Person:T Booth (1)

In a newspaper article that appeared in the Vinton County Record, McArthur, Ohio, on 24 Oct 1963, as part of their Vinton County's Living Pioneers series (No. 321), some history of the Booth family is shared by David R. Booth that relates to the service of sons of David Hull and Polly (Strong) Booth during the Civil War.

David Booth and his wife Elizabeth (Hull) Booth came to Ohio from Massachusetts in 1820, and settled on an 83-acre farm in what was then Wilkesville Twp., Gallia County. The farm has been in the family ever since. The article relates that he was born and lived most of his life on "Yankee Street," on what is now S.R. 160. (Yankee Street was named such because most of the first settlers along that road were from Connecticut and Massachusetts.)

"Mr. Booth, 81, relates a fantastic story, but one of which is true...how his father, Rufus S. Booth fought for the Northern forces in the Civil War, and his uncle, T. Hull Booth, fought for the Confederacy, and how the two brothers faced each other twice in battles during the war, once at Antietam, again during the siege of Vicksburg, and how Hull Booth was wounded and captured by a boyhood friend from Wilkesville."

"Rufus and Hull Booth went to Louisiana in 1853 to cut telegraph poles for the government, and Hull married a Southern girl, and stayed south while Rufus returned north. When war came, Rufus went into the Northern army while Hull joined up with Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee."

"The Booth brothers fought against each other at Antietam and Vicksburg, but did not know it for many years afterward."

"A visitor to McArthur recently was Raymond Booth, a history professor at San Antonio, Texas, a descendant of T. Hull Booth, who tells of the time when Hull Booth, a Confederate cavalryman was nearly surrounded by Union soldiers at Vicksburg but escaped on horseback, but Hull was twice wounded, once in the shoulder, the other a scalp wound."

"He had to abandon his horse because of a high fence, and hid in a brush heap and the Union soldiers found him. Armed with two revolvers, Hull threatened to shoot, but one youthful Union soldier jumped him and despite being shot at twice by Hull, overpowered him. Hull's captor turned out to be from Wilkesville and a classmate at the old Yankee Street school, and he took Hull back to camp and nursed him back to health and he was later exchanged for another prisoner of war."

--RWMeyer 05:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

1. ↑ Thos Booth, Beat 3, Hinds, Mississippi, in United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623).

   Name Thos Booth
   Age 68
   Birth Date Jun 1832
   Birthplace Ohio
   Race White
   Marital Status Married
   Spouse's Name Clementine Booth
   Marriage Year 1880
   Years Married 20
   Father's Birthplace Ohio
   Mother's Birthplace Massachusetts

2. ↑ Mississippi. Auditor's Office. Confederate soldiers & sailors, widows pension applications. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972).

   Death date of 17 Feb 1914
   https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23495-16900-50?cc=1936413&wc=M61N-PPX:235710801

3. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Thomas Hull Booth