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Col. Isaac D. Booe, justly prominent in the affairs of this community, was born in Rowan County, N. C, in 1822, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Cheshire) Booe, also natives of North Carolina, where they lived and died. In this family were five children, three of whom are living: Philip (in Alabama), John C. (lives near the old homestead) and Isaac D (the principal of this article.) The paternal grandfather of Isaac D. was a native of North Carolina and his wife of Maryland. They lived to an advanced age. The father of Isaac died when he was a small boy, and he was then bound out to a family by the name of Sainer, with whom he remained until their removal to Tennessee, in 1835. At the age of twenty he was married to Julia A. Anderson, originally of Alabama, and who died in 1861. After his marriage Mr. Booe went to Hardeman County, Tenn., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits for five years, afterward settling in the State of Mississippi, where he remained for ten years. In 1859, moving to Arkansas, he settled in Prairie County, where he lived until after the war. He enlisted in the Confederate army in the latter part of the civil strife, and was with Gen. Price in his raid through Missouri, Kansas and Indian Territory, being taken prisoner six months before the war closed and confined at Little Rock, where he was at the time of the surrender. He then returned home and soon after moved to the farm on which he still lives. Mr. Booe held the office of sergeant in Fagan’s Corps, and was a colonel of the State Militia while in Tennessee, and major of a militia organization formed before the war. He has held the office of justice of the peace of this township, and represented his county in the legislature in 1874 and 1875, also in 1887 and 1888. He was elected for his last term on the County Wheel ticket. As a public servant Col. Booe’s career has been all that could be desired, and in the position to which he has been called he has acquitted himself with credit. His second marriage was in 1863 to Mary F. Steel, a native of Alabama. She was the daughter of James Steel, a soldier in the War of 1812, who took part in the famous battle of New Orleans. Col. Booe is the father of six children by his first wife, two of whom only are living: William W. (was captured during the war and sent to Richmond for exchange, but has never been heard of since), Mary L. (deceased), Anna E. (deceased), James J. (deceased), LeRoy and Julia Ann. Four children were born of the last union, three of whom are living: Amander B., Catharine E., John I. and George (who is deceased). The Colonel and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is also a member of the A. F. & A. M. and belongs to the lodge at Walter Chapel, Prairie County. He was appointed postmaster of Walter Chapel in 1876, and the post-office is kept at his residence by his daughter.