Brief Life History of Levisa
When Levisa Booth was born in 1810, in Washington, Indiana, United States, her father, Wade Hampton Booth, was 26 and her mother, Jemima Jane Tungate, was 28. She married James Warford Fisher on 13 July 1828, in Washington, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1848, in Vigo, Indiana, United States, at the age of 38.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- Louise Booth, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Levisa Booth in entry for Michael Gast, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
- Louise Booth, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
Spouse and Children
1804–1847 Male
1810–1848 Female
Children (5)
1833–1921 Female
1837– Female
1839– Male
1842– Female
1845– Male
Parents and Siblings
1784–1854 Male
1782–1863 Female
Siblings (7)
1808–1895 Female
1810–1848 Female
1811–1857 Female
1819–1896 Male
1822– Female
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1812
Age 2
1814
Age 4
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
Age 11
Name Meaning
English (northern): topographic or occupational name from Middle English bothe (Old Danish bōth) ‘temporary shelter, such as a covered market stall or a cattle-herdsman's hut’. The latter sense was predominant in the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where there were many cattle farms or vaccaries, and whose subdivisions were known as ‘booths’. The principal meaning of the surname there was therefore probably ‘cattle herdsman’, ‘man in charge of a vaccary’, and thus identical with Boothman . Elsewhere it may have denoted a shopkeeper who owned a temporary market stall, but no evidence has been found to confirm this use of the surname. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).
History: Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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