Carson D. Booher ¹

  General Notes:

!SOURCES:
1. 1850 Sullivan Co. TN census, p. 23 #3 [see father]
2. 1860 Sullivan Co. TN census, p. 159 #3 [see father]
3. 1870 Sullivan Co. TN census [see mother]
4. Will of Andrew W. Booher written 19 Apr. 1892 [copy in file]
5. International Genealogical Index
6. Civil War Confederate Pension Records
7. 1880 Sullivan Co. TN census
8. Ancestry.com: Online Family Tree: Erica Christensen - gedcom
9. 1900 Sullivan Co. TN census
10. Tennessee Death Index 1908 -1912 http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/d-b03.htm

!BIRTH: Estimate of date of birth is from census - Carson 25 in 1870 - b. 1845

!MARRIAGE: Source-5 for date and place of 1st marriage, ditto 2nd

!DEATH: Source-10 for date, record #88145

BURIAL:

!ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-4 "I will and devise to my two sons Adam and Carson Booher the ballance of my land that is the farm I now live on to be agreeably divided between them share and share alike. I also will and direct that my two sons Jonathan and Adam Booher shall pay to my two sons [in the state of Missouri] William R. Booher and James D. Booher five hundred dollars that is Jonathan is to pay two hundred and fifty dollars and Adam two hundred and fifty dollars but in the event that my two sons now in Missouri should have joined the federal army or hereafter join it then in that case the five hundred dollars divided [sic] to them shall be equally divided between my other four children share and share alike."

!Source-6 Widow: Laura Booher, Pension # W7881, Washington, Carson Booher fought for the CSA as a private soldier in Co. E, 63rd Infantry of Sullivan Co. Men.

!Source-8 has this person as Carson Peter
[either the year of birth is incorrect for Carol or Elizabeth]

!CENSUS:
1880 Source-7Census Place: District 1, Sullivan, Tennessee
Source: FHL Film 1255281 National Archives Film T9-1281 Page 353B

Carson BOOKER Self 34 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: PA Mo: TN
Laura BOOKER Wife 19 TN Occ: Hskping Fa: NC Mo: NC
Jacob BOOKER Son 11M TN Fa: TN Mo: TN
Constance BOOKER Mother 83 TN Fa: MD Mo: MD

!1900 Source-9 p. 8 #146-149 1-Dist.
Booher, Carson Mar. 1841 59 m 22y TN PA TN farmer
Laira J. Nov 1861 38 3-3 TN NC NC
Mike Jun 1879 20 TN TN TN
Joseph C. Jul 1881 18 " " "
Elizabeth B. Sep 1884 15 " " "

Carson married Malissa Vance on 1 Feb 1868 in , Sullivan, TN. (Malissa Vance died before 1878.)

Carson next married Laura Lane on 16 Apr 1878 in , Sullivan, TN. (Laura Lane was born about 1861 in , , TN.)