Jesse Boots [3685]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Adam Boots” [LDS film#1033425] p. 634: ‘named in
[father’s] will (prior Aug 1839) — ‘reference to a son or sons
is made in the will of Adam but the name is not legible and it
is not clear whether it refers to a son by the first wife or
not’; Derrell Bridgman to L. Ellingham [letter, 28 Nov 2004]: My
wife has requested that I ask you if you have any information on
a Jesse Boots, b. abt. 1818, married Eliza Raney, b. avt. 1826
in Ohio. They moved to Shasta County in Northern California
where they lived the rest of their lives. They were her
ancestors.’; “Raney – Boots – Adams – Martin Records” (Data
given by the Martin children): ‘… Eliza Raney, born 1820, who
married Jesse Boots, born 1818, also of Council Bluffs. They
started west in 1863-64. Jesse Boots traveled overland by wagon
train and received a broken leg when his team ran away with him.
He was carried on a stretcher by others in the train. Eliza
Boots and her mother Catherine Raney, and her two daughters,
Martha, born 1858, and Mary, born 1850, went down the river from
Council Bluffs and around the horn. Mary celebrated her 14th
birthday on the river. They met Jesse Boots in California and
located in Nevada City, where Mr. Boots worked in the mines
around Grass Valley… & ‘Jesse Boots had passed away on July 5,
1888. Quoting from the obituary of the death of Mr. Boots:
(Jesse Boots, an old pioneer of the Shingletown area, met with
an accident on his horse, while driving cattle on his ranch, and
passed away Saturday, July 5th. He was the possesser of probably
the finest improved ranch in that vicinity, being a rustling and
enterprising man Jesse Boots had planted quite an acreage to
cherry trees, that were ideally adapted to that altitude … After
Jesse Boots’ death the Adams carried on at the ranch. Eliza
Boots passed away in 1910.’; 1850 Van Buren Co., IA census (Lick
Creek township) [p. 339; ll. 25-27]: age ‘29’, born VA; real
estate, $100; farmer; 1852 Iowa (State) census in Van Buren Co.,
Lick Creek township, page 39 [only index available at Sutro
Library, San Francisco, for state census]; 1870 Nevada Co., CA
census (Washington township) at Washington, p. 341: age 52,
miner, born VA

Jesse married Eliza Raney [4964] [MRIN: 1475] before 1850. (Eliza Raney [4964] was born in 1820 in VA ,?Hardy Co., and died in 1910 in Shingletown, Shasta, California, USA.)