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- Son of Sake Tjallings Booi and Aaltsje Jannes Oostermyer, both from Rottevalle, Smallingerland, Fryslân, Nederland.
Father of Sake Booi; Folkert Tjallings Booi; Atje Booi; Eize C Booi; Geertje Booi, Folkert, Sjoukje
Brother of Sietske Sakes Booi; Aukjen Sakes Booi; Jannes Sakes Booi and Halbe Sakes Booi
Half brother of Halbe Sakes Booi; Aalsen Sakes Booi and Aafke Booi
Changed his first name to Charles upon immigration in the USA.
Charles Booi and Ellen Drijfstra Booi, both of Holland, emigrated in 1847. They sailed from Rotterdam and after a voyage of about 3 months went directly to Chicago via the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and from there by way of the Lakes near the present site of Pullman about 20 miles south of Chicago where he farmed.
His wife died trying to cross the Calument River on ice. She was a midwife. Later Charles died and the Daniel Kuiper family took in the youngest Booi's and later moved to Michigan with them.
Eize Booi, Charles son, married Edith Margaret Marie Kuiper in 1859. He sold his farm on Calumet and moved to Danforth, IL. where he bought 135 acres.
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