The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-18
4 TRIBUTE

no the Memory of the Late Emily From
 ham Booth and Reminisoence of Some
 of the Family History.
 Emily Bromham Booth died very sud-
 denly at her home, No, 151 Water street,
 on Wednesday, August 12, and was car
 ried from there to her last resting
 place in Evergreen cemetery August
 15, 1896 She was the third daughter of
 the late Nathaniel Booth and Ann
 Bromham, his wife. Amid the busy
 scenes of this active, eve.noPing gen.
 eratlon she had renamed fixture in
 the old home, next the historic Arnold
 residence, once the desirable residen-
 ital portion of the city with its fine wa
 ter front commanding an extended sea
 view It was here her childish feet had
 first learned to walk had gained in
 strength till girlhood was reached, then
 Womanhood, and so on to middle life.
 She had been the devoted companion
 of her late lamented mother until that mother in happy old age peacefully passed away. Since that event she and
 her two sisters have still occupied the old home, and, being inclined toward quiet, domestic life, she has occupied
 all her time, excepting what she devot- ed to music, singing and reading, to the
 manufacture of some article for the benefit and amusement of the children in the city orphanage and the Asylum of the Friendless, besides other mis- siohs. Scarcely a day has passed in the many by-gone years when her hands were not occupied in creating some article of use for these poor lit- l tie waifs, and even during the last week of her life she was adding to her Christmas collection. At Christmas the work of the year was finished and distributed, comprising numberless. pairs of mittens, slippers, aprons, pin balls, needle cases, and many other things, After the New Year she com menced anew for the ensuing year, and thus she intended to continue as long as she lived. Any woman of judgment can appreciate this labor of love for the little ones and her nobleness of soul in the worthy object.
 Some Family History.
 She was in the seventh generation from Richard Booth and Elizabeth Hawley, his wife, first settlers of the good old town of Stratford and there their ashes repose in the old Congrega- tional graveyard. In the second gem
 eration she descended from Joseph Booth and Hannah Willcoxson, his wife, who were born lived and died in the same old town, and whose ashes re-
 pose in the same. old graveyard. In the third Opnlrptinn HosnnnIpI James Booth and Martha Clark his wife. She descended from George Clark of Milford, one of the early founders of the town. James Booth was born lived and died in Stratford and his ashes with those of his wife re- pose in the same old graveyard. In the fourth generation she descended from James Booth, jr., and Abigail Ann Pat terson, his wife, bokh born, reared and died in Stratford and their ashes re-
 pose in the same old graveyard James Booth, jr., was a town officer In some capacity from 1759 to 1799-forty years -also patriot and officer In the Revo- lutionary war. Her fifth line of an- ! cestry sprang from Hezekiah Booth and Mary Lewis, his wife. Hezekiah
 
 ried in Stratford, removed to Wood bury after a time, and were buried there. Captain Nathaniel Sherman Lewis. the father of Mary and also of Nathaniel s. Lewis, efrom March 25, if75,t druggist on Chapel street, was a coaster, and during the war their ee- equation was very much interfered with ori the shore of Connecticut. He re- mained on shore for some time was one of the "'Larm List" in Captain l James Booths company when they 1 turned out to defend New Haven and | Fairfield in 1779. Later he went to sea l again, and when on the way home from 1 the West Indies, was taken prisoner by | British privateers, his vessel was con- ! flscated and he was taken a prisoner ] to Halifax and shut up in prison, which