Lilburn Wycliffe Boggs (1796 - 1860)

Born 14 Dec 1796 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Juliannah Julie Ann (Bent) Boggs — married 1817 (to 1820) in Greenup, Kentucky, United States

Husband of Panthea Grant (Boone) Boggs — married 13 Aug 1823 in Callaway, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Mar 1860 at age 63 in Rancho Napa, Napa, California, United States

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Preceded by 5th Governor Daniel Dunklin

Lilburn Boggs 6th Governor of Missouri 1836–1840

Succeeded by 7th Governor Thomas Reynolds

Biography

Lilburn Boggs is Notable.

Lilburn Wycliffe Boggs (December 14, 1796 – March 14, 1860) was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict between members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other settlers of Missouri. Boggs was also a key player in the Honey War of 1837.

In Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1817, Boggs married his first wife Julia Ann Bent (1801–1820), a sister of the Bent brothers of Bent's Fort fame, and daughter of Silas Bent, then a judge in the Missouri Supreme Court. She died on September 21, 1820 in St Louis, Missouri. They had two children, Angus and Henry.

In 1823, Boggs married Panthea Grant Boone (1801–1880), a granddaughter of Daniel Boone, in Callaway County, Missouri. They spent most of the following twenty-three years in Jackson County, Missouri, where all but two of their many children were born.

Lilburn Boggs was shot in 1842 in an assassination attempt. Orrin Porter Rockwell was charged with the crime, but acquitted.

On his Memorial Stone is engraved Lilburn Williams Boggs.

Uncle Lilburn never used a middle name as a signature and I believe that he did have a grandson named Lilburn William but family information has always provided his name as "Lilburn Wycliffe Boggs."

From Wikipedia: "That headstone was erected more than 50 years after Boggs' death by a local association that perhaps did perform due diligence. Wycliff is the name in the Boggs' family bible, letters, etc (my grandfather was the Governor's direct great-great-great grandson) someone changed Wycliff to Williams a few years ago on Wikipedia (it formally said Wycliff) and it spread like a virus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RKboggs

Sources

Find A Grave Memorial # 6414158

Lilburn Boggs on Wikipedia

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYY5-LSV

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M49Y-6QY : 12 April 2016), L W Boggs, Sonoma county, Sonoma, California, United States; citing family 118, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"California Cemetery Transcriptions, 1850-1960," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q287-KMH2 : 13 March 2018), Lilburn William Boggs, 1860, Napa, Napa, California, United States; citing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; FHL microfilm 2,100.

See Also:

• A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LILBURN W. BOGGS, BY HIS SON WILLIAM M. BOGGS. Napa, California, April 3, 1909.