Boozer Name
Boozer! Yep, its kind of a funny name but so much strength, honor, and hard work built that name that I cant help but be proud to say its mine. Somewhere around the year 1810, a 10 year old boy got on a ship leaving Switzerland for America. His father had died sometime earlier and his mother had remarried and reports say that all came over together. Henrys name may have actually been Baser, Buser, Booser or many other numerous spellings but in America it was written as Boozer and from that point on, it was the accepted way of spelling it. I’m sure he missed his dad and records don’t tell us if his mom or little sister even survived the passage, so we can only assume he was all on his own when he was indentured to a man named Becker to pay for his passage over to America. Henry grew up and married Caroline Painter and they had many children, two of whom fought in the American Civil War for the north. Both, John and Eli served as members of Company D in the 111th Ohio V...
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