Booker
Genealogy

Sullivan Co. Indiana

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This page is about the Booker families in Sullivan Co. IN and the possible relationship to Synthia (Portwood) Davidson and her Brother Simpson Portwood.
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The William Jarrett Booker Family

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William Jarrett Booker's child, William A. Booker, was buried at the small Hackett Cemetery along with Cynthia Davidson and Cynthia's mother, Elizabeth Portwood.

Extracted from:
http://home.centurytel.net/frdmyrdu/Booker/chap_3-1.htm
William Jarrett Booker, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Booker, married Elizabeth, maiden name unknowned, sometime before 1830. On the 1830 Census of Sullivan Co., Indiana, William J. Booker is found on page 388, the same page his widowed mother, Elizabeth is on. William and wife are both listed between the ages of 20 and 30; he is also listed with one male child, under the age of five. On the 1840 Census of Sullivan County, William J. Booker's family is listed on page 117, along with his cousin, Jacob Booker, son of David Booker and Theodosha Smith. By this time William J. Booker and his wife, Elizabeth, have three males, two under the age of five, and one between five and ten. In addition, they have four females, living with them, ages one under five, two between five and ten, and one ten to fifteen.

On 31 March 1870, Thursday in the Sullivan Democrat (Sullivan Co., IN), there appeared the following obituary: -Carlisle Items- Uncle William Booker, for many years a resident of Haddon, died in Carlisle on Sunday--his remains were interred in the old Hackett grave yard, on Monday. Thus, one by one, the old settlers are passing away. . .
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George W. Booker, last son of William Jarrett Booker and wife, Elizabeth, was born 8 May 1841. George married Mary Jane Cox (born 18 February 1844) on 28 August 1865 in Sullivan County, Indiana. George and Mary had five children:

John H. Booker

Rebecca E. Booker

Harriet A. Booker

William A. Booker
b. Jan. 1875 Sullivan Co., IN, d. 29/9/1876 Sullivan Co., IN. Buried Hackett Cem., Haddon Twp., Sullivan Co.

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