Louis Botha was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1891.
He married Annie Maud Bruyns in Simonstown in 1935. According to the marriage register he was a divorcee aged 42 while she was a spinster aged 38, from Lakeside in Cape Town.
There were no children born of this marriage.
Louis died in Pretoria General Hospital on 6 Aug 1952, his Death Notice states that he was a "Soldier and Civil Servant"! Louis is buried in the Rebecca Street Cemetery in Pretoria.
There was an unfortunate turn of events after his death. His first wife, Agnes Evelyn Flora MacDonald, who he had divorced in Oct 1933, contested the Will. There was a Trust of £5000 set up by his mother which the "wife" now inherited; which wife was the question? Agnes was eventually sued by the Trustees; the outcome is not clear at this stage.
When Louis Botha was born on 26 August 1891, in Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, Africa, his father, General Louis Botha, was 28 and his mother, Annie Frances Bland Emmett, was 27. He married Annie Johanna Maude Bruyns on 18 August 1935, in Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa. He died on 6 August 1952, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 60.
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