Author : Ella V. Mahoney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis Sketches of Tudor Hall and the Booth Family by : Ella V. Mahoney
Download or read book Sketches of Tudor Hall and the Booth Family written by Ella V. Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Junius Brutus Booth was born on the first day of May, 1796, in the parish of Pancras, London. His grandmother, Elizabeth Wilkes, was a relative of John Wilkes ... Junius Brutus, the son of Richard Booth received a classical education ... In January, 1821, at the age of twenty-five, "he married Mary Ann Holmes [b. 27 June 1802] ... In April he took passage for himself wife and pony in the schooner 'The Two Brothers' for America" ... [landing at] Norfolk on the 30th of June, 1821 ... He bought a farm near Belair, Harford County, Maryland ..." He died in 1852 and " ... was buried in Old Baltimore Cemetery."--Page 22-25. Mary Ann Booth died 22 October 1885 and is also buried in Old Baltimore Cemetery. Their son John Wilkes Booth assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. Includes description of events involving Booth and others following the assassination of President Lincoln