Posted on 05/08/2005 7:36:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MARTHASVILLE, Mo. (AP) - For sale: Portion of historic farmstead. Asking price: $1.2 million. May or may not be burial place of storied frontier explorer.
No one disputes that Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca, were buried on the Bryan farm, near the Missouri River west of St. Louis. The 32-acre tract that is now on the market includes the original brick farmhouse and the Bryan family cemetery.
But in 1845, 20 years after Daniel Boone's death, the couple's remains were supposedly reburied at Frankfort, Ky., in the state that Boone helped open to settlers.
Some believe, though, that another man's bones were exhumed instead, the result of deliberate misdirection by the farm's owner and Rebecca Boone's cousin, David Bryan.
The farm's current owner, Grace Stemme, is among those who believe Boone is still buried there. So was her husband, Walter, who died in 2003.
"My husband never would let anyone dig around in that graveyard," Stemme said. "He figured Boone was always trying to find some peace and quiet when he was living, and we ought to let him have it now."
Strange place to see an article on this subject, but then again even stranger is that I had a relative that worked for Boone.
Daniel Boone was a standup America patriot, bump!
RIP, Daniel!
yaknow, I used to collect Dr. Strange comics books as a kid too. ;-)
My uncle's name was Daniel Boone. Don't know if he was any relation to the original but he served in the Navy in WW2. God Bless our military.
>> I'm proud to say that Daniel Boone is an ancestor. In fact, my second son's middle name is boone.
Then we are related. Daniel Boone is my 1st cousin, seven times removed. His maternal grandfather, Edward Morgan, would be our common ancestor.
GROUP HUG Time!!!
Why so much? That farm produced really crappy wine. (smile)
LOL
I AM Daniel Boone.
I faked my death and moved to California back before it was a state. It's been good for my health. That humidity in Missouri and Kentucky would have killed me 180 years ago if I hadn't come out here for the fine summers and mild winters.
Daniel Boone's brother Edward was my husband's ggggg grandfather, which makes Daniel his ggggg uncle. Our only claim to fame.
My husband is related to Daniel Boone as in a previous post, but I am related to Philip Freneau. Are you connected to him as well?
Hubby and kids are direct descendents to Charlemagne. I'd traded you three Charlemagne for a Daniel Boone.
Boone rocks big time. Make him proud.
Alonzo Callaway, one of the men who helped bury Daniel, claimed that Daniel Boone was not dug up and transported to Kentucky. Bob Priddy, "Across Our Wide Missouri," Independence Press, 1982, is one source for Callaway's statement.
Alonzo said, "Daniel wouldn't go back to Kentucky alive so he saw no reason for him to go back dead." Alonzo said they didn't mislead the delegation from Kentucky as to the burial site but they offered no information either.
Boone's Farm BOMP
LOL..
I love genealogical threads.
>> My husband is related to Daniel Boone as in a previous post, but I am related to Philip Freneau. Are you connected to him as well?
You are related to Philip Freneau? He is a true American hero! I am not related to him; but I identify with him because of the politics of his editorials in the National Gazette. He was a true conservative who would make most modern-day conservatives (so-called) look like flaming liberals.
I have a pair of candleholders made by a direct descendant of Daniel Boone. His family has maintained a tradition of blacksmithing, and it's fascinating to have even this indirect contact with history.
His farm yield Boone's farm wine? The wine that spent more time on carpets, toilets and bathroom floors than being ingested. No way.
My youth was not that misspent but I did take occasional detours.
I kin go back alotz ferther thin that. I ams rulatud to Noah, an my wyfe iz tu. Hope thatz leegal.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
He was brave, he was fearless and as tough as a mighty oak tree.
From the coonskin cap on the top of ol Dan to the heel of his rawhide shoe
The rippin'est roarin'est fightin'est man the frontier ever knew.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
And he fought for America to make all Americans free.
What a Boone. What a wonder. What a dream comer truer was he.
Sort of -
I should correct myself. His wife was a cousin many times removed. When someone marries into the family I tend to think of them as relatives.
I didn't know he wrote editorials. It's neat he was a conservative. Are his editorials published in a book? Or somewhere I could read them?
There is a website, somewhere, that claims that everyone of European descent is a descendent of Charlemagne. LOL!
On a serious note, it was believed for about two centuries that Daniel Boone was a descendent of Charlemagne. His grandfather, Edward Morgan, was believed to be the son of Sir James Morgan, a direct descendent of the Plantagenets, who were descendents of Charlemagne. Some modern-day researchers dispute that lineage, but their 'research' seems flimsy, at best. The previous caretaker of the Edward Morgan's homestead believed that Edward was Sir James' son. But the current caretaker believes the new 'research'. This website contains a discussion of the 'research'. Click on the notes for Edward Morgan to read the 'research' discussion.
There was more info in the St. Louis Post Dispatch weekend paper...
I am not sure if it is complete in the online version that is located here...
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/414400B70CAB37E986256FFB00435EEE?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22boone%22
Thanks!
a snippet from the story...
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/414400B70CAB37E986256FFB00435EEE?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22boone%22
In 1845, officials from Frankfort, Ky., convinced some of the Boones to allow them to disinter Daniel and Rebecca and move them to Frankfort Cemetery, where the remains would be reburied with due honors in the land of "Kaintuck," into which Boone had blazed the first trail.
Here, the story gets murky. Some people believe that although David Bryan agreed to the reburial, he and others were unhappy the old hunter was being moved to a state he'd left under an arrest warrant for nonpayment of debts. So, the story goes, a slave who led the Frankfort officials to the grave site intentionally dug up another grave.
In 1915, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument at the Bryan cemetery stating that the frontier couple were "Removed to Frankfort, Ky., 1845."
But in 1983, National Geographic got into the dispute, chronicling findings of a forensic anthropologist who measured a plaster cast of the skull interred in Frankfort and concluded that it was the skull of a black man.
I thought Boone was buried in Defiance, Missouri.
The online version is complete, I just checked it against my newspaper (it just does not have the pictures that came with the newspaper version.)
If you want more info... Google
Missouri Department of Conservation (they may have archived stories online)
Philip Freneau, known as "The Poet of the Revolution", was chosen by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to be the editor of their newspaper, "The National Gazette". His 1792 editorial, Rules for changing a limited republican government into an unlimited hereditary one is his most remarkable work, IMO. It reveals the devious mind of the tyrant (including the trickery of the modern-day, big-government leftist).
I drank some Boone's Farm once. Is that relative?
The Daniel Boone Families Come to Missouri
Who's Buried in Daniel Boone's Grave?
http://mdc.mo.gov/kids/out-in/1998/1/3.html
He was a revolutionary war hero and an explorer. One of his quotes that is my favorite is "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."
From what I've read; Rev.War hero, Daniel Morgan, is related to Daniel Boone too! I don't know if he was nephew to DM, or vice-versa. But you may be related to him,(DM)as well?
I am a direct descendant to Charlemagne also - though my dad's line. However, when you get that far back it isn't too hard to run into each others lines.
As I told "Airborne" on the thread somewhere, Daniel Boone is said to be related to Daniel Morgan(Rev. War)! One is the uncle to the other. And after reading that you are related to Daniel Boone, who had a grandfather with the surname of Morgan, that would make sense! That's where Daniel Morgan got his name also?
Not me. I'm a mutt. My realm reaches from Cardiff to Moscow. No aristocracies what so ever.
The powers that be deemed have ruled that the most royal candidate wins the presidency. Gore and Kerry could not beat out Bush when it come to aristocracy, since Bush is a direct descended to Charlemagne via Barbara.
It's weird but it works.
I am a direct descendant of Noah. Anyone else? LOL.
LOL - very funny!
I looked up your name and you have had a busy family.
I spent a weekend with my son's Boy Sgout Troop at the Daniel Boone Homestead here in PA. It was fascinating to see how they lived in those days.
My family tree is a willow.
I believe they are related this way: Daniel Morgan's father, Joseph Morgan (b. 1702), was the brother of Daniel Boone's mother, Sarah Morgan (b. 1700), making Daniel and Daniel first counsins. See this web page for more information.
Recently found out that I am also a descendent of Charlemange through my fathers side.
Pretty cool having Kings, Queens, Counts, ect in the family line.
Had some pretty powerful and rich ancestors and related families.
Been typing it often enough while doing research.
Oh, I would love to do that too. I have ancestors from Wales that moved to Germany a few hundred years ago. We're Catholic, so we like to wonder if they left because of Henry 8 or Elizabeth R.
We did take a trip several years ago exploring castles on the Rhine. We even crawled through a couple secret tunnels with flashlights. It was a fantastic trip.
Did you know "W" is a direct descendants of Charlemagne also? Around here we refer to him as "Uncle George". You can too! Lol.
Well you're right about that! They're related somehow, just not the way I read about it. I can't even remember what, or where my source was. Though what I read was close, it seems. :( But I'm glad you corrected me! Even if DB and DM had been related as uncle and nephew, they would've been very close in age! They both seemed to be from the same generation, though not living in the same location. I know there is such thing as young uncles, and young aunts!
I'm related to a handful of famous political/military figures on both sides myself, although long ago! One of them was the somewhat notorious Aaron Burr! He wasn't a gggggrandparent, or uncle, probably a cousin way back. He and I had a common ancestor. One of his grandparents, maternal, was Jonathan Edwards, "the New England Divine", they called him. Now JE's grgrgrandfather was Anthony Stoddard.
He was one of the relatives of that name, that came from England. He was married to the niece of the governor of the Massachusettes Bay Colony, (If I've read family records correctly!). Now on the other side, my Mom's side, her ancestor's name was Aldrich, and he's related to Gov. Bradford, Plymouth Colony's first governor!
Also, on Dad's side again, we have a connection to General W.T.Sherman(Civil War). Yes, there is a Sherman branch on the tree; and a Sherman was married to a Stoddard in the generation or so back from the General's time; making that Stoddard, Gen.Sherman's maternal grandma! I just love tracing back my family tree! :)
I also came across another interesting tidbit of information not long ago. There is a webpage, I'll have to look it up again, that gives the list of names of all the troops and their officers that were present at Valley Forge when Washington's encampment spent that awful winter.
It seems that I have members from both sides of my family there! One of them was, of course, Aaron Burr. But there were some relatives from our common family line there as well. Also, there were members of the Aldrich family there too.
So it would stand to reason, as I told my sister, that there was at least one other time that members from both our parent's 'houses', that came together! Although they were just present in one place, of course, not married! ;) They might've been friends, though. Furthermore, I'm wondering if AB knew that he had relatives there as well? Who knows? Of course, I know that I can't ask him! ;)
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