Everett Alexander Boggs

Brief Life History of Everett Alexander

When Everett Alexander Boggs was born on 24 November 1877, in St. James, Phelps, Missouri, United States, his father, Alexander Boggs, was 21 and his mother, Laury Bell Matlock, was 17. He married Bertha Rilla Moffitt on 24 November 1903, in Redding, Shasta, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1930 and St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1950. He died on 11 February 1957, in Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Saint James Cemetery, St. James, Phelps, Missouri, United States.

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Everett Alexander Boggs
1877–1957
Bertha Rilla Moffitt
1881–1907
Marriage: 24 November 1903
Velva Belle Boggs
1905–1996

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  • Everett A Boggs, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Everett A. Boggs, "California Marriages, 1850-1945"
  • Everett Alexander Boggs, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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