Mahala Booker
Mahala Booker was born around 1850 in Indiana to Philip and Louisa Booker. Her father was a farmer who owned $400 of real estate and $450 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Haddon, Indiana, until the 1850s, when they moved to Jefferson, Indiana. She grew up and attended school there, and she married Mayo Jones on April 14, 1869.
Her husband probably died in the early 1870s, and she married Isaiah M. Ferree on September 17, 1874. They had several children, including Minnie, who was born around 1882. The family moved to Bement, Illinois, sometime in the late 1800s, and she worked as a “laundress” there. Ferree died around 1904, and she married Union veteran John Harr sometime before 1910. They lived in Larned, Kansas. He died in 1923. She applied for a widow’s pension in January 1924 but never secured one. She died in 1937.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1596) | Booker, Mahala ~ Ferree, Mahala ~ Harr, Mahala ~ Jones, Mahala | 1850 | 1937 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (5513) [associated with] ~ George Hubbard and Charlotte Hubbard to William Forder and Sarah A. Forder, 18 November 1860
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com
