GOODRICH Mary (Pinky) Elizabeth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Heirlooms: Bible, Faye Howard
• Heirlooms: Dining Room, Gene Harris
• Heirlooms: Rocker, Gene Harris
• Occupation: Homemaker
• Reference Number: 2

Notes:

See Herbert for full notes.

When they moved to Richmond, She made Herbert build a high wooden privacy fence around the backyard and she kept chickens. I remember her in her apron chasing a chicken around the yard, so we would have fresh chicken for lunch one Sunday. She made the biscuits and dessert (banana pudding) and Calvin would always fry the chicken in an old high side cast iron skillet. There were family dinners one Sunday a month.

Grandmother slept in an old feather bed that she loved and wouldn't sleep in a regular bed at all. She kept her snuff can under the bed.

Grandmother by Faye Howard:
You asked me about things I remember about Grandmother too. Here it is. Grandmother would always crouch down to use the phone. She could touch her toes at 80ty. Her nick name was "Pinky". She loved to dip snuff, but she hid in her bedroom so we wouldn't see her spit. She loved to play Canasta, which she taught many of us to play, and taught us how to eat King Syrup mixed with butter on bread that was delicious. She was a homebody and kept the home very clean. She made a beautiful quilt with Granddad, Granddad's Dog and mule or horse, Thelma, Calvin, others on it chickens, flowers and so much more. She made it out of the old clothes and scratch material she found laying around. She was a very good sewer. Grandmother loved her flowers and bushes, she was on the quiet side but carried a big bat. When the children at Fox School would kick a kickball, bat a baseball or throw a basketball in her back yard she would run them out of the yard and later return them to the Principal after we played with them for a while. She would be so upset because the children would climb the fence, breaking it sometimes and killing her plants and flowers stepping or jumping on them. The children use to call her the Wicked Witch. Grandmother nor I ever forgot what I am about to tell you and she even talked to Mom about it when she was dying that she never forgot the day I stood up to her with my hands on my hips and told her, "I could be just a stubborn as she was", then I walked out of the house across the street by myself and bought me some candy and ate it before I walked back into the house to get my punishment for not obeying her. You see Grandmother, even when I thought I was too old for naps, made me take one. She would let Joanie go across the street and buy some candy when they thought I was asleep. I finally got tired of just pretending I would sleep and got up when Joanie came back into the house with her candy in hand. I told Grandmother I was going to get me some. Well, she said I was not unless Joanie took me across the street. Joanie decided she would not take me across the street until she was ready too. Then Grandmother said I could not go. That's when I said what I did and did what I did. Would I do it again. "Yes", even though my Daddy gave me the biggest and worse spanking of my life for not respecting my Grandmother and for not doing what she said to do, and I really couldn't go to school and sit down for a week. Grandmother felt so bad that the next time I came over she said, I am really sorry Faye that I told Linwood about everything. I really didn't know he would beat you like that." Of course, I am a Scorpio and we hold grudges for a long time but she knew that day that I was really hurt by the way she and Joanie acted but I forgave her for telling Dad. She wrote articles to the newspapers and I will always remember the one about the verse from the King James Version on, "Spare Not the Rod". I will look up that verse and let you know it as soon as I can. She was very political too and would speak her mind in articles she wrote to the paper. Lynn and Mary were also very political and wrote things. They learned this from Grandmother. She have premonitions. She called Mom early one morning and asked Mom if she had talked to me recently or heard from me. Mom said no and asked why. Grandmother said something is really wrong you should call her. Mom did and I told her I had a miscarriage and was going to tell her about it when I felt better. She told me Grandmother knew something was wrong and that was why she called her and told her to call me. Grandmother told me other times when she knew something was going to happen and they did. Grandmother was Grandmother, I loved her, accepted her and am proud she was my "Grandmother" when I got old enough to understand life a little better instead of through a child's eye that's when I could understand her better.     
         

(Medical):She broke her hip at 88 years old and was up and walking within 2 years.

Heirlooms:
Faye has Grandmother's Bible

Heirlooms:
Gene has Grandmother's dining room furniture.

Heirlooms:
Gene has Grandmother's fancy rocking chair

Buried:
Bliley Funeral Home to Purviance Funeral Home in Wakefield

Mary married HORNE Herbert Raines on 28 Jan 1907 in Halifax, Halifax, North Carolina, USA. Herbert (son of HORNE Zachariah Thomas and RAINES Ellen Augusta) was born on 26 Dec 1880 in Newville, Prince George, VA; died on 3 Sep 1956 in Richmond, VA (MCV Hosp); was buried on 5 Sep 1956 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
The way that he and grandmother left to get married is a classic, just like a romantic novel. On a cold, blustery, snowy 28th day of January, 1907, Grandfather, at the stroke of midnight, placed a ladder against the side of the farmhouse and grandmother climbed down to go marry Herbert. They took the horse and carriage that he had waiting through three (3) feet of snow to the train station in Waverly, Virginia. There they took a train to Halifax, NC and stayed at the Roanoke Hotel, where they were married by J. L. Fenner, Justice of the Peace on January 28th, 1907. Mrs. W. A. Sater was both the proprietress and witness. Mary Virginia Horne Howard remembers that the next morning, one of the kids went downstairs and told their mother, Ella Gertrude Booth Goodrich that Pinkie (Mary Goodrich) wasn't in her room. As the family started to search for her, her father Benjamin Taylor Goodrich, said,' there ain't no need to look for her, she's run away to get married, haven't you seen her making all these new clothes?'. Mary Virginia doesn't remember which of the kids told their mother about Pinkie (Mary) being gone. However it was the one that slept in the room with Mary Goodrich and my guess would be Stella, as they were the closest of the kids and remained so throughout life.

1. HORNE Died at Birth was born on 8 Jan 1909; and died.
2. HORNE Herbert Calvin, Sr. was born on 8 Jan 1909 in Sussex County, VA (Milton Farm/Rt. 460); died on 25 Mar 1993 in Chesterfield County, VA; was buried on 27 Mar 1993 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA.
3. HORNE Thelma Elizabeth was born on 17 Apr 1911 in Disputanta, Sussex County, VA Milton Farm/Rt. 460; died on 1 Sep 1980 in Chesapeake, VA; was buried on 3 Sep 1980 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA.
4. HORNE Evelyn Mae was born on 21 Jul 1913 in 237 S. Beaver Dam Rd, Waverly, Sussex County, Virginia; was christened on 21 Jul 1913 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA; died on 24 Jan 1994 in Richmond, Virginia, USA; was buried on 26 Jan 1994 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA.
5. HORNE George Landon was born on 20 Sep 1918 in Sussex County, VA; died on 21 Jul 2001 in Richmond, VA (Chimborazo Hospital); was buried on 24 Jul 2001 in Richmond, VA (Westhampton Cem).
6. HORNE Mary Virginia was born on 22 Jun 1922 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA; died on 20 Nov 2002 in Chesterfield County, VA; was buried on 23 Nov 2002 in Waverly, Sussex County, VA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 30
• Occupation: 1900; Farmer
• Census: 1910, Guilford, Surry, Virginia
• Census: 1930, Waverly, Sussex County, VA

Notes:

Buried at the foot of his mother's grave in the Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt. 612, Waverly. (Surry Cty). This is by a big fir tree in the middle of the graveyard. Joined Carsley Methodist church in 1877 buried at 3:00 pm. Died at 201 Terrace Av, Petersburg Well known citizen of Waverly

Person Source

Died at son James E. Goodrich's home in Petersburg at 5:11 am

Lois Goodrich Cemetary (Rt.612) Surry

Title: 1910 Virginia Census Miracode Index
Page: Enumeration District 0117; Visit 0148
Entry Date: 1910
Source Text: Benjamin T Goodrich Born in Virginia 60 years old Head of Household Ellia Goodrich 52 years old Born in Virginia Children at Home: Benjamin T (24); Estella (14); James E (12)
Title: 1920 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 2A
Entry Date: February 14, 1920
Source Text: Benjamin Goodrich, Sr Head of Household Own home - free and clear 68 years old Able to read, write, speak English Farmer Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Ella G Goodrich Wife 61 years old Able to read, write, speak English Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Child at home: James E (21) son Mimie I (17 and 11 months) daughter-in-law James L (6 months) grandson
Title: 1910 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 10B
Entry Date: March 24, 1910
Source Text: Benjamin T Goodrich 60 years old Head of Household Married 34 years Able to read, write, speak English Farmer Own home - free and clear - farm Born in Virginia Parents born in Virginia Ellia G. Goodrich Wife 52 years old Married 34 years 8 Children - 7 Living Able to read, write, speak English Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Children at Home: Benjamin T (24); Estella (14); James E (12)
Title: 1900 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 2
Entry Date: June 9, 1900
Source Text: Benjamin Goodrich Head of Household Born June 1851 48 years old Married 23 years Farmer Able to read, write, speak English Own home - mortgaged - farm Ella Goodrich Wife Born Feb 1858 42 years old Married 23 years 8 Children - 8 Living Able to read, write, speak English Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Children Living at Home: Nonnie (March 1879 - 21 yo) Glen ( July 1882 - 17yo) Mary (August 1884 - 15yo) Benjamin (Oct 1886 - 13yo) Elsa (Dec 1888 - 11yo) Claudia (Oct 1893 - 6yo) Estella (Mar 1896 - 4yo) James (Feb 1898 - 2yo)
Title: 1880 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 32
Entry Date: June 19, 1880
Source Text: Parents of Benjamin: B. B. and Anne E. Goodrich Siblings of Benjamin: John H; Z. W.; S. H.; M. F.; Jeff; L?? B. T. Goodrich 27 years old Farmer Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Ella Goodrich 22 years old Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Child at Home: Nonnie (1)
Title: Newspaper Obituary - Elizabeth Baird Booth
Title: 1870 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 30
Entry Date: August 6, 1870
Source Text: Parents: Binns and Eliza Booth Siblings: Thaddeus, Virginia, Maria, Sarah, Selia, Female Infant Ella Booth: 11 years old Born in Virginia
Title: 1860 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 14
Entry Date: June 23, 1860
Source Text: Parents: Binns B and Eliza B Booth Siblings: Thaddeus F; Virginia F; Unnamed Female Ella G. Booth: 1 years old Born in Virginia

Census:
1910 United States Federal Census
about Benjinan T Goodrich
Name:Benjamin T Goodrich [Benjiman T Goodrich] [Benjamin F Goodrich]          
Age in 1910:60          
Birth Year:1850          
Birthplace:Virginia          
Home in 1910:Guilford, Surry, Virginia          
Race:White          
Gender:Male          
Relation to Head of House:Head [Self (Head)]          
Marital Status:Married          
Spouse's Name:Ellia G Goodrich          
Father's Birthplace:Virginia          
Mother's Birthplace:Virginia          
Household Members:NameAge               
Benjinan T Goodrich 60               
Ellia G Goodrich 52               
Benjamin T Goodrich 24               
Estella Goodrich 14               
James E Goodrich 12               


Census:
1930 United States Federal Census
about Benjamin T Goodrich
Name:Benjamin T Goodrich [Berma T Goodrich] ViewOriginalRecord          
Gender:Male               
Birth Year:abt 1852               
Birthplace:Virginia               
Race:White               
Home in 1930:Waverly, Sussex, Virginia View Map               
Marital Status:Married               
Relation to Head of House:Head               
Spouse's Name:Ella G Goodrich               
Father's Birthplace:Virginia               
Mother's Birthplace:Virginia               
Occupation: Education: Military Service: Rent/home value: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace: View image               
Neighbors:View others on page               
Household Members:NameAge                    
Benjamin T Goodrich 78                    
Ella G Goodrich 72                    
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              

Benjamin married BOOTH Ella Gertrude on 25 Aug 1876 in Weldon, Halifax County, NC. Ella (daughter of Capt. BOOTH Binns Beverly and BAIRD Elizabeth (Eliza) Bingham) was born on 13 Feb 1858 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 10 May 1931 in Petersburg, VA; was buried on 12 May 1931 in Surry County, VA (Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt 612). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Homemaker
• Reference Number: 31
• Census: 1860, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States

Notes:

Good health until 4 weeks before death. Then an illness. She was buried at 3:30 pm
Lived in Sussex co. at death. Heirs listed in Will Bk. 6 page 118. Was 4' 11" at dearh.

(Medical):Died At Son's Home 7:55 Am

Census:
United States Census, 1860 for Ella G Booth
Name:Ella G Booth          
Residence:, Surry, Virginia          
Ward:[Blank]          
Age:1 year          
Estimated Birth Year:1859          
Birthplace:Virginia          
Gender:Female          
Page:14          
Family Number:112          
Film Number:805379          
DGS Number:4298874          
Image Number:00554          
NARA Number:M653          

Notes:

Married:
Family Source

Aunt Stella said they ran away to get married

LVA Catalogs
Title Goodrich, B. T., Surry County; Booth, E. G., married, Weldon, North Carolina.          
Note Petersburg Index and Appeal (Petersburg, Va. : Daily) (Film 106).          
Note August 28, 1876, page 2, column 2.          
Other FormatAvailable on microfilm from the Library of Virginia.          
Biog./Hist. Note A proper name and subject index covering more than 40 newspaper titles primarily published in Petersburg, Va., 1797-1877. Originally a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the card index, from which this database was created, is comprised of 43,810 typed 3 x 5 cards with detailed entries for proper names and subjects including births, marriages, deaths, property sales, and chancery suits. Local events are covered in great detail, including the period of reconstruction following the Civil War.          
Subject - PersonalGoodrich, P. T.          
Booth, E. G.          
Genre/FormMarriages.          
SubjectPetersburg (Va.) -- Indexes.          
Petersburg (Va.) -- Newspapers -- Indexes.          
Added EntryLibrary of Virginia.          
Petersburg Public Library (Petersburg, Va.)          
Added TitlePetersburg Public Library newspaper index, 1797-1877.          
         
System Number001462481          

Other Events and Attributes:

• Submitter: HIGH
• Descendant Interest: HIGH
• Occupation: Farmer
• Reference Number: 59
• Alt. Name: 1820, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Briggs
• Census: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; 1850 census
• Occupation: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Carpenter
• Census: 1860, Cabin Point, Surry County, VA.; 1860 Census
• Military: 20 Apr 1861, Surry, Surry County, VA (Courthouse); Confederate Army
• Military: 1861-1862; 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry
• Census: 1880, Guilford, Surry, Virginia

Notes:

Benjamin B. Goodrich was born about 1821, in Surry, Virginia, the child of Benjamin Briggs and Elizabeth. He married Elizabeth Anne Harris and they had eight children together. He then had one son from another relationship. He died on June 10, 1882, in Surry, Virginia, at the age of 61.

Built the Lois D. Goodrich farmhouse on Rt.612 in Surry Cty. House last occupied by Lois' mother Lottie, the widow of Jefferson Davis Goodrich. Records maintained by Lois Goodrich & Daisy Lee Goodrich. Daisy has a copy of the will of Benjamin Goodrich. Deed recorded in Surry at page 137, book 12 or 13.

Census:
LINE | Dwell Famil | Lastname Firstname | Age Se Color | Occupation Real V | Birthplace | M S R D | SNDX | Remarks ======|=============|===================================|==================|===========================|================|=========|======|============
| B525 | 27 | 27 27 |
Goodrich Benjamin B. | 30 M - | Carpenter | Virginia |
Goodrich Elizabeth A | 24 F - | | Virginia | (E421 | 28 | 27 27 )
Goodrich James E | 4 M - | | Virginia | | (J520 | 29 | 27 27 )
Goodrich John H | 2 M - | | Virginia | | (J500 | 30 | 27 27)
Goodrich Zachariah | 1 M - | | (Virginia | (Z260 )
Also an Ann Bailey (age 25) was listed on the 1850 census as living on the farm

Occupation:
He listed his occupation as a carpenter on the 1850 census

Census:
Census shows he was 41 yoa, and 8 children living at home

Military:
Transferred out of Company E, 5th Cavalry Regiment Virginia . Transferred into Company G, 13th Cavalry Regiment Virginia. Enlisted in Company E, 5th Cavalry Regiment Virginia on 20 Apr 1861. Enlisted as a Private on 20 April 1861.
Was also reported to be in o. K of the 13th Va Calvary

Served together with Albert D. Goodrich.

American Civil War Soldiers about Benjamin Goodrich
Name:      Benjamin Goodrich
Enlistment Date:      20 Apr 1861
Enlistment Place:      Surry Court House, Virginia
Side Served:      Confederacy
State Served:      Virginia
Service Record:      Enlisted as a Private on 20 April 1861.
Enlisted in Company E, 5th Cavalry Regiment Virginia on 20 Apr 1861.

Military:

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 about Benjamin B. Goodrich
Name:      Benjamin B. Goodrich
Side:      Confederate
Regiment State/Origin:      Virginia
Regiment Name:      5 Virginia Cavalry (12 Mos. 1861-2)
Regiment Name Expanded:      5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12 months, 1861-62) (Mullins')
Company:      E
Rank In:      Private
Rank In Expanded:      Private
Rank Out:      Private
Rank Out Expanded:      Private
Film Number:      M382 roll 22

Census:
1880 United States Federal Census
about B. B. Goodrich
Name:B. B. Goodrich          
Age:60          
Birth Year:abt 1820          
Birthplace:Virginia          
Home in 1880:Guilford, Surry, Virginia          
Race:White          
Gender:Male          
Relation to Head of House:Self (Head)          
Marital Status:Married          
Spouse's Name:Ann E. Goodrich          
Father's Birthplace:Virginia          
Mother's Birthplace:Virginia
Household Members:
NameAge          
B. B. Goodrich 60          
Ann E. Goodrich 52          
John H. Goodrich 34          
Z. W. Goodrich 29          
B. T. Goodrich 27          
Ella Goodrich 22          
Nannie Goodrich 1          
S. H. Goodrich 25          
M. F. Goodrich 22          
Jeff Goodrich 18          
Lianna Goodrich 14          

         


Died:
Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917
about Benjamin B Goodrich
Name:Benjamin B Goodrich          
Birth Date:abt 1820          
Birth Place:Surry, Virginia          
Death Date:10 Jun 1882          
Death Place:Surry, Virginia          
Death Age:62          
Occupation:Farmer          
Race:White          
Marital Status:Widowed          
Gender:Male          
FHL Film Number:2048585          

Benjamin married HARRIS Elizabeth Anne on 3 Oct 1844 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of HARRIS Zachariah and HARGRAVE Nancy) was born on 30 Jul 1826; was buried in Surry County, VA (Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt 612). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 60

Notes:

Her last name may be Harry (Lois Goodrich Bible, dtd: 1850)

Died:
She pre-deceased her husband as shown in this Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917
about Benjamin B Goodrich
Name:Benjamin B Goodrich          
Birth Date:abt 1820          
Birth Place:Surry, Virginia          
Death Date:10 Jun 1882          
Death Place:Surry, Virginia          
Death Age:62          
Occupation:Farmer          
Race:White          
Marital Status:Widowed          
Gender:Male          
FHL Film Number:2048585          

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Residence: Surry County, VA (Snow Hill Plantation); Snow Hill
• Military: Abt 1863, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Captain - Confederate Army

Notes:

Binn's and Rebecca's (# 382) children were double cousins

Name: Booth, Binns Beverly Age at census: 36 Town: Guilford Twp County: Surry Court House State: VA Occupation: Farmer Real Estate Value: $ 2000.00 Personal Property: $ 350.00 Birthplace: Virginia Father Foreign Born: No Mother Foreign Born: No Month born in census year: Month Married-census year: School attend-census year: Can't read or write: Eligible to vote: Yes Date of Enumeration: Children: Thaddeus Floyd 15 yoa Virginia Francis 13 yoa Ella (Elizabeth Bell) 11 yoa Maria Louise (Beauty) 9 yoa Sarah (Selia ??) 5 Selia Jackson 3 Infant (Annie Saunie)

Binns and Elizabeth were married by the Rev. H.B.Cowles and obtained their marriage license on 11-16-1853.

Capt.Ben was a confedarate officer.I believe I might have his record but I'm leaving town now after a last check on my computer. Sorry about spelling but in a hurry. I wiuld like a pic of his tombstone.Thanks Talmadge

Was also a minister Was also listed as Captain B. B. Booth

Apparently, the Briggs family and Binns Beverly Booth were extremely close. The Briggs first child Baines Bennett Briggs was called Binns instead of Baines. Conclusion drawn from Briggs family bible

Binns died while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Taylor Goodrich, who lived near Carsley, Va. His death was following a brief illness. His health had been failing for some time, but his death came unexpectedly and was a shock to his immediate family.

Name: Booth, Binns Beverly Age at census: 36

Town: Guilford Twp County: Surry Court House State: VA

Occupation: Farmer

Real Estate Value: $ 2000.00

Personal Property: $ 350.00

Birthplace: Virginia

Father Foreign Born: Mother Foreign Born:

Month born in census year: Month Married-census year: School attend-census year: Can't read or write: Eligible to vote: Yes Date of Enumeration: Children:
Thaddeus Floyd 15 yoa
Virginia Francis 13 yoa
Ella (Elizabeth Bell) 11 yoa
Maria Louise (Beauty) 9 yoa
Sarah (Selia ??) 5
Selia Jackson 3
Infant (Annie Saunie) 1

Binns and Elizabeth were married by the Rev. H.B.Cowles and obtained their marriage license on 11-16-1853

Family Notes on Marriage with Elizabeth (Eliza) Bingham Baird:
Title: Notes
Text:
Apparently, the Briggs family and Binns Beverly Booth were extremely clos
e. The Briggs first child Baines Bennett Briggs was called Binns instead of Baines. Conclusion drawn from Briggs family bible
Census 1870 - page M-593/1680
Name: Booth, Binns Beverly Age at census: 36
Town: Guilford Twp
County: Surry
Court House State: VA
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: $ 2000.00
Personal Property: $ 350.00
Birthplace: Virginia
Father Foreign Born:
Can't read or write
Eligible to vote: Yes
Children: Thaddeus Floyd 15 yoa Virginia Francis 13 yoa Ella (Elizabeth Bell) 11 yoa Maria Louise (Beauty) 9 yoa Sarah (Selia ??) 5 Selia Jackson 3 Infant (Annie Saunie)
Marriage Bonds of Petersburg, VA 1784-1854 page 74
Binns and Elizabeth were married by the Rev. H.B.Cowles and obtained the ir marriage license on 11-16-1853.
Capt.Ben was a confedarate officer
Talmadge was also a minister
Was also listed as Captain B. B. Booth
Title: 1870 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 30
Entry Date: August 6, 1870
Source Text: Binns Booth: 36 years old Farmer Value of Real Estate: 2000 Value of Personal Estate: 350 Born in Virginia Eliza Booth: 36 years old Born in Virginia Children at Home: Thaddeus (16); Virginia (13); Ella (11); Maria (9); Sarah (5); Selia (3); Female Infant (1)
Title: 1850 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Entry Date: July 26, 1850
Source Text: Parents: Samuel and Sally Booth Sibling: Georgianna Binns B. Booth: 16 years old Attending School Born in Virginia
Title: 1900 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 8A
Entry Date: June 26, 1900
Source Text: Binns B. Booth Head of Household Born April 1834 66 years old Married 46 years Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Farmer Can read, write, speak English Owns home - farm - free and clear Eliza B Booth Wife Born March 1834 66 years old Married 46 years 11 children - 8 living Can read, write, speak English Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Children at home: Samuel P. Booth Born Jan 1875 25 years old Farm Laborer Can read, write, speak English Born in Virginia
Title: 1880 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 14
Entry Date: June 11, 1880
Source Text: Binns B Booth 46 years old Husband Farmer Born in Virginia Parents born in Virginia Eliza B Booth 46 years old Wife Born in Virginia Parents born in Virginia Children at Home: Thaddeus F (25); Mariah L (18); Sally (16); Sealia (13); Leslise? (11); Annie (9); Samuel P (6)
Title: 1860 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 14
Entry Date: June 23, 1860
Source Text: Binns B Booth 25 years old Farmer Value of real estate: 2000 Value of personal estate: 4000 Born in Virginia Eliza B Booth 25 years old Children at home: Thaddeus F (5); Virginia F (3); Ella G (1); Unnamed female (4 months)

Title: 1870 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 30
Entry Date: August 6, 1870
Source Text: Binns Booth: 36 years old Farmer Value of Real Estate: 2000 Value of Personal Estate: 350 Born in Virginia Eliza Booth: 36 years old Born in Virginia Children at Home: Thaddeus (16); Virginia (13); Ella (11); Maria (9); Sarah (5); Selia (3); Female Infant (1)

Title: 1850 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Entry Date: July 26, 1850
Source Text: Parents: Samuel and Sally Booth Sibling: Georgianna Binns B. Booth: 16 years old Attending School Born in Virginia

Title: 1900 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 8A
Entry Date: June 26, 1900
Source Text: Binns B. Booth Head of Household Born April 1834 66 years old Married 46 years Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Farmer Can read, write, speak English Owns home - farm - free and clear Eliza B Booth Wife Born March 1834 66 years old Married 46 years 11 children - 8 living Can read, write, speak English Born in Virginia Parents Born in Virginia Children at home: Samuel P. Booth Born Jan 1875 25 years old Farm Laborer Can read, write, speak English Born in Virginia

Title: 1880 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 14
Entry Date: June 11, 1880
Source Text: Binns B Booth 46 years old Husband Farmer Born in Virginia Parents born in Virginia Eliza B Booth 46 years old Wife Born in Virginia Parents born in Virginia Children at Home: Thaddeus F (25); Mariah L (18); Sally (16); Sealia (13); Leslise? (11); Annie (9); Samuel P (6)

Title: 1860 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Page: 14
Entry Date: June 23, 1860
Source Text: Binns B Booth 25 years old Farmer Value of real estate: 2000 Value of personal estate: 4000 Born in Virginia Eliza B Booth 25 years old Children at home: Thaddeus F (5); Virginia F (3); Ella G (1); Unnamed female (4 months)

Military:
Captain Ben was a Confederate officer. I believe I might have his record but I'm leaving town now after a last check on my computer. Sorry about spelling but in a hurry. I would like a picture of his tombstone. Thanks Talmadge

Buried:
Funeral was at his daughter's home near Carsley, Va., with burial at Snow Hill. Funeral was officiated by the Rev. Bradford of the Methodist-Episcopal Church

     GRAVEYARD: Persons buried in the graveyard at Snow Hill:
     Col. Samuel Booth and his wife (no gravestone remains)
     Sarah Ellis Booth (no gravestone remains)
     Georgianna Booth James (no gravestone remains)
Note: Her husband, Dr. Richard Henry James, was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife. When he died, the Booth's refused to let him be buried next to his wife, and he was interred on a nearby farm owned by the Rogers family.

     Binns Beverly Booth
     Elizabeth Bingham Baird Booth (his wife)
(The issue of D & E above are F, G, H)

     Elizabeth (Nannie) Bell Booth, infant daughter died during the 1880's (no gravestone remains)
     Annie L. Booth, 1872 - 1885 or 95
     Virginia Frances Booth Parsons (no gravestone remains)
     Dallas Parsons, her husband. (no gravestone remains)

J.      Also buried in the graveyard, (no gravestone remains), are 2 children of Joseph Booth (son of Capt. David Booth). Neither ever married, both lived into old age, an they supposedly lived together in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia. Marie Baird attended their funerals during the 1920's, but she is not sure of the exact date. Their names were Agnes Booth and Patrick Booth (no gravestone remains).

Binns married BAIRD Elizabeth (Eliza) Bingham on 24 Nov 1853 in Petersburg, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of BAIRD (Alexander) Peter, Sr. and BINGHAM Elizabeth Mckee) was born on 5 Mar 1834 in Petersburg, VA. Or Prince George Cty; died on 16 Jan 1903 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; was buried on 18 Jan 1903 in Surry County, VA (Snow Hill Cemetery). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Eliza
• Reference Number: 58
• Religion: 1834, Carsley, Surry County, VA (Carsley Methodist Church); Methodist
• Illness: 1902, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Heart Problems
• Alt. Death: 16 Jan 1903, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States
• Funeral: 18 Jan 1903, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Snow Hill

Notes:

Married by Rev. Henry B. Cawles, J.P. Married 49 years, 38 grandchildren Services by Rev. F. B. McSparran Member of Carsley M.E. Church last words were: "I am going home" per niece Gertrude Booth . She and Leonidas were twins. The funeral was one of the largest seen in Surry County, per the obituary. Married by Henry B. Cawles, J.P.
A copy of obituary is shown in picture file.
Her tombstone is engraved with her birth, marriage, & death dates and "She made home happy."

(Medical):died: (Home at 9:35 pm)

Religion:
Member of Carsley's M. E. Church all her life.

Illness:
Prob CHF due to the description in her obit

Alt. Death:
died at 9:35pm

Funeral:
Sunday, 1-18-1903 at Snow Hill, conducted by the Very Rev. F.B. McSparran. She and Binns had entered into their 50th year of marriage

Buried:
GRAVEYARD: Persons buried in the graveyard at Snow Hill:
     Col. Samuel Booth and his wife (no gravestone remains)
     Sarah Ellis Booth (no gravestone remains)
     Georgianna Booth James (no gravestone remains)
Note: Her husband, Dr. Richard Henry James, was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife. When he died, the Booth's refused to let him be buried next to his wife, and he was interred on a nearby farm owned by the Rogers family.

     Binns Beverly Booth
     Elizabeth Bingham Baird Booth (his wife)
(The issue of D & E above are F, G, H)

     Elizabeth (Nannie) Bell Booth, infant daughter died during the 1880's (no gravestone remains)
     Annie L. Booth, 1872 - 1885 or 95
     Virginia Frances Booth Parsons (no gravestone remains)
     Dallas Parsons, her husband. (no gravestone remains)

J.      Also buried in the graveyard, (no gravestone remains), are 2 children of Joseph Booth (son of Capt. David Booth). Neither ever married, both lived into old age, an they supposedly lived together in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia. Marie Baird attended their funerals during the 1920's, but she is not sure of the exact date. Their names were Agnes Booth and Patrick Booth (no gravestone remains).

Notes:

Married:
Binns and Elizabeth were married by the Rev. H.B.Cowles and obtained their marriage license on 11-16-1853.
He was married at age 29

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 555
• Alt. Birth: 1790
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1794, England; New Records Show Birth Detail
• Alt. Birth: 1799, Greensville County, Virginia
• Political Office: 3 Mar 1836, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas

Notes:

Benjamin Briggs Goodrich was born on February 24, 1799, in Brunswick County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Bacco on January 7, 1817, in Isle of Wight, Virginia. They had one child during their marriage. He died on November 16, 1860, in Grimes County, Texas, at the age of 61, and was buried in Anderson, Texas.

Rcvd 8-27-94 from Linwood Ray, who married Nancy Kay Goodrich in Surry.

There is a 3rd son (Poss George that is missing). Family folklore has it that George is the missing son.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3119467&id=I3943

ID: I3943 Name: Benjamin GOODRICH Sex: M Change Date: 3 JUL 2003 at 11:27:38

Marriage 1 Elizabeth
Children
Albert D. GOODRICH b: 14 APR 1822 in England
Contact: Sherry Hooper

POSS FATHER INFO:

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VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
RICHMOND, VA.
VOL,. XI'97 No. 1. JULY, 18O3. Pg. 74:
There were two families of Goodrich settled in Virginia at an early date, one in Rappahannock and the other in Isle of Wight ; but the Thomas Goodrich of the text has not been identified.]

NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY RECORDS. Pg.83
By Mr. R. S. Thomas, Smithfield, Va.
To the Editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography:
When Philip A. Bruce was here last Fall he gave me a reference to the two following depositions which contain some matters I never heard of before :
"The Deposition of John Goodrich of Isle of Wight county aged eighty eight, or thereabouts sworn and examined saith that Indian Cooper about 60 years ago gave a parcel of land for a Gleab in Ons- queak Bay where Mary Dickson now livith, and her father, William Phillips, lived on this land seve'all years by lease from the vestry. Before which time Mr. Oiserand Mr. Dunsean, ministers, lived on the said land as belonging to the Church (or as Glebe land) that Indian Cooper gave, & further saith not." (Signum)
John I. Goodrich

Grandafther is possibly Briggs Goodrich (died 1788), married Mary Camp: nedds research. Ref Southside Virginia families, Volume 1 By John Bennett Boddie

The are no confirmed sources on John being his father other than several Ancestry.com family histories and none of them have source mateial (Gene)

Alt. Birth:
per Goodrich family Records (Little Surry)

Political Office:
Signed the Texas Declaration of Independence

Sixty men signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year.[7] 59 of these men were delegates to the Convention, and one was the Convention Secretary, Herbert S. Kimble, who was not a delegate.

Benjamin married BACCO Elizabeth on 7 Jan 1817 in Isle of Wight County, VA. Elizabeth was born on 7 Jan 1817 in Isle of Wight County, VA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 556

Notes:

Poss a Briggs, as their son's middle name was Briggs

Bacco
Ancestry.com. Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.

Notes:

Married:
Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850 about Elizabeth Bacco
Groom Name:      Benjamin Goodrich
Bride Name:      Elizabeth Bacco
Marriage Date:      7 Jan 1817
County:      Isle of Wight
State:      Virginia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 311
• Census: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; 1850 census
• Property: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Value of $2500
• Occupation: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Farmer

Notes:

Due to differnece in ages on the children (Elizabeth born 1826 and John born 1842) and the name differences for the wife, I believe we are looking at 2 different wives ...ibid, Gene Harris.

Census:
shows age of 50 on the census

Property:
1850 census shows Real Estate value as $2500 and occupation as farmer

Zachariah married HARGRAVE Nancy on 22 Jul 1822 in Sussex County, VA. Nancy was born about 1803; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 312
• Alt. Name: 1850, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Name shown on 1850 census is Elizabeth

Notes:

Alt. Name:
1850 census shows name as Elizabeth and age as 47

Other Events and Attributes:

• Lived(s) In: Owens Grove, Sussex County, Va; Owens Grove
• Medical: Cancer of the neck
• Property: Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Snow Hill
• Reference Number: 176
• Religion: Carsley Methodist Church
• Military: 18 May 1814, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Private, War of 1812
• Military: 1827, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Promoted to Lt. in the Surry Militia
• Military: 1828, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Promoted to Captain in the Surry County Militia
• Residence: 1830, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Started Building Snow Hill
• Military: 14 May 1835, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Lt. Col., Virginia Militia
• Political Office: 1836, Surry County, VA; County Corresponding Committee
• Residence: 1836, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Snow Hill Finished
• Court: 1839, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Deputy Sheriff
• Census: 9 Jul 1870, Wakefield Township, Sussex County, VA; 1870 census
• Medical: 1874; Paralysis
• Occupation: 1805-1875, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Planter
• Alt. Death: 20 Feb 1876

Notes:

Samuel Booth was a middle class Tidewater Virginia planter who owned 500 acres of farmland eleven miles southwest of the Jams River in Surry County. His father, Beverly Booth, was a Revolutionary War veteran, a farmer, and a Baptist minister who brought his wife and several young children from Southampton to Surry, probably in 1791, and became pastor of the Otterdam Baptist Church. The Rev. Booth had been a part-time pastor of Sea Cock Baptist Church in Southampton until 1791, when he became ordained, and moved to Surry for a church and congregation of his own. (See John Asplundt's Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America to the year 1791, Richmond (?), 1791). Around 1816 Beverly Booth went to Petersburg, Virginia, where he was instrumental in starting the Cypress Swamp Baptist Church. One of his sons, Robert, moved to Georgia in 1814.

Samuel Booth was born in Surry in 1794, probably attended a local school taught by a member of his father's congregation, and followed the most likely livelihood available to a young man of his upbringing--that of farming. He probably enlisted in the Surry County Militia at an early age, was commissioned a lieutenant in 1827, and was promoted to Captain in the following year (see appendix L). Although all records for the Surry County Militia between 1830 and 1840 have been destroyed, he was most likely promoted to Colonel in the early part at the decade. His obituary (died January 20, 1876) refers to him as Colonel, and his grandchildren, alive as late as 1956, fondly referred to him as "Colonel Sam". Nonetheless when Surry's post 1840 records are surveyed, no mention is made of his name, and it is likely that he retired in order to devote full time to the construction of his home and the development of his plantation.

As a look at the Surry County land Books will attest, Samuel Booth apparently took a fancy to occasionally dabbling in real estate., and by the mid 1830's owned considerable property, some of which he sold, and some of which formed the basis for his plantation. Construction of his house was undertaken on a 172 1/2 acre tract of land, probably in the fall of 1836, and was completed at a cost of $1380, according to the Surry County land Books for the year 1837. As Surry's "Personal Property Tax Books for 1837" note, Samuel Booth was assessed for "20 slaves. 9 horses, and a riding gig valued at $75" during the year "Snow Hill was constructed. When the relatively low cost of the structure is considered, it is reasonable to assume that the slaves played an important role in its construction: felling trees, sawing, hewing, and joining timbers for the frame, and making bricks. Yet, a professional house wright undoubtedly oversaw the over-all construction. Another house, known as "Oak Hill" and situated on Virginia Route 31 between Surry Court House and Scotland Wharf, was undoubtedly built by the same man, and is very similar in plan, detail, and brickwork. Surry County's Land Books for 1840 show that in 1839 additional expenditures amounting to $615. 75 went toward construction, probably dependencies.

According to Booth family tradition, a difficult winter during the construction of the house resulted in the name "Snow Hill", but the earliest documented use of the title is to be found in the 1859 deed of sale transferring the plantation from Samuel Booth to William H. Rood of Southampton. (Surry County Deed Book 14, page (See appendix F).

By 1852, "Snow Hill" had grown to include various adjoining parcels of land containing a. total of exactly 500 acres. Samuel's wife died later in the decade and, with his children grown, he sold the house and surrounding land in 1859 for the sum of $4500. He married a widow from adjoining Sussex County, and went to live with her on the farm she had inherited from her deceased husband.

William H. Hood held the property from 1859 until 1875, when the outcome of a court case decreed the land be sold, and it was purchased by Samuel Booth's son, Binns Beverly Booth, who promptly moved in with his family. Just prior to the death of Binns Beverly Booth, he sold the house and two hundred acres to his son Samuel Peter Booth, a bachelor. "Sam Pete ", as he was known, remained in the house until incapacitated in 1930, at which point he went to live with his nephew, John Leo Wilcox, of Waverly, and later to a nursing home. Tenants inhabited the house from 1930 onward, and "Sam Pete" Booth, upon his death willed the house in 1933, to his nephew.

C.      GRAVEYARD: Persons buried in the graveyard at Snow Hill:
A.      Col. Samuel Booth and his wife (no gravestone remains)
B.      Sarah Ellis Booth (no gravestone remains)
C.      Georgianna Booth James (no gravestone remains)
Note: Her husband, Dr. Richard Henry James, was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife. When he died, the Booth's refused to let him be buried next to his wife, and he was interred on a nearby farm owned by the Rogers family.

A.      Binns Beverly Booth
B.      Elizabeth Bingham Baird Booth (his wife)
(The issue of D & E above are F, G, H)

A.      Elizabeth (Nannie) Bell Booth, infant daughter died during the 1880's (no gravestone remains)
B.      Annie L. Booth, 1872 - 1885 or 95
C.      Virginia Frances Booth Parsons (no gravestone remains)
D.      Dallas Parsons, her husband. (no gravestone remains)

J.      Also buried in the graveyard, (no gravestone remains), are 2 children of Joseph Booth (son of Capt. David Booth). Neither ever married, both lived into old age, an they supposedly lived together in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia. Marie Baird attended their funerals during the 1920's, but she is not sure of the exact date. Their names were Agnes Booth and Patrick Booth (no gravestone remains).



There is a Booth Fork in Surry County about 2 miles Northeast of the Lightfoot Swamp. It is where St. Rt. 617 & 612 cross. There is also an Ellis Fork about a mile east of Booth Fork that may be named after Sally Ellis' father. DIED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN SUSSEX COUNTY THE OBIT GIVES HIS AGE AS 'nigh on to Ninety years of age' He was a Captain of the Home Guards at the time of the War Between the States ( Mary Pulley-Granddaughter) By the way Col. Samuel picture came from a gold locket the locket had a daguerreotype photo that was enlarged. From Kathleen Baird: On May 18, 1814 he was drafted at Petersburg for six (6) months of military service during the War of 1812. Samuel served as a private in Capt. Edward Prescud's (spelling?) Company of Infantry, Virginia Militia, from the 39th Regiment in the County of Dinwiddie. He was discharged in Norfolk om Oct 18,1814 after 5 months of service because of sickness. In April of 1839 he was appointed deputy sheriff. David Booth was the sheriff. He was commissioned a Lt. Col., on May 14, 1835 in the 71st Regiment of Infantry, 8th Brigade, 4th Division of the Virginia Militia (hence the title Col. Sam). He served in the Surry County Militia between 1835 and 1840. Samuel applied for bounty land in January of 1851. Mary applied for a pension in June of 1878 and said that as far as she was able to give it that at the time of his enlistment he was about 5 feet 10 inches tall, grey eyes, dark hair, fair and rosy complexion. The application was approved in April 1879 for a rate of eight dollars per month, commencing March 1878. Mary died July 5, 1891 Sources: Petersburg, Prince George and Surry Courthouses and family bible of Kathleen Baird. Another source list his marriage to Sarah Ellis as 12-23-1817 (per Kathleen Baird)



Index to the War of 1812 Pay Rolls & Muster Rolls: CATALOG CARD
NAME Booth, Samuel.
Muster Rolls, p.588
NOTE Part of index to: Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under
the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851) and: Muster Rolls
of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 (Richmond, 1852) which
supplements Pay Rolls. This collection is also available on microfilm.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Registers.
COLLECTION War of 1812 pay rolls and muster rolls.

Henley Marriage & Obituary Database: CATALOG CARD NEWSPAPER Farmville Mercury, and official advertiser for Prince Edward, Cumberland, Buckingham, Appomattox and neighboring counties ENTRY Died- At his residence in Sussex County, Col. Samuel Booth, father of P. H. Booth of Petersburg. (Petersburg Index - Appeal). (p. 3, c. 2) DATE OF PUB. Thursday, January 27, 1876. FILM NO. Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 36). NOTE From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. SUBJECT Obituaries -- Virginia. SUBJECT Farmville (Va.) SUBJECT Buckingham County (Va.) SUBJECT Appomattox County (Va.) SUBJECT Cumberland County (Va.) ADDED ENTRY Henley, Bernard J. (Bernard John) COLLECTION Bernard J. Henley papers.

1870 Census roll 1680, section M-593, pg. 24: Wakefield Twp, Sussex, Cty, Va age: 75 yoa Owned & Built Snow Hill Plantation in 1835

Henley Marriage & Obituary Database: CATALOG CARD NEWSPAPER Farmville Mercury, and official advertiser for Prince Edward, Cumberland, Buckingham, Appomattox and neighboring counties ENTRY Died- At his residence in Sussex County, Col. Samuel Booth, father of P. H. Booth of Petersburg. (Petersburg Index - Appeal). (p. 3, c. 2) DATE OF PUB. Thursday, January 27, 1876. FILM NO. Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 36). NOTE From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. SUBJECT Obituaries -- Virginia. SUBJECT Farmville (Va.) SUBJECT Buckingham County (Va.) SUBJECT Appomattox County (Va.) SUBJECT Cumberland County (Va.) ADDED ENTRY Henley, Bernard J. (Bernard John) COLLECTION Bernard J. Henley papers.

Hi Gene,

I'll give you a call early next week after we recover from all the turkey. It's a little hectic here now.

I know of only two marriages of Samuel Booth. In 1817 he married Sarah Ellis and on Dec. 22, 1859 he married Mary Eliza Tatum Owen of Wakefield. He moved into her house and lived there until he died 1876. Mary died in 1891.

The Jean Johnson that you mentioned, does she live on 40 across from Snow Hill?

Lonnie Baird L Baird Jr. [l.bairdjr@worldnet.att.net]

gene, I hope this isn't disappointing; i am looking at many pensions from slaves who served in a couple of regiments i am studying. One pension of a man named "ROBERT GREEN"-- (this may be a changed name as many slaves took on other names after emancipation). In one of the affadavits, Robert's sister mentions that before the war, Robert worked on Snow Hill with Col. Booth: "He was botn in [Snory???] County, VA, lived with Col. Booth before the war, at Snow Hill. Col. Booth is dead." Robert Green had a light complexion and apparently had a white father--who this father was i have no idea; I am assuming that this means that he had a slave mother. In late 1863 Green fled to Norfolk at the "Fairgrounds" and enlisted in the Second US Colored Cavalry (Company A). He married a woman from Norfolk right after the war but she apparently lost her mind; he later married again but got in trouble when he impregnated the teen-age niece of his second wife. I am interested if you know of anything concerning the Booth family, esp. Samuel Booth concerning the Civil War; did any of them join? lose their land, slaves, etc.? thanks mike degruccio michael degruccio [degruccio.1@nd.edu]

Title: Family Bible
Page: http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/BibleII/37939/0020.tif
Source Text: Samuel Booth son of Rev. Beverly Booth departed this life Thursday January 20th at two o'clock in the morning 1876 in the eighty first year of his age

Title: 1850 Federal Census - Surry County, Virginia
Entry Date: July 26, 1850
Source Text: Samuel Booth: 55 years old Farmer Value of Real Estate: 7000 Born in Virginia Sally Booth: 53 years old Born in Virginia Children at home: Binns B. Booth (16); Georgianna Booth (12)

1870 Census roll 1680, section M-593, pg. 24:. Wakefield Twp, Sussex, Cty, Va age: 75 yoa. Owned & Built Snow Hill Plantation in 1835. Marriage to Sally Ellis was witness by David Booth.
The following info may be of help later: There appears to be some discrepancy about Samuel's second marriage. On 10-18-07 Kernneth Coker said to Jean Johnson that Colonel Samuel Booth married the second time in 1861 to Mary Elizabeth Tatum Owen "The widow Owen" and they lived near Wakefield. Jenny Barrett Nicholson's husbands grandfather, Peter Holmes was in that family??
Dtd: 4 Jun 90

Title Booth, Col. Samuel, died, Sussex County. Note Petersburg Index and Appeal (Petersburg, Va. : Daily) (Film 106). Note January 21, 1876, page 3, column 1. Other Format Available on microfilm from the Library of Virginia.

According to Mary Pulley, his grand-daughter (living in Ivor in 1936), Col. Sam was a Cartain in the Home Guards at the time of the War Between the States.

(Medical):Obituary says he had cancer on the neck, of which he died.
Paralysis for 2 years prior to death

Lived(s) In:
Lived their with the Owens wife and died there

Medical:
Obituary says he had cancer on the neck, of which he died

Property:
SNOW HILL
Now owned by Peter Post of Richmond, VA, the house Snow Hill, located about five miles East of Waverly on Route 40, was built in 1836 by Samuel Booth. He was a farmer and a colonel in the Surry County Militia between 1835 and 1840. It was later inhabited by his children and grandchildren. Samuel Booth's father, Beverly Booth, was a Revolutionary War veteran who served October 1776 - September 1781. He first moved to Surry County just across the Blackwater River by the Otterdam Swamp in 1794 and had built his home approximately a mile from the Snow Hill location. He was also a farmer and Baptist preacher whose small church originally stood within sight of the house Snow Hill.
Snow Hill is located directly across the road from 1900 Martin Luther King Highway. Plans are being made to restore this historic house.

Religion:
A zealous and esteemed member for about 50 years ... W.E.Allen, Surry Methodist Circuit

Military:
On May 18, 1814 he was drafted at Petersburg for six (6) months of military service during the War of 1812. Samuel served as a private in Capt. Edward Prescud's (spelling?) Company of Infantry, Virginia Militia, from the 39th Regiment in the County of Dinwiddie. He was discharged in Norfolk om Oct 18,1814 after 5 months of service because of sickness.

View of Record: War of 1812 Pay Roll
Title: Booth, Samuel.          
Gen. noteMuster Rolls, p.588          
NotePart of index to: Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851) and: Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 (Richmond, 1852) which supplements Pay Rolls. This collection is also available on microfilm.          
NoteWar of 1812 pay rolls and muster rolls.          
Subject - PersonalBooth, Samuel.          
Subject -GeographicUnited States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Registers.          




Military:
Booth served as a captain in the Surry County Militia and later as a lieutenant colonel of the 71st Regiment of the Virginia Militia. (Va. Historical Landmark Commission documents)

Residence:


SNOW HILL

HOME OF COLONEL SAMUEL BOOTH

OTTERDAM AREA, SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA



"SNOW HILL"
HOME OF COLONEL SAMUEL BOOTH
OTTERDAM AREA, SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA


Location:      Northwest side of Virginia Route 4o~ .55 mile travelling east from the bridge over the Otterdam Swamp, Surry County, Virginia.
              
               Latitude:      37° 05' 25"
               Longitude:      77° 02' 55"




Present
Owners:           Mrs. John Leo Wilcox, Waverly, Virginia
               Mrs. Rosalie W. Priddy, Ashland, Virginia


Statement of
Significance:      This is a typical Tidewater Virginia plantation house of the pre-Civil War era. Constructed in 1836, it is a five bay, central hall, single pile structure of two and one half stories, and exhibits characteristics of the late eighteenth century which remained prevalent in rural southeastern Virginia well into the nineteenth century.



PART I: HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Samuel Booth was a middle class Tidewater Virginia planter who owned 500 acres of farmland eleven miles southwest of the Jams River in Surry County. His father, Beverly Booth, was a Revolutionary War veteran, a farmer, and a Baptist minister who brought his wife and several young children from Southampton to Surry, probably in 1791, and became pastor of the Otterdam Baptist Church. The Rev. Booth had been a part-time pastor of Sea Cock Baptist Church in Southampton until 1791, when he became ordained, and moved to Surry for a church and congregation of his own. (See John Asplundt's Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America to the year 1791, Richmond (?), 1791). Around 1816 Beverly Booth went to Petersburg, Virginia, where he was instrumental in starting the Cypress Swamp Baptist Church. One of his sons, Robert, moved to Georgia in 1814.

Samuel. Booth was born in Surry in 1794, probably attended a local school taught by a member of his father's congregation, and followed the most likely livelihood available to a young man of his upbringing--that of farming. He probably enlisted in the Surry County Militia at an early age, was commissioned a lieutenant in 1827, and was promoted to Captain in the following year (see appendix L). Although all records for the Surry County Militia between 1830 and 1840 have been destroyed, he was most likely promoted to Colonel in the early part at the decade. His obituary (died January 20, 1876) refers to him as Colonel, and his grandchildren, alive as late as 1956, fondly referred to him as "Colonel Sam". Nonetheless when Surry's post 1840 records are surveyed, no mention is made of his name, and it is likely that he retired in order to devote full time to the construction of his home and the development of his plantation.

As a look at the Surry County land Books will attest, Samuel Booth apparently took a fancy to occasionally dabbling in real estate., and by the mid 1830's owned considerable property, some of which he sold, and some of which formed the basis for his plantation. Construction of his house was undertaken on a 172 1/2 acre tract of land, probably in the fall of 1836, and was completed at a cost of $1380, according to the Surry County land Books for the year 1837. As Surry's "Personal Property Tax Books for 1837" note, Samuel Booth was assessed for "20 slaves. 9 horses, and a riding gig valued at $75" during the year "Snow Hill was constructed. When the relatively low cost of the structure is considered, it is reasonable to assume that the slaves played an important role in its construction: felling trees, sawing, hewing, and joining timbers for the frame, and making bricks. Yet, a professional house wright undoubtedly oversaw the over-all construction. Another house, known as "Oak Hill" and situated on Virginia Route 31 between Surry Court House and Scotland Wharf, was undoubtedly built by the same man, and is very similar in plan, detail, and brickwork. Surry County's Land Books for 1840 show that in 1839 additional expenditures amounting to $615. 75 went toward construction, probably dependencies.

According to Booth family tradition, a difficult winter during the construction of the house resulted in the name "Snow Hill", but the earliest documented use of the title is to be found in the 1859 deed of sale transferring the plantation from Samuel Booth to William H. Rood of Southampton. (Surry County Deed Book 14, page (See appendix F).

By 1852, "Snow Hill" had grown to include various adjoining parcels of land containing a. total of exactly 500 acres. Samuel's wife died later in the decade and, with his children grown, he sold the house and surrounding land in 1859 for the sum of $4500. He married a widow from adjoining Sussex County, and went to live with her on the farm she had inherited from her deceased husband.
William H. Hood held the property from 1859 until 1875, when the outcome of a court case decreed the land be sold, and it was purchased by Samuel Booth's son, Binns Beverly Booth, who promptly moved in with his family. Just prior to the death of Binns Beverly Booth, he sold the house and two hundred acres to his son Samuel Peter Booth, a bachelor. "Sam Pete ", as he was known, remained in the house until incapacitated in 1930, at which point he went to live with his nephew, John Leo Wilcox, of Waverly, and later to a nursing home. Tenants inhabited the house from 1930 onward, and the house was willed by "Sam Pete" Booth, upon his death in 1933, to his nephew.


PART II: ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION

A.      General Statement

1.      Architectural Character:      This is a typical Tidewater Virginia plantation house of the pro-Civil War era which has undergone little alteration since its construction in 1836. It is a five bay, central hall, single pile, two-and-one-half story frame structure, and exhibits characteristics of late 18th century architecture which remained prevalent in rural, southeastern, Virginia well into the 19th century.

2.      Condition of Fabric: Good.

     B.      Description of Exterior

1.      General Character: A five bay, two-and-one-half story structure covered by beaded-edge weatherboards, possessing a fine modillion cornice and fielded-panel doors which tell a continuity of architectural tradition in conser-vative, slave-holding, tidewater Virginia.

2. Foundations: The building is set upon brick piers, adequately spaced to allow free circulation of air around the structural timbers--a necessity in the damp, termite filled climate of the tidewater.

3. Brickwork: All brickwork, both in the foundation walls and in the chimneys, is laid in five course American bond. Bricks measure approximately 8" x 3" x 3-5/4" and five courses rise 16".

4. Structural system: The building is of frame construction, of hard Virginia pine. Larger framing members, such as the major bearing plates which rest upon the brick foundations, are hand hewn. Smaller members are sawn. Studs measure roughly 3" x 4"and are placed 16~ upon centers. The bearing plates measure approximately 10" x 12".

4. Doors: Front and back entries have double doors, each consisting of three fielded panels. All other doors in the building are of the traditional six-panel variety.

5. Hardware: The house is fortunate enough to have retained the majority of its original hardware although some had been replaced with Victorian examples. Rooms on the second and third floors boast square, iron plate latches, with thumb bolts and brass knobs. These are unmarked by their maker, but are probably of English origin. Of the five box locks originally found on the first floor, only two remain--on the closet door beneath the stair, and on the door between the hall and the dining room. This latter example is marked by "Carpen-ter & Company, patentees", and the keeper is stamped with a crown and the initials "W R', representing King William IV, ruler of England from 1830 until 1837. On the upper floors, there is only one box lock-- to be found on the door of the small room just above the south entry. It has neither knobs nor a thumb latch--only a key for 1ocking --suggesting that the room was used only for storage, and not as a nursery or sewing room, as has occasionally been suggested. The double doors which open off the back side of the hall to the exterior never had a lock of any kind, only a wooden bar placed in iron holders,
The only wrought iron to be found in the entire house are the strap hinges which bold the exterior shutters. These hinges, however, are attached to the shatters with screws, and not with nails as might be expected. Nails throughout the house are of the early machine cut variety. Hinges on all doors are of cast iron, those in the parlor and dining room having examples which raise the doors a total of 1/2 " as they are opened--suggesting that there may have been some floor covering which the owner did not want the moving doors to wear.

6      Windows and shutters: All windows are wooden double-hung sashes, unweighted, consisting of "nine-over-nine" light sashes oh the first floor, and "six-over-six" on the second floor. The small double hung sashes, which light the third floor re of the "four-over-four" variety
Shutters were originally hung on the exterior only on the south front of the building--facing the road, which runs in front of the house. During the last quarter of the 19th century, shutters were added to the north side and to the third floor, but these have long since disappeared.

7.      Roof: An old roof (possibly the original) of: hard pine or cypress shingles still exists beneath the current roof of tin, added in 1972 to prevent water damage. All of the shingles are of random width, measuring 18" in length, 6" of which was exposed to the weather. All shingles have rounded ends to prevent warping in the hot sun.

Lightening rods: The lightening rods seen on both chimneys of the house in old photographs were un-doubtedly original. Only sections still remain.

9.      The front porch, visible in old photographs, was original to the house, but was taken down in 1950 when its structure had become unsafe. Another porch was added at that time, but that too has since been removed. Included in this study is a proposed reconstruction of the porch taken from old photos, measurements, and the existing outline of the porch still visible on the front of the house.

Description of Interior:

Woodwork: Paneled wainscot is found throughout the first floor and extends up the stairwell to the second floor. The second floor has chair mould and base-boards throughout, and the third floor has only baseboard. There are no cornices of any form in any of the rooms on the interior.

Painted. Interiors: Fortunate enough to have endured the poverty of the Booth family, the interiors of "Snow Hill'. have escaped the ravages often dealt by well intentioned renovators. With the exception of woodwork in the dining room, painted by tenants in the mid-20th century, the original painted, grained, and marbled surfaces are extant throughout the house. Although wear and tear, natural aging, and even abuse have taken their tolls upon the surfaces, much is exceptionally well preserved. The wainscoted hallway is painted a deep, almost olive, green, and the risers of the steps are marbled. Newel posts are mahoganized, and the stick balusters are painted the same: green. The wainscot now found in the parlor, and that now painted over in the dining room, is representative of the fancy painting, which reached its height in the era between 1820 and 1840. The baseboards are marbled, rails and stiles of the wainscot are simulated mahogany, and panels are painted in imitation of birds-eye and curly maple. The dado cap, the door and window jamb moldings, are all painted a deep blue. Sunbursts in the parlor mantle are gilded with gold leaf. Doors throughout the house are painted with mahogany stiles and rails and with maple panels, identical to the wainscot of the first floor. Plaster surfaces throughout the house were applied over split lathes, and were left white. They were probably whitewashed often, and contain no signs of stenciling or wall painting.


     3.      Flooring: All the floors are of Virginia hard pine, varying in width from three to six inches. Without exception a single board runs the complete length of a room.

     4.      Fireplaces: There are four fireplaces in the house, 2 each on the first and second floors. There are no fireplaces on the third floor. All hearths are of square brick tiles. The finest mantle is gained, has herringbone and Greek key moldings, and gilded sunbursts, and is to be found in the parlor.

D. The Site: Within the immediate environs of the house are known to have been a smokehouse, an icehouse, barns, a kitchen, and a building referred to as the "weaving house". None of these buildings are still standing, although the frame of the smokehouse has been salvaged and will eventually be recon-structed. Woodwork from the kitchen, taken down in 1959, is in storage, and the chimney and foundations for the building still exist. There are no photographs of any of the other buildings, with the exception of the "weaving house", and it is highly unlikely that any archaeological excavations will take place.

Military:
He was commissioned a Lt. Col., on May 14, 1835 in the 71st Regiment of Infantry, 8th Brigade, 4th Division of the Virginia Militia (hence the title Col. Sam). He served in the Surry County Militia between 1835 and 1840.

In April of 1839 he was appointed deputy sheriff. David Booth was the sheriff.

Political Office:
County Corresponding Committees Nominated by the Van Buren Convention held in the Capitol Richmond, 11th Jan., 1836.
The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully requested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):

Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm. H. Edwards, Walter S. Booth, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman.
1836

Residence:
Completed at at cost of $1830



SNOW HILL

HOME OF COLONEL SAMUEL BOOTH

OTTERDAM AREA, SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA



"SNOW HILL"
HOME OF COLONEL SAMUEL BOOTH
OTTERDAM AREA, SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA


Location:      Northwest side of Virginia Route 4o~ .55 mile travelling east from the bridge over the Otterdam Swamp, Surry County, Virginia.
              
               Latitude:      37° 05' 25"
               Longitude:      77° 02' 55"




Present
Owners:           Mrs. John Leo Wilcox, Waverly, Virginia
               Mrs. Rosalie W. Priddy, Ashland, Virginia


Statement of
Significance:      This is a typical Tidewater Virginia plantation house of the pre-Civil War era. Constructed in 1836, it is a five bay, central hall, single pile structure of two and one half stories, and exhibits characteristics of the late eighteenth century which remained prevalent in rural southeastern Virginia well into the nineteenth century.



PART I: HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Samuel Booth was a middle class Tidewater Virginia planter who owned 500 acres of farmland eleven miles southwest of the Jams River in Surry County. His father, Beverly Booth, was a Revolutionary War veteran, a farmer, and a Baptist minister who brought his wife and several young children from Southampton to Surry, probably in 1791, and became pastor of the Otterdam Baptist Church. The Rev. Booth had been a part-time pastor of Sea Cock Baptist Church in Southampton until 1791, when he became ordained, and moved to Surry for a church and congregation of his own. (See John Asplundt's Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America to the year 1791, Richmond (?), 1791). Around 1816 Beverly Booth went to Petersburg, Virginia, where he was instrumental in starting the Cypress Swamp Baptist Church. One of his sons, Robert, moved to Georgia in 1814.

Samuel. Booth was born in Surry in 1794, probably attended a local school taught by a member of his father's congregation, and followed the most likely livelihood available to a young man of his upbringing--that of farming. He probably enlisted in the Surry County Militia at an early age, was commissioned a lieutenant in 1827, and was promoted to Captain in the following year (see appendix L). Although all records for the Surry County Militia between 1830 and 1840 have been destroyed, he was most likely promoted to Colonel in the early part at the decade. His obituary (died January 20, 1876) refers to him as Colonel, and his grandchildren, alive as late as 1956, fondly referred to him as "Colonel Sam". Nonetheless when Surry's post 1840 records are surveyed, no mention is made of his name, and it is likely that he retired in order to devote full time to the construction of his home and the development of his plantation.

As a look at the Surry County land Books will attest, Samuel Booth apparently took a fancy to occasionally dabbling in real estate., and by the mid 1830's owned considerable property, some of which he sold, and some of which formed the basis for his plantation. Construction of his house was undertaken on a 172 1/2 acre tract of land, probably in the fall of 1836, and was completed at a cost of $1380, according to the Surry County land Books for the year 1837. As Surry's "Personal Property Tax Books for 1837" note, Samuel Booth was assessed for "20 slaves. 9 horses, and a riding gig valued at $75" during the year "Snow Hill was constructed. When the relatively low cost of the structure is considered, it is reasonable to assume that the slaves played an important role in its construction: felling trees, sawing, hewing, and joining timbers for the frame, and making bricks. Yet, a professional house wright undoubtedly oversaw the over-all construction. Another house, known as "Oak Hill" and situated on Virginia Route 31 between Surry Court House and Scotland Wharf, was undoubtedly built by the same man, and is very similar in plan, detail, and brickwork. Surry County's Land Books for 1840 show that in 1839 additional expenditures amounting to $615. 75 went toward construction, probably dependencies.

According to Booth family tradition, a difficult winter during the construction of the house resulted in the name "Snow Hill", but the earliest documented use of the title is to be found in the 1859 deed of sale transferring the plantation from Samuel Booth to William H. Rood of Southampton. (Surry County Deed Book 14, page (See appendix F).

By 1852, "Snow Hill" had grown to include various adjoining parcels of land containing a. total of exactly 500 acres. Samuel's wife died later in the decade and, with his children grown, he sold the house and surrounding land in 1859 for the sum of $4500. He married a widow from adjoining Sussex County, and went to live with her on the farm she had inherited from her deceased husband.
William H. Hood held the property from 1859 until 1875, when the outcome of a court case decreed the land be sold, and it was purchased by Samuel Booth's son, Binns Beverly Booth, who promptly moved in with his family. Just prior to the death of Binns Beverly Booth, he sold the house and two hundred acres to his son Samuel Peter Booth, a bachelor. "Sam Pete ", as he was known, remained in the house until incapacitated in 1930, at which point he went to live with his nephew, John Leo Wilcox, of Waverly, and later to a nursing home. Tenants inhabited the house from 1930 onward, and the house was willed by "Sam Pete" Booth, upon his death in 1933, to his nephew.


PART II: ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION

A.      General Statement

1.      Architectural Character:      This is a typical Tidewater Virginia plantation house of the pro-Civil War era which has undergone little alteration since its construction in 1836. It is a five bay, central hall, single pile, two-and-one-half story frame structure, and exhibits characteristics of late 18th century architecture which remained prevalent in rural, southeastern, Virginia well into the 19th century.

2.      Condition of Fabric: Good.

     B.      Description of Exterior

1.      General Character: A five bay, two-and-one-half story structure covered by beaded-edge weatherboards, possessing a fine modillion cornice and fielded-panel doors which tell a continuity of architectural tradition in conser-vative, slave-holding, tidewater Virginia.

2. Foundations: The building is set upon brick piers, adequately spaced to allow free circulation of air around the structural timbers--a necessity in the damp, termite filled climate of the tidewater.

3. Brickwork: All brickwork, both in the foundation walls and in the chimneys, is laid in five course American bond. Bricks measure approximately 8" x 3" x 3-5/4" and five courses rise 16".

4. Structural system: The building is of frame construction, of hard Virginia pine. Larger framing members, such as the major bearing plates which rest upon the brick foundations, are hand hewn. Smaller members are sawn. Studs measure roughly 3" x 4"and are placed 16~ upon centers. The bearing plates measure approximately 10" x 12".

4. Doors: Front and back entries have double doors, each consisting of three fielded panels. All other doors in the building are of the traditional six-panel variety.

5. Hardware: The house is fortunate enough to have retained the majority of its original hardware although some had been replaced with Victorian examples. Rooms on the second and third floors boast square, iron plate latches, with thumb bolts and brass knobs. These are unmarked by their maker, but are probably of English origin. Of the five box locks originally found on the first floor, only two remain--on the closet door beneath the stair, and on the door between the hall and the dining room. This latter example is marked by "Carpen-ter & Company, patentees", and the keeper is stamped with a crown and the initials "W R', representing King William IV, ruler of England from 1830 until 1837. On the upper floors, there is only one box lock-- to be found on the door of the small room just above the south entry. It has neither knobs nor a thumb latch--only a key for 1ocking --suggesting that the room was used only for storage, and not as a nursery or sewing room, as has occasionally been suggested. The double doors which open off the back side of the hall to the exterior never had a lock of any kind, only a wooden bar placed in iron holders,
The only wrought iron to be found in the entire house are the strap hinges which bold the exterior shutters. These hinges, however, are attached to the shatters with screws, and not with nails as might be expected. Nails throughout the house are of the early machine cut variety. Hinges on all doors are of cast iron, those in the parlor and dining room having examples which raise the doors a total of 1/2 " as they are opened--suggesting that there may have been some floor covering which the owner did not want the moving doors to wear.

6      Windows and shutters: All windows are wooden double-hung sashes, unweighted, consisting of "nine-over-nine" light sashes oh the first floor, and "six-over-six" on the second floor. The small double hung sashes, which light the third floor re of the "four-over-four" variety
Shutters were originally hung on the exterior only on the south front of the building--facing the road, which runs in front of the house. During the last quarter of the 19th century, shutters were added to the north side and to the third floor, but these have long since disappeared.

7.      Roof: An old roof (possibly the original) of: hard pine or cypress shingles still exists beneath the current roof of tin, added in 1972 to prevent water damage. All of the shingles are of random width, measuring 18" in length, 6" of which was exposed to the weather. All shingles have rounded ends to prevent warping in the hot sun.

Lightening rods: The lightening rods seen on both chimneys of the house in old photographs were un-doubtedly original. Only sections still remain.

9.      The front porch, visible in old photographs, was original to the house, but was taken down in 1950 when its structure had become unsafe. Another porch was added at that time, but that too has since been removed. Included in this study is a proposed reconstruction of the porch taken from old photos, measurements, and the existing outline of the porch still visible on the front of the house.

Description of Interior:

Woodwork: Paneled wainscot is found throughout the first floor and extends up the stairwell to the second floor. The second floor has chair mould and base-boards throughout, and the third floor has only baseboard. There are no cornices of any form in any of the rooms on the interior.

Painted. Interiors: Fortunate enough to have endured the poverty of the Booth family, the interiors of "Snow Hill'. have escaped the ravages often dealt by well intentioned renovators. With the exception of woodwork in the dining room, painted by tenants in the mid-20th century, the original painted, grained, and marbled surfaces are extant throughout the house. Although wear and tear, natural aging, and even abuse have taken their tolls upon the surfaces, much is exceptionally well preserved. The wainscoted hallway is painted a deep, almost olive, green, and the risers of the steps are marbled. Newel posts are mahoganized, and the stick balusters are painted the same: green. The wainscot now found in the parlor, and that now painted over in the dining room, is representative of the fancy painting, which reached its height in the era between 1820 and 1840. The baseboards are marbled, rails and stiles of the wainscot are simulated mahogany, and panels are painted in imitation of birds-eye and curly maple. The dado cap, the door and window jamb moldings, are all painted a deep blue. Sunbursts in the parlor mantle are gilded with gold leaf. Doors throughout the house are painted with mahogany stiles and rails and with maple panels, identical to the wainscot of the first floor. Plaster surfaces throughout the house were applied over split lathes, and were left white. They were probably whitewashed often, and contain no signs of stenciling or wall painting.


     3.      Flooring: All the floors are of Virginia hard pine, varying in width from three to six inches. Without exception a single board runs the complete length of a room.

     4.      Fireplaces: There are four fireplaces in the house, 2 each on the first and second floors. There are no fireplaces on the third floor. All hearths are of square brick tiles. The finest mantle is gained, has herringbone and Greek key moldings, and gilded sunbursts, and is to be found in the parlor.

D. The Site: Within the immediate environs of the house are known to have been a smokehouse, an icehouse, barns, a kitchen, and a building referred to as the "weaving house". None of these buildings are still standing, although the frame of the smokehouse has been salvaged and will eventually be recon-structed. Woodwork from the kitchen, taken down in 1959, is in storage, and the chimney and foundations for the building still exist. There are no photographs of any of the other buildings, with the exception of the "weaving house", and it is highly unlikely that any archaeological excavations will take place.

Court:
In April of 1839 he was appointed deputy sheriff. David Booth was the sheriff.

Census:
age 75 in 1870 census and occupation listed as farmer. Persons living with him were listed as: Mary E. Booth, age 50 (keeping house); Mary Owen, age 19; John Owen, age 18 (at school), Elizabeth Parson, age 50; Amy (Amie Lee) L, age 7.

Samuel Booth Values: Real Estate $700, personal property $5700
Mary E. Booth Values: Real Estate $5000, personal property $2000

Medical:
for 2 years prior to death

Alt. Death:
from a photo copy of a document at Kenneth Coker's

Died:
Main Entry Farmville Mercury, and official advertiser for Prince Edward, Cumberland, Buckingham, Appomattox and neighboring counties
Title Died- At his residence in Sussex County, Col. Samuel Booth, father of P. H. Booth of Petersburg. (Petersburg Index - Appeal). (p. 3, c. 2). Publication Thursday, January 27, 1876. Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Other Format Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 36). Subject - Personal Booth, Samuel, d.1876.
Subject - Topical Obituaries -- Virginia.
Subject -Geographic Farmville (Va.)
Buckingham County (Va.)
Appomattox County (Va.)
Cumberland County (Va.)
Genre/Form Obituaries -- Virginia -- Sussex County.
Added Entry Henley, Bernard J. (Bernard John)
Added Title Bernard J. Henley papers.

Buried:
\\ulGRAVEYARD\\ulnone: Persons buried in the graveyard at Snow Hill:
     Col. Samuel Booth and his wife (no gravestone remains)
     Sarah Ellis Booth (no gravestone remains)
     Georgianna Booth James (no gravestone remains)
Note: Her husband, Dr. Richard Henry James, was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife. When he died, the Booth's refused to let him be buried next to his wife, and he was interred on a nearby farm owned by the Rogers family.

     Binns Beverly Booth
     Elizabeth Bingham Baird Booth (his wife)
(The issue of D & E above are F, G, H)

     Elizabeth (Nannie) Bell Booth, infant daughter died during the 1880's (no gravestone remains)
     Annie L. Booth, 1872 - 1885 or 95
     Virginia Frances Booth Parsons (no gravestone remains)
     Dallas Parsons, her husband. (no gravestone remains)

J.      Also buried in the graveyard, (no gravestone remains), are 2 children of Joseph Booth (son of Capt. David Booth). Neither ever married, both lived into old age, an they supposedly lived together in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia. Marie Baird attended their funerals during the 1920's, but she is not sure of the exact date. Their names were Agnes Booth and Patrick Booth (no gravestone remains).

LVA Record:
Record 203 out of 1492      Previous Record Next Record
Main Entry      Link Farmville Mercury, and official advertiser for Prince Edward, Cumberland, Buckingham, Appomattox and neighboring counties
Title      Link Died- At his residence in Sussex County, Col. Samuel Booth, father of P. H. Booth of Petersburg. (Petersburg Index - Appeal). (p. 3, c. 2).
Publication      Thursday, January 27, 1876.
Gen. note      From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format      Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 36).
Subject - Personal      LinkBooth, Samuel, d.1876.
Subject - Topical      LinkObituaries -- Virginia.
Subject -Geographic      LinkFarmville (Va.)

Samuel married ELLIS Sarah (Sally) on 26 Dec 1816 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Sarah (daughter of ELLIS Benjamin and JONES Sarah (Sally)) was born about 1798 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 24 Oct 1861 in Southampton County, VA; was buried in Surry County, VA (Snow Hill Cemetery). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 452
• Alt. Marriage: 23 Dec 1816, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States
• Alt. Name: 26 Dec 1816; Sarah Elizabeth

Notes:

Age 36 in the 1870 Census....Section M-593/1680 (poss conflict) In the Death Records of Southampton County 1853-1870, by Gray this shows that a Georgiana Bailey reported her mother Sarah Bailey dying of diarhoea in Southampton County on 10/24/1861 at age 70. Spouse listed as unknown and

Alt. Marriage:
Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
about Samuel Booth
Name:Samuel Booth          
Gender:Male          
Spouse Name:Sally Ellis          
Spouse Gender:Female          
Marriage Date:23 Dec 1816          
County:Surry          
State:Virginia          

Alt. Name:
From Beverly Booth Family Bible

Buried:
GRAVEYARD: Persons buried in the graveyard at Snow Hill:
     Col. Samuel Booth and his wife (no gravestone remains)
     Sarah Ellis Booth (no gravestone remains)
     Georgianna Booth James (no gravestone remains)
Note: Her husband, Dr. Richard Henry James, was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife. When he died, the Booth's refused to let him be buried next to his wife, and he was interred on a nearby farm owned by the Rogers family.

     Binns Beverly Booth
     Elizabeth Bingham Baird Booth (his wife)
(The issue of D & E above are F, G, H)

     Elizabeth (Nannie) Bell Booth, infant daughter died during the 1880's (no gravestone remains)
     Annie L. Booth, 1872 - 1885 or 95
     Virginia Frances Booth Parsons (no gravestone remains)
     Dallas Parsons, her husband. (no gravestone remains)

J.      Also buried in the graveyard, (no gravestone remains), are 2 children of Joseph Booth (son of Capt. David Booth). Neither ever married, both lived into old age, an they supposedly lived together in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia. Marie Baird attended their funerals during the 1920's, but she is not sure of the exact date. Their names were Agnes Booth and Patrick Booth (no gravestone remains).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Va Militia
• Occupation: Grocer & Farmer

Notes:

Peter Baird: Dept of Interior, War of 1812, Act of Feb 14, 1871 records shows: Enlisted....... Aug 7, 1812 Discharge.....Feb 7, 1813 Served in 62nd Va Regiment, Virginia Militia under Capt Allen Temple, Regiment commanded by Col. Lucas and was Honorably discharged at Ft. Norfolk, Va. He served as a private. He received 2 bounty- land warranties for service and subsequently received pension for service at age 76. It is also stated that he disposed of the bounty land (80 acres). He also applied and was granted another (the 2nd ) bounty land warrant (7-4-1841). This shows that at this time (age 56) he was titled a Col. in the Virginia Militia. It further shows his mailing address as Disputanta, Prince George, Va. Married by James Hill (aird Family Bible)

This information obtained from Nelie Parsons York and Lonnie Baird by Doris Jean Johnson Joined the Va Militia on 8/7/1812 and served for 6 months

(Alexander) married BINGHAM Elizabeth Mckee on 24 Jan 1817 in Prince George County, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of BINGHAM William and CRAMMER Mary) was born on 19 Dec 1798 in Prince George County, VA; died on 15 Sep 1875 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; was buried in Surry County, VA (Baird Family Cemetary(Grape Hill), Rt. 612)). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 167

Notes:

According to census records, her parents were still in England. Baird-Booth-Parsons Bible shows both years for her birth. Married By James Hill. Poss buried in the Baird Cemetery with her husband.
The cemetery is located in a field off Rt. 612 ( Otterdam Rd.) Now, 2007, the farm is owned by Phillip Chappell, Jr.

Notes:

Married:
Married by James Hill