Eleanor (“Ellen”) Boots [605]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Adam Boots” pp. 674-679 [LDS film#1033425];
“Peterson (Biedert) Family History” pp. 52-68 [LDS film#1036370]
by Clyde S. Boots: born ‘7-I-1849’ [though noting ‘age 3, 1850
census’]; marriage ‘?Frank Custer’ — probably because Elinore
Turnipseed married Frank A. Custer, so which Eleanor? — 1860
Montgomery Co., IN census (Sugar Creek township) p. 91: ll. 1-8:
age 12; 1900 Montgomery Co., IN census (Sugar Creek township)
[E.D. 108; Sh. 9A & B; ll. 43-51]: Eleanor Boots (sister), born
‘June 1852’, in Indiana, with the Nathan and Martha (Boots)
Turnipseed family; obituary (“Crawfordsville Daily Journal”
[Thurs., 22 Sep 1910]): ‘Ellen Boots d/o Asa & Elizabeth Rice
Boots, was born in Sugar Creek township 7 Jan 1849, lived there
all her life and died in Indianapolis 15 Sep 1910. Ellen grew to
womanhood on the farm accustomed to the work and duties of a
farmer’s daughter of that day, and married Jeptha McCartney, a
neighbor’s son, but marriage in her case proved a failure, as he
proved himself entirely unworthy of her love and affection … she
clung to him endeavering to reform him until he finally left
her, going no one ever knew where and but few cared. He never
returned and she finally applied to the court for relief, which
was given her and her original name, that of Ellen Boots, by
which she has ever since been known. She then went to the home
of her sister Martha, now Mrs Nathan Turnipseed, and was as one
of the family. Always of a quiet retiring disposition ahe
remained quietly at home and was now known as Aunt Ellen—a
particular friend of her sister’s children and who to-day feel
her loss more than all others. Some two years ago her health
failed and soon that dread disease cancer of the breast
developed and she began to decline rapidly. At the death of her
father she inherited quite an estate and all that money or
skilled physicians could do was done, she spending the last year
of her life in a private sanitarium at Indianapolis. On the day
of her death Mr & Mrs Turnipseed were visiting her. She was able
to be about her room and the doctors reported her to be as well
as usual, but the little spark of life was fast foing and as she
retired to her bed to rest, her heart ceased to beat and Aunt
Ellen was gone to her reward, leaving one brother, George Boots
and one sister, Martha Turnipseed, several nephews and nieces
and a host of friends to mourn. As she requested a lot was
purchased in Greenlawn cemetery where her remains were laid
Saturday morning surrounded by a large concourse of relatives
and friends.’

Eleanor married Jeptha McCartney [17638] [MRIN: 251] on 24 Jun 1870 in Montgomery Co., IN. (Jeptha McCartney [17638] was born about 1850 in , , Ohio, USA.)