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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sebastian County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Mrs. Luvicy (Malone) Booth, of Marion Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Randolph County, N. C., in 1826, and is one of three surviving members of a family of ten children born to John and Annie Malone, who were also born in North Carolina, and died in Arkansas in 1851. After leaving their native State they first located in Tennessee, going thence to Mississippi, and finally took up a permanent residence in Arkansas. Mrs. Booth spent her early life in Tennessee and Mississippi, and in 1842 became the wife of John P. Booth, a son of John and Nancy (Phelps) Booth, of Georgia; he was reared to manhood in Alabama and Mississippi. He removed from the latter State to Sebastian County, Ark., in 1853, and he and wife became the parents of eight children: Elizabeth (Petty), Mary Caroline (Lamb), David F., John, William, Rufus, Dock W. and Jerry P. Mr. Booth was a farmer throughout life, and at the time of his death, February 23, 1872, owned a fine farm, consisting of 300 acres, besides a gin mill, and handled a great deal of stock. Both he and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a Democrat.

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This family biography is one of 217 biographies included in The History of Sebastian County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Sebastian County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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