Ralph Walker Booze

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1891, of Wilmette, Cook, Illinois
• Alternate death: 8 Mar 1973, Greenbrae, Marin, California

Notes:

He was a graduate of the University of Illinois, and at the time of his marriage, he was superintendent of the electric light plant at Shawnee, Oklahoma. His obituary notes that he flew in France during World War I in an unarmed plane as a spotter for artillery, and that he was later an official with the Federal Power Commission in Chicago.

Ralph married Rose Lenore Janeway on 30 Sep 1920 in Collinsville, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rose (daughter of Dr. Daniel Fulton Janeway and Ada Victoria Moore) was born on 17 Jun 1888 in Argonia, Sumner, Kansas; died on 24 Apr 1969 in San Rafael, Marin, California; was buried on 2 May 1969 in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Helen Virginia Booze was born on 17 Sep 1925 in Evanston, Cook, Illinois; died on 21 Apr 1993 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 May 1865, Illinois
• Alternate birth: 25 May 1866, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio
• Alternate birth: 1873, Gays, Moultrie, Illinois
• Alternate death: 12 Nov 1940, Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois

Notes:

"He was born May 24, 1866, in Cochocton, Ohio, a son of Christopher and Talitha Booze." ["Charles Booze Funeral Today in Sullivan", citation details below]

Additionally, the will of Christopher Booze, husband of Talitha, mentions son "Chas J Booze".

His brother Solomon Tipton Booze married his wife's sister, Mac (Maxie) Walker.

Charles married Mabel Cora Walker in 1889 in Moultrie County, Illinois. Mabel (daughter of James Nathaniel Walker and Hannah Whetstone) was born on 29 Jun 1867 in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois; died on 22 Feb 1955 in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois; was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Gays, Moultrie, Illinois
• Alternate birth: 1868
• Alternate birth: Jun 1869, Illinois

Notes:

Her sister Mac (Maxie) Walker married her husband's brother Solomon Tipton Booze.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1829, Pennsylvania
• Alternate birth: 1829, Ohio
• Alternate birth: Abt 1830

Notes:

His will, made 24 Nov 1905, mentions, among his offspring, "Chas J Booze".

Christopher married Talitha Tipton on 24 Apr 1855 in Coshocton County, Ohio. Talitha (daughter of Solomon Tipton and Elizabeth Pritchard) was born in 1828 in Ohio; died in 1881; was buried in Smyser Cemetery, Gays, Moultrie, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1826, Ohio

Notes:

Appears in some records as Teletha, Tabitha, etc. Her gravestone says Talitha.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1870 and 1880

James married Hannah Whetstone on 12 Mar 1850 in Coles County, Illinois. Hannah (daughter of John H. Whetstone and Elizabeth Whetstone) was born on 4 Mar 1832 in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky; died on 7 Sep 1922 in Moultrie County, Illinois; was buried on 9 Sep 1922 in Branch Side Cemetery, Gays, Moultrie, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes spelled Whitsmer. In the 1880 census of Moultrie County, Illinois, she is widowed, born in Kentucky, father born in Pennsylvania and mother born in Kentucky.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1797

Notes:

He was a carpenter; specifically, a house-joiner. Later, he made his living by farming. Without proof, he is said by several online sources to have been a son of Johann Christian Boos and Catherine Stickler (or Strickler), emigrants from Germany.

According to the History of Greene and Sullivan Counties (citation details below), his father, not named, was pressed into service in the Revolution along with his six-horse team, which he lost as a result; after the war, he sold his land and came west.

Also according to History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Jacob Booze was married three times, and was still living as of 1884, in Allen County Ohio, aged 88. The only wife named in the aforementioned county history was the second, Anna Slusser.

Jacob married Anna Slusser. Anna died before Dec 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Slessner.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1776
• Alternate birth: 1779, Maryland
• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1863, West Bedford, Coshocton, Ohio

Notes:

He was in Capt. Thornby's company of Ohio militia from 6 Jan 1814 to 8 Apr 1814 in the War of 1812. The executors of his will were his wife Elizabeth and his son-in-law Christopher Booze.

Solomon married Elizabeth Pritchard on 7 Mar 1805 in Brooke County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Pritchard) was born on 23 May 1788 in Maryland; died on 16 May 1872 in Gays, Moultrie, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1789, Maryland

Samuel married Nancy Dryden. Nancy was born in 1804; died in 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Whetstone on 22 Aug 1822 in Hardin County, Kentucky. Elizabeth was born on 20 Aug 1801 in Hardin County, Kentucky; died on 15 Sep 1895 in Pomona, Franklin, Kansas; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Pomona, Franklin, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to her Find a Grave page, she and her husband were cousins, and Whetstone was her birth surname as well as her married surname.