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1. | Elizabeth Boone was born in 1799 in Hardin Co, Kentucky (daughter of Enoch Morgan Boone and Eliza Lucy Goldman); died on 10 Jul 1826 in Hardin Co, Kentucky. Elizabeth married Benjamin Lewis Withers in Jul 1820 in Hardin Co, Kentucky. Benjamin (son of William C Withers and Mary Withers) was born on 05 Dec 1799 in Fauquier Co, Virginia; died on 02 Oct 1882 in Hardin Co, Kentucky; was buried in Withers Cem 67, Fort Knox Res, Meade Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children:
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2. | Enoch Morgan Boone was born on 16 Oct 1777 in Yadkin River, Rowan Co, North Carolina (son of Squire Boone, II and Jane "Big Granny" Van Cleve); died on 8 Mar 1862. Enoch married Eliza Lucy Goldman on 08 Feb 1797 in Shelby Co, Kentucky. Eliza was born about 1781 in Shelby Co, Kentucky; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Eliza Lucy Goldman was born about 1781 in Shelby Co, Kentucky; died after 1800.
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4. | Squire Boone, II was born on 5 Oct 1744 in Exeter Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania (son of Squire Boone, I and Sarah Morgan); died in Aug 1815; was buried in Squire Boone Caverns, Mauckport, Harrison Co, Indiana. Notes: Younger brother of Daniel Boone. He and his older brother, Daniel, found a cave in southern Indiana one time in 1787. One day three years later while Squire was running from Indians, he jumped for a vine and landed in the opening of the secret cave that the Indians did not know about. Since they did not find Squire, he believed the cave was holy and expressed his wish to be buried in the cave one day. Daniel and Squire were the frontiersmen who opened up what is now known as Kentucky. Of the first eight white men who dared to enter "the dark and bloody ground," as Kentucky was known in the early 1770s, only two returned alive: Daniel and Squire Boone. After his close encounter with the Indians in 1790, Squire would often return to the cave to pray, meditate and carve designs and verses of gratitude. In 1804, Squire moved his wife, Jane Van Cleve, and his daughter and four sons to the area and built a village and a gristmill. Squire spent the last 11 years of his life there - the longest he had stayed in one place. As his death neared - Squire suffered from heart failure - he built his own coffin from walnut trees growing near the cave. On his deathbed, he asked his sons to bury him in the cave where his life had been spared. On Aug. 15, 1815, Squire's four sons fulfilled their father's request. Squire was buried in his beloved cave, and a boulder sealed the entrance. More than 150 years passed while the walnut coffin decomposed in a hidden section of the cave. Squire's bones rested on the cave's floor and were gradually covered by silt. The exact whereabouts of his remains would not be known until 1973 when two guides of the cave decided to dig out the section of the cave that was filled with silt and debris and find the carvings. Instead, they found Squire himself. A new walnut coffin was crafted, and a Boone descendant knitted a shroud for the bones. Squire Boone's remains were placed in the coffin, the lid was sealed with wax and the casket was carried deep into Squire Boone Caverns. Today, the casket is on view at the end of the tour through the Squire Boone Caverns in Mauckport, Indiana and a headstone has been erected at the foot of the casket inside the cave at the end of the tour given by the cave guides. Squire married Jane "Big Granny" Van Cleve on 8 Aug 1765. Jane was born on 16 Oct 1749; died on 10 Mar 1829. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
5. | Jane "Big Granny" Van Cleve was born on 16 Oct 1749; died on 10 Mar 1829.
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8. | Squire Boone, I was born on 25 Nov 1696 in Bradnich, Devonshire, England (son of George Boone, III and Mary Milton Maugridge); died on 2 Jan 1765 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Davie Co, North Carolina. Notes: Squire Boone came to America in 1713 when he was 18 with a brother and a sister. The three were sent by their father, George Boone of the town of Bradninch, near Exeter, England. The Boones were members of the Society of Friends. The wento the town of Abington, twelve miles north of Philadelphia. (From the book, DANIEL BOONE, by John Mack Faragher in 1992. Squire married Sarah Morgan on 23 Jul 1720 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)) was born in 1700 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1777 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
9. | Sarah Morgan was born in 1700 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)); died in 1777 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina.
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