Samuel Boots [11526]
- Born: About 1817, , Ross, Ohio, USA
- Marriage: Lydia Ann Gross [3932] on 21 Jul 1842 in Pike Co., IL
- Died: Mar 1862, , St. Clair, Missouri, USA at age 45
General Notes:
“Descendants of Adam Boots (1733-1803)” (1966; 1977) [LDS flim #1036425] p. 453: family per 1850 Pike Co., IL & 1860 Saint Clair Co., MO censuses; 1860 Saint Clair Co., MO census (Monegaw township) p. 1004 [ll. 14-22]: age 43, born OH; farmer; real estate valued $2000; personal assets $500; Clyde S. Boots family chart: ‘killed near Osceola, MO, Osage River, c. 1861’; Clyde S. Boots Memoir on Garrett Boots (to Clyde Sharon Boots) [n.d.]: died ‘1869’ — unlikely, but possible, since earlier deathdate probable for a Civil War-related murder (as story told by C. S. Boots in previous chart); “Saint Clair Co., MO History” [1995] p. 26: ‘shot by rebels March 1862 on the Marias des Cygnes, body not found’; Barbara Carpenter family group sheet (all marriage dates, his & wife’s); died ‘Mar 1862 on the Marais des Cygnes River (body never found)’; ‘Samuel & Lydia came to Saint Clair Co., MO in 1854; in 1900 Lydia was widow again & occupation was capitalist’; “Descendants of Hans Adam Stieffel” by Sherrin Winn Rooney [2001]: born ‘1810’
Noted events in his life were:
1. Religion: Lutheran.
2. Occupation: gunsmith, farmer.
Samuel married Lydia Ann Gross [3932] [MRIN: 5778] on 21 Jul 1842 in Pike Co., IL. (Lydia Ann Gross [3932] was born on 7 Oct 1824 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA, died on 11 Jan 1919 in , St. Clair, Missouri, USA and was buried in Good Cemetery, Near Taberville, Missouri.)
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