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Daniel Boone-Pioneer


Born, Pa., 1734. Died, Mo., 1820. Married Rebecca Boone, 1756, N.C. First trip to Kentucky, 1767. Set up Fort Boonesborough, 1775, blazed Wilderness Trail and settled. Frontiersman, surveyor, settler, legislator and sheriff. Defender against Indians and British. His claim to 100,000 acres lost, 1784. Emigrated to Missouri in 1799.

GRAVE OF DANIEL BOONE

In the cemetery stands a monument to Daniel and Rebecca Boone, done by a grateful Commonwealth in 1860. Their remains had been brought back from Missouri and reburied, on September 13, 1845. A tribute to that outstanding frontiersman and his wife, who pioneered in carving out a wilderness empire-now Kentucky. See other side. Presented by Rotary Club, District 671.

  • Rotary International District 671, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Department of Highways
  • 1963
  • # 576
  • E. Main St. (US 60/US 460) & Glenns Creek Rd., city cemetery, Frankfort,

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#1 Jim Kuntz 2012-02-16 14:02
Now the story get interesting. Daniel Boone stated in Missouri he never wanted to be in Kentucky again, would not go there even over his dead body.

So, knowing this the official from Frankfort KY, slipped into Missouri, without either the stats nor the family permission, and stole two bodies. They are buried here and claimed by Frankfort to be daniel and Rebecca Boone. They were stolen from the Bryan family cemetery on the Bryan farm in Marthasville, MO.

Now Missouri descendents of Daniel and Rebecca claim what Frankfort has is Rebecca and a male slave who was in the cemetery.

Daniel they claim is still in the family cemetery, since Daniel was buried without a head stone to prevent Kentucky officials from stealing his body.

http://www.hmsoa.org/mo/warren/item/68082-daniel-boone-monument
 

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