3561. William Jason Fields
Fields, William Jason, (1874 - 1954)
FIELDS, William Jason, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Willard, Carter County, Ky., December 29, 1874; attended the public schools, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington; studied law; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also in the real estate business at Olive Hill, Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, to December 11, 1923, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; Governor of Kentucky from December 1923 to December 1927; returned to Olive Hill and was admitted to the bar in 1927; Commonwealth's attorney for the thirty-seventh judicial district of Kentucky from July 1, 1932, to January 1, 1935; appointed a member of the State Workmen's Compensation Board January 20, 1936, and served until his retirement on August 8, 1944; co-owner of an insurance agency 1940-1945; died in Grayson, Ky., October 21, 1954; interment in Olive Hill Cemetery, Olive Hill, Ky.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000113Accomplishments as Governor
* Created the state Purchasing Commission
* Raised the gas tax to fund road construction
* Established a state trade schoold for blacks in Paducah
* Established the Kentucky State Parks Commission
1613. Hugh Boggs
Hugh Boggs served in Co. B, 14th Kentucky Infantry (Union). He was shot and killed by John Skaggs, an ex-confederate soldier who had served with Hugh's brothers John, Jesse, and Doctor. The story is that Hugh was shot shortly after returning from the Civil War.
There may be some myth to this or at least the timing of the shoting is in question. Louisa Boggs, Hugh's widow, shows up in the 1880 census with children born as late as November of 1879.
REF: 1880 Lawrence Co., KY; 1900, 1910 Greenup Co., Kentucky census
BIRTH: REF: Blanche Stidham Hunter of Minford, Ohio for birthdate
RES: Lawrence Co., KY to Greenup Co., KY to South Webster, Ohio (REF: Blanche
Stidham Hunter of Minford, Ohio)RES: After Nora Wireman Stidham's (Nelson's wife) death in 1916, Samuel,
Nelson and his children, Elizabeth, and Samuel's grandchildren Vada and Goldie
Justice all moved to Ohio. They lived in South Webster, Ohio.REF: William Martin "Shag" Stidham of London, Ohio.
MILITARY: Union Army from Apr 1863 to Nov 1865.
REF: William Martin "Shag" Stidham. "The Boggs Family"
Source: GEDCOM (downloaded from the RootsWeb WorldConnect project) by David R. Stiddem and the Timen Stiddem Society (StiddemDavid@aol.com), 41 Dellwood Road, Worcester MA 01602. 508-791-9094.