He was born on 10 May 1838.
1865
Booth was married to Izola Mills Bellows. Izola Mills said she married John Wilkes Booth on January 9, 1859. John Stevenson, a friend of John Wilkes Booth and Izola Mills, said they where married in 1859. Ogarita Bellows said that her real father was John Wilkes Booth and he was married to her mother. The problem with all of this is that Izola was married to a seaman named Charles Bellows at the time. Charles was out to sea for a year at a time leaving Izola time to get another husband. John Wilkes Booth married a married woman.Source: Izola
John Wilkes Booth died when he was 26 years old and died, on April 26th in 1865 the year Abraham died.
1865 on April 14
1865 on April 14
The Federal Government released his body in 1869 for burial at the Booth family plot in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.
Planning began as a kidnapping in 1864 and by 1865, it had evolved into assassination.
Abraham Lincoln was President in 1863, one year before he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1864. :'(
John Wilkes Booth married Izola Mills a year before the civil War and they remained married until death separated them. Some believe he was married to Lucy Lambert Hale. He was not married to her and he was never engaged to her. Booth never said he was engaged to Lucy. Lucy never said she was engaged to Booth. Lucy's father said Lucy was never engaged to Booth. Some people speculate that it was a secret engagement. Those speculations are made by people that believe Booth was not married, but Booth was married at the time. He may have used Lucy to get close to the president.
Lincoln was sworn in as President on March 4,1861. He died from John Wilkes Booth's bullet wound at 7:22 am on April 15,1865.
It is a nice conspiracy story, but the John St Helens of Granbury, Texas and the David George of Enid, Oklahoma who once used the St Helens name and persona were not Lincoln's assassin despite deathbed confessions.
Booth was shot dead in a firefight with Union cavalry troops in a barn in the Virginia countryside on 26th April 1865, after having been on the run for 10 days. The troops had been specially dispatched to hunt down Abe Lincoln's assassin and bring him to justice, but Booth refused to surrender and preferred to die in a gunfight than be taken alive. The shot that ended his life was from Seargent Boston Corbett of the United States Cavalry.