BOOTH Stephen S., Sr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Lived(s) In: 1790, Pendleton District, SC
• Lived(s) In: 1807, Tennessee
• Lived(s) In: 1816, FRANKLIN COUNTY, North Carolina
• Land: 24 Oct 1816, Bedford Co, TN
• Lived(s) In: 1820, Bedford Co, TN
• Land: 1825, Bedford Co, TN
• Lived(s) In: Abt 1830, Haywood County, TN

Notes:

Stephen S. Booth (possible middle name was Shaybe), my fifth great grandfather, was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1765 to John and Mary Smith Booth. He was very much the middle child as four children were born to the family before him and three after.

Four years after they were married, around 1790, Stephen and Penelope traveled along with a large group including his sister and bother-in-law, Benjamin and Agnes Booth Clardy, from Virginia to South Carolina to make a new home. The group settled in an area called Pendleton District, SC. According to "The Clardy Family History," the group also included Benjamin's three daughters and son-in-laws; John and Mary Clardy, David and Nancy Clardy Spearman and Jimmy and Sally Clardy Fleming. Other's who were have said to join them included Joab Clardy, Ellsworth Clardy, Henry Spencer, Polly Gambrell and others.

We know from her obit below that, in 1816, Agnes and Benjamin migrated to Franklin Co., TN.

Another story about the family and migration come from from J.B. Guthrie of Pelzor, SC who is a descendent of David and Mary Guthrie.

According to verbal family history, David Guthrie went to South Carolina to visit his brother-in-law, Stephen Booth (who married his sister Penelope). While he was down there he purchased 1,000 acres of land for $1,000.00, then returned home to Virginia for his wife, Mary Booth Guthrie, and their children. They loaded everything they could take on an ox cart and headed for SC. When they left, her wife's parents, John and Mary Smith Booth cried because the knew they would never see her again.

Not long after David and Mary Booth Guthrie moved to SC, Stephen and Penelope Guthrie Booth decided to move their family to Bedford Co., TN. According to family history, he tried to talk David into moving also but David told him he wished he had never left Virginia.

John and Mary Smith Booth did get to see their daughter again. David and Mary Booth Guthrie made a trip back to Virginia on horseback. They had to leave their children with a relative and since the trip took six months, when they finally returned, one of their smaller children did not know who they were.

Lived(s) In:
Four years after they were married, around 1790, Stephen and Penelope traveled along with a large group including his sister and bother-in-law, Benjamin and Agnes Booth Clardy, from Virginia to South Carolina to make a new home. The group settled in an area called Pendleton District, SC. According to "The Clardy Family History," the group also included Benjamin's three daughters and son-in-laws; John and Mary Clardy, David and Nancy Clardy Spearman and Jimmy and Sally Clardy Fleming. Other's who were have said to join them included Joab Clardy, Ellsworth Clardy, Henry Spencer, Polly Gambrell and others.

Another story about the family and migration come from from J.B. Guthrie of Pelzor, SC who is a descendent of David and Mary Guthrie. According to verbal family history, David Guthrie went to South Carolina to visit his brother-in-law, Stephen Booth (who married his sister
Penelope). While he was down there he purchased 1,000 acres of land for $1,000.00, then returned home to Virginia for his wife, Mary Booth Guthrie, and their children. They loaded everything they could take on an ox cart and headed for SC. When they left, her wife's parents, John and Mary Smith Booth cried because the knew they would never see her again.
Not long after David and Mary Booth Guthrie moved to SC, Stephen and Penelope Guthrie Booth decided to move their family to Bedford Co., TN. According to family history, he tried to talk David into moving also but David told him he wished he had never left Virginia.

Lived(s) In:
Stephen and Penelope Booth were living somewhere in Tennessee by 1807 because that was listed as Stephen's residence in his father's will.

Lived(s) In:
We know from her obit below that, in 1816, Agnes and Benjamin migrated to Franklin Co., TN.

Land:
On 24 Oct. 1816 Jonathan Ward deeded to Stephen Booth, 70 acres on the waters of Alexander Creek in Bedford County, TN. The land was originally part of a 3,000 land grant to Ebenezar Alexander.

Lived(s) In:
By 1820, 56-year-old Stephen and his family were living in Bedford County, TN. I believe his older sons Benjamin, Henry and James (my direct ancestor) had farms of their own nearby.

Land:
In 1825, Stephen Booth, Sr. gave his son James Booth and Samuel Clay Booth, 100 acres in Bedford Co., TN, on waters of Wartrace Fork.
Stephen S. Booth is listed as an early settler of the area.

Lived(s) In:
It appears that by 1830, Stephen, along with his sons James and Benjamin had moved further west to Haywood County, TN, near present day Alamo, to an area that would later become Crocket County.
Stephen S. Booth is listed as an early settler of the area.
Stephen S. Booth shows up in a jury in Haywood County in September 1831.

Stephen married GUTHRIE Penelope on 13 Sep 1786 in FRANKLIN COUNTY, VA. Penelope (daughter of GUTHRIE Henry and JOHNSON Penelope) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Living In: 1830

Notes:

Living In:
It appears that by 1830, Stephen, along with his sons James and Benjamin had moved further west to Haywood County, TN, near present day Alamo, to an area that would later become Crocket County.
Stephen S. Booth is listed as an early settler of the area.
Stephen S. Booth shows up in a jury in Haywood County in September 1831.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Land: 1825, Bedford Co, TN

Notes:

Land:
In 1825, Stephen Booth, Sr. gave his son James Booth and Samuel Clay Booth, 100 acres in Bedford Co., TN, on waters of Wartrace Fork.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Living In: bed 1820, Bedford Co, TN
• Land: 1825, Bedford Co, TN
• Living In: 1830, Haywood County, TN
• Land: 1836, Bedford Co, TN
• Land: Sep 1839, Bedford Co, TN
• Political Office: 1846, Haywood County, TN
• Land: 1847, Bedford Co, TN; For reference to his property line
• Land: Nov 1847, Bedford Co, TN
• Census: 1850, Bedford Co, TN

Notes:

Living In:
At some point before the 1820 census, James was living in Bedford County, TN as were his brothers Henry and Benjamin and their growing families.

Land:
In 1825, Stephen Booth, Sr. gave his son James Booth and Samuel Clay Booth, 100 acres in Bedford Co., TN, on waters of Wartrace Fork.

Living In:
It appears that by 1830, Stephen, along with his sons James and Benjamin had moved further west to Haywood County, TN, near present day Alamo, to an area that would later become Crocket County.

Stephen S. Booth is listed as an early settler of the area.

Stephen S. Booth shows up in a jury in Haywood County in September 1831.

By 1830, James and his family had moved to Haywood County where he appears to have been very involved in the legal and community affairs. He shows up in numerous records and had many dealing with other ancestors of mine including Castellaws, Cobbs, Brantleys, Steeles and others.

Land:
31 August 1836, James Booth sold 50 acres of land to John Hancock for the sum of one horse which was valued at one hundred dollars. Thomas J. Castellaw and Edward Steele were witnesses. 1 Jan 1839, John Hancock deeded the same 50 acres back to James' son, William for $150 dollars. David Outlaw and Thomas J. Castellaw witnessed that transaction. Source

Land:
Sale:
In Sept 1839 John H. Cobb purchased five and one quarter acres of land from James Booth for $12.50. Source

Political Office:
In 1846, James Booth, Ichabod Herring and J. (John) H. Cobb were school commissioners for the fifth district of Haywood County. Source

Land:
In 1847, John Cobb deeded land to Richard Ward which is listed as being "bound by beginning at a Stake in the line at James Boothe north, thence west the said Boothes line, thus North the said Whitney line to Butterton's line then his line East to the to John D Castellow's line. Source

Land:
In November 1847 James Booth deeded one acre of land to the school commissioners with the purpose of building a schoolhouse. Booth made the transfer of real estate "for the good will that I entertain for the public school system."

Census:
By the census of 1850, James Booth was age 60 and his wife Nancy was 56. The children in house were James age (25 born abt 1825), Penelope (age 21 born 1829), Louisa (age 17 born 1833), and Susan Bacon (age 27 born abt 1823). Also in the house was William Evans (age 21 born abt 1829).

The family farmed land valued at $1,500. Next door was the farm of Augustus Brantley and his family.

Died:
What I think possibly happened was, after James wife, Nancy Ann Milligan died in 1850, he married Mary Lofton and moved with her to El Paso, AR where his son, Moses Love Booth, was living. James then died at the home of his son in 1861. Whomever wrote the bio incorrectly thought Mary was the mother of Moses Love Booth.....Patricia

Family/Spouse: MILLIGAN Nancy Ann. Nancy was born in 1794 in Hillsborough, Orange, North Carolina; died in 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married LOFTON Mary after 1850 in FRANKLIN COUNTY, TN. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: GATES Mineva J.. Mineva was born on 20 Dec 1819 in North Carolina, USA; died in 5/2/1/1880 in Crockett County, TN; was buried in Crockett County, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Haywood County, TN
• Census: 1860, Haywood County, TN
• Census: 1870, Haywood County, TN

Notes:

from PAtricia Budda

Regardless, I do beleive that James Booth was the father of William G. "Billy" Booth.

Census:
In the census of 1850 in Haywood County, Billy Booth was 34 and his wife Eliza was 25.
Daughter Elizabeth was four and son James was two. Also living with the family was James
M. Todd who was a 25-year-old male from North Carolina.

Census:
By 1860 Billy's family had grown, as had the value of his land, now worth $2,400 and personal estate also valued at $2,400. He was 45 and his wife Eliza was 35. The children at home were Mary (age 13), James (age 12), Nancy (age 8), Margaret (age 7), William (age 3), and Cicero who was 11 months. Living on the farm just next door was the family of Leonard Decatur Cobb and his wife Photo credit: Betsy Sullivan Waddell and Eliza White Booth's son, James Bemberry Booth and family Booth's wife, Mary Elizabeth "Eliza" White, was the daughter
of Solomon White and Martha Hughs.

The Booth Family
http://www.haywoodcountyline.com/booth.html[3/15/2015 8:04:14 PM]
Mary Amanda Rooks Cobb. Leonard was the son of John Hardy Cobb and Harriett
Castellaw Cobb. Also living on the farm of the Cobbs is 74-year-old Elizabeth Outlaw who
had her own property valued at $400.
Also in 1860, Billy shows up in the slave schedule as being the owner of one slave, a 23-
year-old mulatto female.

Census:
In 1870, the Civil War was over and in the US Census, Billy was 54, Eliza was 46 and living at home then was James (21), Margaret (age 16), William L. (age 13), Albert (age 13), Ada P. (age 7), Alphonso (age 5) and my second great grandmother, Sara Evelena who was two-years-old.
The family lived just one farm away from the Henry Day Brantley Family and just two
farms from the home of Augustus and Zilpha Brantley.

From Patricia Budda

William married WHITE Elizabeth (Eliza)Haywood County, TN. Elizabeth (daughter of WHITE Solomon and HUGHES Martha) was born cal 1825; died on 9 Oct 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May or may not be a son. See below to make your own conclusion or even better, help us solve the mystery:

The bio below, which I found online, includes many facts about Moses Love Booth that would indicate he is a son of "my" James Booth. Then, there are other facts that indicate he is not.
M. Love Booth, retired farmer and merchant, was born in Middle Tennessee, Bedford County, in 1819, but owing to his father's early removal to Haywood County, he was reared there. The parents, James and Mary (Lofton) Booth, were both Virginians, and after residing in Tennessee for many years they removed to White County, Ark., and died at the home of their son in 1861.
He was a member of the Baptist Church, a Mason, a lifelong Democrat, and was for years sheriff of Bedford County. After his wife's death, which occurred in 1851, he married again and came to Arkansas. M. Love Booth is the third of their six children, four now living: John (deceased, who was a farmer in Tennessee), William (a farmer of West Tennessee), Samira (deceased), M. Love, Susan (the wife of Henry Bacon, of Mississippi) and Louisa (who is the wife of a Tennessee farmer).
Our subject has been familiar with farm work from his earliest boyhood, but his early advantages for acquiring an education were not so good. At the [p.134] age of twenty he was a farm hand, later a trader and stock breeder, and after his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Budrell he became an overseer, and successfully followed that-occupation for forty years. He then gave up that work and built a livery stable in Brownsville, his establishment there being the largest of the kind in the State.
In 1858 he came to Arkansas and purchased 320 acres of land near El Paso, seventy acres of which he cleared the first year. He was signally successful until the war broke out, when all his personal roperty was lost. He did not espouse either cause, and was not molested during those turbulent times. When he came to El Paso there were only two farms open here, but now the greater part of the land is in a high state of cultivation.
After the war he, with Thomas Warren, built a large mill, which was destroyed by fire, when he returned to his farm, which he again began to till. He became the possessor of 1,000 acres, and has cleared over 300 acres, and since giving each of his children a farm he still holds 310 acres. His wife died October 1, 1887, and since that time he has made his home with his children, and is at present living with J. T. Phelps, his son-in-law, in El Paso, where he has an interest in the store of M. L. Phelps & Co.
Mr. Booth was the first man to build a store in El Paso after the war, and is now managing a livery stable in that place, and, although he has attained the age of seventy years, he is an excellent business manager and is very active. Although quiet in his habits of life, he has always been interested in the public affairs of the county, and has done his full share in making the county what it is.
He joined the Masons while in Tennessee, and he as well as his children are members of the Baptist Church. His children's names are here given: Nancy (is the wife of Monroe Oakley, a prosperous farmer of White County), Rebecca (is the wife of John C. Harkness, a farmer of El Paso), Elizabeth L. (is the wife of Thomas K. Noland, a farmer of the county), Narcissus (is the wife of John Russ, a farmer and president of the State Wheel), Martha A. (is the wife of J. T. Phelps, a merchant of El Paso), Mosella B. (deceased) and three infants, deceased. Source
Similarities:
1. Moses Love Booth was born in Bedford Co., TN which is where James was living between 1816 and 1830.
2. Moses Love Booth's father moved to Haywood County, TN when he was a young boy. "My" James Booth moved his family to Haywood County.
3. Moses Love Booth's father was named James
4. Moses Love Booth's father was a sherrif in Bedford Co.
5. Moses Love Booth's brother was named William and he was a farmer in TN. One of James' son's, my third great grandfather, William "Billy" was a farmer in TN when this was written.
6. Moses Love Booth's sister was named Susan and she was married to Henry Bacon. Susan Bacon is in the census of 1850 living with who I think is "my" James Booth.
7. Moses Love Booth's sister is named Louisa. My James Booth has a daughter named Sarah Louisa.
8. Moses Love Booth named his daughter Nancy which was the name of "my" James' wife.
Differences:
1. According to this, Moses Love Booth's mother was named Mary Lofton not Nancy.
2. According to this, Moses Love Booth's parents were from Virginia but, in a census, James' son William "Billy" Booth said his father was from SC and his mother was from NC.
3. According to this, James Booth's wife Mary died in 1861 and he moved to Arkansas. My ancestor James' wife Nancy Ann Milligan died in 1850.
4. I beleive my James and Nancy had four children but the James in the bio had six children.
What I think possibly happened was, after James wife, Nancy Ann Milligan died in 1850, he married Mary Lofton and moved with her to El Paso, AR where his son, Moses Love Booth, was living. James then died at the home of his son in 1861. Whomever wrote the bio incorrectly thought Mary was the mother of Moses Love Booth.
If this is the case, then the children of James Booth and Nancy Ann Milligan Booth were Moses Love (b. 1819), William G. "Billy (b 1816), Susan (b. 1823), Penelope (b. 1829), and Sarah Louise (b. 1833).
Of course, another possibility is that there were two James Booths in Haywood County who arrived by way of Bedford Co., TN.
A third possibility is that Mary Lofton was James' first wife and Nancy Ann Milligan was his second wife.
There is one other connection I have found between Moses Booth and "my" Booths. On 11 Dec 1850, Moses L. Booth deeded forty acres of land to Leonard D. Cobb. John Hardy Cobb and W.G. (Billy) Booth witnessed the deed so there is a connection made between Billy and Moses Love Booth.
Regardless, I do beleive that James Booth was the father of William G. "Billy" Booth.
The four most important clues that indicate that are:
1. In the census of 1880 William was born in Tennessee in 1816 and his father's birthplace was listed as South Carolina and his mother's birthplace was listed as North Carolina. James Booth was born in South Carolina and his wife Nancy was born in North Carolina.
2. 31 August 1836, James Booth sold 50 acres of land to John Hancock for the sum of one horse which was valued at one hundred dollars. Thomas J. Castellaw and Edward Steele were witnesses. 1 Jan 1839, John Hancock deeded the same 50 acres back to James' son, William for $150 dollars. David Outlaw and Thomas J. Castellaw witnessed that transaction.
3. Where previously James Booth was farming the land next to the Brantleys, in the next decade, Billy Booth is farming that land.
4. Billy Booth named his oldest son James.
Above from Patricia, via email

Notes:

Birth: Aug. 16, 1836 Death: Apr. 9, 1923
Co-founder of West Tennessee Christian College, editor of the Christian at Work and Gospel Preacher listed in Gospel Preachers Who Blazed the Trail by C.R. Nichol, 1911.
H.C. Booth was born in West Tennessee, August 16, 1836, son of S. S. Booth. He became a Christian in 1858 and since that date has contended for the faith publicly and privately. Most of his preaching was done in West Tennessee and North Mississippi before he came to Texas, but he has done a deal of work in Northeast Texas. Eternity alone will reveal the amount of good done by those who have faithfully preached the Gospel, --Gospel Preachers Who Blazed the Trail
His father was Stephen S. Booth (1809-1878) and is buried in the Alamo, Crockett County, TN Cemetery.
Booth published an article entitled "Growth of the Word" in the Gospel Advocate, July 23, 1896, p. 478 and "The Church of God at Commerce, Texas, Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1901, p. 739.
Evangelist H. C. Booth, who asked for the privilege of preaching at the pro-organ Commerce church in 1896 in order to denounce instrumental music, was denied permission on the basis that he was "anti-progressive."--History of the Churches of Christ in Texas, p. 248.
"I am talking to you today about Freed-Hardeman College with which, as student and teacher, I have had a direct connection for more than fifty years. This is the oldest school among the churches of Christ that has continued to the present. It, with its predecessors, began in September 1884 under the management of brethren J. B. Inman, R. P. Meeks, and H. C. Booth. From the beginning, the teaching of the Bible has been made prominent. --E. Claude Gardner quoting a 1944 statement by N. B. Hardeman, Gospel Advocate, August 8, 1974, p. 501.
Hundreds of gospel papers have started, but only a few remain. The Gospel Advocate dates back to 1855, and it is stronger than at any time in its glorious history. Two preachers, J.B. Inman and H.C. Booth are credited with starting a religious paper and a school. The paper, The Christian at Work launched in 1883 ceased, but the school they built in 1884, West Tennessee Christian College at Henderson, Tenn., served well for many years. This college is in the ancestry of Freed-Hardeman College, and N. B. Hardeman dated the beginning of the present institution as 1884 which would make it the oldest Christian school among us.--E. Claude Gardner, "BCG," Gospel Advocate, Oct. 16, 1975, p. 662.
His wife may be Fannie O. Avery .

Notes:

Obituary of Cooke, Elizabeth P.
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Cooke, daughter of S. S. and Minerva J. Booth, was born on February 10, 1838, and died on October 3, 1920, aged eighty-two years, seven months, and twenty-three days. She married G. B. Cooke, January 25, 1854. To them were born four boys and three girls, all living but one. She leaves forty-nine grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren to mourn the loss of mother and grandmother. She became a member of the body of Christ in early life and lived a consistent member until death.
(Information submitted by H. C. Booth.)

Buried:
Obituary of Cooke, Elizabeth P.
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Cooke, daughter of S. S. and Minerva J. Booth, was born on February 10, 1838, and died on October 3, 1920, aged eighty-two years, seven months, and twenty-three days. She married G. B. Cooke, January 25, 1854. To them were born four boys and three girls, all living but one. She leaves forty-nine grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren to mourn the loss of mother and grandmother. She became a member of the body of Christ in early life and lived a consistent member until death.
(Information submitted by H. C. Booth.)

Family/Spouse: COOKE Green Berry. Green was born on 15 Aug 1834 in Rutherford, TN; died on 5 Dec 1911 in Crockett County, TN; was buried in Crockett County, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BOOTH Cynthia Tatum. Cynthia was born on 25 Sep 1843; died on 29 Sep 1909; was buried in Alamo, San Antonio, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CASTLEMAN George W. George was born on 5 Sep 1838; died on 6 Nov 1924; was buried in Nov 1924 in Crockett County, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: Haywood County, TN

Notes:

Note:
James B. Booth and his oldest son Vernon built a store in the Jones Station community of Haywood County which is included in the drawing below. On the south side of
the store was a warehouse also owned by James in which church services were held.

James married CLARK Elizabeth Ellen on 16 Dec 1878 in Haywood County, TN. Elizabeth was born on 21 Jul 1852; died on 13 Oct 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Katie Lockhard on 9 Mar 1881 in Haywood County, TN. Katie was born on 26 Sep 1859; died on 17 Dec 1898. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married THOMAS Eldorado on 18 Apr 1901. Eldorado was born in Feb 1871; died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married MANN Mary Emma on 17 Dec 1879. Mary was born in 1848; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1903, Haywood County, TN; Started operating a Gin

Albert married WHITE Rebecca Mamie in 1888. Rebecca was born on 28 Aug 1863 in Haywood County, TN; died on 1 Oct 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married WATRIDGE Sarah Frances "Sallie" in 1896. Sarah (daughter of WATRIDGE Daniel Washington and COBB Mourning Adeline) was born in 1869; died on 17 Apr 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]