Sarah was a granddaughter of Sarah(?) and James F(S?) Brown plus Elizabeth (Kirk) who died 1853 and William Alexander Wood
(1766-1830), married 1796. William Alexander Wood served as an overseer (ca1810-1828) of Audley plantation (1810 census with 80 slaves)
and Lewelyn plantation for Lawrence Lewis (1767-1839) and Nellie Parke Custis' (1779-1852) both east of Berryville (formerly Battlefield),
about three miles apart. Audley was a wedding gift to them when wed early in year 1799 from George Washington (1832-1799) and is where she
moved following 1839 death of husband to pass her remaining years, disappointed with life her daughter was living in New Orleans. 
(www.clarkehistory.org/ search: Alexander Wood) 

John and Cassandra removed their family to  Jefferson county ca 1845 then in 1851 west by wagon to Harrison county's upper Tenmile creek area (10 years after her father freed his slaves and year her beloved uncle John died) along the Northwestern Turnpike (now U S #50). Joe Johnson, second husband of John's younger sister, Eleanor S (Wood) Brown who first married Cassandra's older brother, Henry Brown, journeyed with them. They later were reportedly visiting, with Joe Johnson and wife Eleanor (Wood), their older brother Alex Wood, Jr
(1805-1887) & family (unknown if Sarah was with them, she was with parents for 1860 census) with 114 slaves, near Millwood, Clarke county
during the John Brown (not related) incident at Harper's Ferry 16 October 1859, --- up all night at windows with guns in hand without any
incident. Best it can be determined from obituaries and family letters, --- this was most likely Tuleyries estate which is now the Virginia Arboretum. If one is going to Millwood on U S# 50 from Washington DC, instead of turning right to go to Millwood, you continue on west for about 2 miles. The Arboretum is on the left. 

Sarah with older brother James Alexander Wood (1834-1914), father of Clarksburg, WV 1908 mayor, architect, Edward John Wood
(1863-1943)  (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/harrison/bios/wood.txt ), taught school at Point Pleasant free school #7, on Wizzardism Run, up Carpenter Hollow (I believe to be the original Indian trail to Parkersburg), from Jarvisville road, on a site reportedly by Susan (Ritter) Lynch
(1869-1958), where a school existed in 1830 in which her grandmother, Mary (Colvin) Ritter (1789-1870), taught and possibly where church was
held during early relocation years. This was next west to 1855/6 relocated Mount Morris, now Maken/Pleasant Point Methodist Episcopal
church which was used for school when the school building burnt and next to its cemetery. www.rootsweb.com/~wvharris/lynch.html
 
Samuel Boggess and Sarah Elizabeth Wood were married thursday, 18 September 1873 by Rev C Conner in Salem, WV (Bk5: pg 90). Their first
born in 'extinct town' Cherry Camp, was my grandfather, Samuel Cleveland known as "SC" or "Sam", next, Thomas Howard near Bristol, then Hale M.
at Bristol. Stained glass windows honor their names in the existing, relocated, Bristol United Methodist church.

1880 census lists Sarah's family among the 58 Boggesses in Harrision county, together with her younger sister Henrietta Jane Wood
(1847VA-1928OK) in household. Samuel died 2 February 1888 (Bk 5: pg 8), was buried in Point Pleasant cemetery (1964, abandoned by Methodist
church) where Sarah's parents, John and Casandra, two brothers, William and Charles, two sisters, Frances and Lucy plus one niece, Adalide, ---
proceeded him. 

Fifty-three year old widow Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, her three young sons, Samuel Cleveland, 15, Thomas Howard, 13, Hale M, 10 y/o and likely her sister Henrietta Jane (1847VA-1928OK), arrivied in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri from Bristol, Harrison county, West Virginia September 1889. We believe Sarah moved to Carthage following Samuel's 1888 death, because her brothers, Thomas Kennerly Wood (1842VA-1918MO) to Missouri 1868 following civil war where he served20th Virginia Cavlary, CSA, becoming a Union prisoner at three prisonsand George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO) both proceded her. George, who lost his son ca 1885, became a successful builder of First Methodist church, High school (later known as Manual Arts building), Home Telephone company's system, Carthage Collegate Institute, Washington and Irving schools, H S Cowgill's Grand avenue home plus much more, thus providing possible future for her three sons. It isn't known if sister Henrietta Jane, living with Samuel and Sarah's growing family in 1880, or if brother Robert Albert, (1849VA-1926TX), joined in her western journey. Henrietta was second wife of William L Jarvis (18xxVA-1918OK), married ca 1892/3, a building contractor also from Harrison county, West Virginia, moving to Texas then Oklahoma, widowed 1918, living in Claremore, Oklahoma, and brother Robert Wood in Dallas, Texas at Sarah's death June 28, 1918. Henriette died 1928 at home in Oklahoma. 

Sarah occupied her home at 412 E. Third street built by brother George, raising her boys, spending her remaining active life till 1918 death there (www.rootsweb.com/~wvharris/boggessobit.html).

Sarah's body was returned to West Virginia, interred withhusband Samuel, her parents, John Wood (1808VA-1861VA & Cassandra Hess
Brown (1813VA-1864WV), two of Sarah'srothers, Charles Homer (1857VA-1860VA), William Franklyn (1845VA-1867WV) and two sisters, Lucy
Ellen (Wood) Ford (1841VA-1875WV), Frances Adelaide (Wood) McKinley (1838VA-1858VA) plus daughter Adelaide Nelson McKinley (1858VA-1859VA) of the eleven siblings, in Maken/Point Pleasant cemetery near Bristol,with 118 other known buried, in this cemetery abandoned by the Methodist church in1964. 

A group of us, all living more than 234 miles away, partially restored Point Pleasant cemetery in 2004 (http://community.webtv.net/billboggess3/MAKENPOINTPLEASANT) inspired by Bertha Webb, who with her late husband Bud restored and lived in
easterly (Susie Ritter's) of "Twin Houses" built ca 1904, southwest corner of highway #50 & Jarvisville road, --- a neighbor of the cemetery. We had property corners established, installing foot bridge, steps, fence & gates, clearing rubbish and overgrowth, and an identification sign, leaving damaged monuments and gravestones for family members to do with as they wished. The Boggess monument had been topelled and was broken. It's to heavy to re-erect, being a duplicate of one in Carthage Park cemetery, Blk 33, Lot 98, made of Georgian Marble and placed by M T FRUM MARBLE WORKS of Salem, West Virginia following Sarah's 1918 burial. 

Her parent's, John and Cassandra, stones weren't found in 2002 search by Leanne Williams and Bertha, but found in 2003 by David Owings
and Bertha, partially buried and broken, of as were many other stones throughout this one-plus acre cemetery, likely trampled and broken by
illegally roaming livestock since 1964 when the Methodist church abandoned these 127 known graves on an acre of land a relocated
cemetery, formerly the Mount Morris cemetery started 1837, lost to railroad constructon ca 1855 along norh side of what now is highway #50,
originally built in1837. 

Also, since 1899, oil and gas has been pumped from beneath this property, with its mineral rights intact, with NOT ONE RED CENT in
payment from those profiting from selling it, starting over 100 years ago, 1899, at $1.56/barrel, to nearly $100/barrel today. Just doesn't
seem fair to me, 'big oil' taking advantage of 'a little old abandoned graveyard'!!! 

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Compiled 03/05/06 (revised 01/20/08) by 
William (Bill) Samuel Boggess raised at Carthage, Missouri(ah). 

Much of above from the following sources: 

'Baugus, Boggus, & Boggess Footprints On The Sands Of Time', Vol. I,
1993, Vol. II, 1994 & Supplements. Copyrighted by Joanna Fox,
Drakesboro, Kentucky & JoAnn Smith, Vida, Oregon 

Hardesty's 1882 Biographical Atlas of Harrison County 

David L Owings, Joe Baughman and Clarke county, VA archivist, for "Wood" 

Ree Jarrett for "Boggess" 

www.rootsweb.com/~wvharris/bristolhis.html 

www.rootsweb.com/~wvharris/lynch.html