Biography

Known as Florence, this young lady met with a painful accident. When lighting a fire her clothes became ignited. She was severely burned and died on Thursday morning at the local hospital. The funeral took place on Friday at 4 p.m. It was the longest funeral procession ever seen in Morgans. About two hundred men marched in front of the hearse and some forty cyclists with their bicycles, representing the Gilbayana Cycle Club, and a large number of young girls dressed in white, who were mates of the deceased, also several vehicles followed the remains. There were many floral wreaths placed on the coffin. She is buried with her brother, David Booth, who died aged 7 months in May 1905. Other children known to have been born to Annie and Thomas Booth in Lambton, New South Wales were: Sarah Jane (known as Sadie) born 1880; Thomina Elizabeth Pouton born 1882; Stella Selina born 1884; Thomas Lionel born 1886; Lavinia Rose born 1890; Ethel Beatrice born 1892; Grace A born 1893; Leslie Leonard born 1903; and David Stewart born 1905. Thomas Booth died in 1928 back in Lambton, New South Wales. His wife died in 1947 in Newcastle. The couple married in 1880 in Jung Jung, Victoria.