Nicholas Boogher emigrated from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania in 1727. His descendant, John Booher (1773-1860), was the son of Bartholomew Booher of Frederick County, Maryland. John and his wife, Elizabeth Crull (1772-1865), had eleven children, 1795-1817. Their first four children were born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The family migrated to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1803. John and Elizabeth Booher are buried in the Shearer graveyard,...

Chiefly updates "The Booher genealogy, 1723-1969" with some miscellaneous corrections. John Booher (1773-1860) was a descendant in the fourth generation of Nicholas Booher (1760-1755), the immigrant. He and his wife, Elizabeth Crull, had eleven children, 1795-1817. The family lived in Montgomery County, Ohio. Additional information had been recieved for these families: Margaret Booher (b. 1798) and her husband, John Houser -- Samuel Booher (1801-1877)...