Catherine Conner [15719]
- Born: 9 Jul 1821, Wayne Co., IN
- Marriage (1): John Odell Boots [10192] on 23 Oct 1836 in , Grant, Indiana, USA
- Marriage (2): David G. Jones [123] on 23 Oct 1854 in Miami Co., IN
- Marriage (3): Wingate Prettyman [125] on 16 Jan 1859 in Miami Co., IN
- Died: 14 Jul 1895, Knox, , Indiana, USA at age 74
- Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Knox, Indiana
 General Notes:
“Descendants of Adam Boots (1733-1803)” [LDS film #1036425] by
Clyde S. Boots, p. 596; Marion, IN Library Genealogical
Records; local news columnist W. H. McGrew, “Heavilin Family
Records Trace Early History of The Community” [n.d.]; 1850 Miami
Co., IN census (page 193A; lines 6-14): age 39; born in Ohio;
1860 Starke Co., IN census at Knox: age 38, born ‘IN’; affidavit
by Martin Boots, son of William Boots and grandson of Martin A.
Boots, made in 1913 (quoted variously, inter al. by Rose D.
Marsh, columnist for a Marion newspaper [n.d.]: “John O. Boots
and wife Catherine — both deceased and left surviving them sons
and a daughter to-wit.: Mary Boots married Joshua Prettyman;
William and Sanford Boots emigrated to the West and no address
or if living” — J. O. Boots & Catherine Connor Group Chart
(Gerald Boots & Sarahmay Griffis); obituary, “Starke County
Democrat” [Thurs., 18-VII-1895]: ‘died Sunday evening at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Prettyman, west of town, after
a prolonged illness, at the age of 74 years.”; per local
genealogical society informant, she is buried at Crown Hill
Cemetery, Knox, IN: Judi Stucky e-mail to L. Ellingham
[4-XI-2000]: ‘Catherine Conner was a sister of Wm. Nelson
Conner’; “Descendants of John Odel Boots” by Judi Stucky [2000
A.D.]; ‘corrections’ [J. Stucky: 2-XII-2000]: ‘Miami Co., IN’
marriage; ‘Wingate was listed in 1870 census but not later; 1880
Catherine is in Miami Co., IN alone. [Judy Stucky] suspects
Wingate buried at Crown Hill Cemetery, where his 1st wife &
daughter are buried. (Knox, IN)’
Noted events in her life were:
1. Occupation: housewife.
Catherine married John Odell Boots [10192] [MRIN: 4662], son of Martin Boots [12551] and Mary J. Odle [12568], on 23 Oct 1836 in , Grant, Indiana, USA. (John Odell Boots [10192] was born about 1809 in , Ross, Ohio, USA and died on 12 Dec 1851 in Somerset, Wabash, Indiana, USA.)
Catherine next married David G. Jones [123] [MRIN: 5710] on 23 Oct 1854 in Miami Co., IN. (David G. Jones [123] was born about 1816 and died in Oct 1856.)
Catherine next married Wingate Prettyman [125] [MRIN: 5712] on 16 Jan 1859 in Miami Co., IN. (Wingate Prettyman [125] was born about 1812 in , , Delaware, USA and died in 1870 in Knox, , Indiana, USA.)
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