Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-10-22
D. BOONE,S BIBLE
CORRECTS HISTORY
Famous Old Book Gives Proof That
= Pioneer Died los Years Ago, In
lee stead of Date Generally Accepted.

kans. who married Miss Ella Blair
of Boone some years ago, sends US
the following story relating to Daniel
Boone, taken from the Kansas City
journal, which we think will be of
interest.
Mr. Taylor continues, 1--WE like the
<DeH0ocra very much, and think it is
the best weekly paper We know. 1t
gives lots of news of national impor-
tsDce that fails to get mention in
some of the big daily papers,"
The story as appearing in the
Jonanal says:
Next Saturday will mark the flight
of l95 years since Daniel Boone died
in ST. Charles county, Missouri. His
body was buried in Warren county
where his bones still rest, mingling
n the dust of common wealth
i loved. The bones removed to Ken
tucAy September 13, 1S45 were the
moral framework of ain INDECENT
stranger buried beneath the same
tree that shaded Boone's grave; the
Kentucky committee made mistake
and opened the wrong grave.
Kansas City people are interested
in Boone, because his third son, DAN
iel VI. was the first American
bozH white man that set foot in
JAG. son county, because his son AL
bert Gallatin was pioneer Westport
grocer, because Boone Hayes, son IF
Boo !e's daughter, Sussannah, was an
ow2er of what is now Kansas City
residential district, because the
Waits family, owners of the Dallas
mil. which still, turns out flour for
whc,e wheat bread, are relatives of
Boone, and because scores of the
Booze family today live in or near
Kan.as City, among the number
Jess Proctor Crump, vice president
4of-:he Kansas City Title and Trust
Cor pany.
Eat fact known to few will in
Grease Kansas City's interest i the
old oioneer. His Bible is still pre-
served in Lection, johnson County,
MI, our.
.;n,es H. Boone, owner of the
Biz, is son of Daniel, wha was a
son of Daniel Morgan. who was in
turN a son of Daniel Boone, the fa-
mo- pioneer.
Corrects Common Error
Tae Bible is of great historical
val;,t; it corrects the error sent
Broadcast through the world in "The
Liz and Adventures of Daniel
Boone" by Timothy Flint. Boonc'S
neiGhbor, that the pioneer died ''in
the year 1878" The family record
in the old book discloses that Boone
died September 26, 1920" AS family
records with entries made as events
occur are regarded by university de-
pa1tments of history as having un-
usual value the date 1920 will take
the place of the 1918 date, long re-
garded as tn correct date of Boone's
death.
The slightly mutilated condition of
the family record is owing to the
fact that these leaves were torn out
during the war of 1851 to '65. They
were then concealed to prevent ac-
cess to them by military authorities
~ e fAroino intn n SQrVipp
contrary to their consciences, certain
members of the Boone family whose
ages, according to the old book made
the mliable to service.
But what will interest the people
of jackson county as much as their
nearness to the Boone Bible is the
fact that a grandson of Boone intro
,duced blue grass into Jackson county
Boone Hayes, son of William, who
married Boone's daughter, Susannah,
married Miss Lydia Scholl in Clark
county, KY, June 3, 1907. For this
purpose he returned to his native
state and to the blue grass region of
it and from Darst's Bottom st. Char
les county Mo. where they settled in
1901. Hayes and his wife were boos-
ters for Kentucky blue grass where
ever htey went in St. Charles county
and when in 1918, they removed to
Galloway county, they spread their
enthusiasm for the nourishing and
thrifty grass.
On removing to Wesport township
Jackson county, Hayes and his wife
were still enthusiasts for the tai
grass they had left in the vicinity
of Winchester, KY, and they busiec
themselves among the pioneers in OBJ
tanning favorable consideration fo,
it.
Boosters for Blue Grass
Boone Hays made yearly trips t.