Charles died August 19, 1955, in Carthage, Hancock County, and was buried at Majorville Cemetery in Hancock Township.  His obituary indicated that he was born in Tennessee - presumably the village of Tennessee in McDonough County.

The obituary for Marietta Martin Booz reported that she and Joel (married in 1867) made their home in McDonough County for the first two years of their marriage, but then went on to state that all of their seven children were born on the farm that belonged to Marietta's father until his death in 1879.  That farm was located in Section 22 of Hancock Township, Hancock County (and today does have a Tennessee, Illinois, mailing address).  Also, Marietta and Joel were counted as residents of Hancock Township, Hancock County, in the census taken in the summer of 1870, four months before Charles' birth.

Hancock County marriage license #652 was issued on March 10, 1893, to Charles L. Booz, 22, and Miss Lena Long, 15, both of Hancock County.  They were married on the 12th at Carthage by William Booz, M.G., Charles' uncle.  Witnesses to the marriage were Willie M. Booz and Joel T. Booz.

Lena Elizabeth Callihan, born July 3, 1877, in Hancock Township, was the eighth of eleven children born to Levi Long and Sarah E. Callihan.

Charles and Lena lived for several years in or near Galesburg in Knox County, Illinois.  Efforts to locate them in the Federal Census of 1900 have been fruitless, but a newspaper item indicates they were still there as of September 6, 1905.  Charles and/or Lena were mentioned several times in Joetta local news columns written by "Hetty", Lena's sister, Ella (Long) Parker.  See columns from June 5, 1901, October 30, 1901, and September 6, 1905.

Charles and Lena had a daughter, Alpha Gail, and perhaps a son named Glen, who died at the age of 6 according to researcher Cora R. Swift.  We have also not found Charles or Lena in the 1910 Federal Census.  In both 1900 and 1910 women were asked about the number of their children, living and dead.  A son was not mentioned in Charles' and Lena's obituaries.

Charles and Lena divorced between 1905 and 1918.  When Joel Thacker Booz died in early 1918, Charles was said to be living in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois.  Lena was remarried by no later than the fall of 1918, to one of Charles' first cousins.  See Lena and Stephen Martin.

When Charles' mother died in 1922, he was reportedly living Texas; in 1929 he was said to be living in the Hancock - McDonough County area; in 1942 "Lou" Booz was said to be living in Colchester, McDonough County.

The child or children of Charles and Lena:

Booz, Joel T, white, male, 38 [overwritten, hard to decipher], married, farmer, born IL, father born VA, mother born KY
Maryetta B, white, female, 31, wife, married, keeping house, born KY, both parents born KY
John L, white, male, 11, son, single, attended school within the year, born IL, father born IL, mother born KY
Charles L, white, male, 9, son, single, attended school within the year, born IL, father born IL, mother born KY
William W, white, male, 7, son, single, attended school within the year, born IL, father born IL, mother born KY
Ethel P, white, female, 4/12, born Feb, daughter, single, born IL, father born IL, mother born KY

Booz, C L, lodger, male, white, 30, single, born IL, both parents born IL, spoke English, brakeman, steam railroad, working for wages