Booth Cemetery
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Booth Cemetery is located out in the pasture east of
Chico. From Chico go east out 1810 toward Decatur. Turn to the north on CR 1450 and go a
couple of miles to a green gate on the left. The land belongs to Marilyn Tucker and the
gate may be locked. You go straight west trough the pasture for over a half a mile (there
are two more gates that may be closed).
The cemetery is more than an acre of woods and brush that has a chain
link fence around it. There's no real road to this cemetery and the gate was tied shut.
We found 37 readable headstones at the time of our survey in Sept of 2000. We started in the southeast corner (where the truck is parked) and worked our way north and west but could not lay off rows. Headstones are numbered as we came to them.
We were unable to get to some headstones like this one with the tree on it.
Update: In 2004 Dale Ellison, Darrell Minter and some other friends worked for several weekends to clean this cemetery. IT LOOKS MUCH DIFFERENT NOW! 9 additional headstones were found after his clean-up. You can reach Dale at [email protected] . He has done quite a bit of research on the people buried at this cemetery. Below are pictures from April 2004, and below that is the updated information from 49 headstones at Booth Cemetery.
# | Last Name | First Name | Born | Date of Death | Information |
18 | Barker | Martha A. (Thompson Phillips) | Mar 2, 1831 | Feb 25, 1905 | (Born in Delaware - Her second husband was Clarence Barker) |
46 | Blake | G.B. | July 28, 1838 | Oct 15, 1899 | Husband of Mary |
16 | Bond | Loucinda | 1811 | Feb 14, 1879 | |
17 | Bond | Loucinda B. | Feb 29, 1876 | Sept 8, 1876 | Daughter of M. & R.W. |
30 | Booth | Alvin L. (Alvin Leroy) | July 2, 1877 | Jan 30, 1878 | Son of R. & E.A. (First born child of Rufus & Estella) |
21 | Booth | Estella (Phillips) | Feb 19, 1859 | Aug 27, 1950 | (Born in Indiana - Wife of Rufus) |
[40] | Booth | L.A. | ? | ? | Father |
[41] | Booth | L.A., Mrs. | 1853 | Aug 27, 1950 | Mother |
19 | Booth | Rufus | Dec 4, 1849 | May 15, 1931 | (Son of Benjamin & Elizabeth - Born in Oktibbeha Co., MS) |
38 | Boothe | Benjamin | 1811 | Oct 10, 1880 | (Born in North Carolina - Owned the land the cemetery is on) |
39 | Boothe | Elizabeth McCuan | June 16, 1820 | Apr 1, 1868 | (Wife of Benjamin - Born in Virginia) |
5 | Bowman | S.M.W. | Sept 9, 1851 | Mar 2, ? | Wife of J.W. |
[42] | Bradford | Mary F. | Apr 25, 1843 | July ?, ? | |
26 | Brunson | Sarah | 1871 | 1920 | Headstone with William |
27 | Brunson | William | 1866 | 1946 | Headstone with Sarah |
10 | Davidson | A.J. | 1833 | Sept 22, 1886 | |
13 | Davidson | Lucy C. | Mar 3, 1862 | June 5, 1877 | Daughter of A.J. & M.A. |
11 | Davidson | Marietta | Jan 19, 1868 | Oct 4, 1882 | Daughter of A.J. & M.A. |
9 | Davidson | Mary | Aug 22, 1829 | July 12, 1891 | Wife of A.J. |
15 | Douglass | Bobbie | May 3, 1871 | Dec 19, 1886 | Son of J.M. & M.J. - Born in Lafayette Co. Ark. |
12 | Glass | James | Sept 6, 1878 | Aged 50 Yrs | |
49 | Harpole | S.J. | ? | ? | |
33 | Holdin | Montraville (John) | Dec 4, 1824 | Apr 18, 1878 | Son of Benjamin Holding and Sarah "Sallie" Barnett and was born in Kentucky. In 1850, the family was in Scott Co., KY. In 1860 and 1870, they were in Livingston Co., MO. They moved to Texas sometime between 1870 and 1880. His wife's name was Sarah "Sally Ann" Ireland. She died in Shamrock, Texas in 1910. They had 11 children. |
2 | Irvin | Dolly P. | Apr 19, 1874 | Mar 29, 1881 | Daughter of I.C. & I.J. |
1 | Irvin | I.C. | Feb 1, 1831 | Mar 13, 1884 | Husband of I.J. |
6 | Jones | B.F. | July 25, 1897 | July ?, 1897 | Infant of J.D. & M.J. |
47 | Jones | Parsetta B. | July 18, 1896 | July 30, 1896 | Daughter of J.D. & M.J. |
3 | Jones | Peietta C. | June ?, 1894 | Jan 29, 1896 | Daughter of J.D. & M.J. |
8 | Jones | Susan Rosella | Dec 25, 1883 | Oct 7, 1885 | Daughter of A. & M.E. |
7 | Jones | Zona | Nov 10, 1890 | Mar 19, 1894 | Daughter of A. & M.E. |
4 | Kendrick | Ervin Victor | July 5, 1894 | Aug 15, 1894 | Son of A.M. & M.F. |
43 | Kendrick | J.R. | (Aug 4, 1831) | (Dec 14, 1894) | |
45 | Kilgore | M.F. Williams | Aug 16, 1848 | Dec 25, 1878 | Wife of B.S. Kilgore |
14 | Loury | S.C. | Oct 29, 1850 | Nov 23, 1876 | |
35 | Lowry | George F. | July 25, 1861 | July 20, 1887 | Son of S.D. & R.J. |
34 | Lowry | Nancy J. | Oct 10, 1853 | Apr 29, 1885 | Wife of J.I. |
36 | Lowry | Rebecca J. | Sept 28, 1822 | Dec 30, 1883 | Wife of S.D. |
37 | Lowry | Samuel D. | Jan 8, 1810 | July 5, 1888 | |
25 | Morrow | A.C. | Jan 8, 1880 | Aged about 54 yrs | |
23 | Morrow | Charlotty (Booth) | July 27, 1845 | Sept 25, 1884 | (Sister of Rufus - Wife of George) |
20 | Morrow | Fannie | Oct 10, 1880 | Aug 9, 1901 | (Daughter of Charlotty) |
24 | Morrow | Geo. I. | Apr 26, 1836 | May 4, 1904 | Headstone with Charlotty |
22 | Morrow | John A. | July 6, 1876 | Nov 6, 1876 | Son of G.I. & C. |
28 | Phillips | James Willard | Nov 16, 1855 | Aug 22, 1883 | |
32 | Ross | Alta E. (Alta Evangeline Booth) | 1879 | 1968 | Headstone with Edgar H. (Child of Rufus & Estella) |
31 | Ross | Edgar H. (Edgar Herbert) | (Oct 23) 1876 | (Dec 7) 1935 | Headstone with Alta E. (Born in Jacksonville, Cherokee Co.) |
44 | Ross | Randal Duard | (Feb 21) 1901 | (June 9) 1967 | (First born son of Alta & Edgar) |
48 | Wells | Dela J. | Aug 31, 1850 | Oct 23, 1875 |
[numbers in brackets] information from July 23, 1967 listings by Mr. & Mrs. Homer L. Roper and Mr. & Mrs. Clint Morrow
(Information in parenthesis) Early 1970's information from Beverly R. Eidson
9 headstones found when Dale Ellison did clean-up in 2004 [email protected]
Information on Montraville Holden came from [email protected]