Rachel BOOTH was the daughter of Joseph BOOTH and Sarah DUTTON.
Joseph was a practicing Quaker in Quaker County PA when he was married outside the faith to Sarah DUTTON. While this drew censure Joseph became reconciled to his meeting and remained a Quaker at least until 1791 when he relocated his family to Washington County TN.
Joseph and Sarah had eight children: 3 boys and 5 girls. Rachel appears to be the youngest of the children. She was born in Washington Co TN around 1793.
In Sept 1815, she married Peter MAY, the son of a German immigrant. They began raising a family immediately and eventually had seven children:
William May ~1815 – 1848
female May (Phebe?) ~1821 – 1839
Margaret May 1824 – 1879
John W May 1826 – 1881
Mary Jane May 1828 – 1912
Lewis Ardilla May 1832 – 1901
Preston May 1835 – 1864
Sometime around 1820 the family left Tennessee, stopping in Harrison County Indiana and eventually by 1830 settling in Monroe County Indiana on 240 acres of densely wooded and rocky bottom land.
Rachel's husband Peter died in 1845. Rachel stayed on in their homestead with the youngest three unmarried children. When her son Lewis married he built a new homestead on the same property and remained farming close by.
After her son Preston died and Lewis lived with his own family, Rachel continued to live in the original cabin with her unmarried daughter, Mary Jane. Her daughter supported them literally as a "spinster."
Rachel died in 1877 at the age of about 84. The cabin she and her daughter shared was still referred to as the "granny May house" in the 1920s when there was nothing left of it but a foundation and her great-great-grandchildren had forgotten just which "granny May" had once lived there.
Rachel is believed to be buried among the unmarked graves of the Cedar-Coleman or "old cedar" Cemetery.
Joseph was a practicing Quaker in Quaker County PA when he was married outside the faith to Sarah DUTTON. While this drew censure Joseph became reconciled to his meeting and remained a Quaker at least until 1791 when he relocated his family to Washington County TN.
Joseph and Sarah had eight children: 3 boys and 5 girls. Rachel appears to be the youngest of the children. She was born in Washington Co TN around 1793.
In Sept 1815, she married Peter MAY, the son of a German immigrant. They began raising a family immediately and eventually had seven children:
William May ~1815 – 1848
female May (Phebe?) ~1821 – 1839
Margaret May 1824 – 1879
John W May 1826 – 1881
Mary Jane May 1828 – 1912
Lewis Ardilla May 1832 – 1901
Preston May 1835 – 1864
Sometime around 1820 the family left Tennessee, stopping in Harrison County Indiana and eventually by 1830 settling in Monroe County Indiana on 240 acres of densely wooded and rocky bottom land.
Rachel's husband Peter died in 1845. Rachel stayed on in their homestead with the youngest three unmarried children. When her son Lewis married he built a new homestead on the same property and remained farming close by.
After her son Preston died and Lewis lived with his own family, Rachel continued to live in the original cabin with her unmarried daughter, Mary Jane. Her daughter supported them literally as a "spinster."
Rachel died in 1877 at the age of about 84. The cabin she and her daughter shared was still referred to as the "granny May house" in the 1920s when there was nothing left of it but a foundation and her great-great-grandchildren had forgotten just which "granny May" had once lived there.
Rachel is believed to be buried among the unmarked graves of the Cedar-Coleman or "old cedar" Cemetery.
Rachel BOOTH was the daughter of Joseph BOOTH and Sarah DUTTON.
Joseph was a practicing Quaker in Quaker County PA when he was married outside the faith to Sarah DUTTON. While this drew censure Joseph became reconciled to his meeting and remained a Quaker at least until 1791 when he relocated his family to Washington County TN.
Joseph and Sarah had eight children: 3 boys and 5 girls. Rachel appears to be the youngest of the children. She was born in Washington Co TN around 1793.
In Sept 1815, she married Peter MAY, the son of a German immigrant. They began raising a family immediately and eventually had seven children:
William May ~1815 – 1848
female May (Phebe?) ~1821 – 1839
Margaret May 1824 – 1879
John W May 1826 – 1881
Mary Jane May 1828 – 1912
Lewis Ardilla May 1832 – 1901
Preston May 1835 – 1864
Sometime around 1820 the family left Tennessee, stopping in Harrison County Indiana and eventually by 1830 settling in Monroe County Indiana on 240 acres of densely wooded and rocky bottom land.
Rachel's husband Peter died in 1845. Rachel stayed on in their homestead with the youngest three unmarried children. When her son Lewis married he built a new homestead on the same property and remained farming close by.
After her son Preston died and Lewis lived with his own family, Rachel continued to live in the original cabin with her unmarried daughter, Mary Jane. Her daughter supported them literally as a "spinster."
Rachel died in 1877 at the age of about 84. The cabin she and her daughter shared was still referred to as the "granny May house" in the 1920s when there was nothing left of it but a foundation and her great-great-grandchildren had forgotten just which "granny May" had once lived there.
Rachel is believed to be buried among the unmarked graves of the Cedar-Coleman or "old cedar" Cemetery.
Joseph was a practicing Quaker in Quaker County PA when he was married outside the faith to Sarah DUTTON. While this drew censure Joseph became reconciled to his meeting and remained a Quaker at least until 1791 when he relocated his family to Washington County TN.
Joseph and Sarah had eight children: 3 boys and 5 girls. Rachel appears to be the youngest of the children. She was born in Washington Co TN around 1793.
In Sept 1815, she married Peter MAY, the son of a German immigrant. They began raising a family immediately and eventually had seven children:
William May ~1815 – 1848
female May (Phebe?) ~1821 – 1839
Margaret May 1824 – 1879
John W May 1826 – 1881
Mary Jane May 1828 – 1912
Lewis Ardilla May 1832 – 1901
Preston May 1835 – 1864
Sometime around 1820 the family left Tennessee, stopping in Harrison County Indiana and eventually by 1830 settling in Monroe County Indiana on 240 acres of densely wooded and rocky bottom land.
Rachel's husband Peter died in 1845. Rachel stayed on in their homestead with the youngest three unmarried children. When her son Lewis married he built a new homestead on the same property and remained farming close by.
After her son Preston died and Lewis lived with his own family, Rachel continued to live in the original cabin with her unmarried daughter, Mary Jane. Her daughter supported them literally as a "spinster."
Rachel died in 1877 at the age of about 84. The cabin she and her daughter shared was still referred to as the "granny May house" in the 1920s when there was nothing left of it but a foundation and her great-great-grandchildren had forgotten just which "granny May" had once lived there.
Rachel is believed to be buried among the unmarked graves of the Cedar-Coleman or "old cedar" Cemetery.
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