George Boots [121]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Adam Boots” [LDS film#1033425] by Clyde S.
Boots, pp. 6, 8; 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: ‘George, who died in Linden a few years ago’] —
‘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’; 1850
Randolph Co., IN census (page 142B; lines 17-20): age 5, born in
Indiana; 1860 Saint Clair Co., MO census (Monegaw township) p.
1021-1022 (also p. 150) [ll. 36-40/1-3]: age 14, born in
Indiana; 1880 Guthrie Co., IA census (Jackson township) [E.D.
77; Sh. 4; ll. 43-47]: age 33 — servant, Wm. Fetters, age 23,
born in Indiana, with family; 1900 Dallas Co., IA census at
Linden [E.D. 11; Sh. 1; ll. 79-85]: age 54; 1962 Guthrie Co., IA
newspaper article [n.d.] ‘Eli & Eunice Boots’: ‘George died
1901’; “The Guthrian” [14-V-1914: 1:1-2]: ‘George died in Linden
a few years ago’; obituary, “Guthrie County Vedette” Panora, IA
[1-VIII-1901:1:1]: surivors, wife & 3 of 5 children

George married Susan Crouse [1100] [MRIN: 29] in 1864 in , Guthrie, Iowa, USA. (Susan Crouse [1100] was born on 23 Dec 1848 in Owen Co., IN, died on 26 Feb 1920 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA and was buried in 1920 in West Linn Cemetery, Linden (Dallas Co., Iowa.)