William R. Booher ¹

  General Notes:

!SOURCES:
1. 1850 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
2. Will of Andrew W. Booher written 19 Apr. 1892 [copy in file]
3 Ancestry.com: Online Family Tree: Erica Christensen - gedcom
4. 1860 Mercer Co. MO census
5. MOGenweb: Mercer Co. MO. cemeteries

!BIRTH: Estimate of date of birth is from census - Wm. 18 in 1850 [1832]; Source-5 for death date - used PAF to calculate birth date

!MARRIAGE: Source-3 for name; Source-4 has another wife

!DEATH: Source-5 for date

!BURIAL: Source-5 for place

!ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-2 "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."

!CENSUS:
1860 Source-4 p. 292 #1354-1354 Madison Twp.
Boher, W. B. 28 farmer 1000/500 TN
Sophia 18 MO
J. B. (m) 3/12 "

William married Laritha J. Dyer.

William next married Sophia. (Sophia was born about 1842 in Lebanon, Laclede, MO, United States.)