Venerable Citizen Gone S. R. Boggs Succumbs To Attack of Pneumonia Tuesday Evening at 6 o'clock After Short Illness. Mr.S. R. Boggs, a venerable and hightly respected Christian gentleman, expired Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock at his home in the eastern portion of the city after a brief attack of pneumonia, and was buried Wednesday afternoon in the Forrest City cemetery, Rev. J. R. Nelson, officating. Deceased was born near Holly Springs , Miss., November 24, 1834, where he lived until the breaking out of the civil war, when he entered the ranks of the Southern army and did valiant service for the lost cause. After the war he returned to the South and was married in 1868 to Miss Mattie P. Lamb, near Grand Junction, Tennessee. The family removed to Arkansas and settled in Forrest City in 1881, where the deceased was held in high esteem for his sterling, manly qualities and for his unswerving devotion and loyalty to his family and friends. He is survived by a heartbroken widow and one son, R. B. Boggs, and two little grandchildren, who are deeply grieved and bowed down in sincere contrition and sorrow. In years gone by Mr. Boggs nursed the junior editor of this paper through a critical illness, and sat patiently at his bedside night after night for forty long and weary nights. He was faithful and true, kind and gentle as a woman, and we ever afterwards esteemed him highly. Our heart goes out to them in this dark and bitter hour, but more especially do we condole with the frail and saintly little lad who had been bereft of her beloved companion in the twilight of life when perhaps, she feels, there is little left for her but to watch for the last golden sunset that will reunite them again in those ethereal regions where there is no death and no parting. May God comfort her dear heart and shower richest blessings upon her is the prayer of The Times and her legion of friends here.(NOTE:THANKS BRENDA FOR FINDING THIS OBIT IN THE FC TIMES NEWSPAPER)
- Brenda Huntley
Added: 3/7/2007


Private, Co. D, 34th Mississippi Infantry, CSA
Thanks Annie H Darracott, June 2012

"Galvanized Yankee". After service with the 34th Mississippi, and being captured at Lookout Mountain, Samuel Robert Boggs was sent as a POW to Rock Island, Illinois. It was while there, he took the Oath of Allegiance and enlisted with Co. B, 3rd United States Volunteers, Oct. 14, 1864. He was honorably discharged as a corporal. In postwar years, he applied for a pension based on his US service, and received a pension beginning in 1893. After his death, his widow also applied for a pension based on his US service. Boggs was born in York Dist,. S.C.
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Added: Apr. 1, 2013