Milford chronicle., 1956-12-07
BOggS Families To
Hold Anniversaries
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friends to feel welcome to attend
our open house through this news
paper announcement, explains the
governors mother, who has been
looking forward to her golden
wedding anniversary for several
years. 1t is the request and wish
of both families that no gifts be
sent.
Scene of the party or -! day
meeting" as the elder Mrs. Boggs
likes to call it, will be the charm
ing farm house where the COVER
nOr's parents have lived for the
past 40 years. To reach the home
you turn right off the southbound
DUPONT Highway at the corner of
the G and P Super Market. The
Boggs' home is the second on the
right.
The Edgar Boggs were married
on December 5, 1906, at the home
of Mrs. Boggs' parents, the late Mr.
and Mrs. James Edward Vaughn,
near Kenton. Mrs. Boggs wore a
white Organdy dress which she
still has and can still wear.
Their wedding music was played
by a cousin, Mrs. Ethel Rowland
of Lewes, who will attend the an
niversary party as the only other
surviving member of the original
wedding party.
For the first 10 years of their
marriage, Mr.. and Mrs. Boggs
lived in another farm home near
Cheswold before moving to their
present home where Mr.. Boggs
operates a seed business.
Four sons were born to them:
James Caleb, reelected last month
to his second term as Delaware's
Governor; Austin, who died at the
age of 16; Edgar Clayton, West
Point graduate and U. S. Army Cap
tain, who was killed on Luzon in
the early days of World War II;
and Calvin, who served with the
Marines on GuadaIcanal, and who
is now associated with his father
in the seed business.
The Boggs have three grandchil-
dren: James Caleb, Jr., now a Sec
ond lieutenant in the Marine Corps
stationed at Quantico, Va; 10
year-old Marilu, the daughter of
Governor and Mrs. Boggs, and E..
Clayton, Jr., Son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Boggs.
The wedding of Governor and
Mrs. Boggs took place on the day
after Christmas, 1881, at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, followed by a re-
ception at Maple Dale Country
Club.
They were married by Rev.
Francis Skunk Brown, now of
BerkeIy, Cal, in the last wedding
to be held at the old Presbyterian
Church on S. Governors Avenue,
which now is the main building of
the Delaware State Museum.
Mrs Boggs, the former Miss
Elizabeth Muir, daughter of Mrs.
Hugh Muir and the late Mr.. Muir
of Dover, had Mrs. Rchert Mark
arian, the former Miss Dorothy Out
ten of Dover, as her only attend
ant. Mrs. Markarian, now of
Springfield, Mass, will attend the
anniversary party if possible.
Best man was Mrs. Boggs' bro
ther, Barnard Muir of Lewes. The
ushers were Johnny Walker, now
a Wilmington lawyer, and the late
Lewis Smith who was killed on
OkinaWa.
Following their marriage, "Cale
and Bess" Boggs lived for about
a month in Baltimore and then
moved to Washington where the
governor received his law degree
from Georgetown University and
later served in Congress as United
States Representative from Del
aware.
In their official duties over the
years, they have been present at
many formal receptions. But next
Wednesday they will be simply "at
home" with their families to re-
ceive anniversary good wishes from
their friends.
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