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I came across this today as I researched. I am of Boaz descent. Amanda Boaz daughter of
Simeon is b.15 Feb 1848 d. 19 Apr 1868. Amanda Boaz is not a likely mother for Daniel. I
searched the marriage records found Daniel and Ambrose record below.I believe
Amanda's last name is not Boaz but Boas.Special thanks to Bill Morrison for the
Boas/Boaz posting. Hope this helps.
Daniel and Amanda Marriage
groom: Daniel Thompson
bride: Amanda E Boes
date of license: 03 Feb 1875
county of license: Jackson
date of marriage: 05 Feb 1875
place of marriage: , Jackson, Indiana
film number: 1314626
digital folder number: 4646675
image number: 00321
number of images: 1
Ambrose and Minnie Marriage
groom's name: Ambrose Thompson
bride's name: Minnie Baker
marriage date: 28 Feb 1912
marriage place: Bartholomew, Indiana
groom's father's name: Daniel Thompson
groom's mother's name: Amanda Boaz
bride's father's name: B. B. Baker
bride's mother's name: Elizabeth
indexing project (batch) number M01141-8
system origin: Indiana-EASy
source film number: 1301634
reference number: p 185
Boas/Boaz Family
Submitted by Bill Morrison
Thanks to my third cousin, George Vance Boas of Seymour, Ind., for providing me with a
small green-colored paper back booklet, The Henry Boas Family, 1770-1970, a
well-researched and documented piece of work since lost. For the minute details on the
Boas family, refer to that booklet if it can be found. What follows here is only a bare
outline of the Boas genealogy from Henry I to Judith Boas who married into our Morrison
family. ? W. C. Morrison 5th, 5/30/90.
HENRY BOAS I: Born October 30, 1760, in Hanover, Germany, emigrated with his parents to
America when about 15 years old. They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At the
age of 16, he enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a private for six months. He was with
General George Washington on that famous Christmas night when they crossed the icy
Delaware River to surprise the Hessian soldiers at Trenton, and participated in other
battles. He was discharged New Year's Day, 1777, after having suffered severely
frostbitten feet, the effects of which left him crippled for life. After the war, he lived
for 18 years in Baltimore County, Maryland, where he married Dorothy Baumgartner, who was
born in Maryland in 1756. Moved to Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky in 1791. Then
moved with Dorothy to Brownstown, Indiana, at the age of 56, where he lived until he
bought the old family homestead near Vallonia in 1822. Died March 4, 1838 at Medora,
Indiana, and he is buried in the Brow!
n graveyard, Carr Township. His wife died one year later, 1839.
HENRY BOAS II: Oldest of seven children of Henry I and Dorothy, born 1783 in Baltimore
County, Maryland, died October 10, 1839, buried in Vallonia Cemetery. Married Judith
Adkins, Apr. 23, 1806, in Harrison County, Kentucky, b. 1786, died Feb. 2, 1864. Both are
buried in Vallonia, Indiana, cemetery. Henry II appears juxtopposed to Henry I in the
federal census in Jackson County, Indiana for 1820.
GEORGE BOAS: Third son of Henry I, probably born in Harrison County, Kentucky. Married
Mary Cavender, probably in Harrison County, Kentucky. The 1820 federal census places him
and his family in Jackson County, Indiana, engaged in agriculture. Does not appear in
later census returns for Jackson County. Dates of birth and death and burial places of
both are unknown.
JUDITH BOAS: Daughter of either Henry II or George, above. The author of the
aforementioned Boas history has concluded that Judith's father was Henry II (see pages
17 and 35 of the Boas book). However, Judith's death certificate, based on information
provided by her son, J. P. Morrison, states that her father was George. (The certificate
also states that George was born in Pennsylvania - which we know is wrong - thereby
casting some doubt on the accuracy of the death certificate.) A document called
"Record of the Prince-Boas Families" (following in said book) further supports
the position that George was her father.
Judith was born July 31, 1826, near Vallonia - probably at home on the family farm.
Married William C. Morrison II of Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 3, 1843, at Salem, Indiana
and lived around Brownstown before moving to Marengo, Iowa prior to 1850. William died in
Norfolk, Nebraska in 1897. After William died, Judith moved to Los Angeles where her sons
went into the grocery business, and about 1901 moved with her children again to Canon
City, Fremont County, Colorado where she lived for two years before her death. Her address
was 923 Whipple, where her daughters Della and Clemmie lived 1908 City Directory). There
she died on June 9, 1902, at age 75, of bronchial tuberculosis. She was buried June 11,
1902 in Lakeside Cemetery in Canon City.
Notes on names: The surname "Boas" was "Boaz" on the 1840 census.
Judith is listed as "Judy" on the 1840 rolls.
The old homestead: The Boas farm a mile southeast of Vallonia, Jackson County, Indiana was
purchased in 1822 and remained in the family until 1918.
3rd cousin and source of some information: George Vance Boas, who in 1990 was located and
contacted at "George's of Seymour" tire store at 301 East 2nd Street,
Seymour, Indiana 47274. He died of cancer of the pancreas and liver on August 13, 1993.
William C. Morrison 5th
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