BIBLE:  Boggs & Graham Family

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BOGGS AND GRAHAM BIBLE RECORDS
From the Boggs Family Bible, owned by Mr. E Duncan Boggs, Albuquerque, New Mexico-copied by Mary E M
White, 655 Orange Court, Rockledge, Florida 32955.  Date of Bible-1872. (Parenthetical Notes added
by Mrs. White.)

BIRTHS:	Abner S Boggs, Braxton Co, Va, 20 Oct 1837.		
		Sarah J Graham, Wayne Co, Ill, 16 Jan 1838.

		Their children:
		James M Boggs, Page Co, Iowa, 5 Nov 1857.
		Wm C Boggs, Page Co, Iowa, 29 Mar 1861.
		Charles O Boggs, Page Co, Iowa, 27 Oct 1867.
		Benjamin F Boggs, Page Co, Iowa, 30 Jul 1873.


MARRIAGES:	Abner S Boggs, of Taylor Co, Iowa, and Sarah J Graham, Taylor Co, were married 1 Feb
1857, by Rev. Wishard.  Witnesses: Mr & Mrs M Graham, Elizabeth A Graham.
		James M Boggs to Adda Black, Page Co, Iowa, 5 Sep 1881. 
		William C Boggs to May Quinn, Page Co, Iowa, 12 Apr 1881.
		Benjamin F Boggs to Edith Duncan, Yuma Co, Colo, 26 Qpr 1905.

DEATHS:	Abner S Boggs, Yuma Co, Colo, 1 May 1910
		Sarah Jane (Graham) Boggs, Wray, Colo, 3 Feb 1918.

BIRTHS:	On blank page in back of Bible:
		Mthias Graham, born 21 Sep 1812, Hardin Co, Kentucky.
		Anna Graham, born 9 Jan 1817, Danville, Tennessee. ) Other records
		Show she was born in Dandridge, Tennessee.  She was Anna
		Layman, Lemon, or Leham, before marriage to Mathias Graham.)

		Their Children:
		Sarah Jane Graham, born 16 Jan 1838, Wayne Co, Illinois.
		Elizabeth Ann Graham, born 20 Mar 1840, Wayne Co, Illinois.
		Susanna Graham, born 29 Mar 1842, died 16 Sep 1843.
		Benjamin Franklin Graham, born 2 Sep 1844, Wayne Co, Illinois.
		Francis Marion Graham, born 21 Mar 1847, died 24 Aug 1851.
		Amada Catherine Graham, born 31 Oct 1850, Wayne Co, Illinois.
		Eliza Ann Graham, born 22 Oct 1853, Wayne Co, Illinois.
		James Monroe Graham, born 12 May 1856, Albia, Monroe Co, Iowa.

DEATHS:	Mathias Graham, died 23 May 1890, Eckley, Colorado.
		Anna Graham, died 24 Nov 1883, Wadsworth, Nevada.
		Horace died 20 Aug 1892 in Sacramento, Calif. Buried to Reno, Nev.

BIRTHS:	On a separate sheet enclosed in this Bible:
		James R Boggs, 4 Nov 1803.
		Jerusha (Lemaster) Boggs, 4 Nov 1808.
		John Boggs, 21 Aug 1829.

MARRIAGES;	James R Boggs and Jerusha Lemaster, 21 Aug 1828.
		Catherine Boggs and James M Scott, 31 Mar 1853.
		Elizabeth Ann Boggs and Nathan Boggs, 31 May 1853.

DEATHS:	John Boggs, 9 Aug 1831.
		James R Boggs, 30 Aug 1848
		Desdamona I Lower, 23 Jul 1863.
		Michael Lower, 29 Aug 1875.
		Jerusha Lower, 22 Nov 1891.
		Edith (Duncan) Boggs, Loveland, Colo, 14 Mar 1941.  (She 
		Was born 10 Jul 1882, at Abington, Illinois.)

NOTES:	From other sources-as furnished by Mrs White.
		Children of James R and Jerusha (Lemaster) Boggs:
		George L Boggs, living in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1910.
		Catherine Boggs and Elizabeth Ann Boggs, died before 1910.
		Ketura/Kitura Boggs, m.___Scott; lived in Vallisca, Iowa, 1910.
		Jackson Boggs, lived in Janesville, California, 1910.
		Addison Boggs.
		James R Boggs (Jr), lived in Wyoming, 1910. 
		(From Newspaper clipping, obit of Abner S Boggs, 1910.)

		Charles O Boggs, son of Abner S Boggs, never married.

		Children of Benjamin F and Edith (Duncan) Boggs:
		Gladys Ruth Boggs,, born 2 Sep 1906.
		Francis Merle Boggs, born 14 Jun 1907.
		Earl Duncan Boggs, born 7 Oct, 1910.