6) Joseph Booth Sr (Deacon) my eight times great grandfather.
BIRTH 08 MAR 1656 • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, DEATH ABT 1703 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT.
I've already posted about his wife Hannah Willcoxson Booth HERE.
I just read his will in his own handwriting. And so I found out he had another wife by August of 1703, which is when it was written, and probated. So he must have died pretty close to the time he wrote it.
But the other wife had not been mentioned in any of the other documents. But there he says he's leaving property and money to his loving wife Elizabeth.
He was married to Hannah Wilcoxson Booth, who died in 1701 and she is mentioned as his wife on the huge marker of the Booth family in the Old Congregational Cemetery. Joseph Booth's parents, his wife, then his 7 children. And the marker actually doesn't have the all the children's birth and death dates added. So we can guess the marker was made after 1766, since that's the latest death date on it, but the 4 without dates of death were still living at that time.
Well, except David is listed as living until 1773 in my ancestry records...and if he had still been alive when this date of death at 1753 was carved into stone, he probably would have had it changed while he was still alive. (I'll be looking at his information and hints soon, but for now this is a question to consider.)
The marker reads:
James born 1688 Died 1766;
Joseph Born 1687 Died 1763;
Robert;
Nathan;
Zechariah;
David born 1679 Died 1753;
Hannah
If it had been erected by daughter Hannah (as the youngest child) it would have included her birth date. So my guess is a family member of one who had recently died erected it, but didn't get the information from the siblings as to their birth dates.
After I finish looking at the siblings of Grandpa Joseph, I can spend a bit of time looking at his children, right? (Don't hold your breath!)
I'm adding this to the Sepia Saturday meme for this week, though I kind of missed the topic in my posting. But I'll go over and see what others have been up to! My photo is of course just a hand written will from 1703...not exactly an old photo, but a photo of an old document!
