The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-12-26
"CANETs'ChY A"
The IEOOnc Family and sOInc New
Facts Regarding oar Pioneers"
tho Editor Of The Hartford Herald.

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Barlstown Record), a very interesting
article by w, of Bardstown, Ky,
and accompanying it witha short article
I by your friend and neighbor, Hon.
Harrison ID. Taylor. Most of the
! statements and details are fresh and in
print for the first time. They are
very intereSting-as is everything
about the family Of Squire Boone (not
Squire, as w. has it-as if it we're n
contraction of the toO-cOmmOn title of
E.-quire). All that w. says about the
chihlgcn aud Later descendants of
Squire Boone has the appearance OF
accuracy, and | presume is strictly
correct for he writes like one who
speaks from personal acquaintance
with some of the parties, and who
narrates the remainder just rs lac OBJ
tanned it from their lips. Let me
thauk him for giving it to the public /;
for everything about Daniel Boone
and amy Of his immediate connections,
cotemporary or descendants, has a
marked interest for all who revere the
memory of the Pioneer Of the West.
| regret that W. thought it neces-
sary 10 find fault with collins my
History of Kentucky" for having
stated that Squire Boone was shot and
scaipc,l by the Indians in l1SO-whiIe
returning, in company with his brother
Daniel, from the Blue Licks, where
they had hcen to make salt. Now, if
he vii. show me such a statement in
Collins History, | will present him
with 4 copy of the large work, in two
volumes. price SO; and will, more
over, thank him as publicly as | make
this offer, for correcting such an error
in personal history. But the error is
his, not mine. On pages 30 and 5G3
of either Vol. III of the large work, or
of the school-library edition, he will
find that Ei,cad mot Squire BooEe
was killed by Indians, in October,
1880, on Grassy Lick, in the north
east part of Bour5 BON county. have
before me the deposition of John
Stephenson, who says lie helped to
bury Edward Boone on Grassy Lick,
where he was killed.
| have also before me the deposition
of Squire Boone, taken seventeen
years thereafter, October 80, 1897, de-
failing some circumstances about two
men who lived in 1919 at his station
at the Painted Stone" This station
was known as Squire Boone's Sta
ton" and was situated on Clear creek.
near where Shelbyville now stands. II
the correspondent W., will turn to
page 10 of Collins History, he will
find, under Shelby County, quite a
full and accurate sketch of Squire
Boone, a page and Il half long. 1t
tells that he was shot in the left shout
der at the siege of Boonsborough, was
shot in his breast and in one arm in
defense of his own Station at Painted
Stone. and WAS again shot while re-
moving the people from his Station to
Louisville in 1881. 1t further tells
this:
"While there disabled and suffering
from wounds, he was elected repre-
sentative to the Virginia Legislature;
and in his own person bore to that
body an appeal more eloquent and
touching than his mouth could utter,
for assistance to the brave defenders of
the frontier. To the day of his death
he cherished proud remembrance of
the handsome reception and generous
attentions of his brother legislators
and the people of Richmond. His plain
hunters garb, backwOods manners,
and unhealed wounds seemed to be
the key to their hearts and sense of
justice. His appeal was not urged in
vain"
1t closes the sketch of him by say
ing that, in 1906, Squire Boone-with
his sons Isaiah, Enoch, Moses and
Jonathan-removed to what is now
Harrison county, Indiana, about %
miles northwest of Louisville, and
formed new settlement called Boone
Settlement" He died there, in 1915;
and rs his dying request, was buried in
a cave near the summit of lofty en-
inence that commanded Il beautiful
and extended view.
w. gives some interesting particu-
lars about the descendants of EnOch
Boone, Squire's second son; and
claims that Enoch Boone was the first
mate child born IN kentucky. He men
tions October 16, 1777, as his birth
day. Collins History of Kentucky,
vol. /, page 513, Ohe large edition.
says: "EnOch Boone 4 4 Il
was born. in a canebrake near Boons-
boro, November rs, 1777. He died
February 8, 1862, aged 81, on the
bank of the Ohio river, in Meade
county, Ky, ut the residence of his
son-in-law, Judge Collins Fitch. Many
persons believed him to be the first
child born in Kentucky; and yet it
is not improbable that fifteen were
born earlier"
Tn the same page and the page
preceding are given the names of three
males and six females, who were born
in Kentucky more than five months
earlier than Enoch Boone, viz:
l. Harrod Wilson, born at Har-
rodsburg in 1776.
.. William Hinton. born at Ha--
rodsburg in 1776.
3. Chenoe Hart, daughter of Col. |
Nathaniel Hart, born at BoOnsbor-
boro, probably in 1916.
4. A daughter of Daniel Boone,
born at Boonsborough, probably in
1776.
5. Louisa Whitley, daughter of
Cob VIM. Whitley, born ut Logan's
Station, near Stanford, February %,
I776. She married Mr. Mckinney,
removed to Missouri in 1919, and died
Eohruorv 4 1879 ora1 II