{"id":6976,"date":"2018-08-12T17:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2018-08-12T17:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:21:04","slug":"alexander-a-boothby-1852-1922-52-ancestors-32-youngest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/alexander-a-boothby-1852-1922-52-ancestors-32-youngest\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander A. Boothby (1852-1922) – 52 Ancestors # 32, Youngest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interestingly, I have two great grandfathers who were the youngest child in their family, one paternal and one maternal.\u00a0 On my maternal side, F A Denman<\/a>, was the youngest child.\u00a0 On my paternal side, Alexander Boothby was.\u00a0 I have already written things about F A Denman<\/a> so this will be about Alex Boothby.<\/p>\n

Alex Boothby was born October 3, 1852 in Brown County, Ohio.\u00a0 He was the youngest of ten children born to James and Elizabeth Divers Boothby.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know anything about his early life.\u00a0 His parents lived in the same place from his birth (and before), in Scott Township, Brown, Ohio.\u00a0 His father owned about 100 acres of farm land.\u00a0 Alex learned farming and that is what he worked at for almost his entire life.<\/p>\n

Alex married Mary E. Earhart in October 1873, the day before his 21st birthday.\u00a0 I have written before about Mary or Elizabeth<\/a> as she was also known at times.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how they met but I wonder if they met at school or from social events.\u00a0 I\u2019m not aware of either of them belonging to a church although it seems most likely that they would have, so it is possible that socializing with a church group was how they met.<\/p>\n

There was a period of time, I don\u2019t know for exactly how long, that rather than farming, Alex lived and worked in Cincinnati.\u00a0 The 1910 federal census listed his household, and Alex was listed as working as a laborer in a lumber yard.\u00a0 City directory listings I have managed to find show that he and some of his children were in Cincinnati from at least 1908-1917.\u00a0 Since his daughter, my grandmother Carrie, met and married my grandfather in Cincinnati in 1913, that would suggest at least a five year period of time that the Alex Boothby family was in Cincinnati.\u00a0 Alex never owned his own farm and it may be that he couldn\u2019t find one to rent or couldn\u2019t afford to during this time.\u00a0\u00a0 It is also possible that between the censuses he and the family moved back and forth.<\/p>\n

In 1920 Alex and his wife were living with daughter Carrie and my Salt grandfather on the Salt family farm.\u00a0 The only picture I have that might include Alex was taken from that period as they were all working to get tobacco leaves to the drying sheds.\u00a0 \"Ready<\/a>The snapshot is not dated, but would most likely have been between 1918 and 1921.\u00a0 (My guess for a date is 1919, since my father was born in late 1918 and the year fits other pictures in the album that were dated.)\u00a0 I\u2019m fairly certain that the woman in the picture is great grandma Mary Elizabeth and the man is not my grandfather, so I\u2019m guessing it was great grandpa Alex.<\/p>\n

In June 1922, Alex Boothby died in Clark Township, Brown, Ohio having left the Salt family farm after his son-in-law died.\u00a0 His death certificate says he died of apoplexy.\u00a0 He was just 4 months shy of his 70th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interestingly, I have two great grandfathers who were the youngest child in their family, one paternal and one maternal.\u00a0 On my maternal side, F A Denman, was the youngest child.\u00a0 On my paternal side, Alexander Boothby was.\u00a0 I have already …<\/p>\n

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