Marcus Lee Booher ¹

   Another name for Marcus was Bocher, Bocker, Bosher.

  General Notes:

!SOURCES:
1. 1850 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
2. 1860 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
3. 1870 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
4. 1900 Kent Co. MI census
5. Dau's Blue Book for Detroit: including... Grand Rapids 1912
6. A - B Index to African American Newspaper Articles, Grand Rapids Public Library, 1830-1935
7. 1910 Kent Co. MI census
8. 1880 Hillsdale MI census
9. 1870 Hamilton Co. TN census [also listed at the Lookout Mt. Educational Institute as Marques]
10. 1920 Kent Co. MI census

!BIRTH: censuses for state and approximate date

!MARRIAGE: Source-5 for surname; Source-4 for given name

DEATH:

BURIAL:

!ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-5 p. 217 Grand Rapids Society alphabetical index;

Bocher, Rev. & Mrs. Marcus L. (Richards)
515 Fountain Street
Receives Tuesday
Miss Julia R. Bocher
Mrs. Theodore F. Richards

MISSION WOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. - he was pastor from 1875 to 1885

Source-6 M.L. Bocher to lecture on "Life on a Southern Plantation" 25 Jan 1893,, Vol. 6, 008 [Grand Haven Evening Tribune]

!CENSUS:
1880 Source-8 Census Place: Reading, Hillsdale, Michigan
Source: FHL Film 1254581 National Archives Film T9-0581 Page 271C

H. B. CHAPMAN Self 63 NH Occ: Capitalist Fa: NH Mo: VT
Elizebeth A. CHAPMAN Wife 61 VT Occ: Kpng Hs Fa: VT Mo: VT
Aseneth CHAPMAN Dau 30 MI Occ: At Home Fa: NH Mo: NY
Louis PLUMB Other 11 MI Occ: Wrk n Frm Fa: --- Mo: ---
M. L. BOOKER Other 30 TN Occ: Clrgymn Fa: NY Mo: TN

!1900 Source-4 p. 247 #227-330 2-Ward Grand Rapids 417 East Fulton St.
Bocher, Marcus Feb 1851 49 m 16yr TN TN VA clergyman
Elizabeth Apr 1852 48 1-1 NJ NJ NJ
Julia R. May 1886 14 MI TN NJ at school
Campbell, Alexander M. May 1873 27 CN Sct Sct physician

!1910 Source-7 p. 36 #173-185 325 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, 2nd Ward
Bocker, Marcus L. 57 m 25y TN TN VA clergyman Presbyterian
Elizabeth F 56 1-1 NJ NJ NJ
Julia 23 MI TN NJ
Richards, Julia A. 80 NJ NJ NJ

!1920 Source-10 p. 41 #142-173 515 Fountain St, Grand Rapids, 2nd Ward
Bosher, Marcus L. 69 TN VA VA no occupation
Elizabeth F. 67 NJ NJ NJ
Richards, Julia A. 90 " " "
Bosher, Julia R. 32 MI TN NJ

Marcus married Elizabeth F. Richards. (Elizabeth F. Richards was born in Apr 1852 in Whippany, Morris, NJ.)