Biography of Luvicy Booth, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mrs. Luvicy (Malone) Booth, of Marion Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born
in Randolph County, N. C., in  1826, and is one of three surviving members of a
family of ten children born to John and Annie Malone, who  were also born in
North Carolina, and died in Arkansas in 1851. After leaving their native State
they first  located in Tennessee, going thence to Mississippi, and finally took
up a permanent residence in Arkansas. Mrs.  Booth spent her early life in
Tennessee and Mississippi, and in 1842 became the wife of John P. Booth, a son
of  John and Nancy (Phelps) Booth, of Georgia; he was reared to manhood in
Alabama and Mississippi. He  removed from the latter State to Sebastian County,
Ark., in 1853, and he and wife became the parents of eight  children: Elizabeth
(Petty), Mary Caroline (Lamb), David F., John, William, Rufus, Dock W. and
Jerry P. Mr.  Booth was a farmer throughout life, and at the time of his death,
February 23, 1872, owned a fine farm,  consisting of 300 acres, besides a gin
mill, and handled a great deal of stock. Both he and wife were members of  the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a Democrat.