The Legend Of John Wilkes Booth

[maharba]

Have a good time looking through the 1870 census records in Texas and Oklahoma for John Wilkes Booth, John St Helens, David George, George David, John Doe, John Q Public, Wilkes John Htoob (Booth spelled backwards) or whatever name someone who does not want to be found might use. >

Ahh. NOW you may be closer on the track of the elusive fellow than an ordinary search would produce. I don't know that I ever met a man with last name of George. But there are a surprising abundance of them in the old censuses.