Booker was taught school and then servied as a Methodist minister prior to the war. He enlisted on September 5, 1861 as a captain in the 58th Virginia Infantry, Co. H. He was promoted to major but resigned and mustered out on May 1, 1862. On September 25, 1862, he enlisted as chaplain of the 48th Virginia Infantry, serving until the end of the war. he was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 18, 1865
After the war, he again entered the ministry. He died in February, 1899 and is buried in the Woodside-Booker Family Cemetery in Cumberland County, VA.
Rev. George E. Booker was my g-grandfather. He was married to Mary Frances Eubank of Oak Hill, Albemarle County. They were the parents of four surviving children, George E., Jr., Marshall Brunskill, Frank Eubank, and Frances Mumford Booker (known as "Fanny"). Only Frank and George have descendents. Frank E. Booker, my grandfather, was a physician. George E. Booker, Jr., like his father, was a Methodist minister. Marshall Booker was a lawyer. Sadly, Fanny died at age 19, while a student at Randolph-Macon College for Women.
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