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In the book "Ohio Marriages", edited by Marjorie Smith, published by Heritage House and extract from "The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly" says: "1804 Jun 18 Boots, Martin & Eve Arrahood by J. Gardner, JP, Ross Co." "1805 Sep 1 Boots, Martin & Mary Odle by J. Gardner, JP, Ross Co." I believe Martin Boots (1777-1842) is buried in the Boots cemetery, Marion, Grant Co., Indiana. In the book "Lest We Forget, Reminiscences of The Pioneers of Grant County Indiana", Collected by History Department of Marion High School under the direction of Cora M. Straughn, 1921, unnumbered: "Martin Boots who had a distillery and sold whiskey at 10 cents a gallon;" "The first marriage in the county was that of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick. The second was that of Nelson Conner and Sallie BOOTS, daughter of Martin BOOTS. These were both in 1830, and as the county was not organized at that time, they had to go to Muncie to get their license." "Martin BOOTS and David Connor were the first to enter land and settle in the county. BOOTS bought what is now the western part of Marion . . ." "Mr. Eward remembers Martin BOOTS and David Branson. BOOTS had a farm west of town and had a little mill on Boots creek near Third street. Branson owned a farm east of the courthouse. He and BOOTS deeded the land for the first court house to the commissioners." (First courthouse built ca. 1833) In a webpage I can't seem to get back to now I found the following: "BOOTS CEMETERY" "Martin Boots, the first white man to enter land in Grant County - October 1825 - gave two acres of land this side of the town for burial purposes." The cemetery was later moved, not without some controversy and damage to graves and stones. The move gave rise to a legend of ghosts at the school which was then built on the old cemetery site. Further on it gives dates for Martin Boots - born 177 died 13 Sep. 1842 - and lists wife Julia (without dates) who must have been his third wife. I am descended from Adam Boots (Hans Adam Stieffel) through son Garrett Boots who wed Elizabeth Peterson (daughter of John or Hans Martin Peterson (Biedert)). Their daugher Mary Boots wed Uriah Pace. Daughter Elizabeth Pace wed John T. Gray. Daughter Harriet Gray wed David Wolverton, their daughter Mildred W

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Interested in Sease info. My GGF was August A. Sease, and his father probably a Jacob Suss from Baden. Family came to MO abt 1857. Have connections to other Sease lines, though they may not be at all related, except by surname. Please contact.

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Just found it interesting to talk to people with our same last name There is a group of us "Boots" up in Canada. We all live in south western Ontaio in Canada. I myself live in Toronto with my mom and dad, sis and bro. However all the rest of my family lives in Windsor Ontario, whcich is accross the river from Detroit. You never know we might be related. Email me. Bye

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Great web site. I'm researching McCabes. Looks like our McCabes were in the same place and time, but names did not match. Most likely some connection though. Alice McCabe

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Your site is delightful and a welcome change from the boring family sites I have seen.

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Just got around to looking at your site Love it!!!!