Richard Oates Boggess was born on April 27, 1833
in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the last of six children born to Lemuel
Boggess, Sr. and Rachel Oates . His father died the same
year Richard was born, and his mother remarried three years later. He
grew up on the family farm in Muhlenberg, and eventually became the sixth of
thirteen children.
Richard married Sarah Elizabeth “Sallie” Railey on June 19,
1860 in Cass County, Missouri. He was 26 years old and she was 19
years. Sallie was born on May 14, 1840 in Lawrenceburg, Anderson County,
Kentucky, the daughter of Tarleton Railey and Mary W. Blackwell.
After their marriage, Richard and Sallie settled in Harrisonville,
Cass County, Missouri, where Richard was employed as an attorney. They
had two children:
Earle
Montrose Boggess born August 1861
Cecelia
Boggess
born 1863
In 1870, Richard and Sallie and their children were living in Grand
River, Cass County, Missouri.
By 1880, the family had moved to Kansas City, Jackson County,
Missouri.
Richard Oates Boggess died on August 3, 1896 in Jackson County, Missouri. He was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in
Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.
He was 63 years old at his death.
In 1900, Sallie was living with her married sister, Catherine “Kittie”
Hocker, in her home in Salt Pond, Saline County, Missouri. Her widowed mother was also listed in the
household.
Sarah Elizabeth Railey Boggess died on December 19, 1903 in
Jackson County, Missouri. She was laid
to rest beside her husband in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Independence, Jackson
County, Missouri. She was 68 years old
at her death.
Notes for Richard Oates Boggess
Birth: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual
Records [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
Marriage: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona
Research, comp.. Missouri
Marriages, 1851-1900 [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
1870 US Census: Year: 1870;
Census Place: Grand River, Cass, Missouri; Roll: M593_767;
Page: 580A; Image: 195; Family History Library Film: 552266. Ancestry.com. 1870 United States
Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
1880 US Census: Year: 1880;
Census Place: Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; Roll: 692;
Family History Film: 1254692; Page:224A; Enumeration
District: 007; Image: 0449. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
Death: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A
Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
Notes for Sarah Elizabeth Railey
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com. U.S.,
Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
Residence in 1900: Year: 1900;
Census Place: Salt Pond, Saline, Missouri; Roll: 902;
Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0141; FHL microfilm: 1240902. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States
Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2004.
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