Texas County, OK - Obituary - WILLIAM A. BOOTH  - B300

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WILLIAM A. BOOTH 1845 - 1925

Wm. A. BOOTH, the subject of this sketch, was born in the state of Ohio
on the 3rd day of September, 1845, and at the time of his death was aged
80 years, 5 months and 0 days.  His parents passed to their reward in
his early infancy and he was taken into the hearts and home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Schissler of Carrolton, Ohio, near his birthplace, with
whom he remained until he had attained the age of 21 years when he went
out into the world to battle the trials of life confronting him.  He
drifted to Kansas, thence to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), where
he met the many tasks before him with bravery and fortitude.  From the
Indian Territory he returned to Kansas, settling in Greenwood county,
near Climax, where he remained until 1902.

In the year of 1873 he was united in Holy Wedlock to Mrs. Emma A.
VanDaveer, and with her two young daughters, Florence and Lillian, by a
deceased husband, settled on a farm near Eureka, where they lived a
happy and prosperous life until about the time he came to Tyrone, when
they homesteaded the place upon which he died.

To this union were born six sons and two daughters, two sons and one
daughter, Willie, Burtie and Ella, having crossed the divide in early
childhood.  Those who survive are: Mrs. Sherman Knight of Tyrone,
Oklahoma; Preston A. Booth of Long Beach, California; Roy L. Booth of
Elkhart, Kansas; Leslie Booth of Stonington, Colorado, and Wayne Booth
of Tyrone, Oklahoma. Of the two step-daughters who survive are Mrs.
James B. Gallagher of St. Louis, Missouri.  All the children, excepting
Preston, were present at the last funeral rites, he being unable to
come.

Besides the above there are 22 grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren who survive.

On the 23rd day of December, 1914, the devoted wife and mother was
called to her Savior, leaving him in his declining years alone to finish
the winding trail.  She ws interred in the family plot in the Tyrone
cemetery.

Mr. Booth traveled this lonely trail until January 13, 1923, when he and
Mrs. Julia Barr took the nuptial vow and were married at Pawnee,
Oklahoma.  This happy union continued until his demise when she was left
alone to mourn his loss.  To this union no children were born.

The departed was a man of high morals and followed the teachings of the
Golden Rule.  He was a member of the Methodist Church of this city and
lived a devout Christian life.