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Elijah Boggs, I (1784 - 1869)

Also Known As: "Eley", "Eli", "Elijah", "Ely", "Eli Boggs", "Ely Boggs", "Elijah Boggs"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
Death: August 08, 1869 (85)
Eolia, Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
Place of Burial: Oven Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Captain James Lee Boggs, I and Elizabeth Jane Boggs
Husband of Mary Tabitha Boggs and Sarah Margaret Boggs
Father of Silas Abel "Old Si" Boggs; Abigail "Abby" (Boggs) Maggard; William H. Boggs, Sr.; James Jimmy Boggs; Elihu Boggs and 22 others
Brother of John Osborne Boggs; Hugh Boggs, I; Ellen McKenzie; William Randall Boggs; Rebecca Cocke and 8 others
Half brother of Elizabeth Hannah Smith; John Boggs; Henry Boggs; Margaret Polly Birchfield and Jeremiah Birchfield

Managed by: Merle Simpson
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About Elijah Boggs, I

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68066767/elijah-boggs



According to the Kentucky musician George Gibson and Doug Naselroad, the earliest documented mountain dulcimer built in Kentucky was made in the late 1830s for a woman named Elizabeth Maggard in Letcher County, KY by Eli (Ely) Boggs.

  • Residence: Lee, Virginia, United States - 1820
  • Residence: Lee, Virginia, United States - 1840
  • Residence: Lee, Lee, Virginia, United States - 1850
  • Census: 1830 - Lee County, Virginia
  • Census: 1850 - Lee county, Lee, Virginia, USA
  • Census: 1860 - Letcher County, KY
  • Residence: Lee, Virginia, United States - 1820
  • Residence: Lee, Virginia, United States - 1840
  • Residence: Lee, Lee, Virginia, United States - 1850

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Elijah Boggs, I's Timeline

1784
August 8, 1784
Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
1812
September 26, 1812
Calhoun Creek, Lee County, Virginia, United States
1818
July 7, 1818
Eolia, Kentucky, United States
1823
May 19, 1823
Lee County, Virginia, United States
1825
1825
Lee, Virginia, United States
1825
Lee County, Virginia, United States
1827
1827
Lee County, Virginia, United States
1828
1828
Lee County, Virginia, United States of America