggs; John Boggs; Mary Frances Boggs; Charley W. Boggs; Martha M. Boggs; Addie E. Boggs; Harrison B. Boggs. 5. (unmarked) Infant son of W. H. Pelton & Oceola Short Pelton, born and died Dec. 1909. Oceola Short Pelton is the daughter of William T. Short & Nancy Whisnant Short. She is a niece of # 3 above. 6. (unmarked) Infant son of James M. Boggs & Bertie Ervin Boggs, born & died July 20, 1913. This is a grandson of #3 & #4 above. 7. (unmarked) Earl Lytal, son of W. Hodge Lytal & Jo Emma Boggs Lytal. 8. (unmarked) W. Hodge Lytal, husband of Jo Emma Boggs Lytal. They were married Nov. 11, 1887 in White Co., Ark. Other children were O. Gibbon Lytal & Gertrude Lytal. Jo Emma Boggs was the only child of Joseph W. Boggs & Martha J. Majors Boggs, who were married Feb. 15, 1866. She was the niece of #4 above. 9. Lois Valera Lytal, Feb. 6, 1911 - Sept. 8, 1911, daughter of O. G. Lytal & Eva L. Hall Lytal. Tombstone. 10. Eva Lida Hall, wife of O. G. Lytal, Mar. 2, 1892-Aug. 23, 1915. Mother of #9 above. Tombstone. 11. Mrs. Ervin Hall, mother of #10 above. (unmarked) She was the last person buried here (as of 1962). There are 2 children buried about 20 feet north of the fence. It is said that their family did not help to build the fence & it was not extended to include these graves. All persons buried in the enclosure are related in some way but no relationship has been found for these 2 children of Sam & Grace Baker. Mr. Ewin Davis is the present owner of this property (in 1962) REFERENCES: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Eastern Ark., Goodspeed County Records; White Co., Ark. Cemetery Records Mrs. Annie Boggs Henderson, Pangburn, Ark. Mr. O. G. Lytal, Searcy, Ark. Nov. 5, 1857 Samuel Caruthers sold land in Township 9, Range 7, in the w 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Sect. 29 for the sum of $100 for a school. John N. Walker, J. J. Howell & Jessie Wilkes were trustees & were to see that suitable buildings were erected.