Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-01
Did Danial Boone Swear
Allegiance to Spain?

OF all The stories told about Daniel
Boone. the strangcst is that he al
one time sWore allegiance to Spain.
This tale has little credence in s.
Charles county, Missouri, where ne
lived shortly after the time this act
is said to have been performed.
Flw of the citizons of ST. Charles
ever heard it.
But IN Tie office Of Judge Theodore
3fneFa Of that city, is a county atlas
published in 1875. in which mention
is !radc Of the alleged fact that he
renowned allegiance to the United
s. ates a1d became d subject of Spain
The whole trouble. according 20
this atlas, originated in Boone's inabil
ltN to l'eep land in his possession Gn
ae' ouul Of defective titles.
In Cctober Of 1877 he lost an ex-
1afl4i%e tract ia this manner. and, il
IS ;15d. was so incensed that he gave
ue hIe citizenship in America and
9Wofe 70 follow the fortunes of the
ions across the sea.
II i. lt'rther stated that in considers
alton of this fact on Boone's part
Spain granted him $500 acres of land
on ,lulN II. 1890.
lie was ALSO made camHlandan1 of
Pest femme Usage, where he had
taken Up lis abode.
He lost 1ni, property through a de-
fe2tiye fl1le and left Kentucky III
debt,
lie ina1> retrieved his fortune with
the aid OF his rifle
EIe },}tained valuable store of
pelts and returned to the Bluegrass
state, where he paid off his obliga-
tiGnS.
1t was after this bitter experience
that the old pioneer left his happy
hnlaing grounds for fresher wilder
ncsses III Missouri.
While FoOne was eccentric and pre-
ferred to live apart from his fellow
Americans as far as possible it was
because of his longing for "elbow-
room, as ne called it, and not be-
cause he was unpatriotic.
The first American who settled in
st. Charles county, and, in fact, the
first who permanently pitched their
tents IN What is now Missouri, were
Col. Boone and his children.
There are number of persons in
ST. Chai les county who trace their
descent to the crack shot of pioneer
days.
In the Darst Bottoms. near Def
ancc, is family of Tuylkersons, whose
mother was a Boone.
In the city OF st. Charles lives @.
I Cottle, whose mother was Gala
way. daughter of Flanders Gala
way, who was son-in-law of Danie'
Boone
AT Femme Usage, five miles from
Defiance, is an old house occupied by
the family of Henry Siefker, where
Daniel Boone died September 25, 1926,
at the age o. eighty-six,
The hose is practically the same
n)Y as at that early date.
In the rear is what is left of a log
cabin built by Boone when he went
to Missouri.
During the past twenty years it
has been Used as a pig sty.
The Boone cabin. before it was
raZed, was often visited by the curl
GUS ana. as evidenced by photographs
OF it. was a romantic place.
The following is a quaint account
Of the vjsi in 1906 Of an Old Blue
grass + lend of Boone's to Femme
Osage:
In ihc year of 1896 happened to
be on visit to st. Louis and from
there made it my Huty to pay my re- :,
spectS to my old friend. Daniel Boone, |
who had sometime before left his |
farm jim Kentucky and settled on the |
banks of Tie Missouri. Oh the Femme |
Usage creek.
tt" buIlt his vabin il wilderness
TO avoid the constant annoyance of |
his neisnhors, who = d 7ocked into
the country around i'm at his old
home.
The nearest wtito inhabitant was
at the village Of ST. qrles.
Here he was dpte~ inei to spenl