Martin E. Boots [11437]

  General Notes:

1880 Piatt Co., IL census (Sangamon township) Dwelling 56,
Family #57: age 4, born IL; Piatt Co., IL Marriage record:
License #327; Book B, p. 171; Monticello Cemetery records:
Section F, Block 319, Lot 6 (owner, Charles Shaffer): aged ‘73y’
(married Sadie Abner); 1910 Champaign Co., IL census at
Champaign [Soundex 010 0008 0062]: age 34, born IL; 1920
Champaign Co., IL census at Champaign (27 North St.) [E.D. 7;
Sh. 7; ll. 72-75]: age 44, born IL — sharing home with niece,
Edna Shaffer, her husband Robert Winningham and their daughter,
Rosemary; niece, Florence E. Shaffer’s obituary [“Monticello,
IL” newspaper: 22-XII-1921]: ‘died at her home in Phoenix, AZ,
buried in Monticello [IL], pallbearers: Dale & Charkey Plunk, of
Monticello; W. T. Barnett, Charles J. Johnson, Martin Boots and
Richard Minor, of Champaign [IL]; survivors: father; 2 brothers,
Willard & Elmer, & 2 sisters, Mrs Edna Winningham & Miss Bernice
Shaffer, all of Phoenix [AZ] — mother & sister, Mary, died …
years ago’; obituary “Urbana Daily Courier” [Tues., 8 Mar 1949]:
‘died Monday [7 Mar 1949] at Rochester, IN, aged 73, burial
[Wed., 9 Mar 1949] Monticello [IL] Cemetery; married Sadie Abner
who died in 1931; came to Champaign about 40 years ago [c.
1909]; employed t a streetcar motorman and retired assistant
foreman of car barns in 1935; survivors: 2 daughters, Mrs Ellen
Dugeon, Miss Kathryn Boots & son George Boots, all of Rochester,
IN’ — daughter Ellen B. (Boots) Dudgeon’s obituary noted ‘2
brothers preceded in death’ excluding George [thus, possibly 2
unrecorded sons for this family]

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: streetcar motorman; assistant foreman of car barns, Champaign.

Martin married Sadie Abner [11440] [MRIN: 4397] on 16 May 1901 in Piatt Co., IL. (Sadie Abner [11440] was born on 14 May 1881 in Monticello, Piatt, Illinois, USA and died on 14 Oct 1931 in Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.)