Boaz was the eldest child of Preston Belman Jaggers and Melissa Logsdon Jaggers. He was named after Melissa's brother, Boaz Logsdon.

When Boaz was a boy, his father Preston was a farm laborer and his mother was a homemaker. Preston and Melissa had two more sons, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas. Sadly, Melissa died in 1872 when Boaz was only 8-years old.

Just months later, his father married Virginia Lee "Jennie" Jones. She and Preston had 12 children during their marriage, but only seven survived.

In the 1880 US Census, 16-year old Boaz Jaggers is living in Senora, Kentucky (Senora is about 18 miles North of Munfordville) in the home of Woodford Reames a Blacksmith. Boaz is employed as a farm laborer and it is reported that he is the nephew of W. Reames; actually, he was the cousin of W. Reames, their mothers, Nancy and Melissa were sisters.

In 1887, 23-year old Boaz married 17-year old Lydia McNair Jones. Boaz was a farmer and in the winter he and Lydia would weave baskets.

Boaz and Lydia raised their family in the area around Munfordville, Kentucky.

The children of Boaz and Lydia Jaggers were: Amy Florence Logsdon (1888); Clara Bird Butler (1891); Delilah Ermine Nevitt (1893); Gracie (1895); Ethel May Harris (1898); Maymie Love Schumaker(1900); Geneva Pearl (1903); Jones Thurman (1904); Lydia Mac Bogard (1908); and Boze Edwin (1915).

His daughter Gracie was between two and five years old when she died, his daughter Pearl died of Diphtheria when she was about 13-years old, and his wife Lydia had three miscarriages.

His granddaughter Hartswell Butler remembered going to her grandparents farm to visit when she was a little girl and having a wonderful time. She said her grandparents had a big carriage with fringe hanging down from the top, there were always cousins and younger aunts and uncles running around the farm, her grandfather was a Sunday School teacher and he was very kind to her.

On September 30, 1920, just after his grandchildren Hartswell and Herb had gone back home to Louisville, Boaz wrote the following to his daughter: "My dear daughter, I received your letter a few days ago, so glad to hear that the children reached home all right. I had a good time with the children. I wish you could of been with us."

His grandchildren spent many wonderful weeks during the summers visiting their grandparents at the farm and 60-years later his granddaughter was still telling others about her memories of visiting her grandparents.

During 1920, Boaz and Lydia bought a home in Cub Run, Hart County, Kentucky. Boaz told his daughter Clara in a letter that he had build two porches and put new weather boarding on the house, along with two coats of paint. Even though they moved from the farm, Boaz still continued to farm because in August of 1921 he wrote to his daughter Clara to tell her that he had a good crop of corn.

It was the summer before his 59th birthday, Boaz Jaggers died. Almost 100 years later, his story, in part, has been told.