The Last Name at Birth of this profile should be Booher. The third wife of John Cross was Barbara Booher according to a February 14, 1916 newspaper article about one of their grandsons, which states that his grandfather John Cross’s “last wife was Barbara Booher, and after the death of Mr. Cross she married a Mr. Smith,”
[1]. The second marriage to William Smith took place in 1819.
[2] Booher, as distinct from Bohrer or Borer(s) or Borough, was actually a surname found in the Potomac highlands and southwest Pennsylvania during this time period. This Barbara presumably belongs to one of those families.
First marriage: Barbara first married John Cross III (1728-1810), as his third wife, about 1785 in Virginia (now West Virginia). John was the son of John Cross (1700-1764) and Dinah Lane (Tracy) Cross ((1695-1729).
John Cross and Barbara (Booher) Cross were the parents of 10 known children:
Second marriage: After John passed away (about 1810), Barbara remarried to William Joseph Smith in October 1819 in Randolph, Virginia. Rev. Simeon Harris presided over the ceremony (he was the son-in-law of William Joseph Smith, having married his daughter Hannah Smith). There were no children recorded of this second marriage.
Barbara died at Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on Aug. 20, 1830.
Obituary Barbour County, WV newspaper article states that “after John Cross died, Barbara married a Smith”. She married William Smith in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on Oct. 7, 1819. William Joseph Smith was born in Randolph County, Virginia (The part which is now called Barbour County, West Virginia) in 1742 and died in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on May 29, 1830.”…..
Notations re: William Joseph Smith; http://www.wvroane.org/tng/showsource.php?sourceID=S00099&tree=Sample; “William Joseph SMITH was born 1742 in Barbour Co., Va, and died 29 MAY 1830 in Randolph Co., Va. He married Margaret CHANDLER BEF. 1770. She died BEF. 1819 in Randolph Co, VA. He married Barbara CROSS 7 OCT 1819 in Performed by S Harris.”…..
Barbary was interred in an unknown location. [3]
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