Brief Life History of Wiley Thompson
When Wiley Thompson Booth Jr was born on 28 February 1862, in Perry, Alabama, United States, his father, Wiley Thompson Booth, was 33 and his mother, Martha Jane Moseley, was 27. He married Sarah Elizabeth Anderson on 8 December 1887, in Bell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, San Saba, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 5, Bell, Texas, United States for about 40 years. He died on 3 July 1941, in Bell, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Bell, Texas, United States.
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- W T Boothe, "Alabama State Census, 1866"
- W T Boothe, Jr, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Wiley Thompson Booth, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865 · Juneteenth (Slaves Were Freed)
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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