Name: Edward Booker

Relation: Great-Great-Grandfather of Michael W. Twitty through his paternal grandmother, Eloise Booker

Born: 1839

Died: 1953

Where:  Prince Edward County, Virginia around the town of Prospect.

Occupation: Former enslaved indivdual on the Booker tobacco plantation, Freedman and landowner, and tobacco farmer

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