Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Booth, Oliver J June 9, 1886
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Morris Herald, June 1886
Morris Herald
June 1886

Obituary

Oliver J. Booth

Oliver J. Booth, for many years a prosperous and influential farmer of Grundy 
county, died at Oanaga, Kansas, on Wednesday morning, June 9th, 1886, of 
Bright's disease.

Deceased was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, on April 8th, 1824. In the spring 
of 1840, when in his sixteenth year, he came to Illinois, before the time of 
railroads, making the distance by stage from Warren to the Ohio river, thence 
by boat to the Mississippi to St. Louis, and thence up to the Illinois, to 
Peru, Illinois, without money, working his passage on the boat, and then on 
foot to Ottawa and from there to the home of an uncle who resided at 
Georgetown, now Newark, where he remained for two years, when, on the death of 
his father, he returned to Ohio to look after the old homestead. In January, 
1844, he was married to Miss Sarah Hulse, who died in August of 1876. During 
the spring of 1846 Mr. Booth with his family came to Mazon, in this county, 
and bought from the Government forty acres of land. By industry and economy he 
added to this until at the time of his death he was possessed of a large 
realty in this State and Kansas, in addition to a great deal of personal 
property. In the spring of 1882 he retired from active life as a farmer, and 
removed to the village of Gardner where he resided until a year ago when he 
went to Onaga to reside with a daughter, the notice of whose death appears in 
this issue of THE HERALD. To Mr. and Mrs. Booth were born nine children, four 
of whom are now dead. Three of the children reside in Kansas, a fourth, Mrs. 
Adora Fowler, wife of A. J. Fowler, resides in this city. All of the children 
were present at the death of their father. Mr. Booth was a good man - an 
honest man, and going out of this world leaves behind a record worthy of 
emulation. The remains will be brought to Gardner, arriving there probably on 
Saturday, and will be buried in the Wheeler cemetery, leaving Gardner at 11 
o'clock, Sunday.

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