William Martin Booher ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: KVPR-8LZ.

  General Notes:

!SOURCES:
1 Jerry H. Barrett, Lansing IL
2. 1850 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
3. Will of Martin Booher jr. proved 2 Mar 1868 [copy in file #14]
4. Booher, Allen G. sr. MY OFTEN MISSPELLED NAME IS BOOHER
5. 1860 Sullivan Co. TN census
6. 1870 Sullivan Co. TN census

!BIRTH: Source-4 p. 125 for date; Source-5 for state

!MARRIAGE: Source-4 p. 125 for name

!DEATH: Catherine was listed as a widow in 1880

BURIAL:

!ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-3 "I give to William Booher $1.00"

!CENSUS:
1860 Source-5 p. 180 #12-12 Dist 1 Holston Valley P.O.
Booher, William 53 farmer 500/385 TN
Levina C. 34 hk "
John 12 "
Rutledge 9
James E. 5
Martin 1/12

!1870 Source-6 [19] p. 384 #163-164 1st Dist 6 Sep
Booher, William 54 farmer
Catherine 46 hk
John 22 farm laborer
James 14
Martin 10
William 7
Eliza J. 4

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Subdivision 30, Sullivan, TN. ² On the same census page are two Booher households. Martin Booher, farmer, 74, was living with Ella, 61; William, 40; Louisa, 33, and Rebecca, 22. The parents were born in Pennsylvania, the children in Tennessee. Martin's real estate was worth $1000.

Next door is Peter Booher, farmer, 71, with wife Magdalin, 69; Jesse, farmer, 28; William, farmer, 23; Mary, 19; and Martha, 22. Everyone was born in Tennessee except Peter in Pennsylvania.

The next door neighbor is John Combs, 50, farmer, and his wife Mary and their family.

William married Levina Katharine Glover about 1847. (Levina Katharine Glover was born in Nov 1824 in , , TN and died after 1900.)