What a Boone !

Recently my oldest daughter informed me that her husband, The Jim tends to be amused with certain genealogical claims of our family. I admit he has a claim to fame as well by virtue of once living near JYD but I felt it was time to "put up or shut up" After a substantial amount of research I am submitting the following:

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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." - Daniel Boone

Squire Boone the fourth child of George Boone, III and Mary Milton Maudrige was born December 6, 1696 at Brandnich Devonshire England, He immigrated to American in 1713 and married Sarah Morgan in Gywnedd, Pa .in 1720. Fourteen years later their sixth child, (of eleven) a son Daniel was born in Berks County, Pa.

Both George and Mary Boone immigrated to America in 1738. Mary Boone died in 1741 and George died in 1744. they are buried at Friends Burying-Ground, Exeter, PA

In 1752, Squire and Sarah Boone and their children eventually moved near Wilkesboro (present day) North Carolina .

On August 1756, Daniel married Rebecca Bryan , daughter of Joseph and Alee Bryan, in Rowan County N.C.

Squire Boone, father of Daniel Boone, died at Mockville, N.C on January 2, 1765. He was buried at the Joppa Cementery in Rowan County NC. His wife Sarah died in 1777 and is buried next to him.

Daniel and Rebecca have a total of ten children. Their youngest child was Nathan Boone who was born on March of 1781 at Boones Station, Kentucky.

While still in Kentucky, Nathan would later marry Olive Van Bibber on September 26, 1799. Two days after their wedding they moved near St. Charles, Missouri where his mother and father had settled.

Nathan and Olive would have a total of fourteen children. (Three sons and eleven daughters) The ninth child was John Coulter Boone who was born in St. Charles, Mo in 1816.

In September 1820, Daniel Boone died at his son Nathan’s house and was buried next to his wife Rebecca (who had died in 1813) in a cemetery in Warren County, Mo. Years later people from Kentucky visited the grave site and allegedly dug up (what they believed to be) the remains of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. They then took the "remains to Kentucky for re internment. Through DNA test conducted in 1996 it was discovered that the remains thought to be of Daniel and Rebbecca were in fact those of slaves who had been buried nearby. As a result, the remains of Daniel and Rebbecca are still as they were originally buried.

John C. Boone would be married twice, Once in 1838 to Mary Wardlaw. They were divorce after only one year of marriage. Mary Wardlaw would live until 1904. His second marriage was in 1841 to Nancy Bryson McQuarry at Enterprise, Benton County, Arkansas.

John C. Boone and his second wife Nancy, would have five children. Their second child and first son was John Thomas Boone (named after his father John and Nancy’s brother Thomas) in 1845.

Nathan Boone, Son of Daniel Boone, died October 6, 1856 and was buried at Ash Grove, Mo.
His widow Olive died in 1858 and is buried next to her husband.

John T. Boone served in the "Rector Guards" Second Arkansas Regiment, C.S.A. from 1861 until 1864. He enlisted when he was only seventeen. When it was discovered that he was a descendant of Daniel Boone he was commissioned as an officer and was appointed as a scout.

John C. Boone, Grandson of Daniel Boone, died and was buried in Benton County, Arkansas in May 1870. His wife Nancy lived until 1876 and was buried near her husband.

John T. Boone moved to San Saba County, Texas in 1878 and would marry Sarah Jane Duke, (a granddaughter of a defender of the Texas Alamo) in 1881.

John T. Boone and his bride Sarah had four children all born in Texas. Vivian, who died as an infant, John, Rufus and Wiley who was born in August 1886.

John T. Boone and his family moved DeSoto Parish, Louisiana in 1899.

Wiley Brown Boone married Augusta Victoria Dickerson in Desoto Parish, Louisiana in 1910. They had five children.

John T. Boone, Great Grandson of Daniel Boone, died in February 1918. He is buried next to his wife Sarah at the Wallace Community Cemetery, DeSoto, Parish, Louisiana. On his headstone are the initials C.S.A. I have seen it many times

Wiley and Augusta Boone’s youngest daughter Alfa Odessa Boone was born near Mineral, Louisiana on May 19, 1928 the same day her grandmother Sarah J. Boone died.

Wiley B. Boone, Great, Great, Grandson of Daniel Boone, died in February 1958 at Mansfield, Louisiana and is buried in the Wallace Community Cemetery between his father, John T. and his wife Augusta who died in June 1980.

Odessa Boone married T. W Sullivan, Jr. from Sabine Parish, Louisiana in November 1950 at Wallace Baptist Church, Wallace, Louisiana

T. W. Sullivan and his wife Odessa had two children. The oldest son was named Thomas William Sullivan, III (nee IV) and was born at Waskom Texas in August 1951

Thomas W. Sullivan would be married two times, once in Shreveport, Louisiana to Shelia A. Sellers in 1974 and in 1976 their only child Jennifer Renee Sullivan was born in downtown Houston, Texas and then to Ann L. Webb in Spring, Texas in 1989 and in 1990 their only child Sarah Odessa Sullivan was born in Harris County, Texas.

Odessa Sullivan, Great, Great, Great, Granddaughter of Daniel Boone, died at Zwolle, Louisiana in June 1980 and is buried in the Wallace Community Cemetery between her son, John Lane who died in June 1980, and her husband T. W. who died in December 1999.

Among many of Daniel Boone's accomplishments, he served as a Lt. Colonel in the Virgina (Kentucky) Militia in the Revolutionary War. He participated in the Battle of Blue Licks where one of his sons. Israel was mortally wounded. The story goes that Daniel Boone was holding a riderless horse for his son to mount as they prepared to retreat. At that moment Israel Boone received a musket ball into his neck where he died in front of his father. Col. Boone's militia was overwhelmed by a contingent of British regulars, Canadian mercenaries and local Indians. The militia eventually retreated and regrouped. Col. Boone and his troops conducted a raid a few days later where over 1,000 Indians were killed. Although the "War" was officially over a few weeks prior, The Battle of Blue Licks is considered the last battle of the American War of Independence. This fact, along with the above genealogy, entitles both The Prodigy and The Rock Star Mentality to be members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (DAR). Also from the information cited in this posting, they qualify to be members of The Daughters of the Confederacy as well as The Daughters of the Republic of Texas.








"Daniel Boone was a man! Yes, a big man! With a dream of a country that'd aways forever be free! What a Boone! What a do-er! What a dream-come-er-true-er was he! "

"My father, Daniel Boone, always despised the raccoon fur caps and did not wear one himself, as he always had a hat." -- Nathan Boone, My Father, Daniel Boone, The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone,

"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife." - Daniel Boone

The Third, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandson of Daniel Boone