BOOKWALTER
Leroy King Bookwalter was the son of Joseph Addison Bookwalter and Zelinda Melissa Ross and was born on February 27, 1852, in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA. It is unclear when or why he removed to Brazil. In November 1884, in Brazil, he married Anna Lucina Miller, the daughter if James Williamson Miller and Sarah Boyd McGill of Chester County, South Carolina who were original Confederados arriving in Rio de Janeiro on Christmas Day, 1868, having sailed for a month on board the steamer "South America". She was ten years old at the time of her arrival, The Miller's established their home in the then "wilderness" near Santa Barbara d'oeste along with a large number of Southern expatriates
Leroy was a planter and had established a profitable plantation. He died on August 17, 190 in Santa Barabara, leaving Anna with seven young children to raise - two sons and five daughters. Her oldest son, James Miller Bookwalter, had returned to the United States to go to college but returned after his father's death but was killed shortly afterward by a team of runaway mules. She managed the farm and remarried with her second husband taking over affairs. The second husband's name is not mentioned and she is buried in Campo Cemetery with the Bookwalter name. Eventually, the farm was taken over by her second son, Leroy King "King" Bookwalter. The farm prospered primarily with rice, corn, and watermelons with King stating that the only thing they could not grow was potatoes.
The following is from "The Confederados" by Dawsey, page 149
"In 1878, over a decade after the first Americans moved to the region, the chapel at Campo was constructed.
The dream that had finally been realized was an old one. The first collection of moneyto support the construction had been taken in 1870, eight years earlier. Built by the community and used by three Protestant denominations, the chapel belongrd to everybody. When Colonel Asa T. Oliver, originally fron Georgia, died in 1873, James Miller bought the property and the land continued in the hands of the Miller's descendants, Leroy, Anna, and Mary Bookwalter ubtil 1954. Thogh the Campo chapel and cemetery remained on privately owned land during this period, the family kept it available for all to use. The one-hectare compound that included the cemetery and chapel was deeded to the Fraternity of American Descendancy in 1954, and since then families of deceased descendants have continued to seek burial for their loved ones."
Children:
1.
Ross Magill Bookwalter
BIRTH 17 Feb 1885 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 17 Feb 1885 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
2.
Elizabeth Bookwalter
BIRTH 12 Aug 1886 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 4 May 1940 • São Paulo, Brazil
Married: Jun 1906 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Charlie Sylvester Vaughan
BIRTH 12 Oct 1887 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 19 May 1949 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Children:
1.
Mary Elizabeth Vaughn
BIRTH 1911 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
2.
Robert Burton Vaughn
BIRTH 1913 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
3.
Agnes Vaughan
BIRTH 27 Oct 1918 • Nova Odessa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 18 Sep 1965 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
4.
Joseph Addison Vaughan
BIRTH 15 Dec 1923 • ,, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 19 Jul 1945 • ,, Sao Paulo, Brazil
3.
James Miller Bookwalter
BIRTH 14 Jun 1888 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 29 May 1906 • Villa Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
4.
Mary Bookwalter
BIRTH 21 Oct 1889 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 12 MarH 1973 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
5.
Margaret Bookwalter
BIRTH 22 Aug 1891 • Santa Barbara, Município de Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 23 Oct 1976 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Belton Carr
BIRTH 9 Jul 1895, Brazil
DEATH 24 Jan 1976 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Confederados James Edward Carr and Leila Broadnax
Children:
1.
Rosa Lee Carr
BIRTH 17 Dec 1927 • Pinhalzinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1987 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil
Married:
José Costa Conti
BIRTH 5 May 1925 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1997 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2.
Arthur Belton Carr
BIRTH 1931 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1931 • Brazil
6.
Katharine Bookwalter
BIRTH 27 Nov 1892 • Santa Bárbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 18 Nov 1983 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 24 Dec 1924 • Brazil
John Henry Wheelock
BIRTH 21 Jan 1898 • Colfax, Iowa, USA
DEATH 5 Mar 1961 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Mortimer Brigham Wheelock and Annie Manabel Mannington
John Henry Wheelock graduated from Colfax High School in 1915. He earned a B.S. from Iowa State University in 1920. He earned his M.S. from Texas A&M in 1921, and moved to Brazil in the following year. (Src: Records of Bryan King Wheelock, grandson, Dec 2001.)
7.
Florence Bookwalter
BIRTH 22 Sep 1894 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 13 Nov 1981 • São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 1918
Robert Emory Pyles
BIRTH 18 SEP 1889 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brasil
DEATH 5 FEB 1981 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Ezequiell Belton Pyles and Fleming Margaret McKnight
When Florence Bookwalter was born on 22 September 1894, in São Paulo, Brazil, her father, Leroy King Bookwalter, was 42 and her mother, Anna Lucina Miller, was 37. She married Robert Emory Pyles about 1930, in São Paulo, Brazil. She died in November 1980, in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil, at the age of 86, and was buried in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil.
8.
Leroy King Bookwalter Jr
BIRTH 25 Nov 1896 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 13 Mar 1961 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Leroy King Bookwalter
BIRTH 27 Feb 1852 • Chillicothe, Ross Co, Ohio, USA
DEATH 17 Aug 1900 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
MARRIED: Nov 1884
Anna Lucina Miller
BIRTH 10 Jul 1857 • Chester Co, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 10 Aug 1944 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Daughter of James Williamson Miller and Sarah Boyd Magill
