Roane County, West Virginia         BIO: James R. BOGGS

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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 455

BOGGS:  Of Smithfield.
James R. Boggs was born in Greenbrier County, western Virginia, May 22, 1800,
son of John, born in Ireland, and Susan (Drinnen) Boggs, his wife, a
Virginian lady; John claims to have had five brothers in the battle of Point
Pleasant. James R. was twice married; first wife, Harriet Walkup, and their
children were Susan, John Nathaniel and Mary J.
James R. Boggs's second wife was Lacy Ann O'Brien, whom he married in Gilmer
County, western Virginia, year 1845, and with his family came in the next
year and settled on Middle Henry Fork, then a part of Gilmer County.
To James R. and Lacy Ann (O'Brien) Boggs were born, on Henrys Fork, Walter
D., 1847; Sarah, 1849; Melinda, 1852; Caroline, 1854; and Mary J., 1858.
Of this James R. and Lacy Ann Boggs family we write further:
Thaddeus Boggs, the son, succeeded to the home lands on Henrys Fork, and was
long a well known man of the county; he was born "on Easter Sunday," 1835; on
outbreak of the "Civil" war he enlisted in the 34th Virginia Infantry,
transferred to the cavalry of the Confederate forces; was two months a
prisoner at Wheeling; four months at Fort Delaware, and two months at Point
Lookout captured each time; returned unhurt.

In the same year of his return, 1866, Thaddeus Boggs married Susan Webb, of
his own neighborhood, yet born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1840; to
Thaddeus and Susan were born five children as follows: Melissa, 1866; Alice,
1867; Anderson, March 22, 1868; George W., October 17, 1872; Rebecca, 1877.

Melissa became the wife of Rev. Wilbur Spencer; Anderson married and lives in
Smithfield District; George W. has been a resident of Columbus, Ohio, for
several years.

Later in their lives this family acquired and made a farm out of wood-lands
in Smithfield District of Roane.