 1819 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
BOOTH Moses Love |
| Birth |
1819 |
Tennessee  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- May or may not be a son. See below to make your own conclusion or even better, help us solve the mystery:
The bio below, which I found online, includes many facts about Moses Love Booth that would indicate he is a son of "my" James Booth. Then, there are other facts that indicate he is not.
M. Love Booth, retired farmer and merchant, was born in Middle Tennessee, Bedford County, in 1819, but owing to his father's early removal to Haywood County, he was reared there. The parents, James and Mary (Lofton) Booth, were both Virginians, and after residing in Tennessee for many years they removed to White County, Ark., and died at the home of their son in 1861.
He was a member of the Baptist Church, a Mason, a lifelong Democrat, and was for years sheriff of Bedford County. After his wife's death, which occurred in 1851, he married again and came to Arkansas. M. Love Booth is the third of their six children, four now living: John (deceased, who was a farmer in Tennessee), William (a farmer of West Tennessee), Samira (deceased), M. Love, Susan (the wife of Henry Bacon, of Mississippi) and Louisa (who is the wife of a Tennessee farmer).
Our subject has been familiar with farm work from his earliest boyhood, but his early advantages for acquiring an education were not so good. At the [p.134] age of twenty he was a farm hand, later a trader and stock breeder, and after his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Budrell he became an overseer, and successfully followed that-occupation for forty years. He then gave up that work and built a livery stable in Brownsville, his establishment there being the largest of the kind in the State.
In 1858 he came to Arkansas and purchased 320 acres of land near El Paso, seventy acres of which he cleared the first year. He was signally successful until the war broke out, when all his personal roperty was lost. He did not espouse either cause, and was not molested during those turbulent times. When he came to El Paso there were only two farms open here, but now the greater part of the land is in a high state of cultivation.
After the war he, with Thomas Warren, built a large mill, which was destroyed by fire, when he returned to his farm, which he again began to till. He became the possessor of 1,000 acres, and has cleared over 300 acres, and since giving each of his children a farm he still holds 310 acres. His wife died October 1, 1887, and since that time he has made his home with his children, and is at present living with J. T. Phelps, his son-in-law, in El Paso, where he has an interest in the store of M. L. Phelps & Co.
Mr. Booth was the first man to build a store in El Paso after the war, and is now managing a livery stable in that place, and, although he has attained the age of seventy years, he is an excellent business manager and is very active. Although quiet in his habits of life, he has always been interested in the public affairs of the county, and has done his full share in making the county what it is.
He joined the Masons while in Tennessee, and he as well as his children are members of the Baptist Church. His children's names are here given: Nancy (is the wife of Monroe Oakley, a prosperous farmer of White County), Rebecca (is the wife of John C. Harkness, a farmer of El Paso), Elizabeth L. (is the wife of Thomas K. Noland, a farmer of the county), Narcissus (is the wife of John Russ, a farmer and president of the State Wheel), Martha A. (is the wife of J. T. Phelps, a merchant of El Paso), Mosella B. (deceased) and three infants, deceased. Source
Similarities:
1. Moses Love Booth was born in Bedford Co., TN which is where James was living between 1816 and 1830.
2. Moses Love Booth's father moved to Haywood County, TN when he was a young boy. "My" James Booth moved his family to Haywood County.
3. Moses Love Booth's father was named James
4. Moses Love Booth's father was a sherrif in Bedford Co.
5. Moses Love Booth's brother was named William and he was a farmer in TN. One of James' son's, my third great grandfather, William "Billy" was a farmer in TN when this was written.
6. Moses Love Booth's sister was named Susan and she was married to Henry Bacon. Susan Bacon is in the census of 1850 living with who I think is "my" James Booth.
7. Moses Love Booth's sister is named Louisa. My James Booth has a daughter named Sarah Louisa.
8. Moses Love Booth named his daughter Nancy which was the name of "my" James' wife.
Differences:
1. According to this, Moses Love Booth's mother was named Mary Lofton not Nancy.
2. According to this, Moses Love Booth's parents were from Virginia but, in a census, James' son William "Billy" Booth said his father was from SC and his mother was from NC.
3. According to this, James Booth's wife Mary died in 1861 and he moved to Arkansas. My ancestor James' wife Nancy Ann Milligan died in 1850.
4. I beleive my James and Nancy had four children but the James in the bio had six children.
What I think possibly happened was, after James wife, Nancy Ann Milligan died in 1850, he married Mary Lofton and moved with her to El Paso, AR where his son, Moses Love Booth, was living. James then died at the home of his son in 1861. Whomever wrote the bio incorrectly thought Mary was the mother of Moses Love Booth.
If this is the case, then the children of James Booth and Nancy Ann Milligan Booth were Moses Love (b. 1819), William G. "Billy (b 1816), Susan (b. 1823), Penelope (b. 1829), and Sarah Louise (b. 1833).
Of course, another possibility is that there were two James Booths in Haywood County who arrived by way of Bedford Co., TN.
A third possibility is that Mary Lofton was James' first wife and Nancy Ann Milligan was his second wife.
There is one other connection I have found between Moses Booth and "my" Booths. On 11 Dec 1850, Moses L. Booth deeded forty acres of land to Leonard D. Cobb. John Hardy Cobb and W.G. (Billy) Booth witnessed the deed so there is a connection made between Billy and Moses Love Booth.
Regardless, I do beleive that James Booth was the father of William G. "Billy" Booth.
The four most important clues that indicate that are:
1. In the census of 1880 William was born in Tennessee in 1816 and his father's birthplace was listed as South Carolina and his mother's birthplace was listed as North Carolina. James Booth was born in South Carolina and his wife Nancy was born in North Carolina.
2. 31 August 1836, James Booth sold 50 acres of land to John Hancock for the sum of one horse which was valued at one hundred dollars. Thomas J. Castellaw and Edward Steele were witnesses. 1 Jan 1839, John Hancock deeded the same 50 acres back to James' son, William for $150 dollars. David Outlaw and Thomas J. Castellaw witnessed that transaction.
3. Where previously James Booth was farming the land next to the Brantleys, in the next decade, Billy Booth is farming that land.
4. Billy Booth named his oldest son James.
Above from Patricia, via email [1]
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| Person ID |
I12341 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
19 Mar 2015 |
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| Sources |
- [S1228] Patricia Ann Budd-Elberts, Patricia Ann Budd-Elberts (Reliability: 3).
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