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Richard E. Booker

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Richard E. Booker

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
21 Apr 1986 (aged 96)
Anderson County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.0011134, Longitude: -84.8777984
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It has been written:History and Families Anderson County, Kentucky. Turner Publishing Company Paducah, Kentucky.
Page 41 Fellowship Baptist Church.
"...Beginning in the year 1913, R.E.Booker served this church for two years as its pastor. Then, after 18 years of missionry work in mining camps,lumber camps,and destitute churches in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, he and his family returned to Anderson County...R.E. Booker made visits in every home in the community, had prayer, and Bible reading, with the families. At his own expense,he placed Bibles in 25 homes that were without reading matter of any kind...."

1930 census:
living in Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Ky.
children: John Edwin Booker b.1917
Mary Lou Booker b.1918
Mary Walker b. 1863 Her relationship is given as mother-in-law of Richard Booker. Therefore, she was the mother of Flora Hedger,Richard Bookers wife. It would have been Mary's second marriage.

Richard Booker's Father and Mother are listed as being born in Kentucky.
It has been written:History and Families Anderson County, Kentucky. Turner Publishing Company Paducah, Kentucky.
Page 41 Fellowship Baptist Church.
"...Beginning in the year 1913, R.E.Booker served this church for two years as its pastor. Then, after 18 years of missionry work in mining camps,lumber camps,and destitute churches in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, he and his family returned to Anderson County...R.E. Booker made visits in every home in the community, had prayer, and Bible reading, with the families. At his own expense,he placed Bibles in 25 homes that were without reading matter of any kind...."

1930 census:
living in Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Ky.
children: John Edwin Booker b.1917
Mary Lou Booker b.1918
Mary Walker b. 1863 Her relationship is given as mother-in-law of Richard Booker. Therefore, she was the mother of Flora Hedger,Richard Bookers wife. It would have been Mary's second marriage.

Richard Booker's Father and Mother are listed as being born in Kentucky.


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  • Created by: rod lewis
  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67089864/richard_e-booker: accessed ), memorial page for Richard E. Booker (2 Aug 1889–21 Apr 1986), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67089864, citing Sand Spring Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by rod lewis (contributor 47291380).