Thanks, Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary & Judy Yandle <gwyandle@prodigy.net> To: <GACOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [GACOFFEE] Descendants of Hiram Booth > One suggestion about the Mary Cato/Nancy Booth quandry - I have found that > ancestors, especially women, who go by middle names or names that are > spelled differently than then sound, may appear in Census by their first > names one time, middle names on another or a strange concoction of their > name if it is different. So, could Nancy Booth be Mary Nancy Cato Booth or > Nancy Mary C. Booth?? > > Just a thought as I have run into this a lot in my lineages. > > Judy Y in NC > ----------------------------------------------------- > Click here for Free Video!! > http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "spiral813" <spiral813@mciworld.com> > To: <GACOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:47 AM > Subject: [GACOFFEE] Descendants of Hiram Booth > > > > It's been a while since I posted a message on Hiram Booth. > > > > Here's my problem: > > > > According to the death certificate of my great-grandmother, Mahala Booth > b. abt. May 1855 GA d. 6 Apr 1925 Plant City, Hillsborough Co., FL, Hiram > Booth is her father. Her mother was unknown. I found where Hiram Booth > married Mary Cato 15 May 1840 Telfair County, GA. I haven't been able to > find Mary listed as his wife in census records. I have found Hiram Booth > with wife named Nancy in the following census: > > > > 1850 Telfair County, GA Census > > Hiram Booth 33 yrs. Male Farmer born: Appling Co., GA > > Nancy Booth 33 yrs. Female Wife born: South Carolina > > Warren Booth 11 yrs. Male Son born: Ware Co., GA > > Gilbert Booth 10 yrs. Male Son born: Ware Co., GA > > Sally Booth 6 yrs. Female Daughter born: Ware Co., GA > > Mary Booth 2 yrs. Female Daughter born: Telfair Co., GA > > > > 1860 Coffee County, GA Census > > Hiram Boothe 50 yrs. Male > > Nancy Boothe 45 yrs. Female > > Warren Boothe 18 yrs Male > > > > 1870 Clinch County, GA Census > > Hiram Booth 40 yrs Male born: GA > > Mary Booth 19 yrs Female born: GA > > > > 1880 Coffee County, GA Census > > Hiram Boothe 80 yrs. Male born: GA Father born: GA Mother born: GA > > Nancy Boothe 90 yrs. Female b: GA Father born: GA Mother born: GA > > > > I did find in 1870 Tattnall County, Georgia Census a Nancy Boothe 50 yrs. > old living with the family of Benjamin Griner. There was also a Louisa > Boothe 14 yrs old living there. Nancy wasn't with Hiram in the 1870 Clinch > County, Ga Census. Could this be Nancy in Tattnall Co.? > > > > One of our Lott descendants (now deceased) has in his genealogy work that > Mahala's parents were Hiram Booth and Mary Cato. > > Family story goes. . . . an Indian family was passing through Georgia and > the children became very ill. The Indians left their children with the > Georgia family and went on their way. They didn't think the children would > live. The boy did die but the girl survived and this family raised her. > She grew up and married my great-grandfather, Benjamin Harley "Tippy" Smith. > This would explain why I can't find Mahala in the census with the Booth > family. In the 1860 census all the children but Warren were missing from > this household. Where were they? > > > > Is this Sally Booth the same Sarah "Sally" Booth that married Joseph Sapp, > son of Enoch Sapp, Sr. and Martha Ruth "Ruthy" Barrow. Was Hiram married > more than once? > > > > Mahala and Benjamin Smith had the following six children: > > (1) Hiram J. Smith b. 21 Mar 1869 Coffee Co, GA married: 20 Feb 1890 to > Lucinda Lott, d/o Arthur Lott & Mary Harper > > (2) Mary Smith b. 17 Jun 1873 Coffee Co, GA married: 20 Feb 1890 to Elam > Lott, s/o Arthur Lott & Mary Harper > > (3) Daniel L."Preacher Dan" Smith b. 4 Mar 1878 Coffee Co, GA married: 17 > Dec 1899 to Nelia Mae Wooten d/o Bryant Lee > > Wooten & Susannah Passmore > > (4) Robert Duncan "Dunk" Smith b. 28 Nov 1880 Douglas, Coffee Co, GA > married: (1) 17 Jan 1904 Mariah Metts, d/o Aaron Metts & > > Emma Elizabeth Grantham (2) 29 Jun 1925 Lillie Bell Harris, d/o Pate > Washington Harris & Tobitha "Bitha" Delila Bailey > > (5) James "Jimmy" Smith b. bet. 1882 - 1883 Coffee Co., GA. He died in > his teens. > > (6) Jesse Smith b. 23 Sep 1886 Coffee Co, GA d. 14 Jul 1902 Coffee Co, GA > > > > Would love to correspond with anyone connected to anyone mentioned. I > welcome any suggestions on how I can find info on Hiram, Mahala and family. > > > > Thanks, > > Brenda > > > > > > ==== GACOFFEE Mailing List ==== > > We welcome any data, pictures, gedcoms,or family files that you wish to > contribute to the Coffee or Atkinson County GaGenWeb sites. > > > > > ==== GACOFFEE Mailing List ==== > Thank you so much for being a subscriber to this list. > We appreciate it so much and hope that all of your brick walls > come tumbling down!! > >