Never having used this message board before, if you replied to my info with a Oops! We are talking about the same Richard H. Garrett where John
Wilkes Booth died. Doherty, army;
Conger and
Luther Baker of the Secret
Service surrounded the barn where
Davie Herold and
Booth were hiding. Herold came out with his hands up. The men set fire to Garrett's barn, one of Doherty's men set too aim through a chink in the barn wall, sending a bullet through Booth's neck. Doherty,
Conger, and
Baker pulled the fatally wonded man free. "Tell mother I die for my country,"
Booth whispered in Conger's ear. Then they carried him up to the porch of Garrett's house, still alive but paralyzed, his hands "useless" now, he said "useless.' They gave him water to drink turned himn on his side three times, emptied out the contents of his pockets, and listend to him beg to be killed mercifully. Two and a half hours after Corbett's shot was fired, not much ealier inthe day than
Lincoln himself died,
Booth the unhappy actor made his final exit. Elisha
Seburn Shortridge was the grandson of Richard
Garrett in whose
Virginia barn
Booth had supposedly died. I am sorry my communication was NOT clear. Now to answer your question. In Jane
Garrett Shortridge's bible dated 1862 October 19, she wrote that Jane daughter of David Elizbeth
Garrett born Dec 17, 1805 (Jane) Married William son of John Margaret
Shortridge born May 11, 1800 (William). Their children were Elizabeth, Margret, Rebecca, Merian, Sarah, Amanda, Elendor, George R., Elisha
Seburn, and Martha Jane. To me it looks like David was a son of Richard H. Garrett. Let me know if this is the line of your search, perhaps you can provide me with info as to Richard's siblings and parents as well as his other children and their children.
