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Bookmark or Share- Inside John Wilkes Booth's Famous Family - HISTORYAsia Booth Clarke. The eighth child of Junius and Mary Ann, Asia was born in 1835 and considered to be the sibling closest to John Wilkes.
- The Closest Source We Have to Really Knowing John Wilkes Booth Is His ...Asia Booth Clarke, sickly pregnant with twins at her mansion in Philadelphia, received the morning newspaper on April 15, 1865, in bed and screamed at the sight of the headlines: John Wilkes, her...
- John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir by Asia Booth Clarke - GoodreadsAsia Booth Clarke was a poet and a part of the famous, theatrical Booth family. Her father was Junius Brutus Booth, and her siblings included Edwin Booth and the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
- John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir | Grateful American® FoundationAsia Booth Clarke immigrated to England to dodge the deluge, because she was “personally unknown” there, and she never returned. Clarke completed John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir in 1874, but she feared a belligerent reaction from her husband.
- Asia Booth Clarke, Sister to John Wilkes Booth: A Woman of the Civil WarIt was these five words placed at the very end of the memoir of John Wilkes Booth by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, that captured the heartache and heartbreak of a woman, who because of her brother’s crime, became a woman of the Civil War.
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