Jasper County MO Archives Obituaries.....BOGGESS (Wood), Sarah Elizabeth June 28, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Boggess billboggess@webtv.net February 24, 2006, 10:56 am Carthage Evening Press, June 29, 1918 (Transcribed, 02/24/06) Copy from Carthage Public Library                   -------------             CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS Carhage, Missouri, Sturday, June 29, 1918                 -------------- MRS   SARAH   BOGGESS   DIES                   ------------ MOTHER OF CITY'S MAYOR WAS           82 YEARS OLD                 ------------- Following Services Tomorrow Evening         Body Will Be Taken To          Bristol, W V for Burial                  ------------       Mrs Sarah E Boggess, 82 years old, died at midnight last night at her home, 412 East Third street. Death was due to rheumation and complications of other diseases, incident to old age. She had been in poor health for eight months and had been bedridden the last six weeks. All her children and a number of other relatives were at the beside when Mrs Boggess passed away.       Miss Sarah E ;Elizabeth] Wood was born December 9, 1835, near Winchester, Va. When a girl in her teens she moved with er paents to West Virginia, settling near Bristol. For a number of years of years she was a very succesful school teacher in that region. On September 18, 1873, she was married to Samuel Boggess at Salem,W V. Mr Boggess died in February, 1888. In September 188, Mrs Boggess, together with her children, came to Carthage to live and she always had resided here since that time.       Mrs Boggess was a member of the First M E church and was a devout Christian woman. Sh wasof a very lovable disposition and she had hosts of friends. She retained all her faculties until the end. Up until the last few months she had always taken a great interst in the word news and was interested in te progress of events.       Those who survive are the three sons, S C Boggess, mayor of Carthage: Rev Thomas H Boggess, ofKansas City, and Hale M Boggess of this city. Two brothers, George B Wood, of this city; Robert A Wood, of Dallas, Texas; and one sister, Mrs Henriette J Jarvis, of Claremore, Okla, also survive.       Funeral services will be held at the home of S C Boggess at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow evening. Mr and Mrs S C Boggess and daughter, Elizabeth [sc, Edith] will leave at 10 o'clock tomorrow night for Bristol, W V , where the last rites will take place Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be in Point Pleasant cemetery near Bristol. The Husband and many relatives of Mrs Boggess are buried in the family lot at that cemetery.               <>-------<>-------<> Additional comments: We believe Sarah's move to Missouri was with her sister Henriette, and because they had two brothers succesfully in construction, Thomas Kennerly "T K" and George Wood living there. Sarah was Samuel's second wife, who was orphaned at age 4, in 1815, with he and sister raised by uncle Caleb Boggess. Sarah's parents were John and Casandra Hess (Brown) Wood. Sarah and husband Samuel were members of Methodist United church of Bristol, moved for highway #50 construction, remaining intact, each with their names remaining today, in stained glass windows therein. Church started by Samuel's first son, by Tabetha Wamsley, forty years older than first son of marriage with Sarah. Sarah taught school at Point Pleasant free School # 7, same location as earlier 1830 school, next to Point Pleasant Methodist Church, which was built after relocation when railroad was built ca 1855 with a cemetery of 129 known, many unknown, buried. School is where her brother also taught, he the father of a Clarksburg architect and once mayor, Edward John Wood. Unfortunately, --- Point Pleasant/Maken Methodist Church was abandoned in 1964, cemetery left fenced but unattended, with illegal wondering livestock roaming freely for many years, so after learning its condition, in 2005 we installed a new fence, county sheriff's week-end prisnoers cleared rubish and growth, and we installed steps and placed an identifing sign at its new gate on Wizzardism Run, in Carpenter Hollow, off Jarvisville Road, near U S Highway #50, Harrison county, WV. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/jasper/obits/b/boggessw3ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mofiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb