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View Tree for Colonel Richard Marot Booker Jr.Colonel Richard Marot Booker Jr. (b. July 30, 1771, d. August 24, 1845)

Richard Marot Booker Jr. (son of Richard Marot Booker Sr. and Elizabeth Palmer) was born July 30, 1771 in Virginia, and died August 24, 1845 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He married Tabitha Fuqua on February 2, 1795 in Charlotte County, Virginia, daughter of Samuel Fuqua and Hannah Bates.

 Includes NotesNotes for Richard Marot Booker Jr.:
Military Service: Colonel in the Richmond - Washington Volunteers and the 20th Regiment, U.S. Artillery during the war of 1812.

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Richard Booker Will

Will Book 16 Page 230 a & b Shelby County Court House Shelbyville, KY

Know all men that I Richard Booker of the County of Shelby and the State of Kentucky being of sound & disposing mind and knowing that death is the lot of all do make & declare this to be my last will & testament. Item: My will & purpose is that an equal distribution be made of my property amongst all my children the shares of my deceased children (towit) Martha and Harriet to go to their issue.

Item: My will is that the share of my property which under the foregoing clause may fall to my deceased daughter Harriet's children remain in the hands of my son Richard M. Booker if he survives me as trustee for the children until they respectively attain the age of twenty one or marry and in the event of the death of my son Richard M. Booker whom I have constituted trustee for the children of my daughter Harriet before my own, then I constitute and appoint my son in law John Hornsby trustee for them to receive and manage their property until the period above designated and shall I survive them then I appoint my son in law James George to act as their trustee it being my fixed purpose that none of the property which they may take under this will shall ever reach the hands of their father.

Item: My further will & purpose is that my daughter Julia shall have my Negro woman Matilda with her issue. Likewise two beds bedsteads and their furniture to be selected by herself all this is given in addition to her equal share of property of which I may Attest
William Waters

Richard Booker (seal)

John Waters Eleanor Waters

A codicil to the foregoing will it having accured to me that it might be difficult to carry into effect without empowering my Executors to sell my property of every kind Now my further will is that my executors or such of them as take upon them the Execution of my will do sell my property real and personal of every kind if deemed either necessary or expenient by them in order to distribute my property among my children as directed in my will. In Testimony whereof I Have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal in thy property among my children as directed in my will In Testimony whereof I Have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal in these presence of these witnesses this 14 day of July 1842

2 Witnesseth William Waters Jos A. Moore J. F. (?) Moore

Richard Booker (Seal)

Shelby County SCT

September Term 1845

A writing purporting to be the last will & Testament of Richard Booker Dec,d and codicil thereunder written was produced to the court & the will was proven by the oaths of Wm. Waters Eleanor Waters & the codicil was proven by the oaths of Wm. Waters & Jos A. Moore and ordered to be recorded and thereupon James W. George & Richard M. Booker the Exors named is said Will came into court & took upon themselves the brethren of the Execution thereof & having taken the oath required by Law and entered into bond with Andrew I White John A. Hornsby & Wm Waters their securities in the penalty of forty thousand dollars conditioned as the Law directs probate of said will is granted them in due form of Law
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Ja L or S Whitaker clk Shelby County Court


More About Richard Marot Booker Jr.:
Burial: Unknown, Willow Brook Farm, Shelby County, Kentucky.

More About Richard Marot Booker Jr. and Tabitha Fuqua:
Marriage: February 2, 1795, Charlotte County, Virginia.

Children of Richard Marot Booker Jr. and Tabitha Fuqua are:
  1. Francis A. Booker, b., Shelby County, Kentucky, d. date unknown.
  2. Richard Marot Booker III, b., Shelby County, Kentucky, d. 1857.
  3. +Martha R. Booker, b. August 13, 1796, Shelby County, Kentucky23, d. September 20, 1836, Jefferson County, Kentucky23.
  4. +Harriet Booker, b. June 13, 1807, Shelby County, Kentucky24, d. July 26, 1833, Jefferson County, Kentucky24.
  5. +Nancy M. Booker, b. January 21, 1811, Shelby County, Kentucky25, d. November 14, 184625.
  6. William F. Booker, b. November 19, 1812, Shelby County, Kentucky, d. September 25, 1834, Shelby County, Kentucky.
  7. Julia Ann Booker, b. 1815, Shelby County, Kentucky, d. 1869.
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