Hannah Maria Boggs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1838, Ohio
• Alternate birth: Dec 1839, Ohio

Notes:

Prior to her marriage to Hampton H. Jones, she appears to have been married to a man surnamed Jachs.

"Members of Relief Corps Hold Service," San Jose Mercury Herald, 7 Mar 1922:

Officers and members of Col. Rennet Relief corps and the ladies of the G.A.R. yesterday held services at the parlors of Curry & Gripenstray for Mrs. Hannah M. Jones, who passed away on Sunday. The Rev. Frank Linder also officiated at the service.

The services were attended by many friends of the deceased as well as by members of the orders and a profusion of flowers gave tribute to the love and esteem in which she was held. Interment was at Oak Hill cemetery, mebers of the post serving as pall-bearers.

The deceased is mourned by her husband, H. H. Jones, and one sister, Mrs. L. Yagel, of this city.

Hannah married Hampton H. Jones on 11 Oct 1899 in Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California. Hampton was born in Jul 1835; died on 29 Nov 1925 in San Jose, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1795

Notes:

That his name was William comes from Patrick Foley's research notes, attributed to an inscription in a copy of a book (The Great Rosy Diamond by Ann Augusta Carter; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856) owned by his daughter Eliza Boggs. The inscription, presumably written by William himself, reads:

Eliza Bogg
pecented by her
father William Bogg
Decm. 25th 1859

According to the 1850 census, taken in Cincinnati, ward 2, he was a paperhanger. The 1860 census, taken just across the Ohio in Covington, Kentucky calls him a "tinner." The 1850 census calls him "Wm. L."; the 1860, "Lee." That these are the same man, despite the variance in age, is indicated by the correlation in the ages and the birth states of several of the listed children.

In the 1870 census, he appears to be back in his birth state of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny, still a tinner, still with multiple household members whose ages roughly correlate with earlier censuses. He also appears as a tinner in the 1864, 1865, 1867, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875 Pittsburgh city directories. We doubt that he is the William Lee Boggs who appears in the 1868 and 1869 Pittsburgh city directories as a grocer. This other William Lee Boggs is possibly the William L Boggs who appears in the 1850 census as a merchant, and the 1860 census as a grocer, both times in Philadelphia with a household entirely dissimilar to that of our William Lee Boggs. Possibly this grocer is also the William Boggs whose will was probated in Beaver County, just northwest of Pittsburgh, on 10 Jul 1877.

The 1850 census says that our William Lee Boggs was born around 1795; the 1860 and 1870 censuses, around 1815. Given his marriage in 1835 and the fact that his oldest child in the 1850 census is 14, a birthdate around 1815 seems more plausible, unless this was his second family and he had no children from the first one who were still minors by 1850.

We're reasonably confident that the "William Lee Boggs, Sr." described on the Find a Grave page cited here is indeed the same man as the father of Eliza Ellen Boggs. First, our William Lee Boggs did indeed have a son William Lee Boggs Jr. Second, the one child linked from this Find a Grave page is a daughter Hannah Maria (Boggs) Jones, born 11 Dec 1837 in Cincinnati, who is well-documented elsewhere as a daughter of our William Lee and Catharine Boggs.

It's notable that in addition to daughter Eliza Ellen Boggs, two other daughters of William Lee and Catharine Boggs wound up in San Jose: the aforementioned Hannah Maria (Boggs) Jones, and Sarah Jane Boggs.

He consistently appears in census records of his children as having been born in Pennsylvania, save for the 1920 record of his daughter Hannah which places his birthplace in Ohio.

William married Catharine Thorpe on 15 May 1835 in Hamilton County, Ohio. Catharine (daughter of Alanson Thorpe and Hannah) was born about 1815 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; died on 29 Jul 1855 in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1815, Virginia
• Alternate death: Between 1850 and 1860

Notes:

Establishing the wife of William Lee Boggs as Catherine Thorpe:

The birth record for her daughter Mabel, born 30 May 1853 in Kenton County, Kentucky (just across the river from Cincinnati), gives the child's parents as "Wm. & Catharine Boggs" and records "Maiden Name of Mother" as "Catharine Thorpe." On the register of births the child is shown as "no name", but a child of approximately correct age appears on the 1860 census as "May Belle", age 6, born in Kentucky, and on the 1870 census as "Mabel", age 15, born in Kentucky.

The Pennsylvania death certificate for Margaret Littell, born 15 Oct 1849, died in Raccoon Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 9 Sep 1932, gives her father's name as Wm. Boggs and her mother's as Catherine Thorpe. Margaret Boggs's second (or, according to some, third) marriage was to John Robinson Littell. (Margaret Boggs's baptism appears on the same Third Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati register as that of all her siblings save for Mabel.)

Catherine is shown as the wife of William Lee Boggs in the 1850 census; she is no longer present in his household in the 1860 census; and a Kentucky record exists for the death in Covington on 29 Jul 1855 of Catherine Boggs, 40, married, born in Cincinnati, parents named as Alanson and Hannah Throp. So it would seem clear that her birth name was Thorpe/Thorp/Throp, etc.

It should be pointed out that though the abovementioned record of her death places her birth in Cincinnati, and the 1920 census record of her daughter Hannah agrees that she was born in Ohio, other census records of her children vary considerably on the question of her birthplace:

1880 Margaret - Kentucky
1880 Eliza - Maryland
1900 Hannah - Maryland
1900 Sarah - Maryland (same household as above)

Additionally, her own 1850 census record has her born about 1815 in Virginia.

Alanson married Hannah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]