Rebecca Booher ^{1 2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: KVPY-N4Z.

  General Notes:

!SOURCES:
1. 1830 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father.]
2. 1840 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
3. 1860 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
4. L. M. Booher
5. Will of Martin Booher jr. proved 2 Mar 1868 [copy in file #14]
6. Booher, Allen G. sr. MY OFTEN MISSPELLED NAME IS BOOHER
7. 1880 Ellis Co. TX census

!BIRTH: Source-6 p. 125

!MARRIAGE: Source-5 name given as Rebecca Washam, had to have married after 1860 as she was still at home in the census

DEATH:

BURIAL:

!ADDDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-5 "I give to Rebecca Washam $1.00";

CENSUS:
1880 Census Place: Precinct 4, Ellis, Texas
Source: FHL Film 1255301 National Archives Film T9-1301 Page 516C

!Rebecca E. WASHAM Self 51 TN Occ: Kpng Hs Fa: PA Mo: PA
M. Ella WASHAM Dau 16 TN Fa: TN Mo: TN
Nannie A. WASHAM Dau 14 TN Fa: TN Mo: TN
Laura A. WASHAM Dau 11 TN Fa: TN Mo: TN
William D. WASHAM Son 10 TN Fa: TN Mo: TN

  Noted events in her 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.

Rebecca married Washam after 1860.