Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Boote, Samuel John - October 28, 1917
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
November 03, 1917, Image 2


DEATH OF SAM. J. BOOTE. - Model Citizen and Successful Planter Lays Down 
Life's Burden. - Another of the fine group of men known as "the Burnside 
managers," responsive to the inexorable summons of the angel of death which 
must come to all mortal beings, has gone from among us to solve the problem 
of eternity - to enjoy, we hope and trust, in the better land beyond the 
portals of the tomb the everlasting rest and bliss which the faith of 
Christians teaches them to believe will be the blessed lot of those who walk 
in righteousness during the period of their earthly pilgrimage.

Samuel John Boote, familiarly and affectionately known to his wide circle of 
devoted friends as "Sam Boote," died at his home on Conway plantation near 
Burnside, in the fifth ward of this parish, last Sunday, October 28, at 4:45 
o'clock a. m. He had been an invalid twenty-three months, having suffered a 
stroke of paralysis in November, 1915, from which he never fully rallied. He 
was 67 years and 6 months old, having been born in April, 1850, near 
Carville, Iberville parish, La.

Mr. Boote came to Ascension January 1, 1876, as overseer or assistant 
manager of the Donaldson plantation, one of the places successively known as 
the Burnside, Beirne and Miles group of sugar plantations. In 1880 he was 
advanced to the position of manager of Donaldson, and in 1887 was 
transferred to the adjoining Riverton plantation, where he made a record by 
raising in two successive seasons larger crops that the place had yielded in 
twenty preceding years, the sugar output of the Riverton factory having 
exceeded 1,000,000 pounds in 1887 and again in 1888. January 1, 1889, he 
succeeded the veteran James K. Tucker as manager of Clark, long known among 
the field hands as "Middlecamp," the central and finest plantation of the 
group. Here Mr. Boote remained ten years, and in 1899 assumed the management 
of Monroe plantation, where he remained for fifteen years.

When in 1914 the "financial cyclone" struck the sugar belt and the Miles 
Planting Company abandoned the raising of cane and manufacture of sugar, Mr. 
Boote rented the Conway plantation, where he made a success of cane 
cultivation on his own account. Thus it will be seen that he spent thirty-
eight years in the employ of the owners of the Burnside, Beirne and Miles 
properties, having lived on or managed every one of the places except Orange 
Grove; and the fact that throughout this long period of service he enjoyed 
the complete confidence, respect and esteem of his employers and 
subordinates alike is all the evidence that could be desired to establish 
his character as a high-grade man in every sense of the term, and such he 
undoubtedly was. His quiet, gentle, yet firm disposition, his great sense of 
honor and justice, his warm heart and sympathetic temperament, attracted the 
admiration and regard of all with whom he came in contact, without 
distinction, and drew his kindred and friends to him with bonds of affection 
and trust that were as hooks of steel and chains of adamant. In his passing 
the community loses a valuable citizen, his intimates a cherished friend, 
and his family a devoted and affectionate relative whose memory will abide 
with them in tenderness and love as long as life shall last.

Mr. Boote was married to Miss Estelle Johnson at Napoleonville, La., June 7, 
1882, and the couple lived happily together for twenty years, Mrs. Boote 
having died in 1902. The parents are survived by five children, three 
daughters and two sons, Mrs. L. E. Sharp of Atlanta, Ga., Misses Rowena and 
Virginia Boote, Clarence and Wallace Boote. Mr. Boote also leaves three half 
sisters, Mrs. A. W. Norman and Mrs. Ernest Triche of Chamberlain, La., and 
Mrs. Prentiss of Cuba, and two half-brothers, S. R. Boote of New Orleans and 
W. Russell Boote of the Philippine Islands, Dr. Boote LeBlanc of St. 
Gabriel, La., is a nephew of the deceased.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Quincy Ewing in the Episcopal 
Church of the Ascension at Donaldsonville on Monday, and interment was made 
in the Protestant cemetery. The pall-bearers were Judge Chas. T. Wortham, 
Dr. W. P. Miles, Lucien W. Armitage, J. F. Saxon, J. W. Stephenson and H. 
Clay Braud. A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends gathered to 
join in the last tribute to the lamented dead.


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