Lawrence-Greenup-Carter County KyArchives Biographies.....BOOTON, RALPH S. September 26, 1843 - UNKN ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kelly Courtney-Blizzard http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000022 July 9, 2005, 7:51 am Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 RALPH S. BOOTON is a native of Greenup County, Ky., and was born September 26, 1843. His father, Hiram S. Booton, was born in Virginia, came to Kentucky in 1804, and was a merchant of Greenup and Carter Counties. Mrs. Emma (St. John) Booton was a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of Ralph St. John, who was one of the earliest iron manufacturers of this State. Our subject was reared in Greenup and Lawrence Counties, his father having removed to Louisa in 1859, where he died in January, 1863. Ralph S. Booton, in August, 1861, entered the First Kentucky Cavalry, under Col. Clay, having raised part of a company, and taking rank as First Seargent; he was subsequently transferred to the Tenth Regiment and held several positions of honor and trust until the close of the war. He was wounded three times during his service, the last time at Cynthiana, Ky. At the close of the war he returned to Louisa, whence he removed to Catlettsburg and read law under Judge John M. Burns. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and the same year located at Prestonburg, and is now serving his third term as county attorney. In August, 1872, he married America Hatton, of Lawrence County, a daughter of Edmund Hatton, and to this marriage one child has been born, Emma. Mr. Booton is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Booton St._John Clay Burns Hatton File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/lawrence/bios/booton327gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/