Absolom Boots [11457]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Adam Boots” [LDS film#1033425] by Clyde S.
Boots, pp. 412-413, 427-429; 1860 Saint Clair Co., MO census
(Monegaw township) p. 1006 [ll. 6-21] age 51, born OH; farmer;
real estate valued $2000; personal assets $1000 (per C. S.
Boots: ‘Solomon Boots, 23 in 1860 census, might be a son’ [which
seems a certainty] — with the Absolom Boots household is a large
family surnamed ‘Hill’ ages 17-5, the 17-year-old (Edgar?) a
‘laborer’ and the youth of all 6 Hills suggesting family
relationship; Clyde S. Boots family chart: ‘bushwacked, wounded
on boat, Osage River, St Claire Co., MO, c. 1861’; Clyde S.
Boots Memoir on Garrett Boots (to Clyde Sharon Boots) [n.d.]:
born ‘1808’ & died ‘1869’ (deathdate contradicts his own
provided in previous chart, and unlikely in 1869 — Civil War
over); “History of Delaware Co., IN [1881] p. 240: ‘entered land
in Section 2 [Delaware township] 23 Nov 1833’; letter, Alice
Lake Ketson to Jack H. Boots [2-XI-1961]: ‘Book U [no location
indicated] p. 312, 15 Nov 1853: Absolom & Eliz. Boots of Saint
Clair Co., MO, Heirs at Law and by last Testament of Solomon
Boots, deceased, of Randolph Co., IN …’; Book U, p. 7: ‘U.S.A.
to Absolom Boots #5334 (Pres. Martin Van Buren) 20 april 1820
NEQ 35/6?18-1 W’; “Saint Clair Co., MO History” [1995] p. 25;
‘shot by rebels March 1862 on the Marias des Cygnes, body not
found’; Barbara Carpenter charts [>2001]: marriage

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Religion: Lutheran.

2. Occupation: farmer.

Absolom married Elizabeth Parks [886] [MRIN: 4726] on 19 Feb 1828 in Fayette Co., OH. (Elizabeth Parks [886] was born about 1814 in , , Kentucky, USA and died in 1852 in ?lafayette Co., MO.)

Absolom next married Mary Moore [3957] [MRIN: 1583] on 21 Oct 1856 in , St. Clair, Missouri, USA. (Mary Moore [3957] was born on 30 Sep 1822 in Henry Co., IN, died on 10 Sep 1900 in Taberville, St. Clair, Missouri, USA and was buried in Taberville Cemetery.)