Wyandotte County KS Archives Biographies..... BOGGESS, Reverend Thomas Howard July 24, 1876 - March 11, 1938 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 January 17, 2009, 9:10 am Author: Bill BOGGESS   REVEREND THOMAS HOWARD BOGGESS     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     The Reverend Thomas Howard Boggess was born 24 July 1876 near Bristol (formerly Cherry Camp), Tenmile district, Harrison county, West Virginia to Samuel Boggess (1811VA-1888WV) with his second wife Sarah Elizabeth (Wood ) Boggess (1835VA-1918MO). Tom, second born to Samuel Cleveland (1874WV-1946MN) and before Hale Matthew (1879WV-1942MO), had six half sisters and brothers born between 1834 and 1844 to father's first wife, Tabetha Wamsley (1808VA-1872WV).     Tom and family attended the Bristol Episcopal Methodst church founded by his oldest half-brother, David Wamsley Boggess (1834VA-1886WV) ABT 1861 which today remain seperate stained glass windows in memory of his father, Samuel and mother Sarah E Boggess.     Thomas' father passed away 2 February 1888, buried with her Wood family in Maken/Point Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church's 1964 abandoned cemetery, next to school where his mother & older brother James (father of 1908 mayor of Clarksburg), had earlier taught, Public school #5. His mother and his aunt Henriette Jane Wood (1847VA-1928OK) brought the three sons to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 where his uncles, Thomas Kennerly Wood (1842VA-1918MO came in 1869, and George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO brought his family from Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia in 1882. Thomas gained his education at Carthage public schools and entered what now is William & Jewel College, Liberty, Clay county, Missouri.     While a student at William Jewel in 1902:         "Tom Boggess preached two good sermons yesterday at the Baptist church [Carthage, Missouri] and showed marked improvement since making his maiden effort there. He is a divinity student at the Baptist college at Liberty."     Tom, twenty-six y/o, married twenty-three y/o Tressie L Walton in Oranogo, Jasper county, Missouri, 20 September 1905, both enrolling in the Baptist seminary at Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky where both were ordained ministers.     His first charge was Carthage, Hancock county, Illinois in 1905 thru 1915, where 28 September 1908, was Caleb R & Eliza D Boggess H780 with children, members on April 12, 1914 till December 1, 1915, he s/o Dr Benjamin Robinson Boggess (1820-1877) and Matilada A Shinn (1838-1915) Clarksburg, WV., Caleb also the grandson of Caleb Boggess (1784VA-1852VA), whom the court appointed guardian for Tom's father, 4 y/o Samuel and sister, 6 y/o Caroline, when orphaned in1815.     In 1915 Tom left Carthage, Illinois for Kansas City, Wyandote county, Kansas where he was pastor of the Argentine Baptist church. He founded Quindaro Baptist church and also served the Bethany Baptist church in Kansas City. From there he went to Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska where in 1934 was ill so his brothers S C and Hale rushed from Carthage to his bed side, but had a serious automobile accident on the way, injuries of which Hale never recovered, and last three years he had been pastor of Mount Ayr, Ringgold county, Iowa church, where pneumonia developed Thursday, March 3, 1938, and that night he was moved to the hospital in Des Moines. The two brothers were summoned to his bedside and remained in Des Moines until when it was believed his condition was improving.     The Rev Thomas H Boggess, 61, pastor of the First Baptist church at Mount Ayr, Iowa, and brother of S C Boggess and H M Boggess of Carthage, passed away at 10:30 o'clock morning of 11 March 1938 at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.     Funeral services held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the First Baptist church in Mount Ayr.The body was then brought overland to Carthage and services held at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the First Baptist church here. The Rev A A DuLaney, pastor, was in charge. Burial was in Park cemetery, Block 33, Lot 98.     Tom and Tressie Boggess did not have any children of their own but reared and educated eight children. These ere children who had been left without relatives and needed a home. One of the girls in 1938 was a missionary in India. Several of them lived in Kansas City. Additional Comments: Obits       thomas h http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/jasper/obits/b/boggess8ob.txt       tressia (walton) http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/obits/abc/boggessth.txt File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/wyandotte/bios/boggess151bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb