John
Wilkes
Booth
Born in Bel Air, Harford, Maryland, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Junius Brutus Booth
and Mary Ann (Holmes) Booth
Brother of
Richard Junius Booth [half], Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Edwin Thomas Booth and Asia Sydney (Booth) Clarke
Died
at age 26
in Port Royal, Caroline, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Aug 2011
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C.
Biography
John Booth is Notable.
Booth was born on May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland to English actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Holmes. His parents were married on John's 13th birthday.[1]
He was a member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, John Wilkes Booth achieved even greater infamy for assassinating US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. Union cavalry pursued him to the Garrett farm, burned down the barn to flush Booth out, then, as he rushed out, killed him with a bullet to the neck.
Booth was buried with the ashes of his brothers at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland.
Sources
- ↑ Wikipedia: John Wilkes Booth
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD4W-JFF : 4 April 2020), John E Booth in household of Julius B Booth, Baltimore, ward 5, Baltimore, Maryland, United States; citing family 624, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXR2-MTY : 19 March 2020), John W Booth in entry for Mary Ann Booth, 1860.
- "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-3K81 : 26 October 2019), John Wilkes Booth, 10 May 1865; citing Obituary, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, page , Records extracted by FindMyPast and images digitized by FamilySearch. The British Library, London; FHL microfilm 102,001,248.
- Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for John Wilkes Booth (10 May 1838–26 Apr 1865), Find A Grave: Memorial #7377, citing Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
- "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDL-PDS7 : 26 June 2018), John Wilkes Booth, died 26 Apr 1865; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
See also:
- Wikidata: Item Q180914, en:Wikipedia
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Wikipedia: "Booth was introduced to them as "James W. Boyd", a Confederate soldier, they were told, who had been wounded in the battle of Petersburg and was returning home."
"According to a theory put forth by the 1977 book and subsequent film The Lincoln Conspiracy, Boyd was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and killed on April 26, 1865, at Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia."
"If political forces would move in the direction of exhuming the remains of the alleged Booth, it would be easy enough to find the descendants of James W. Boyd, to prove conclusive he was the man in the barn. Till then, the first part of the story, through Mosby's statement, is verified in print. The rest is conjecture but in many cases conjecture is all we have and is not a victim of such rapid opposition."
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/james-william-boyd.91210/
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An article published 15 April 2019 in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports the stunning results of a modern facial recognition comparison of the photo above with two others of men with different names taken 1877 (John St Helen) and 1903 (David E George): a 97% match and a 99% match. The rumor that Booth didn't die in that Virginia tobacco barn might be true.
No opinion here. Just reporting.
The article also says that a Discovery Channel segment devoted to the experiment was scheduled to run on Wednesday the 17th (yesterday evening).
They also compared the DNA results to a known proven descendant called Joanne Boothe. And announced that DNA matches were NOT found with descendants of ...
Also, a photo of Sergt. Boston Corbett of the 16th New York Cavalry, who shot J. Wilkes Booth on April 26, 1865, is here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016646195/resource/