Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-10-22

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Kentucky for salt and on one OF
these trips obtained enough seed to
start Jackson's county's first blue
grass pasture.
Another Kentuckian who settled in
eastern Missouri, like Hayes, was a
booster for Blue grass This enthusi-
asst, Peter Honn Schulse, used to tell
his Missouri neighbors as they stood
with open mouths that in Kentucky
blue grass grew so tall. that dairymen
could not find their cows in the
rich growth. ~
The dairymen, according to Shulse,
would send troop of slave boys to
the springs, where they would wait
till the cows, struggling through grass
higher than their backs, came to
slake their thirst, when the boys
would seize the animals by their
tails, lash them to run with hick-
DRY switches and cling tightly to the
guiding tails till instinct led the
beasts back to their pens.
Doubtless Boone Hayes did not tell
such thriller as this but he filled
Jackson county with enthusiasm for
Kentucky blue grass and told many a
story in other parts of the state
about it's high merits.
Still another member of the
Boone family in Jackson county was
a rank innovator, for he introduced
something that made the old settlers
stand aghast. Albert Gallatin Boone
of Westport, immortalized in Park
mans "Oregon Trail" built on Myr-
tie street spacious residence, fur
nished and adorned with the first bath
room built in Jackson county.
Many of the old Westporters
branded Boone with being an imita-
tor of the old Roman nobility in his
elegantly appointed bath room but
the grandson Of tie old pioneer who
was glad to get bath in some wash
tub or swimming hole kept the even
tenor Of his way and soon Westport
was full of bath tubs.
For the bath room story indebted
ness is due Jesse Proctor Crump of
Independence. named in honor of
the Rev. Alexander Proctor, for ma
NY years pastor of the Independence
Christian Church. =
Jesse Crump's Status
Crump is at the same time a great
great grandson and a great great,
great grandson of Daniel Boone.
Crump has made money by tracing
titles as Daniel Boone lost money
by ignoring titles. Biologists declare
that every so often to keep the hu-
man family from runin gto extremes
a descendant arises and kicks out of
the traces Of family traits. Jesse P.
Crump, in his enthusiasm for land
titles, appears to be an example of
this law.
But even if Daniel Boone was a
peculiar man in his impatience of
land titles, he was nation builder,
deserving to rank with Washington,
Hamilton, jefferson, Madison, Mar
shall and James Wilson.
Too long has this country looked
on Boone as an Indian fighter and
deerslayer and nothing else. Too
long has it known him as figure
of romance rather than as serious
and substantial statesman of the
highest merit.
Kansas City rightly boasts Of be-
ing an American city, as having a
small foreign element when com.
pared with other cities of it's size,
How many know that Daniel Boone
in bringing Anglo-Saxon families to
Missouri, did more than any other
man to Americanize not only Kansas
City but also the Middle West?
Daniel Boone, IN bringing poo
families out of the old eastern
states into the new West, did more
than any other to put the presidency
into the hands of the plain people
and pave the way for Andrew Jack
son.
Daniel Boone, Npeopling the Middle
West with folk slightly if at all in
terested in the maintenance of slav
cry, helped to make Abraham Lin