Category: Booth Family

  • Agness Booth Clardy and Early Methodism.

    Agness Booth Clardy and Early Methodism.

    Photo: Agness Booth Clardy / While working on my Haywood County Booth family line, I ran across an interesting obituary that deserved a closer look. The subject was Agness Booth Clardy (1755-1847), my fifth great-aunt. Clardy is interesting because she was born when Virginia was still a British colony. She joined the Methodist church the…

  • Jones Station and the Booth Family

    Jones Station and the Booth Family

    I finally got all my Booth family research added to my site after working on it for more than six months. It was an interesting family line to research, but it took a lot of time to work through census records and track the migration of the family from Virginia to South Carolina, then to…

  • Lena Booth Marbury’s Friends List

    Lena Booth Marbury’s Friends List

    Photo: Mable Marbury Jackson, Sarah Evalena “Lena” Booth Marbury and Allie Marbury Brantley / I have been researching the Booth family and preparing to upload what I have learned to my site. Christmas at my mother’s house gave me a good excuse to look for an interesting “Booth” document I thought I remembered among the…

  • The Marbury Line to Prince William

    The Marbury Line to Prince William

    Photo: Back row: my maternal grandfather, Guy Lovelace and my grandmother’s cousin, Hardy B. Marbury, Middle row: my maternal grandmother, Virginia Brantley Lovelace holding my Uncle Bobby Lovelace; My grandmother’s sister, Cordelia Brantley; My grandmother’s maternal grandmother, Lena Booth Marbury; my grandmother’s mother, Allie Marbury Brantley; and her father, Willie BrantleyFront row: my grandmother’s sister,…