KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Madison Co.

JAMES H. BOGGS was born July 9, 1836, one and one-half miles southeast of
Richmond, Ky., and is a son of Edward C. and Elizabeth J. (Woods) Boggs, to
whom one son and three daughters were born and three reared.  Edward C. was
born September 27, 1814, one mile and a half south of Richmond.  He was a
prosperous farmer and owned considerable slave property prior to the war.
He was a strong Whig and a supporter of the Union.  After the war he,
however, affiliated with the Democratic party. He died March 27, 1878.  He
was a son of James Boggs, who was also born south of Richmond in 1793,
served as a common soldier in the war of 1812, and participated in the
battle of the Thames.  He married Phoeba Cornelison, born nine miles south
of Richmond, a daughter of Edward Cornelison. who was one of the pioneers
of Madison County and was of Dutch descent.  The issue of this union was
one son and four daughters.  James Boggs, above, was in turn a son of James
Boggs, who was born on board a ship while his parents were on their way to
America.  Elizabeth J. (Woods) Boggs was born five miles south of Richmond,
April 23, 1813, died September 23, 1886, and was a daughter of John Woods,
who was born in Virginia in 1777.  He had three brothers, Adam, William and
Andrew, and was next to the youngest. He also had five sisters.  He was a
son of Michael Woods, who, with his family, about 1780, came to Kentucky
and settled at Crab Orchard Station, and while there participated in all
the struggles with the Indians.  The male members of the family were all
large and strong and several of their exploits in Indian attacks are
mentioned in history.  Michael Woods and Hannah Wallace, his wife, the
great-grandparents of our subject, were born in Ireland.  They first
emigrated to Scotland about the middle of the last century; thence to
America, and settled in Virginia about 1775.  James H. Boggs was trained on
a farm and received a fair English education.  At the age of twenty-two he
began life on his own account, trading and shipping stock, which he
continued successfully until 1862, when he enlisted in Company F, Ninth
Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, under Jno. H. Morgan.  While on the Ohio raid
he succeeded in cutting his way out three times.  Finding that all escape
was impossible, he relieved himself of all his arms and road up in the rear
of the Federal troops and surrendered.  In October, 1863, he was sent to
Camp Chase, then to Camp Douglas, from which he made his escape by jumping
the fence; was captured, and for this act was thrown into a dungeon, from
which, with all the others confined therein, he made his escape through a
tunnel.  He immediately proceeded to the interior of the State of Illinois
and hired to work on a farm near Bloomington and Decatur, remaining until
the close of the war, in June, 1865, when he returned to Kentucky.  In the
meantime, in 1864, during the National Convention which nominated McClellan
for President, he was one of about 7,000 who went to Chicago, armed and
equipped , to assist in liberating Confederate prisoners.  The scheme was
detected, and the morning of the day before the attack was to be made on
the guards, he, with about thirty others, was in a hotel office in Chicago,
when soldiers appeared and arrested all but three, Mr. Boggs being one who
escaped.  Mr. Boggs married January 16, 1868, Mollie C. Pigg, daughter of
Johnson and Nancy (Mize) Pigg, who were natives of Clark and Estill
Counties.  Johnson Pigg was a farmer and a son of Anderson Pigg, a native
of Virginia, who married Polly Perry.  The issue from this marriage of Mr.
Boggs was eleven children, seven now living: Edgar C., Nannie M., Lillie
M., James H., Willie H., Otis T. and Rollie B.  Mr. Boggs and Mrs. Boggs
are members of the Christian Church.  After his marriage he resided two
years on Muddy Creek, seven years on Silver Creek, and in January, 1880,
located where he now resides, on 563 acres one and one-half miles southeast
of Richmond.  Mr. Boggs makes a specialty of breeding shorthorn cattle.
Poland China and Berkshire hogs, and Southdown and Cotswold sheep.  His
first presidential vote was cast for Bell and Everett, but since the war he
has been a Democrat.

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