Mary Ann Boggs

25 April 1860–7 February 1944 (Age 83)
Blaine, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Boggs was born on 25 April 1860, in Blaine, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, her father, Nelson Thomas Boggs, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Green, was 19. She married Richard Nelson Whitt from 1876 to 1877. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Evergreen, Langlade, Wisconsin, United States in 1910 and Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 February 1944, in Marathon, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 83.

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Family Time Line

Richard Nelson Whitt
1855–1916
Mary Ann Boggs
1860–1944
Marriage: from 1876 to 1877
Mary E. Whitt
1879–
Edwin C. Whitt
1886–
Edwinna C Whitt
1886–
Camille Laverne Whitt
1888–1951
Richard Nelson "Dixie" Whitt
1889–1950
John Milford Whitt
1892–1979
Edgar M Whitt
1892–
Wyatt T. Whitt
1899–1900
Barney Moore Whitt
1901–1934

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    from 1876 to 1877
    • Children

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (2)

    World Events (8)

    1861
    Age 1
    Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
    1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
    Age 7
    A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
    1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
    Age 22
    A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

    Name Meaning

    English: nickname from Middle English bogeys ‘boastful or haughty’. The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Bauguess
    Baugus
    Boggus
    Boggess

    Sources (9)

    • Legacy NFS Source: Mary "Polly" Boggs - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth: 1867; Elliott, Kentucky, United States
    • Molly Whitt in household of Orin H Vanderwaibe, "United States Census, 1940"
    • Mally Boggs in entry for O H Vandermarker and Verne Witt, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"

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