(H717), h/o 1st Kate KNIGHT (1898), 2nd Fern DREISBACH (1937).
My paternal grandfather.
Birth: 1st born of three known children in Cherry Camp upper Tenmile district, Harrison, formerly Mongongalia county, West Virginia, formerly Virginia, having at least two g,grandfathers Veterans of Revolutionary war, died in a hospital in Minnesota. Was mayor of Carthage during the 1918 world wide flu epidemic, when reportedly, over 250,000 died in United States and upwards to 50 million worldwide. His father's first born son, David Wamsley, of first wife, born forty years earlier.
Home upon arriving in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 at age fifteen, as noted in 1890 Carthage City Directory 1st at 318 south Orchard street, with younger brothers, Tom and Hale, ~ with uncle Geo B Wood at 309 Orchard, then possibly (?) at 412 east Third street, 1896 bought Mrs Sarah RHOADES home on south Maple street, then was married March 1898. (1900 sold Mrs RHOADS a lot at 1138 south Maple on which she built a home)
Known Children;
I1058, Luke J, (1899-1974)
Hale, (1900-1900)
Elizabeth, (1903-1903)
I1059, Edith (1906-1996)
I1059a, S C, Jr (1911-1994). buried in Seaside cemetery with wife on Cape Cod, in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Tried carpentry, then into mining near Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas when married, returning to Carthage in 1900.
Both, son Luke and daughter Edith had in the past, noted he had helped save Park cemetery, along west side of West street, now Baker Boulevard, which likely was when its then owner S H Regan (whose father platted the original cemetery in 1879) created Park Cemetery Association a few years before his 1914 demise.
Around 1905, S.C. Boggess, of Carthage, and J.B. Gibson, Walker Koontz and F.G. Smart, of Webb City, who recently took a lease on 10 acres of the J.M. Whitsett land at Porto Rico and commenced drilling, made a good strike in the first hole put down. The ore was encountered at 130 feet and continued to 148 feet. The second hole is now down to a depth of about 60 feet. The prospectors will soon commence a sinking shaft to open up a prospect. ~~ Source: Mornin' Mail.
Sam was serving, in 1910, after removing to W W Calhoun's home at 1305 south Garrison , now 903, on Board of Director's of Central National Bank, where brother Hale became president during the 1929 depression, having started in 1896, when but a youth as its cleaning boy.
Sam became cashier (chief operating officer) for The Bank of Carthage April 1914 following Wilbur F Maring, The Bank of Carthage, which styled itself as the "oldest bank in southwest Missouri," dating its establishment to 1868, was a small but profitable institution located in the seat of Jasper County. These minutes and papers reflect the conservative economic philosophy of its officers and directors, who included J. P. Leggett and C. B. Platt of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed and Manufacturing Company (SEE collection R250), which was then and now one of Carthage's major corporations. Leggett, who died in 1921, was also a three-time mayor of Carthage, ~ ~ serving two years when he resigned to pursue other businesses such as real estate, insurance and mining, his position filled by Frank B Williams.
Sam became closely associated with his wife's uncle and 1st child's namesake, James Luke such as within his company:
James Luke Mining and Realty Company.
Officers were:
President: James Luke,
Vice-President: Bryon A Ash, and
Sec-Tres: S C Boggess.
Dr Charles B GUINN was active in many things including becoming 1st president of the Boggess Loan company when created in 1910. At the expiration of first year Mr S C BOGGESS bought out all of the other stockholders with the exception of the two shares which were held by Mr James LUKE [his wife's uncle], the president, Mr B A ASH as the vice-president and Mr Boggess the secretary and treasurer.
James LUKE removed to Sam's home at 1305, now 903 south Garrison avenue to live following December 1915 death of his beloved second wife, "Jennie" at their lovely south Main street home built of bricks from England.
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Sam and wife Kate built a summer country place, she named it COOLBROOK. eight miles east of town on what now is named Harmony road. Daughter Edith used it for her Girl Scouts and it was used several years as a Boys Camp before the Y M C A camp at Hollister, Missouri was purchased by a committee including Sam.
Sam and James LUKE, in 1916 purchased the Regan Building, updating and renaming it the Center Building multi-story brick structure located on west side of square next south to the Pollard building housing Ramsay Brothers Dry Goods store, it having been first brick commercial building constructed following Civil War in what then was known as The Regan Block replacing destroyed log home of former sheriff Norris HOOD, with the 1868 CASSIL created Bank of Carthage north, at corner of North, now Third & Main streets, building later owned solely by Jim Luke passing to 2nd son David C LUKE till sold after about fifty years.
1918 he buried his mother with her husband, her parents and five siblings in the 1964 Methodist church abandoned, restored 2004, Point Pleasant Cemetery, in Carpenter Hollow, on Wizzardism Run, within upper Tenmile district of Harrison county, West Virginia, installing a monument copied from the one installed at Park cemetery.
Sam and Kate's 1st home after March 1898 wedding was in Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas then August 1900 built a home on Hazel at Highland in Carthage, on a large lot uncle Jim LUKE gave them, thence when W W CALHOUN's removed to Kansas City around 1909 they moved into his 1880's built home at then 1305, now 903 south Garrison which burnt down between 1917 & 1920, was mayor 1918-1920, as afore noted, during the 1918 world-wide flue epidemic, then living at 524 west Sycamore before moving family to Kansas City in 1921 till late 1924, then back to Sycamore street, then after the death of Maj WETZEL into "Wetzel's Folly", 1205 south Main where wife Kate died. He moved next door for more space, to 1217 south Main when 1st born, Luke with his two sons returned to Carthage in 1928 (after loss of wife only 14 hours following his mother's death), then back to "Wetzel's Folly" four years later until 1935 when daughter Edith married and occupied the apartment so he removed to little house at 112 west Macon street behind 1205 Main which he earlier had moved onto the vacant tract for son S . C., was then married in 1937 removing to 1104 Jersey into 2nd wife's home where he was living when he became ill and went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and expired.
He loved to travel, taking family in 1918 & 1920 to California, many summers in Manitou Springs, Colorado, then after loss of wife took the two younger children to the Chicago World's Fair, to New York, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Upon return, after four years in Kansas City with the Industrial Loan and Investment Co, in late 1924 Sam became associated with Edward H Wyatt & Wilbur F Maring in the insurance business an agency that began in 1872 as the Black Agency, becoming Wyatt & Black, then Wyatt & Maring, then Wyatt, Maring & Boggess till Wyatt's January 1925 death then Maring & Boggess, accepting son Luke in 1928, then in 1938, following demise of Maring, named simply Boggess Agency, with Luke's son-in-law, Joseph H Miller, becoming a partner who bought out Luke around 1970. The agency contained the Boggess name for fifty-four years and ten months before it was dissolved during the 1980's into the Beimdiek company.
January 2, 1928, he and unnamed others, purchased the $100,000 Jasper County Title & Abstract company from H C Felker and W H Shepard, and was elected its new president, vice-president D W Replogle and his insurance agency partner treasurer, Wilbur Fisk Maring.
S C was very much surprised to be sole beneficiary of Edith Kerr, Judge Kerr's daughter in 1936 of that property at southwest corner of 5th and Main streets, where in 1874 was reported a lake across street which was later filled in and then in the mid 1930s, his last son, S. C. operated a loan company till removing to Saint Joseph, Missouri.
~ City Directory:
1937, at home at 1205 south Main street, before his second marriage. Partner in Maring & Boggess Agency along with son Luke J and the Secretary-Treasurer of Home Federal Savings & Loan on north side of square, with son, S. C. living in house he had moved to lot behind his home, brother H M, past president Central National Bank at #12 Ramsay building with a loan office.
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Carthage Evening Press,
June, 27, 1946
S C Boggess Passes Away At Rochester, Minn., Today
Death today claimed S C Boggess, prominent businessman and civic leader, who for more than four weeks was a patient in St Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn. He passed away at 5:12 o'clock this morning in the Rochester hospital.
Mr Boggess had been in failing health several months. Physicians at the Mayo clinic in Rochester diagnosed his ailment as congestive heart failure. Soon after entering the hospital there his condition became critical and Saturday gangrene developed in his left leg. His family was advised more than a week ago the end was near.
Mrs Boggess went to Rochester about three weeks ago and she and his daughter, Mrs Edwin Hough of Washington, D C, have been at his bedside since. His sons, Luke J Boggess of Carthage and S C Boggess, Jr, of St Louis, made frequent trips to Rochester during the period their father was a patient there.
Came Here as a Boy
Mr Boggess, who was secretary of Home Federal Loan and Savings Association and a partner in the Boggess Insurance Agency, came to Carthage from his native state, West Virginia, when he was about 11 years old. He was born August 12, 1874 in Cherry Camp, W Va. He made the trip with his widowed mother and two brothers, and with the exception of about four years when he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess had made Carthage his home since.
In his early business career Mr Boggess was in the mining business, operating mines in Joplin and Webb City fields. During the four years he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess served as treasurer of the Industrial Loan and Investment company, which had 14 branch banks in the mid-west.
Organized Loan Association
Returning here in 1925, Mr Boggess organized the Home Federal Savings and Loan association and since that time had been secretary of the organization. He also had been in the insurance business during that period. At one time Mr Boggess was cashier of the Bank of Carthage, at which time the cashier was the operating head of the institution.
Served as Mayor
Mr Boggess served as mayor of Carthage from 1918 to 1920 [during national flu epidemic]. Other service as a civic leader includes his work with the Chamber of Commerce, serving as a member of board of directors, and for a number of years was chairman of the chamber's road committee. Several of the state roads were brought into Carthage through his efforts. Mr Boggess also was a member of the original board of directors of the present [re-]organized in 1909, and served continuously in that capacity until his resignation a few years ago. He was president of the YMCA board 20 years. Mr Boggess also served many years on the Missouri state committee of the YMCA and was active in acquisition of the YMCA camp at Hollister for the association.
Active in Church Work
A member of the Methodist church, Mr Boggess for a number of years was on the official board and took an active part in the life of the church. He also was a member of all of the Masonic York Rite bodies.
Mr Boggess was married May 18, 1898, in Carthage to Miss Kate Knight, a sister of Sidney Knight. She passed away March 31, 1928 [Aprl 1, 1928]. He was married to Miss Fern Dreisbach of Carthage in 1937. The Boggess home is at 1104 Jersey street. Surviving Mr Boggess besides his wife, the two sons and his daughter are seven grandchildren, Mrs Joe Miller of Carthage, Ensign Jack Boggess, USN, now based at San Diego, Calif, Cpl. Bill Boggess, stationed at Buckley Field Colo, Nancy(sic) Hough of Washington, D C and Buddy, Stephen, and Sharon Boggess of St Louis. Ensign Boggess is here on leave.
Mr Boggess' two brothers, H M Boggess of Carthage and the Rev T H Boggess of Iowa, passed away several years ago.
The body will be sent to Carthage and will be received by the Knells. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
Mrs Boggess will be accompanied here by Mrs Hough and Nancy(sic). Mr and Mrs S C Boggess and children are expected to come from St Louis within the next few days. Lt. Edwin Hough, U S Navy, son-in-law of Mr Boggess has been in Korea about a year. Mrs Hough and Nancy (sic, Jane) plan to join him there later.
Last revised:07/27/14
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
My paternal grandfather.
Birth: 1st born of three known children in Cherry Camp upper Tenmile district, Harrison, formerly Mongongalia county, West Virginia, formerly Virginia, having at least two g,grandfathers Veterans of Revolutionary war, died in a hospital in Minnesota. Was mayor of Carthage during the 1918 world wide flu epidemic, when reportedly, over 250,000 died in United States and upwards to 50 million worldwide. His father's first born son, David Wamsley, of first wife, born forty years earlier.
Home upon arriving in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 at age fifteen, as noted in 1890 Carthage City Directory 1st at 318 south Orchard street, with younger brothers, Tom and Hale, ~ with uncle Geo B Wood at 309 Orchard, then possibly (?) at 412 east Third street, 1896 bought Mrs Sarah RHOADES home on south Maple street, then was married March 1898. (1900 sold Mrs RHOADS a lot at 1138 south Maple on which she built a home)
Known Children;
I1058, Luke J, (1899-1974)
Hale, (1900-1900)
Elizabeth, (1903-1903)
I1059, Edith (1906-1996)
I1059a, S C, Jr (1911-1994). buried in Seaside cemetery with wife on Cape Cod, in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Tried carpentry, then into mining near Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas when married, returning to Carthage in 1900.
Both, son Luke and daughter Edith had in the past, noted he had helped save Park cemetery, along west side of West street, now Baker Boulevard, which likely was when its then owner S H Regan (whose father platted the original cemetery in 1879) created Park Cemetery Association a few years before his 1914 demise.
Around 1905, S.C. Boggess, of Carthage, and J.B. Gibson, Walker Koontz and F.G. Smart, of Webb City, who recently took a lease on 10 acres of the J.M. Whitsett land at Porto Rico and commenced drilling, made a good strike in the first hole put down. The ore was encountered at 130 feet and continued to 148 feet. The second hole is now down to a depth of about 60 feet. The prospectors will soon commence a sinking shaft to open up a prospect. ~~ Source: Mornin' Mail.
Sam was serving, in 1910, after removing to W W Calhoun's home at 1305 south Garrison , now 903, on Board of Director's of Central National Bank, where brother Hale became president during the 1929 depression, having started in 1896, when but a youth as its cleaning boy.
Sam became cashier (chief operating officer) for The Bank of Carthage April 1914 following Wilbur F Maring, The Bank of Carthage, which styled itself as the "oldest bank in southwest Missouri," dating its establishment to 1868, was a small but profitable institution located in the seat of Jasper County. These minutes and papers reflect the conservative economic philosophy of its officers and directors, who included J. P. Leggett and C. B. Platt of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed and Manufacturing Company (SEE collection R250), which was then and now one of Carthage's major corporations. Leggett, who died in 1921, was also a three-time mayor of Carthage, ~ ~ serving two years when he resigned to pursue other businesses such as real estate, insurance and mining, his position filled by Frank B Williams.
Sam became closely associated with his wife's uncle and 1st child's namesake, James Luke such as within his company:
James Luke Mining and Realty Company.
Officers were:
President: James Luke,
Vice-President: Bryon A Ash, and
Sec-Tres: S C Boggess.
Dr Charles B GUINN was active in many things including becoming 1st president of the Boggess Loan company when created in 1910. At the expiration of first year Mr S C BOGGESS bought out all of the other stockholders with the exception of the two shares which were held by Mr James LUKE [his wife's uncle], the president, Mr B A ASH as the vice-president and Mr Boggess the secretary and treasurer.
James LUKE removed to Sam's home at 1305, now 903 south Garrison avenue to live following December 1915 death of his beloved second wife, "Jennie" at their lovely south Main street home built of bricks from England.
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Sam and wife Kate built a summer country place, she named it COOLBROOK. eight miles east of town on what now is named Harmony road. Daughter Edith used it for her Girl Scouts and it was used several years as a Boys Camp before the Y M C A camp at Hollister, Missouri was purchased by a committee including Sam.
Sam and James LUKE, in 1916 purchased the Regan Building, updating and renaming it the Center Building multi-story brick structure located on west side of square next south to the Pollard building housing Ramsay Brothers Dry Goods store, it having been first brick commercial building constructed following Civil War in what then was known as The Regan Block replacing destroyed log home of former sheriff Norris HOOD, with the 1868 CASSIL created Bank of Carthage north, at corner of North, now Third & Main streets, building later owned solely by Jim Luke passing to 2nd son David C LUKE till sold after about fifty years.
1918 he buried his mother with her husband, her parents and five siblings in the 1964 Methodist church abandoned, restored 2004, Point Pleasant Cemetery, in Carpenter Hollow, on Wizzardism Run, within upper Tenmile district of Harrison county, West Virginia, installing a monument copied from the one installed at Park cemetery.
Sam and Kate's 1st home after March 1898 wedding was in Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas then August 1900 built a home on Hazel at Highland in Carthage, on a large lot uncle Jim LUKE gave them, thence when W W CALHOUN's removed to Kansas City around 1909 they moved into his 1880's built home at then 1305, now 903 south Garrison which burnt down between 1917 & 1920, was mayor 1918-1920, as afore noted, during the 1918 world-wide flue epidemic, then living at 524 west Sycamore before moving family to Kansas City in 1921 till late 1924, then back to Sycamore street, then after the death of Maj WETZEL into "Wetzel's Folly", 1205 south Main where wife Kate died. He moved next door for more space, to 1217 south Main when 1st born, Luke with his two sons returned to Carthage in 1928 (after loss of wife only 14 hours following his mother's death), then back to "Wetzel's Folly" four years later until 1935 when daughter Edith married and occupied the apartment so he removed to little house at 112 west Macon street behind 1205 Main which he earlier had moved onto the vacant tract for son S . C., was then married in 1937 removing to 1104 Jersey into 2nd wife's home where he was living when he became ill and went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and expired.
He loved to travel, taking family in 1918 & 1920 to California, many summers in Manitou Springs, Colorado, then after loss of wife took the two younger children to the Chicago World's Fair, to New York, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Upon return, after four years in Kansas City with the Industrial Loan and Investment Co, in late 1924 Sam became associated with Edward H Wyatt & Wilbur F Maring in the insurance business an agency that began in 1872 as the Black Agency, becoming Wyatt & Black, then Wyatt & Maring, then Wyatt, Maring & Boggess till Wyatt's January 1925 death then Maring & Boggess, accepting son Luke in 1928, then in 1938, following demise of Maring, named simply Boggess Agency, with Luke's son-in-law, Joseph H Miller, becoming a partner who bought out Luke around 1970. The agency contained the Boggess name for fifty-four years and ten months before it was dissolved during the 1980's into the Beimdiek company.
January 2, 1928, he and unnamed others, purchased the $100,000 Jasper County Title & Abstract company from H C Felker and W H Shepard, and was elected its new president, vice-president D W Replogle and his insurance agency partner treasurer, Wilbur Fisk Maring.
S C was very much surprised to be sole beneficiary of Edith Kerr, Judge Kerr's daughter in 1936 of that property at southwest corner of 5th and Main streets, where in 1874 was reported a lake across street which was later filled in and then in the mid 1930s, his last son, S. C. operated a loan company till removing to Saint Joseph, Missouri.
~ City Directory:
1937, at home at 1205 south Main street, before his second marriage. Partner in Maring & Boggess Agency along with son Luke J and the Secretary-Treasurer of Home Federal Savings & Loan on north side of square, with son, S. C. living in house he had moved to lot behind his home, brother H M, past president Central National Bank at #12 Ramsay building with a loan office.
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Carthage Evening Press,
June, 27, 1946
S C Boggess Passes Away At Rochester, Minn., Today
Death today claimed S C Boggess, prominent businessman and civic leader, who for more than four weeks was a patient in St Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn. He passed away at 5:12 o'clock this morning in the Rochester hospital.
Mr Boggess had been in failing health several months. Physicians at the Mayo clinic in Rochester diagnosed his ailment as congestive heart failure. Soon after entering the hospital there his condition became critical and Saturday gangrene developed in his left leg. His family was advised more than a week ago the end was near.
Mrs Boggess went to Rochester about three weeks ago and she and his daughter, Mrs Edwin Hough of Washington, D C, have been at his bedside since. His sons, Luke J Boggess of Carthage and S C Boggess, Jr, of St Louis, made frequent trips to Rochester during the period their father was a patient there.
Came Here as a Boy
Mr Boggess, who was secretary of Home Federal Loan and Savings Association and a partner in the Boggess Insurance Agency, came to Carthage from his native state, West Virginia, when he was about 11 years old. He was born August 12, 1874 in Cherry Camp, W Va. He made the trip with his widowed mother and two brothers, and with the exception of about four years when he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess had made Carthage his home since.
In his early business career Mr Boggess was in the mining business, operating mines in Joplin and Webb City fields. During the four years he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess served as treasurer of the Industrial Loan and Investment company, which had 14 branch banks in the mid-west.
Organized Loan Association
Returning here in 1925, Mr Boggess organized the Home Federal Savings and Loan association and since that time had been secretary of the organization. He also had been in the insurance business during that period. At one time Mr Boggess was cashier of the Bank of Carthage, at which time the cashier was the operating head of the institution.
Served as Mayor
Mr Boggess served as mayor of Carthage from 1918 to 1920 [during national flu epidemic]. Other service as a civic leader includes his work with the Chamber of Commerce, serving as a member of board of directors, and for a number of years was chairman of the chamber's road committee. Several of the state roads were brought into Carthage through his efforts. Mr Boggess also was a member of the original board of directors of the present [re-]organized in 1909, and served continuously in that capacity until his resignation a few years ago. He was president of the YMCA board 20 years. Mr Boggess also served many years on the Missouri state committee of the YMCA and was active in acquisition of the YMCA camp at Hollister for the association.
Active in Church Work
A member of the Methodist church, Mr Boggess for a number of years was on the official board and took an active part in the life of the church. He also was a member of all of the Masonic York Rite bodies.
Mr Boggess was married May 18, 1898, in Carthage to Miss Kate Knight, a sister of Sidney Knight. She passed away March 31, 1928 [Aprl 1, 1928]. He was married to Miss Fern Dreisbach of Carthage in 1937. The Boggess home is at 1104 Jersey street. Surviving Mr Boggess besides his wife, the two sons and his daughter are seven grandchildren, Mrs Joe Miller of Carthage, Ensign Jack Boggess, USN, now based at San Diego, Calif, Cpl. Bill Boggess, stationed at Buckley Field Colo, Nancy(sic) Hough of Washington, D C and Buddy, Stephen, and Sharon Boggess of St Louis. Ensign Boggess is here on leave.
Mr Boggess' two brothers, H M Boggess of Carthage and the Rev T H Boggess of Iowa, passed away several years ago.
The body will be sent to Carthage and will be received by the Knells. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
Mrs Boggess will be accompanied here by Mrs Hough and Nancy(sic). Mr and Mrs S C Boggess and children are expected to come from St Louis within the next few days. Lt. Edwin Hough, U S Navy, son-in-law of Mr Boggess has been in Korea about a year. Mrs Hough and Nancy (sic, Jane) plan to join him there later.
Last revised:07/27/14
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
(H717), h/o 1st Kate KNIGHT (1898), 2nd Fern DREISBACH (1937).
My paternal grandfather.
Birth: 1st born of three known children in Cherry Camp upper Tenmile district, Harrison, formerly Mongongalia county, West Virginia, formerly Virginia, having at least two g,grandfathers Veterans of Revolutionary war, died in a hospital in Minnesota. Was mayor of Carthage during the 1918 world wide flu epidemic, when reportedly, over 250,000 died in United States and upwards to 50 million worldwide. His father's first born son, David Wamsley, of first wife, born forty years earlier.
Home upon arriving in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 at age fifteen, as noted in 1890 Carthage City Directory 1st at 318 south Orchard street, with younger brothers, Tom and Hale, ~ with uncle Geo B Wood at 309 Orchard, then possibly (?) at 412 east Third street, 1896 bought Mrs Sarah RHOADES home on south Maple street, then was married March 1898. (1900 sold Mrs RHOADS a lot at 1138 south Maple on which she built a home)
Known Children;
I1058, Luke J, (1899-1974)
Hale, (1900-1900)
Elizabeth, (1903-1903)
I1059, Edith (1906-1996)
I1059a, S C, Jr (1911-1994). buried in Seaside cemetery with wife on Cape Cod, in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Tried carpentry, then into mining near Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas when married, returning to Carthage in 1900.
Both, son Luke and daughter Edith had in the past, noted he had helped save Park cemetery, along west side of West street, now Baker Boulevard, which likely was when its then owner S H Regan (whose father platted the original cemetery in 1879) created Park Cemetery Association a few years before his 1914 demise.
Around 1905, S.C. Boggess, of Carthage, and J.B. Gibson, Walker Koontz and F.G. Smart, of Webb City, who recently took a lease on 10 acres of the J.M. Whitsett land at Porto Rico and commenced drilling, made a good strike in the first hole put down. The ore was encountered at 130 feet and continued to 148 feet. The second hole is now down to a depth of about 60 feet. The prospectors will soon commence a sinking shaft to open up a prospect. ~~ Source: Mornin' Mail.
Sam was serving, in 1910, after removing to W W Calhoun's home at 1305 south Garrison , now 903, on Board of Director's of Central National Bank, where brother Hale became president during the 1929 depression, having started in 1896, when but a youth as its cleaning boy.
Sam became cashier (chief operating officer) for The Bank of Carthage April 1914 following Wilbur F Maring, The Bank of Carthage, which styled itself as the "oldest bank in southwest Missouri," dating its establishment to 1868, was a small but profitable institution located in the seat of Jasper County. These minutes and papers reflect the conservative economic philosophy of its officers and directors, who included J. P. Leggett and C. B. Platt of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed and Manufacturing Company (SEE collection R250), which was then and now one of Carthage's major corporations. Leggett, who died in 1921, was also a three-time mayor of Carthage, ~ ~ serving two years when he resigned to pursue other businesses such as real estate, insurance and mining, his position filled by Frank B Williams.
Sam became closely associated with his wife's uncle and 1st child's namesake, James Luke such as within his company:
James Luke Mining and Realty Company.
Officers were:
President: James Luke,
Vice-President: Bryon A Ash, and
Sec-Tres: S C Boggess.
Dr Charles B GUINN was active in many things including becoming 1st president of the Boggess Loan company when created in 1910. At the expiration of first year Mr S C BOGGESS bought out all of the other stockholders with the exception of the two shares which were held by Mr James LUKE [his wife's uncle], the president, Mr B A ASH as the vice-president and Mr Boggess the secretary and treasurer.
James LUKE removed to Sam's home at 1305, now 903 south Garrison avenue to live following December 1915 death of his beloved second wife, "Jennie" at their lovely south Main street home built of bricks from England.
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Sam and wife Kate built a summer country place, she named it COOLBROOK. eight miles east of town on what now is named Harmony road. Daughter Edith used it for her Girl Scouts and it was used several years as a Boys Camp before the Y M C A camp at Hollister, Missouri was purchased by a committee including Sam.
Sam and James LUKE, in 1916 purchased the Regan Building, updating and renaming it the Center Building multi-story brick structure located on west side of square next south to the Pollard building housing Ramsay Brothers Dry Goods store, it having been first brick commercial building constructed following Civil War in what then was known as The Regan Block replacing destroyed log home of former sheriff Norris HOOD, with the 1868 CASSIL created Bank of Carthage north, at corner of North, now Third & Main streets, building later owned solely by Jim Luke passing to 2nd son David C LUKE till sold after about fifty years.
1918 he buried his mother with her husband, her parents and five siblings in the 1964 Methodist church abandoned, restored 2004, Point Pleasant Cemetery, in Carpenter Hollow, on Wizzardism Run, within upper Tenmile district of Harrison county, West Virginia, installing a monument copied from the one installed at Park cemetery.
Sam and Kate's 1st home after March 1898 wedding was in Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas then August 1900 built a home on Hazel at Highland in Carthage, on a large lot uncle Jim LUKE gave them, thence when W W CALHOUN's removed to Kansas City around 1909 they moved into his 1880's built home at then 1305, now 903 south Garrison which burnt down between 1917 & 1920, was mayor 1918-1920, as afore noted, during the 1918 world-wide flue epidemic, then living at 524 west Sycamore before moving family to Kansas City in 1921 till late 1924, then back to Sycamore street, then after the death of Maj WETZEL into "Wetzel's Folly", 1205 south Main where wife Kate died. He moved next door for more space, to 1217 south Main when 1st born, Luke with his two sons returned to Carthage in 1928 (after loss of wife only 14 hours following his mother's death), then back to "Wetzel's Folly" four years later until 1935 when daughter Edith married and occupied the apartment so he removed to little house at 112 west Macon street behind 1205 Main which he earlier had moved onto the vacant tract for son S . C., was then married in 1937 removing to 1104 Jersey into 2nd wife's home where he was living when he became ill and went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and expired.
He loved to travel, taking family in 1918 & 1920 to California, many summers in Manitou Springs, Colorado, then after loss of wife took the two younger children to the Chicago World's Fair, to New York, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Upon return, after four years in Kansas City with the Industrial Loan and Investment Co, in late 1924 Sam became associated with Edward H Wyatt & Wilbur F Maring in the insurance business an agency that began in 1872 as the Black Agency, becoming Wyatt & Black, then Wyatt & Maring, then Wyatt, Maring & Boggess till Wyatt's January 1925 death then Maring & Boggess, accepting son Luke in 1928, then in 1938, following demise of Maring, named simply Boggess Agency, with Luke's son-in-law, Joseph H Miller, becoming a partner who bought out Luke around 1970. The agency contained the Boggess name for fifty-four years and ten months before it was dissolved during the 1980's into the Beimdiek company.
January 2, 1928, he and unnamed others, purchased the $100,000 Jasper County Title & Abstract company from H C Felker and W H Shepard, and was elected its new president, vice-president D W Replogle and his insurance agency partner treasurer, Wilbur Fisk Maring.
S C was very much surprised to be sole beneficiary of Edith Kerr, Judge Kerr's daughter in 1936 of that property at southwest corner of 5th and Main streets, where in 1874 was reported a lake across street which was later filled in and then in the mid 1930s, his last son, S. C. operated a loan company till removing to Saint Joseph, Missouri.
~ City Directory:
1937, at home at 1205 south Main street, before his second marriage. Partner in Maring & Boggess Agency along with son Luke J and the Secretary-Treasurer of Home Federal Savings & Loan on north side of square, with son, S. C. living in house he had moved to lot behind his home, brother H M, past president Central National Bank at #12 Ramsay building with a loan office.
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Carthage Evening Press,
June, 27, 1946
S C Boggess Passes Away At Rochester, Minn., Today
Death today claimed S C Boggess, prominent businessman and civic leader, who for more than four weeks was a patient in St Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn. He passed away at 5:12 o'clock this morning in the Rochester hospital.
Mr Boggess had been in failing health several months. Physicians at the Mayo clinic in Rochester diagnosed his ailment as congestive heart failure. Soon after entering the hospital there his condition became critical and Saturday gangrene developed in his left leg. His family was advised more than a week ago the end was near.
Mrs Boggess went to Rochester about three weeks ago and she and his daughter, Mrs Edwin Hough of Washington, D C, have been at his bedside since. His sons, Luke J Boggess of Carthage and S C Boggess, Jr, of St Louis, made frequent trips to Rochester during the period their father was a patient there.
Came Here as a Boy
Mr Boggess, who was secretary of Home Federal Loan and Savings Association and a partner in the Boggess Insurance Agency, came to Carthage from his native state, West Virginia, when he was about 11 years old. He was born August 12, 1874 in Cherry Camp, W Va. He made the trip with his widowed mother and two brothers, and with the exception of about four years when he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess had made Carthage his home since.
In his early business career Mr Boggess was in the mining business, operating mines in Joplin and Webb City fields. During the four years he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess served as treasurer of the Industrial Loan and Investment company, which had 14 branch banks in the mid-west.
Organized Loan Association
Returning here in 1925, Mr Boggess organized the Home Federal Savings and Loan association and since that time had been secretary of the organization. He also had been in the insurance business during that period. At one time Mr Boggess was cashier of the Bank of Carthage, at which time the cashier was the operating head of the institution.
Served as Mayor
Mr Boggess served as mayor of Carthage from 1918 to 1920 [during national flu epidemic]. Other service as a civic leader includes his work with the Chamber of Commerce, serving as a member of board of directors, and for a number of years was chairman of the chamber's road committee. Several of the state roads were brought into Carthage through his efforts. Mr Boggess also was a member of the original board of directors of the present [re-]organized in 1909, and served continuously in that capacity until his resignation a few years ago. He was president of the YMCA board 20 years. Mr Boggess also served many years on the Missouri state committee of the YMCA and was active in acquisition of the YMCA camp at Hollister for the association.
Active in Church Work
A member of the Methodist church, Mr Boggess for a number of years was on the official board and took an active part in the life of the church. He also was a member of all of the Masonic York Rite bodies.
Mr Boggess was married May 18, 1898, in Carthage to Miss Kate Knight, a sister of Sidney Knight. She passed away March 31, 1928 [Aprl 1, 1928]. He was married to Miss Fern Dreisbach of Carthage in 1937. The Boggess home is at 1104 Jersey street. Surviving Mr Boggess besides his wife, the two sons and his daughter are seven grandchildren, Mrs Joe Miller of Carthage, Ensign Jack Boggess, USN, now based at San Diego, Calif, Cpl. Bill Boggess, stationed at Buckley Field Colo, Nancy(sic) Hough of Washington, D C and Buddy, Stephen, and Sharon Boggess of St Louis. Ensign Boggess is here on leave.
Mr Boggess' two brothers, H M Boggess of Carthage and the Rev T H Boggess of Iowa, passed away several years ago.
The body will be sent to Carthage and will be received by the Knells. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
Mrs Boggess will be accompanied here by Mrs Hough and Nancy(sic). Mr and Mrs S C Boggess and children are expected to come from St Louis within the next few days. Lt. Edwin Hough, U S Navy, son-in-law of Mr Boggess has been in Korea about a year. Mrs Hough and Nancy (sic, Jane) plan to join him there later.
Last revised:07/27/14
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
My paternal grandfather.
Birth: 1st born of three known children in Cherry Camp upper Tenmile district, Harrison, formerly Mongongalia county, West Virginia, formerly Virginia, having at least two g,grandfathers Veterans of Revolutionary war, died in a hospital in Minnesota. Was mayor of Carthage during the 1918 world wide flu epidemic, when reportedly, over 250,000 died in United States and upwards to 50 million worldwide. His father's first born son, David Wamsley, of first wife, born forty years earlier.
Home upon arriving in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri September 1889 at age fifteen, as noted in 1890 Carthage City Directory 1st at 318 south Orchard street, with younger brothers, Tom and Hale, ~ with uncle Geo B Wood at 309 Orchard, then possibly (?) at 412 east Third street, 1896 bought Mrs Sarah RHOADES home on south Maple street, then was married March 1898. (1900 sold Mrs RHOADS a lot at 1138 south Maple on which she built a home)
Known Children;
I1058, Luke J, (1899-1974)
Hale, (1900-1900)
Elizabeth, (1903-1903)
I1059, Edith (1906-1996)
I1059a, S C, Jr (1911-1994). buried in Seaside cemetery with wife on Cape Cod, in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Tried carpentry, then into mining near Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas when married, returning to Carthage in 1900.
Both, son Luke and daughter Edith had in the past, noted he had helped save Park cemetery, along west side of West street, now Baker Boulevard, which likely was when its then owner S H Regan (whose father platted the original cemetery in 1879) created Park Cemetery Association a few years before his 1914 demise.
Around 1905, S.C. Boggess, of Carthage, and J.B. Gibson, Walker Koontz and F.G. Smart, of Webb City, who recently took a lease on 10 acres of the J.M. Whitsett land at Porto Rico and commenced drilling, made a good strike in the first hole put down. The ore was encountered at 130 feet and continued to 148 feet. The second hole is now down to a depth of about 60 feet. The prospectors will soon commence a sinking shaft to open up a prospect. ~~ Source: Mornin' Mail.
Sam was serving, in 1910, after removing to W W Calhoun's home at 1305 south Garrison , now 903, on Board of Director's of Central National Bank, where brother Hale became president during the 1929 depression, having started in 1896, when but a youth as its cleaning boy.
Sam became cashier (chief operating officer) for The Bank of Carthage April 1914 following Wilbur F Maring, The Bank of Carthage, which styled itself as the "oldest bank in southwest Missouri," dating its establishment to 1868, was a small but profitable institution located in the seat of Jasper County. These minutes and papers reflect the conservative economic philosophy of its officers and directors, who included J. P. Leggett and C. B. Platt of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed and Manufacturing Company (SEE collection R250), which was then and now one of Carthage's major corporations. Leggett, who died in 1921, was also a three-time mayor of Carthage, ~ ~ serving two years when he resigned to pursue other businesses such as real estate, insurance and mining, his position filled by Frank B Williams.
Sam became closely associated with his wife's uncle and 1st child's namesake, James Luke such as within his company:
James Luke Mining and Realty Company.
Officers were:
President: James Luke,
Vice-President: Bryon A Ash, and
Sec-Tres: S C Boggess.
Dr Charles B GUINN was active in many things including becoming 1st president of the Boggess Loan company when created in 1910. At the expiration of first year Mr S C BOGGESS bought out all of the other stockholders with the exception of the two shares which were held by Mr James LUKE [his wife's uncle], the president, Mr B A ASH as the vice-president and Mr Boggess the secretary and treasurer.
James LUKE removed to Sam's home at 1305, now 903 south Garrison avenue to live following December 1915 death of his beloved second wife, "Jennie" at their lovely south Main street home built of bricks from England.
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Sam and wife Kate built a summer country place, she named it COOLBROOK. eight miles east of town on what now is named Harmony road. Daughter Edith used it for her Girl Scouts and it was used several years as a Boys Camp before the Y M C A camp at Hollister, Missouri was purchased by a committee including Sam.
Sam and James LUKE, in 1916 purchased the Regan Building, updating and renaming it the Center Building multi-story brick structure located on west side of square next south to the Pollard building housing Ramsay Brothers Dry Goods store, it having been first brick commercial building constructed following Civil War in what then was known as The Regan Block replacing destroyed log home of former sheriff Norris HOOD, with the 1868 CASSIL created Bank of Carthage north, at corner of North, now Third & Main streets, building later owned solely by Jim Luke passing to 2nd son David C LUKE till sold after about fifty years.
1918 he buried his mother with her husband, her parents and five siblings in the 1964 Methodist church abandoned, restored 2004, Point Pleasant Cemetery, in Carpenter Hollow, on Wizzardism Run, within upper Tenmile district of Harrison county, West Virginia, installing a monument copied from the one installed at Park cemetery.
Sam and Kate's 1st home after March 1898 wedding was in Galena, Cherokee county, Kansas then August 1900 built a home on Hazel at Highland in Carthage, on a large lot uncle Jim LUKE gave them, thence when W W CALHOUN's removed to Kansas City around 1909 they moved into his 1880's built home at then 1305, now 903 south Garrison which burnt down between 1917 & 1920, was mayor 1918-1920, as afore noted, during the 1918 world-wide flue epidemic, then living at 524 west Sycamore before moving family to Kansas City in 1921 till late 1924, then back to Sycamore street, then after the death of Maj WETZEL into "Wetzel's Folly", 1205 south Main where wife Kate died. He moved next door for more space, to 1217 south Main when 1st born, Luke with his two sons returned to Carthage in 1928 (after loss of wife only 14 hours following his mother's death), then back to "Wetzel's Folly" four years later until 1935 when daughter Edith married and occupied the apartment so he removed to little house at 112 west Macon street behind 1205 Main which he earlier had moved onto the vacant tract for son S . C., was then married in 1937 removing to 1104 Jersey into 2nd wife's home where he was living when he became ill and went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and expired.
He loved to travel, taking family in 1918 & 1920 to California, many summers in Manitou Springs, Colorado, then after loss of wife took the two younger children to the Chicago World's Fair, to New York, West Virginia and elsewhere.
Upon return, after four years in Kansas City with the Industrial Loan and Investment Co, in late 1924 Sam became associated with Edward H Wyatt & Wilbur F Maring in the insurance business an agency that began in 1872 as the Black Agency, becoming Wyatt & Black, then Wyatt & Maring, then Wyatt, Maring & Boggess till Wyatt's January 1925 death then Maring & Boggess, accepting son Luke in 1928, then in 1938, following demise of Maring, named simply Boggess Agency, with Luke's son-in-law, Joseph H Miller, becoming a partner who bought out Luke around 1970. The agency contained the Boggess name for fifty-four years and ten months before it was dissolved during the 1980's into the Beimdiek company.
January 2, 1928, he and unnamed others, purchased the $100,000 Jasper County Title & Abstract company from H C Felker and W H Shepard, and was elected its new president, vice-president D W Replogle and his insurance agency partner treasurer, Wilbur Fisk Maring.
S C was very much surprised to be sole beneficiary of Edith Kerr, Judge Kerr's daughter in 1936 of that property at southwest corner of 5th and Main streets, where in 1874 was reported a lake across street which was later filled in and then in the mid 1930s, his last son, S. C. operated a loan company till removing to Saint Joseph, Missouri.
~ City Directory:
1937, at home at 1205 south Main street, before his second marriage. Partner in Maring & Boggess Agency along with son Luke J and the Secretary-Treasurer of Home Federal Savings & Loan on north side of square, with son, S. C. living in house he had moved to lot behind his home, brother H M, past president Central National Bank at #12 Ramsay building with a loan office.
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Carthage Evening Press,
June, 27, 1946
S C Boggess Passes Away At Rochester, Minn., Today
Death today claimed S C Boggess, prominent businessman and civic leader, who for more than four weeks was a patient in St Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn. He passed away at 5:12 o'clock this morning in the Rochester hospital.
Mr Boggess had been in failing health several months. Physicians at the Mayo clinic in Rochester diagnosed his ailment as congestive heart failure. Soon after entering the hospital there his condition became critical and Saturday gangrene developed in his left leg. His family was advised more than a week ago the end was near.
Mrs Boggess went to Rochester about three weeks ago and she and his daughter, Mrs Edwin Hough of Washington, D C, have been at his bedside since. His sons, Luke J Boggess of Carthage and S C Boggess, Jr, of St Louis, made frequent trips to Rochester during the period their father was a patient there.
Came Here as a Boy
Mr Boggess, who was secretary of Home Federal Loan and Savings Association and a partner in the Boggess Insurance Agency, came to Carthage from his native state, West Virginia, when he was about 11 years old. He was born August 12, 1874 in Cherry Camp, W Va. He made the trip with his widowed mother and two brothers, and with the exception of about four years when he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess had made Carthage his home since.
In his early business career Mr Boggess was in the mining business, operating mines in Joplin and Webb City fields. During the four years he lived in Kansas City, Mr Boggess served as treasurer of the Industrial Loan and Investment company, which had 14 branch banks in the mid-west.
Organized Loan Association
Returning here in 1925, Mr Boggess organized the Home Federal Savings and Loan association and since that time had been secretary of the organization. He also had been in the insurance business during that period. At one time Mr Boggess was cashier of the Bank of Carthage, at which time the cashier was the operating head of the institution.
Served as Mayor
Mr Boggess served as mayor of Carthage from 1918 to 1920 [during national flu epidemic]. Other service as a civic leader includes his work with the Chamber of Commerce, serving as a member of board of directors, and for a number of years was chairman of the chamber's road committee. Several of the state roads were brought into Carthage through his efforts. Mr Boggess also was a member of the original board of directors of the present [re-]organized in 1909, and served continuously in that capacity until his resignation a few years ago. He was president of the YMCA board 20 years. Mr Boggess also served many years on the Missouri state committee of the YMCA and was active in acquisition of the YMCA camp at Hollister for the association.
Active in Church Work
A member of the Methodist church, Mr Boggess for a number of years was on the official board and took an active part in the life of the church. He also was a member of all of the Masonic York Rite bodies.
Mr Boggess was married May 18, 1898, in Carthage to Miss Kate Knight, a sister of Sidney Knight. She passed away March 31, 1928 [Aprl 1, 1928]. He was married to Miss Fern Dreisbach of Carthage in 1937. The Boggess home is at 1104 Jersey street. Surviving Mr Boggess besides his wife, the two sons and his daughter are seven grandchildren, Mrs Joe Miller of Carthage, Ensign Jack Boggess, USN, now based at San Diego, Calif, Cpl. Bill Boggess, stationed at Buckley Field Colo, Nancy(sic) Hough of Washington, D C and Buddy, Stephen, and Sharon Boggess of St Louis. Ensign Boggess is here on leave.
Mr Boggess' two brothers, H M Boggess of Carthage and the Rev T H Boggess of Iowa, passed away several years ago.
The body will be sent to Carthage and will be received by the Knells. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
Mrs Boggess will be accompanied here by Mrs Hough and Nancy(sic). Mr and Mrs S C Boggess and children are expected to come from St Louis within the next few days. Lt. Edwin Hough, U S Navy, son-in-law of Mr Boggess has been in Korea about a year. Mrs Hough and Nancy (sic, Jane) plan to join him there later.
Last revised:07/27/14
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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