Marion Boots [122]

  General Notes:

“History of Adair & Guthrie Counties, IA” [1884] pp. 536-537:
‘senior member of Boot & Leach, hardware & mercantile business’;
“Descendants of Adam Boots” [LDS film#1033425] by Clyde S.
Boots, p. 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: Marion, who lives near Dale, IA] — ‘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 1, born in Indiana; 1860
Saint Clair Co., MO census (Monegaw township) p. 1021-1022 (also
p. 150) [ll. 36-40/1-3]: age 11; 1880 Dallas Co., IA census
(Union township) at Redfield [E.D. 54; Sh. 5; ll. 44-48]: age
30, born in Indiana; 1900 Guthrie Co., IA census (Beaver
township) [E.D. 53; Sh. 5; ll. 83-90]: age 51 — with family is
Marion Boots’ brother-in-law, Vern Burnham, 40; Guthrie Co., Ia
newspaper article [n.d.] ‘Marion Boots Family’ with 1903 family
photo: ‘10 children, 2 died in infancy’; “The Guthrian”
[14-V-1914: 1:1-2]: ‘lives near Dale [IA]’; “Guthrie Co., Iowa
Records,” Vol. II [c. .2000] pp. 287-289: summary of public
records pertaining to family, adding many details to the above
information and for the children; Morrisburg Cemetery, Dale, IA
[Block 3, lot 37] 1849-1940 father’; citing Guthrie Co. Birth
records ‘--- Boots, 6th child, b. 24 Jan 1884 Glendon, father,
Marion Boots, 34, b. Randolph Co., IN, merchant, mother, Martha
Ann Burnham, 30, b. Clinton Co., IN, delivered by James
Lonsdale, M.D., Glendon’ [this might be Wm. Marion Boots, but
elsewhere (as does C. S. Boots) gives birth one year later];
1920 Dallas Co., IA census at Linden [E.D. 120; Sh. 2; ll.
90-91]: age 70, born IN

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: hardware & agricultural implement store owner.

Marion married Martha Anne Burnham [1103] [MRIN: 30] on 12 Feb 1871 in , Guthrie, Iowa, USA. (Martha Anne Burnham [1103] was born on 6 Feb 1854 in Clinton Co., IN, died on 18 Jul 1926 in Dale, Guthrie, Iowa, USA and was buried in Jul 1926 in Morrisburg Cemetery, Dale (Guthrie Co., Iowa.)

Marion next married Mahalia Jones [5592] [MRIN: 2283] on an unknown date. (Mahalia Jones [5592] died in ?dale, IA.)