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.
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