Montgomery County MD Archives Biographies.....Edith (Boggess) HOUGH, August 15, 1906 - February 13, 1996
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          EDITH (BOGGESS) HOUGH


  Edith was a graduate of Springfield Teachers College in Missouri.
She taught school in Carthage and at an American school in the Philippines, where she 
accompanied her husband to an agency for International Development assignment. They 
also lived in Korea and Japan. She was a resident of Chevy Chase, and had lived in the 
Washington area off and on since 1938. A Girl Scout leader: a volunteer with the Common 
Cause; and member of River Road Unitarian Church; the P.E.O. philanthropic organization; 
the Foreign Service Wives Association; and the Chevy Chase Women's Club.

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   Edith Boggess, I1059, was fourth born, second to adulthood, to Samuel Cleveland 
Boggess (1874WV-1946MN) and Kate Knight
(1876ENG-1928MO) in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, 15 August 1906.
She lost her mother and sister-in-law within fourteen hours while at the University of 
Missouri. April 1928. Edith returned home to become the women of the house for her father 
and younger brother S C, jr (1911MO-1994FL), plus her older brother Luke (1899MO-1974MO) 
and his two young sons until1932. 

  She was married 24 August 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado to Edwin 
Albert Hough (1908LA-1995MD) s/o Walter Martin Hough
(1886MO-1932) and Adele Ziegler (1888MO-1918MO). They had one daughter, Jane Ellen, who 
had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo. Edwin and Edith lived in Chevy Chase, Montgomery county, 
Maryland, and died in Sibley Memorial hospital of Washington, D C, he 9 April 1995 she 13 
February1996. 

  Daughter saw their cermains were buried in the Hough plot at Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.



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