Loranza D. Boggs (1867 - 1962)

Born 3 Aug 1867 in Millstone, Ingrams Creek, Letcher, Kentucky, USA

Husband of Mary Ann (Roark) Boggs — married 26 Jun 1887 in Flint, Letcher, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 27 Aug 1962 at age 95 in Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Loranza D. Boggs was born to Ursula Ison Boggs, 3 Aug 1867, when she was between her first and second marriage. She was living with her sister, Mary Ann Ison Ingram, in Millstone, Letcher County, KY, at the time of his birth. Ursula was living in CaneBrake, on Black Mountain, Wise County, VA, when her first husband, John R. Boggs, was killed at Gettysburg. She was expecting their youngest son, Jesse, at the time of his death. After the birth of Jesse, in March 1864, Ursula left Virginia and moved across the mountain to Letcher County, KY. Because of the Civil War, life there without her husband, was very difficult. She left her home to be closer to family, where she would have help raising her children.

Loranza married Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Roark in June of 1867. They had 13 children together, 9 grew to adulthood, married and raised families of their own.

Loranza and Polly Ann lived for most of their married life on Ingrams Creek, in Boggs Holler, Flint, Letcher County, KY. After Polly Ann had a stroke in 1948, they left Kentucky and moved to Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, where they lived with my grandparents, Henry and Pearlie Boggs Frazier. Pearlie was their 5th born child.

Polly Ann died about four years later, in May of 1952 at the home of her daughter, Pearlie. Loranza would live 10 more years without his beloved Polly Ann. They chose to be buried in the family cemetery on the hill behind their home in Flint, on Ingrams Creek, in Kentucky. It was originally called Jones Boggs Cemetery but is now known as Morgan Jones Cemetery, as their daughter, Mattie and her husband Floyd Morgan, made their home there on the same land.

Thanks to yDNA testing of the only known male to male descendant of Loranza, we know that he is a descendant of James Boggs 1752 - 1835, through a descendant of his son, Elijah.

Research Notes

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Loranza was born in 1867. He passed away in 1962.

Sources

See also:

• Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates; Year: 1962; Roll: 11