When John S. Booker was born in 1837, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Benjamin Berryman Booker, was 42 and his mother, Claramond Callahan, was 43. He married Irena Ellen Sumner on 5 December 1861, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pipers Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Oak Hill, Jackson, West Virginia, United States in 1952. He died on 6 July 1886, at the age of 49.
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English: occupational name from Middle English bokere, bouker ‘learned man, scholar; scribe’ (Old English bōcere, an agent derivative of bōc ‘book’).
English: variant of Bowker .
Americanized form of German Bucher .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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