The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-03

they did stop there it vas olis me
| short STAY, for soon they are Oh 'ho
way to the Yadkin in oWan no"
Davidson county, NOrth tafoilha
Location. -
that Squire Boone and his FANNY
settled on a high hill. -
situation" overlooking the 4auhlh d
if swings majestica1ly round the M
to the west and then maklns 40
aking a souther1y dlrectioh 10 'h0
A~tlantic. cannot be doubted.
Tho Boone homestead IS no" Wen
identified. Within the recollection OF
people living. the old log wall mas 80
seen. The pile Of stones Whlcii ~
served for the chimney-an Ola cello.
under the house in which was 1ouho
a stone several years ago with a cruoe
Inscription ID. Boone also pieces ol
broken earthenWare. DE-. ThWalteS III
his Daniel Boone, says, speaking o.
hin after his marriage, AT mrs. oc-
cupying a rude log cabin IN ms iatn-
er'a yard." About fifteen feet from
where the main building stood. was
recently seen a pile CT stones, ana d
Sunken spot near the stones. Inese
were all covered by leaveS--upOn e1-
animation there We're ashes under u1e
stones. and shovettEg out the accuTnu-
lated mold from the sunken spot near
the stones, under roots which lan
grown through it. we found pieces OF
hroken ware down in what is believed
to be a cellar, as most OF the dwell
ing III "ye olden time had them
And there is little room, II any. Tor
doubt, that this new find is the exact
spot where Daniel and his bride first
kept house" Let's note what some
historians say: Mrs. Jennie G. Morton,
the careful. painstakins secretary
treasurer OF the Kentucky State His
~toricai Society. who has studied
Boone's history most carefully. says
in the Register of that Society: Squire
Boone and his family left Exeter (no*
Berks county) on the first day of May,
1850, and moved to North Carolina he
settled on the Yadkin river, at Ale
mans Ford, also called Boone's
Ford"
DR.. Rumple in his History of Row
an County, says: Squire Boone lived
on the Yadkin, at AIleInan's or Boone's
| Ford, and was the father Of the great
hunter and pioneer. Daniel Boone 1t
Is just to DR.. Rumple to say that no
me, living or dead. had given such
close, carefuI investigation TO the his
tory OF the people living on or near
the Yadkin as he. In this connection
let Ii BIC noted that the Alleman,s or
EoOne's Ford is about one and q
fourth miles below what is the accept
ed spot &C the Boone Homestead
1t IS seen thai both the historians
say that he settled at Al1e1nan'S Or
BooDe's Ford. which is as near an ex-
act statement as was common at that
time.
And, again, why was it called
Roone's Ford unless he lived nearby?
The old Boone'S Ford Baptist Meeting
House stood just across the river on
the Davie side, tradition tells Us, and
there - little doubt that the BoOnes
some OF whom, it is said, belonged
here, crossed the river at this famous
ford.
DR.. Thwaitea. IN his daniel Boone
tells us that Daniel, as noted above,
settled at first in his fathers yard and
that soon thereafter they (himself and
wife} acquired some level land of their
own. lying upon Sugar Tree. a tyibu-
tary OF Dutchman's creek, in the
Bryan settlement, a few miles north of
Squire Boone's. All OF this neighbor-
hood (meaning the Bryant settlement)
lies within what IL now Davie county"
This authority says: "a few miles
north of Squire BoOnc's." This ia In
exact accord with our contention and
goes to sustain what the other authors
have said.
Another thing: why did the state
ment above say 'leveI land 2" Was
there u connection between this and
the fact that he had been climbing
nils around his fathers house, that
were SO steep that a farmer could not
pillow over them with safety? We have
been thus careful to fully satisfy every
n1ind-should there be a lingering
doubt, that the Boone Memorial As
ISOLATION is in no wise mistaken in the
work OF preserving the history OF the
old homestead and incidents connect
ed herewith.
Boone's Courtship and Marriage.
Our young hero has arrived at that
stage in which the thoughts Of q corn.
panion for life crossed his mind. a
farmer by the narne Of Bryan lived
near his fathers. We have not tho
space to tell how Daniel, who with .
friend, was out at night deer hunting
shining their eyes with q torch
While they were moving around he
sfdncd some eyes, and following them
up to neIghbor Bryan's it proved to
be Miss Rebecca Bryan and her Ett1e
brother, who were out and were thu.
Iun in. It seems that it was a kind
Intervening Providence that protacted