The theme for this week's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is "Name's the Same". My research into the Boothby family from Maine came up with 4 generations of the same name...Josiah Boothby. The name was carried all the way across the United States! And created some confusion with research. Because, their names were the same....
#1. The first Josiah Boothby was born in Scarborough, Maine in 1738. The town of Scarborough was located in the County of York in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England at that time (Maine did not become a state until 1820, and Scarborough is now included in the county of Cumberland). At some point in time Josiah moved from Scarborough to Pepperrellborough and was enumerated in the 1790 Federal Census there. The name of Pepperrellborough became too cumbersome, so the town was renamed Saco in 1805. Scarborough is about 7 miles south of Portland, and Saco is about 9 miles south of Scarborough.
1790 United States Federal Census for the Town of Pepperrellboro
1790 Census close up listing James, Josiah and John Boothby (all brothers). The numbers are enumerating free white males and females in the household.
#2. Josiah Boothby (Jr.) was born in 1775 in Scarborough, Maine, came to Ohio with his father Josiah (#1) and his Uncle James, and by 1802 had married Mary Rounds in Claremont County, Ohio. He was making a living as a farmer. Josiah (not sure if it was #1 or #2) was on the list of one of the first grand juries assembled in 1801 in the county. Josiah (#2) and Mary had 7 children in Ohio. Their youngest son was named Josiah Stewart Boothby (#3) and he was born in Brown County, Ohio in 1824. There are still many, many Boothbys in Ohio.
#3. Josiah Stewart Boothby led quite a life of adventure. His mother Mary died when he was two weeks old, and his father Josiah (#2) died when he was six years old. He went to live with a brother in Illinois (most likely Daniel) and worked as a cabin boy on the Mississippi. He eventually married Elizabeth Peyton in Coles County, Illinois. They had four children, one of which was Josiah Thomas (#4). Josiah Stewart (#3) served in the Civil War. After the war Elizabeth died and he married Susan Yates in Coles County. The family moved to Kansas where he was a farmer, and then to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He served in the Oregon State Legislature and became a wheat farmer and rancher in Lexington, Oregon. He died in 1905.
Old Smith Cemetery North Okaw Township, Coles County, Illinois. From FindaGrave. Elizabeth Peyton Boothby is buried here with other Peyton family members. Coles County is south east of Springfield and Decatur.
#4. Josiah Thomas Boothby was born in 1856 in Illinois and moved to Oregon with his father Josiah (#3) and his step mother Susan Yates Boothby. He became a wheat farmer and rancher in the towns of Lexington and Grass Valley in north eastern Oregon. He married Lillie Mae Hayman in 1898. He passed away in 1915 at the age of 49 years in Portland where he was undergoing an operation for cancer.
Josiah and Lillie Mae's first son was named Thomas Josiah Boothby, which put an end to Josiah as a first name until several generations down the line, as the names Thomas and Josiah continued to be handed down on this branch of the family. Their second son, Sterl Kenneth Boothby, was my Grandfather. Their third son was Harold Glenn Boothby.
Josiah Thomas Boothby Lexington, Oregon around the turn of the century.
Four generations of Josiah Boothbys made it across the country, taking their name with them! And I think I have all of them straight.
Relationship Reference: Me->Dale Boothby->Sterl Boothby->Josiah Thomas Boothby->Josiah Stewart Boothby->Josiah Boothby (Jr.)->Josiah Boothby born in Maine in 1738.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saco,_Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_County,_Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_Tract
http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/clermont/history_1880pg17.html
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