Eunice Jones [120]

  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]; ‘his wife passed away 20 May 1903; 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’; 1850
Randolph Co., IN census (page 142B; lines 17-20): age 24, born
in Virginia; 1860 Saint Clair Co., MO census (Monegaw township)
p. 1021-1022 (also p. 150) [ll. 36-40/1-3]: age 35, born in
Virginia; 1880 Guthrie Co., IA census (Jackson township) [E.D.
77; Sh. 4; ll. 43-47]: age 58; Mrs. Lois Guthrie to L. Ellingham
[letter, 24-III-2001]: birthdate

Eunice married Eli Boots [11799] [MRIN: 4735], son of Martin S. Boots [11204] and Susannah Shumaker \ Shoemaker [11797], on 19 Sep 1844 in Selma, Delaware, Indiana, USA. (Eli Boots [11799] was born on 6 Mar 1821 in Franklin Co., OH, died on 3 May 1914 in Dale, Guthrie, Iowa, USA and was buried in May 1914 in Morrisburg Cemetery, Jackson Twp., Guthrie Co., IA.)