DEATH CLAIMS CAPT. BOOTES
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Former Prominent Zanesville
Citizen Dies in Hospital
At Manila
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HAD BEEN ILL
SINCE LAST JULY
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But Relatives Here Did Not Know of
His Critical Condition – Had Been
in the Army Since Outbreak of
the Spanish-American War
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W.E. Guthrie of Putnam avenue, received a cablegram Sunday morning notifying him of the death of his brother-in-law, Captain Samuel B. Bootes, which occurred Saturday at a hospital in Manila, Philippine Islands.
Captain Bootes was a former resident of this city and had many friends here who are deeply pained to learn of his death. He had been in the army since 1898, when at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was commissioned a captain and assigned to duty as a commissary of subsistence. Two years later he was commissioned a captain in the regular army and was made an assistant to the quartermaster's department. He then was assigned to services in the Philippines and after a tour of duty in the islands returned to the United States and was for a time in charge of quartermaster's supplies in Texas. Three years ago he was transferred to duty at St. Louis as a purchasing agent in the quartermaster's department.
One year ago Captain Bootes was again ordered to the Philippines and with his family sailed for Manila on October 3, 1908. Last July he was taken seriously ill and was removed to a hospital in Manila, where he remained until the end came. The last news which Mr. Guthrie received from his sister concerning her husband's health, was contained in a letter which reached this city in August 3. At that time it was thought that Captain Bootes was doing fairly well and Mrs. Bootes informed her brother to consider no news as good news.
Captain Boots was a son of the Late General Bootes, of Wilmington, Del., being a member of a family which for the past several generations has been prominently identified with both the army and the navy. He was for several years connected with the Black-Grant wholesale dry goods house in this city and later was identified with the Grant Dry Goods company. In 1892 he married Mrs. Clara Guthrie Clark, who with her three children survive him. Captain Bootes also leaves two brothers who are officers in the navy.
Source: Obituary files Muskingum County Genealogy Library, Zanesville, Ohio – 30 September 1909
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Former Prominent Zanesville
Citizen Dies in Hospital
At Manila
------
HAD BEEN ILL
SINCE LAST JULY
------
But Relatives Here Did Not Know of
His Critical Condition – Had Been
in the Army Since Outbreak of
the Spanish-American War
------
W.E. Guthrie of Putnam avenue, received a cablegram Sunday morning notifying him of the death of his brother-in-law, Captain Samuel B. Bootes, which occurred Saturday at a hospital in Manila, Philippine Islands.
Captain Bootes was a former resident of this city and had many friends here who are deeply pained to learn of his death. He had been in the army since 1898, when at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was commissioned a captain and assigned to duty as a commissary of subsistence. Two years later he was commissioned a captain in the regular army and was made an assistant to the quartermaster's department. He then was assigned to services in the Philippines and after a tour of duty in the islands returned to the United States and was for a time in charge of quartermaster's supplies in Texas. Three years ago he was transferred to duty at St. Louis as a purchasing agent in the quartermaster's department.
One year ago Captain Bootes was again ordered to the Philippines and with his family sailed for Manila on October 3, 1908. Last July he was taken seriously ill and was removed to a hospital in Manila, where he remained until the end came. The last news which Mr. Guthrie received from his sister concerning her husband's health, was contained in a letter which reached this city in August 3. At that time it was thought that Captain Bootes was doing fairly well and Mrs. Bootes informed her brother to consider no news as good news.
Captain Boots was a son of the Late General Bootes, of Wilmington, Del., being a member of a family which for the past several generations has been prominently identified with both the army and the navy. He was for several years connected with the Black-Grant wholesale dry goods house in this city and later was identified with the Grant Dry Goods company. In 1892 he married Mrs. Clara Guthrie Clark, who with her three children survive him. Captain Bootes also leaves two brothers who are officers in the navy.
Source: Obituary files Muskingum County Genealogy Library, Zanesville, Ohio – 30 September 1909
DEATH CLAIMS CAPT. BOOTES
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Former Prominent Zanesville
Citizen Dies in Hospital
At Manila
------
HAD BEEN ILL
SINCE LAST JULY
------
But Relatives Here Did Not Know of
His Critical Condition – Had Been
in the Army Since Outbreak of
the Spanish-American War
------
W.E. Guthrie of Putnam avenue, received a cablegram Sunday morning notifying him of the death of his brother-in-law, Captain Samuel B. Bootes, which occurred Saturday at a hospital in Manila, Philippine Islands.
Captain Bootes was a former resident of this city and had many friends here who are deeply pained to learn of his death. He had been in the army since 1898, when at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was commissioned a captain and assigned to duty as a commissary of subsistence. Two years later he was commissioned a captain in the regular army and was made an assistant to the quartermaster's department. He then was assigned to services in the Philippines and after a tour of duty in the islands returned to the United States and was for a time in charge of quartermaster's supplies in Texas. Three years ago he was transferred to duty at St. Louis as a purchasing agent in the quartermaster's department.
One year ago Captain Bootes was again ordered to the Philippines and with his family sailed for Manila on October 3, 1908. Last July he was taken seriously ill and was removed to a hospital in Manila, where he remained until the end came. The last news which Mr. Guthrie received from his sister concerning her husband's health, was contained in a letter which reached this city in August 3. At that time it was thought that Captain Bootes was doing fairly well and Mrs. Bootes informed her brother to consider no news as good news.
Captain Boots was a son of the Late General Bootes, of Wilmington, Del., being a member of a family which for the past several generations has been prominently identified with both the army and the navy. He was for several years connected with the Black-Grant wholesale dry goods house in this city and later was identified with the Grant Dry Goods company. In 1892 he married Mrs. Clara Guthrie Clark, who with her three children survive him. Captain Bootes also leaves two brothers who are officers in the navy.
Source: Obituary files Muskingum County Genealogy Library, Zanesville, Ohio – 30 September 1909
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Former Prominent Zanesville
Citizen Dies in Hospital
At Manila
------
HAD BEEN ILL
SINCE LAST JULY
------
But Relatives Here Did Not Know of
His Critical Condition – Had Been
in the Army Since Outbreak of
the Spanish-American War
------
W.E. Guthrie of Putnam avenue, received a cablegram Sunday morning notifying him of the death of his brother-in-law, Captain Samuel B. Bootes, which occurred Saturday at a hospital in Manila, Philippine Islands.
Captain Bootes was a former resident of this city and had many friends here who are deeply pained to learn of his death. He had been in the army since 1898, when at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was commissioned a captain and assigned to duty as a commissary of subsistence. Two years later he was commissioned a captain in the regular army and was made an assistant to the quartermaster's department. He then was assigned to services in the Philippines and after a tour of duty in the islands returned to the United States and was for a time in charge of quartermaster's supplies in Texas. Three years ago he was transferred to duty at St. Louis as a purchasing agent in the quartermaster's department.
One year ago Captain Bootes was again ordered to the Philippines and with his family sailed for Manila on October 3, 1908. Last July he was taken seriously ill and was removed to a hospital in Manila, where he remained until the end came. The last news which Mr. Guthrie received from his sister concerning her husband's health, was contained in a letter which reached this city in August 3. At that time it was thought that Captain Bootes was doing fairly well and Mrs. Bootes informed her brother to consider no news as good news.
Captain Boots was a son of the Late General Bootes, of Wilmington, Del., being a member of a family which for the past several generations has been prominently identified with both the army and the navy. He was for several years connected with the Black-Grant wholesale dry goods house in this city and later was identified with the Grant Dry Goods company. In 1892 he married Mrs. Clara Guthrie Clark, who with her three children survive him. Captain Bootes also leaves two brothers who are officers in the navy.
Source: Obituary files Muskingum County Genealogy Library, Zanesville, Ohio – 30 September 1909
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