Lucy Boots [11173]

  General Notes:

genforum “Boots Page” (25-II-2001), message 179, posted by
Christine (Petrie) Grimm: ‘Nelson R. Boots … supposed to be from
Indiana, married Rhoda (Sailor) date unknown … he lived in Iowa
and have only found one child, daughter Lucy (my gr-grandmother)
born 9/20/1867’; Christine Grimm to L. Ellingham [14-VIII-2001]:
‘My grandmother’s parents were Charles Orvis who was married to
Lucy Boots … their marriage application lists Rhodilla and
Nelson as Lucy’s parents. I have a copy of the 1900 census that
lists Charles and Lucy and children my grandmother among them.’;
[e-mail 18-VIII-2001]: ‘died 8/27/1933, buried with the Orvis
family in Riverside Cemetery, Shell Rock, IA’; Riverside
Cemetery records, Shell Rock, IA: graves 9A: ‘Lucy Boots,
9-20-1867 / 8-27-1933’ w/Charles H. Orvis, Otto R. Ortman, etc;
obituary, “Waterloo Courier” [31-VIII-1933]: ‘services at Shell
Rock Methodist church … died (probable angina) at La Porte
city’; 1880 Bremer Co., IA census (Jackson township) [E.D. 71;
Sh. 13; ll. 8-17]: age 13, presented as ‘Lucy Sailor, daughter
of Wm. & Fanny Sailer [Lucy’s grandparents], b. IA [parents like
the Sailors, b. KY & OH], with the current Wm. Sailor family;
1900 Black Hawk Co., IA census (Mt. Vernon township) [E.D. 16;
Sh. 6; ll. 65-72]: age 32, b. IA; father b. IN, mother b. IN;
married 15 years, 5 children born, 5 living — foster-child, Emma
Barnhouse, 15, with family; 1915 Iowa State census for Black
Hawk Co.: age 45, 90 Commercial St, Waterloo, IA; b. IA as were
parents; married; 1920 Black Hawk Co., IA census [E.D. 12; Sh.
2; ll. 63-64] on Cedar Falls Rd.: age 52, b. IA; Clara M. Walker
to L. Ellingham [3-XI-2001]: some data on this family

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Religion: Methodist.

Lucy married Charles Henry Orvis [11217] [MRIN: 4305] in 1884 in , , Iowa, USA. (Charles Henry Orvis [11217] was born on 16 Mar 1868 in Butler Co., IA, died on 17 Mar 1946 in Waverly, Bremer, Iowa, USA and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Shell Rock, Iowa.)