Roxea (Handy) Bogart (1809 - 1891)

Born 1809 in Vermont

Ancestors

Wife of Isaiah Bogart — married 1833 in Tompkins County, New York

Died 1891 at about age 82 in Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio

Biography

Roxea “Roxy” Handy was born 1809 in Vermont. She was the daughter of Michael and Roxalana (Burroughs) Handy.

Roxy married Isaiah Bogart (a.k.a. Van de Bogart) about 1833. They made their home in Tioga County, New York where Roxy had at least seven children: Martha, Maria, Alonso, twins Charles and Frederick, Mary A. and Sarah Jane. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In May 1859 she was admitted as a member of the Presbyterian Church in Spencer, New York, giving up that membership in March 1866. ^[5]

Her husband and two of her sons were members of the 109th New York Regiment during the Civil War. At the close of the Civil War, the family moved to Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio, where Roxy’s brother Hon. Michael Handy was a prominent attorney. ^{[6] [7]}

Roxy Bogart died in Wauseon, Ohio in 1891. She is buried in Wauseon Union Cemetery, Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. ^[8]

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Sources

1. ↑ U. S. Federal Census: 1850, Spencer, Tioga County, New York
2. ↑ New York State Census: 1855, Spencer, Tioga County, New York.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCHZ-3MT : Isiah Bogart, 1860.
4. ↑ New York State Census: 1865, Richford, Tioga County, New York.
5. ↑ Book of remembrance, Presbyterian Church, Spencer, NY, 1815-1915; Bogart, Roxy (Mrs. Isaiah) admitted May 1859, Letter to Church, March 1866; online database, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8MF-6PX :Isaiah Bogart, Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 24, sheet 182B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1018; FHL microfilm 1,255,018.
7. ↑ The County of Fulton: A history of Fulton County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, by Thomas Mikesell, 1905, pages 276, 277: online source: Google books.
8. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 9692062; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9692062