Rachel A. Boggess (1918-1997)

Rachel A. Boggess

Daughter of Edmond Dargan Boggess & Mary E. Armstrong

Rachel A. Boggess was born on November 13, 1918, in Butler County, Kentucky.  She was the only child known to be born to Mary Elizabeth Sheridan Armstrong, however she was the eighth child born to Edmond D. Boggess.  Rachel was raised as the daughter of a clergyman, and thus moved several times with her family during her youth.  

She was living with her parents on a farm in Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky in 1930, where she was attending school.

After the death of her father in 1938, Rachel and her mother moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky.  They lived with her mother’s sister, Fannie Armstrong.  In 1940, Rachel was employed as a stenographer.

Rachel never married.  She lived the remainder of her life in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Rachel A. Boggess died on February 1, 1997 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.  She was 78 years old at her death.

Notes for Rachel A. Boggess

Birth:  Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.  Original data: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

Residence in 1920: Year: 1920; Census Place: Sacremento, McLean, Kentucky; Roll: T625_589; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 112; Image: 341.

Residence in 1930:  Year: 1930; Census Place: District 3, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: 771; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 1108.0.

Residence in 1940:  Year: 1940; Census Place: Jefferson, Kentucky; Roll: T627_1321; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 56-39.  Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Death:  Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.  Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.