Martha Magdaline Booher ¹

   Another name for Martha was Lena or Dena.

  General Notes:

!SOURCES
1. Booher, Allen G. sr. MY OFTEN MISSPELLED NAME IS BOOHER
2. Descendants of Jesse B. Booher by Kathy McKown sent by Barbara Moss
3. 1880 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
4. 1900 Sullivan Co. TN census [see father]
5. 1920 Sullivan Co. TN census [see brother, Peter Cornelius]

!BIRTH: Source-1 p. 135, date of birth is estimated from date of marriage of parents; Source-2 for date and place

MARRIAGE:

!DEATH: Source-2 for date and place

!BURIAL: Source-2 for place

!ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-2 FUNERAL RITES FOR LENA BOOHER: Funeral services for Miss Lena Booher, member of a prominent Sullivan County pioneer family who died at 11:20 p.m. Thursday at her home, Beidleman's Road Holston Valley, will be held at 3 p.m. today at the residence. The Rev. O. C. Brown will officiate and burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Miss Booher was born July 1873, the daughter of J. B. and Elizabeth Carmack Booher. She attended Sullins College in Bristol, graduating in 1894. She was a member of Paperville Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a brother, Peter Booher, and a sister, Miss Jesse E. Booher, both of Beidleman Road, and six nephews and nine nieces. Two brothers, Dr. W. R. Booher and Joe A. Booher and a sister, Miss Sarah H. Carmack preceded her in death. Pallbearers will be Paul Booher, Cornelius W. Booher, Claude A. Booher, William Booher, Joseph Booher and Cornelius W. Carmack. Flower bearers will be niece and friends. The body was removed from Akard Funeral Home at 5 p. m. yesterday.