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Adam Booker and Wilbert Booker
When researching genealogy the
man’s family comes first, so I
am sticking with tradition. The
following few pages are our father’s paternal
and maternal lineage. Until recently, I had
no desire to do much research on dad’s side
of family. After talking with Auntie Carolyn
I became a little curious about his past and
our ancestors. Boy! Did I find out a lot. I got
back to a slave named Adam (Pana) Booker.
Stories were that Pana was not a mild tem-
per slave, meaning he gave them hell. Adam
was born approx. around 1830’s. There is a marriage record for Colored Marriages in 1860 -1870 for Adam Booker and Ann Montgomery. They had two sons Wilbert and Jack. Adam and Ann lived on the Jones-Wilson Plantation in Whit- estown, Mississippi (Wilkinson County). The Jones-Wilson Plantation originally named the Bowling Green Plantation owned by Judge Edward McGehee, the Judge lost his property during the civil war in the battle of Wilkinson County. The plantation was burned down by the United States Colored Troops in 1864. Edward McGehee’s plantation had nearly a 1,000 slaves working on his property, undoubtably quite a few were our ancestors.
By the time the 1910 U.S. Census records were taken Adam was married to Mary (Stewart) Booker. It is unknown what happen to his first wife Ann but he had a son named Edward (Ed) with Mary. It has been told that Adam lived to be 98 or 102 his exact birthday can not be verify, due to the fact he was born a slave and it was uncom-
mon practice to record slaves birth. Nevertheless, I will continue my research for more answers but until then our focus will be Wilbert’s lineage, Wilbert is our father’s grandfather.
The Family of Wilbert & Ella Booker
L to R. Adam, Harrison, James (Jim), Elmore, Jack, Virginia, Wilbert Sr., Ella, Smiley, Wilbert Jr., Judge and not pictured William the youngest, not yet born.
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