Eli Boots [11799]

  General Notes:

“Men of Iowa Who Fought in the War of 1812” by Ruby Anderson
Mertes; “History of Adair & Guthrie Counties, IA” [1884] p. 536;
“Guthrie Co., Iowa Records,” Vol. II [c. .2000] pp. 286-299:
“Descendants of Eli Boots”; “The Guthrian” [14-V-1914: 1:1-2];
“Descendants of Adam Boots” [LDS film#1033425] by Clyde S.
Boots, pp. 4, 6; Clyde S. Boots Memoir: ‘born 6 Mar 1821,
Franklin Co., OH; died at his home in Dale (Guthrie Co.) IA, 3
May 1914, aged 93y1m27d; when quite young he moved with his
parents to Fayette Co., OH for 10 years, thence to Randolph Co.,
IN, where he lived 21 years; then he moved to Saint Clair Co.,
MO; about the time of the Civil War he moved to Guthrie Co., IA;
married in Delaware Co., IN to Eunice Jones, of VA; 5 children
[discusses each] — ‘since his wife’s death [1903] his daughter,
Rachel, has taken care of him; he was badly crippled with
rheumatism for the last 50 years, necessitating cruthes nearly
all that time’; 1962 Guthrie Co., IA newspaper article [n.d.]
‘Eli & Eunice Boots’: ‘descendants number ‘326, including 5
children, 23 grandchildren, 63 great-grandchildren, 122
great-grant-grandchildren, 113 great-great-grandchildren’;
letter, Alice Lake Ketson to Jack H. Boots [2-XI-1961]: ‘Book U
[location not identified] p. 263: ‘Eli & eunice Boots to Elijah
Harbor, 1 Aug 1853’; 1850 Randolph Co., IN census (page 142B;
lines 17-20): age 29, born in Ohio; ‘wagonmaker’; 1860 Saint
Clair Co., MO census (Monegaw township) p. 1021-1022 (also p.
150) [ll. 36-40/1-3]: age 37; farmer; real property value,
$2100; personal property, $500, born in Ohio

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Religion: Lutheran.

Eli married Eunice Jones [120] [MRIN: 4735] on 19 Sep 1844 in Selma, Delaware, Indiana, USA. (Eunice Jones [120] was born on 10 Nov 1825 in VA ,?Preston Co., and died on 20 May 1903 in Dale, Guthrie, Iowa, USA.)