Brief Life History 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 5 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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- Molly Whitt in household of Richard Whitt, "Wisconsin State Census, 1905"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary "Polly" Boggs - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth: 1867; Elliott, Kentucky, United States
- Mary A. Boggs, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1879
Historical Boundaries: 1879: New, Wisconsin, United States 1880: Langlade, Wisconsin, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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