III. MEMORIALS. SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT "THE PLAYERS." THAT face which no man ever saw And from his memory banished quite, In the fair temple that he planned Not for himself. To us most dear This image of him! "It was thus He looked; such pallor touched his cheek; Nay 'tis the man, could it but speak!" The gentle Prince of Players wore ! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. 265 THE BOOTH FAMILY. RICHARD BOOTH MISS GAME 1. JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH 2. ALGERNON SIDNEY BOOTH 3. JANE BOOTH RICHARD BOOTH was the son of Elizabeth Wilkes, cousin to John Wilkes, “the agitator" (1727-1797). Richard Booth, an ardent republican, followed his son Junius to America, in 1822, and died on December 29, 1839, aged 76. On the stone that marks his grave, in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, the following words are cut, beneath a cross: "Ex vita, ita descedo, tamquam ex hospito, in fervam Reguum in elytissimi Ducis illiæ ire ad Astra." Richard Booth's wife, whose maiden name was Game, died, in England, at the birth of her daughter, Jane. Of ALGERNON SIDNEY BOOTн I have no record. JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH January 18, 1821. MARY ANN HOLMES JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH, JR., ROSALIE ANN BOOTH, HENRY BYRON BOOTH, MARY ANN BOOTH, FREDERICK BOOTH, ELIZABETH BOOTH, EDWIN THOMAS BOOTH, ASIA SIDNEY BOOTH (Mrs. J. S. Clarke), JOHN WILKES BOOTH, JOSEPH ADRIAN BOOTH. Henry, Mary, Frederick, and Elizabeth died young. Henry's death occurred in 1837, and he was buried at Pentonville, London. Rosalie died, unmarried, in 1889, aged 65. Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., was twice married, and several of his children survive. John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lincoln, was |