New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

[Steve Whitlock]

(07-22-2019 03:23 PM)Steve Wrote:  If David E. George was born around 1844 he wouldn't be counted in the 1840 census. There's somebody who's name looks something like "Alvy George" living in Choctaw County, Mississippi slightly before and after 1840. Could this be the same person as Eliza/Elija?

Also wasn't the insurance policy a fake? If David E. George knew it was a fake, then the information in regards to George' birth might have to be Choctaw, Mississippi taken with "a grain of salt".

I realize David E. George would be born after 1840, if 1844 really his birth year. Supposedly, after checking the papers he had they determined he was b: abt 1838 (how convenient if trying to prove he was John Wilkes Booth). I don't know what papers those were that gave his birth year. If really 1844, and in Choctaw Co., MS then he has an older brother and the most likely family would be Alvey/Eliza/Elija George family. Where did you find Alvey George named?

So far that "grain of salt" is more like a block of salt. If we prove he is really David E. George, and b: 1844 then there are two more reasons he wasn't John Wilkes Booth, and that should, but won't, end it for that hoax. To the best of my knowledge nobody has proven conclusively who David E. George was. Still, no conclusive David Elihu George apparent anywhere in 1850-1870 census records. If that's his birth name we should find him at least in 1850-1860. I even tried David Smith, due to a supposed half-brother, George E. Smith, but nothing. I even tried John Booth, and there were a couple in MS born in the 1840's, but not likely to be David.