Soldier Information
Name: Wilson Booker
Alias:
Place of Birth: Shelby KY Year of Birth: 1838
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Complexion: Black
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 1.5
Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: November 17, 1864
Enlistment Place: Lebanon
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
Congressional District: 4th
Company: K Regiment(s): 122nd USCI
Mustered Where: Lebanon, KY
Mustered Out Date:
Rank at Muster Out:
Notes:
Additional muster cards located in 122nd USCI miscellaneous papers. Included are the hospital muster roll cards that record his hospital admission and death.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? Yes
Military Death Date: March 28, 1865
Military Death Location: Portsmouth, VA
Military Cause of Death: Pulmonary phthisis
Death Date: March 28, 1865
Cause of Death: Phthisis pulmonalis
Death Certificate
Soldier Pension Information
No pension card found
Widow Pension Information
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: July 16, 1866
Application No.: 129899 Certificate No.: 93001
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
Pension File: Pension File
Pensioners: Eliza Boyd
Pensioner County: Shelby Pensioner State: KY
Number of Pages:25
Pension Notes:
Eliza and Wilson Booker did not have any children. They were married in August of 1858. Deposition from Eliza Booker on page 14 & 18, Ben Hinton and Daniel Talbert on page 15. John Bell and Henry Johnson on page 19. Eliza Booker died in May of 1902.
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Family Information
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
Siblings: Henry Booker
Wife #1 First Name: Eliza Maiden Name: Boyd
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children:
Family Notes:
No children.
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Farm laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1870 Real Estate Value: 1870 Personal Estate Value:
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
1870 census record for Wilson Booker’s brother Henry Booker who also lived in Shelby Co and was a USCT soldier (Co. G 107th USCI)
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: keeps house
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1880 Ability to Read? Unknown Ability to Write? Unknown
1880 Census Notes:
‘Lizzie Bucker’ is residing in Shelby Co in the home of her brother-in-law Henry ‘Bucker’.
1890 Census
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1900 Census
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1910 Census
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1920 Census
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Enslaver Information
1850 Enslaver Census
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1860 Enslaver Census
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1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census information not found
1880 Enslaver Census
1880 Census information not found
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found