When Phoebe Amelia Booth was born on 4 December 1837, in Cattaraugus, New York, United States, her father, David Ferdinand Booth, was 31 and her mother, Julia Ann Reynolds, was 27. She married William Reeve Fenn on 2 April 1858, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Rodman, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Fern Valley Township, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 3 February 1922, in Lake Park, Dickinson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, West Bend Township, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1852: Juab, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Juab, Utah, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1862: Palo Alto, Iowa, United States
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.
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