Oregon County MO Archives Biographies.....Booker, Willis J. 1843 - May 16, 1863
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Willis J. Booker was born in Oregon County, Missouri in 1843. He was the son of 
Willis Booker (1785-1865) and Elizabeth Booker (1811-1875).  Willis J. grew up on 
the Booker homestead in Oregon County. At the age of nineteen, he enlisted for the 
Confederate Army, on March 8, 1862, in Webster County, Missouri.  Private Willis J.

Booker served in CO I, 4th Mo Infantry.  Willis saw action in several major battles,

Iuka, Fort Gibson, and Grand Gulf. However, he died during one of the most decisive

battles for the Union at Champion Hill, (Baker's Creek), Mississippi, on May 16, 
1853. He was buried by the Union troops in a mass grave at Champion Hill Burial 
Ground, in Champion Hill, Hinds County, Mississippi.


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