• "Descendants of Michael Steifel" by Christine Grimm [2001A.D.]: gives middle name as ‘Ridley’ (author is a descendant of his daughter, Lucy Boots);

• 1850 Grant Co., IN (Pleasant township) census (Household #307) with half-sister, Martha (Boots) Frazier family: "age 11";

• "Waverly (IA) Republican" [6 Feb 1873]: ‘Man Frozen to Death" gives account of Nelson Boots — described only as "Boots" — freezing to death after a day of heavy drinking and a countryside wander with a friend;

• Wavery Public Library quote Bremer Co., IA marriage record for ‘Rhoda Sailor = Nelson Boots, 18 Oct 1866’;

• C. S. Boots, p. 561 "Boots Family": mother = Nancy Norman; living in State of Washington, unmarried in 1860; deathdate;

• Affidavit by Martin Boots, son of William Boots and grandson of Martin A. Boots, made in 1913 (quoted variously, inter al. by Rose D. Marsh, columnist for a Marion newspaper [n.d.]: "Nelson R. Boots died in 1866— he emigrated to the State of Washington in 1866, if he left any heirs they are unknown and Nelson R. Boots was unmarried in 1860";

• Genforum "Boots Page" (25-II-2001), message 179, posted by Christine (Petrie) Grimm: ‘Nelson R. Boots … supposed to be from Indiana, married Rhoda (Sailor) date unknown … he lived in Iowa and have only found one child, daughter Lucy (my gr-grandmother) born 9/20/1867’;

• ‘1870 Bremer Co., IA census (Jackson twp) at Waverly [p. 242; ll. 10-11]: age 23, b. IN; with husband, Nelson Boots, living in the home of William Sailor, 52, b. KY, farmer, and his wife, Fanny, 52m b. OH, with 2 children, Harriet M. (age 12) & Eliz. A. (age 7) Sailor; Lewis Rush, 23, a farmer, b. IN; and John H. Bitts, 42, b. NY, a farm laborer — surrounding the family are McCaffree and Rush families, some of whom also are buried at West Point Cemetery, Waverly, IA at later dates

• Burial: West Point Cemetery, Waverly, Bremer Co., IA¹

• Census: 1850, Grant Co., IN, age 11, in household with sister Martha and her husband Nathan Frazier

• Emigration: 1860, From IN to Washington State²

• Religion: ?Methodist Episcopal

• Wavery Public Library quote Bremer Co., IA marriage record for ‘Rhoda Sailor = Nelson Boots, 18 Oct 1866’;

• Genforum "Boots Page" (25-II-2001), message 179, posted by Christine (Petrie) Grimm: ‘Nelson R. Boots … supposed to be from Indiana, married Rhoda (Sailor) date unknown … he lived in Iowa and have only found one child, daughter Lucy (my gr-grandmother) born 9/20/1867’;

• e-mail from Christine Grimm to L. Ellingham [29-VII-2001]: … Lucy, born 1867, age 3; [Nelson] died, 1/29/1873; buried at West Point Cemetery, Waverly, IA, age 23, Civil War’;

• ‘1870 Bremer Co., IA census (Jackson twp) at Waverly [p. 242; ll. 10-11]: age 30, b. IN; wife, Rhodilla (Sailor) Boots, age 23, b. IN

• Marriage: Oct 18, 1866, Bremer Co., IA³

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