The Children of Joseph and Levina (Boone) Scholl

Daniel Boone's daughter Levina married Joseph Scholl, and they had 8 children and 38 grandchildren. 

1. Selah (Celia or Cely) Scholl[1] (Jan. 28, 1784 - May 27, 1835)[2], married James Evans

Selah married James in Clark County, Kentucky on December 23, 1800.[3] They had three children. James died in Clark County, Kentucky around 1820.[4] Sometime during 1831-1833, Selah and her two sons, Hezekiah and Daniel Evans, along with her niece Sarah Holliday Kelly and Sarah's family moved to Morgan County, IL (now Scott County, IL).[5] She would die there in Winchester, IL in 1835.

2. Septimus Scholl (Nov. 21, 1789 - Aug. 11, 1849), married Sallie Miller

Septimus married Sallie on December 11, 1813 in Clark County, Kentucky.[6] They had seven children.[7] They lived in Kentucky until 1844. That year they purchased 108 acres of land, 3.5 miles away from Independence, Missouri. Letters from Septimus have been collected and published, describing life at the nexus of the Oregon, Santa Fe, and California trails.[8] He died there from a fever on August 11, 1849,[9] shortly after his son Marcus left with other relatives for the California gold rush.

3. Marcus Scholl (b. 1790), married Besty Martin; 2nd wife _____

Marcus married Betsy Martin in Kentucky in 1821.[10] After she died, he married again and by his second wife had two children.[11] He died in Callaway County, Missouri.[12]

4. Jesse Boone Scholl (Oct. 17, 1791 - 1 Aug., 1841)[13], married Elizabeth Miller

Jesse is said to have been born in 1791, but this might be a mistake, since his sister Marcia is also said to have been born that year. Jesse “married Elizabeth Miller, and settled in St. Charles Co., Mo., in 1811.”[14] They had three children. Jesse acquired 40 acres of land in Callaway County, Missouri in 1837[15] and died there in 1841.  

5. Marcia Scholl (Nov. 6, 1791 - Mar. 7, 1814)[16], married James Holliday

Marcia married James on March 30, 1808 in Clark County, Kentucky.[17] They had three children.[18] James was a sergeant in Lewis’ regiment of Kentucky volunteers during the War of 1812.[19] Marcia died at the age of 22 in 1814. While her gravestone is in Indiana, it appears that her husband did not move there until 1819, so she probably died in Kentucky.

6. Leah Scholl (1795 - 1877), married John Newman

Leah married John in Clark County, Kentucky on December 25, 1814.[20] They had six children.[21] They are recorded in the 1850 census and 1860 census in Owsley County, Kentucky.[22] She died there in 1877 and is buried in Pebworth, Kentucky.

7. Daniel Boone Scholl (c. 1797)[23]

Not much seems to be known about Daniel Boone Scholl other than that he was listed in the 1810 census of Clark County, Kentucky living with his parents and siblings.[24] One online source says that Asa Barrow, a Clark County historian, stated that Daniel was buried in the Huls Graveyard (in Clark County, KY) and gives the date of his death as 1850. He also had a nephew and a cousin named Daniel Boone Scholl, both of whom also lived in Kentucky during the same period.

8. Joseph Scholl Jr. (June 15, 1800 - May 10, 1884), married Rebecca Van Meter Miller, 2nd wife Eliza Ann Broughton[25]

Joseph Jr. first moved from Clark County, Kentucky to Callaway County, Missouri in 1820. He returned to Kentucky and then moved back to Callaway County, Missouri around 1825. There his wife Rebecca died in 1829. On Feburary 24, 1831, he married Eliza. Soon after that, “From August 4, 1832, through September 24, 1832, Joseph served as a private under Col. Austin A. King in Capt. Ewing's Indpt. Co., Mo. Mounted Vols. in the War of 1832 (the Black Hawk War).”[26] He had a total of fourteen children: three children by his first wife and eleven by his second wife. “Mr. Scholl was a Justice of the Peace in Callaway county for twenty-two years, and in early days was a great bear and deer hunter. His second wife, who is still living, often hunted with him, and has killed several deer.”[27] He had about 500 acres and 7 or 8 slaves, and remained in good health until his death. “He was 83 years, 10 months and 25 days old, one of the oldest members of Williamsburg Lodge of A. F. and A. M., and an old and consistent member of the Antioch Christian church.”[28]

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[1] She is called “Selah (or Celia)” by Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 122; she is called “Selah” by Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1977 [1876]), 373; and her marriage record and gravestone calls her “Cely.”

[2] These dates are from her gravestone in Illinois.

[3] Marriage Bond, Cely Sholl to James Evans 23 Dec 1800, Clark Co., KY.

[4] Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990, Will Records 1820-1825, Vol. 5, 159.

[5] “This estimated arrival date is based on the birth year and birth state of Hezekiah Evans' and Sarah Holliday Kelly's children.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55885729/cely-evans

[6] Clark County, Ky. Marriages (1813), 115; referenced in “A collection of letters written by the Scholl family and their kin, 1836-1897”, v.

[7] Spraker, 184.

[8] “A collection of letters written by the Scholl family and their kin, 1836-1897” transcribed by Isabel Stebbins Giulvezan (St. Louis, MO: 1959). https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3189442

[9] “A collection of letters written by the Scholl family and their kin, 1836-1897”, v.

[10] Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. 

[11] Bryan and Rose, 373.

[12] Spraker, 184.

[13] Spraker, 184.

[14] Spraker, 184.

[15] U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907. Ancestry.com

[16] These dates are from her gravestone and confirmed by the James Holliday Family Bible.

[17] Record from Clark County City Hall and date confirmed in James Holliday Family Bible.

[18] James Holliday Family Bible

[19] Direct Data Capture, comp. U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. (link).

[20] Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016

[21] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61763342/leah-newnam_newman 

[22] Dillard C. Daniel also wrote to Draper in 1853 that Leah lived in Owsley County, KY (DM, vol. 23, letter 6).

[23] Estimated between Leah and Joseph, since he shows up as aged between 10 and 16 in the 1810 census of Clark County, KY (Burns, Annie Walker,. Third census of the United States (1810 census), Clark County, Kentucky. Washington, D.C.: unknown, 1936. link; see also http://www.trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephscholl.html)

[24] Ibid.

[25] Spraker, 185.

[26] "Joseph Scholl II" http://www.trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephschollii.html, which also quotes from National Archives and Record, Joseph Shull, [February 19, 1851], Warrant 33384 MO, Book 8?, Dec 26, 1851, page 199. 

[27] Bryan and Rose, 373.

[28] “Joseph Scholl Obituary.” For more information on Joseph Jr., see his bio, obit, will, picture, etc. at http://www.trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephschollii.html.

Captain James Callaway's Letter to His Parents, August 9, 1814

In last week's post, I wrote of the children of Flanders and Jemima Callaway, including their son Captain James Callaway. Captain James Callaway served in the rangers in the War of 1812 and died in combat when he and his men were ambushed along the Prairie Fork of Loutre Creek on March 7, 1815. Here I want to share a letter from Captain Callaway to his parents, especially because of its last paragraph. It was sent from Island Camp opposite Cap au Gris (along the Mississippi east of Winfield, MO). The expedition to "michilimakinak" (Mackinac Island, MI) that he mentions in the letter had ended in defeat for the Americans five days before he wrote the letter (the news would take time to reach him). He was right that he and his men would head toward Prairie du Chein soon -- they were part of a force mustered at Fort Cap au Gris under Major Zachary Taylor, but they would be outnumbered and defeated at the battle of Credit Island (Sept. 4-5, 1814). The letter is included in "James Callaway in the War of 1812: Letters, Diary, and Rosters" by Edgar B. Wesley (Volume V, Number 1, October 1927 issue of The Missouri Historical Society Collections). 

Isleand Camp opposite Cappo Grais 9th August 1814

Dear father and Mother

I Take advantage of a few Leisure moments to inform you that I am well at Present and I hope when this Reaches you that you as well as the Rest of the family will be enjoying good Health. You will no Doubt Hear before this Reaches you of the surrender of the Troops at perara Deshain [Prairie du Chein]  I have no orders at this time more than to lay here untill further orders, my men are generally Healthy and in High Sperits  I expect that I shall go on to the Perara as I understand that their is Large Drafts a making amongst the malitia

I feel in great Sperits myself, I have a very good running Boat and well fortified — I think we are at the Defiance of the Indians unavoidable accidents expected  I understand that an expedition is on foot against michilimakinak if they should be successful we shall have easy times to what is generally expected at this time and at all events the attention of the Indians will be Drawn towards that place as it is a post of greater Importance than Perara Deshain  it is the opinion of the officers from pereri De Shain that the Indians will not be very Troublesome Down this way only in scouting parties as the great boddy of warriors will be Drawn of to the north and against they return it will be too Late to Come Down, and besides they must have time to hunt provisions for their families to Live on in the winter season 

Dear parents I mentioned in the foregoing part of my Letter that I was in high sperits you will understand that this sperit flows only when I think of the Voyage I have undertaken, and believing that a man embarking in his Country Cause is not only honourable but his duty, and especially when it is invaded by a Cruel and savage foe. Should I Fall the Cause then will be an honourable one and I Trust no man may have it in his power to add a cowardly one, and, I want no person to grieve for me, but when I Consider that I am connected to a woman worthy of every blessing and calculated to render me entirely happy; to leave her together with my Darling Infants unprotected in a savage world my high millitary sperits falls below par, and I am almost Readdy to resign my Commission, but a moment Reflection with Respect to the situation of my Country together with this consideration that their is a number of men that has Joined the service that would not if any other person Commanded makes me Quit such Thoughts - Their is no man that Longs for a Private Life than I do, but I am at a great distance from it at present should you have an opportunity to call and Consolate my wife in her forlorn situation it would be Truly gratifying to me, with sincere wishes for your health welfare and hapiness I Remain sincerely your Dutiful son

                                        JAs Callaway

Mr Flanders and Jamimah Callaway
    St. Charles County
        Sharette Village

The Children of Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway

Daniel Boone's daughter Jemima married Flanders Callaway, and they had 10 children and at least 80 grandchildren. 

1. Sarah Callaway (1779 - 1839?), married James Barnes

Sarah married James in 1798 in Kentucky. They had twenty-two children, sixteen of whom lived to adulthood.[1] It appears that there were two sets of twins among their children.[2] They came out from Montgomery County, Kentucky to what was then Montgomery County, Missouri (Marthasville) in 1815.[3] James had “epilectic fits” which made the move difficult.[4] They seem to have been still living there in 1834 when Sarah accompanied her mother on a 25 mile trip on horseback from Marthasville to Susannah (Callaway) Howell’s family (see below).[5]

2. John Boone Callaway (1781 - 1823), married Elizabeth Caton

When his parents moved to Marthasville around 1811 (possibly earlier), John acquired their original land along the Femme Osage Creek and Callaway Fork. There he had a mill and distillery. He married Elizabeth in 1809 and they went on to have four children. He served as Justice of the Peace and Judge of the County Court.[6] In his will he mentions four slaves, as well as setting aside two acres of his land for the Femme Osage Baptist Society for the construction of a church.[7]

3. James Richard Callaway (Sep. 13, 1783 - March 7, 1815), married Nancy Howell

After the move from Kentucky, James went on several long hunts in central Missouri (at least in 1802, 1803, and 1804) and went as far west as the Kansas River.[8] James married Nancy on May 9, 1805, and they went on to have three children.[9] Nancy's brother Thomas and sister Susannah married James' siblings. James and Nancy settled on Howell’s Prairie, along Kraut Run.[10] (Kraut Run is a tributary of Dardenne Creek that runs through Busch Wildlife Area and Broemmelsiek Park.) A few years after their wedding, James served as a deputy sheriff of the St. Charles District.[11] During the War of 1812, James served as an officer in the US territorial rangers. He served as the captain of a company of rangers in early 1813, and then as a lieutenant in Daniel Morgan Boone's company through June, 1814, and then as the captain of the company. In July, 1814, he led his company on Campbell’s campaign up the Mississippi and participated in the battles of Campbell's Island and Credit Island.[12] You can read a letter he wrote to his parents in August, 1814 (between those battles) here. In 1815, while stationed at Fort Clemson on Loutre Island in the Missouri River, he and about twenty men pursued some Indians who had stolen horses. They were ambushed along the Prairie Fork of Loutre Creek. He was killed as he sought to extract his men from the situation.[13] Callaway County, Missouri was named in his honor.[14] His brother-in-law, Lewis Howell, wrote, 

Captain James Callaway was about six feet in height, he was rather slender, dark ruddy complexion and might be what is called good-looking person, yet not remarkably handsome; as it regards his character, I consider it a good one, he was cheerful, kind, and obliging, he was an affectionate husband, kind and indulgent father and a good master to his servants. He was uncommonly popular with all classes, ready always to relieve the distress of the suffering. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and as he was only in his thirty-third year when he was killed, on account of his amiable disposition and popularity, had he been spared, I have little doubt he would have been a leading character of our state.[15]

4. Frances Callaway (1786 - 1856), married William T. Lamme

Frances married William Lamme on August 9, 1803.[16] William had accompanied Nathan Boone on a particularly successful long hunt in 1802 on the Niango River, and they hunted again in 1803.[17] “He was a First Lieutenant in Nathan Boone’s company of Rangers, and was afterwards Major of a regiment. He had a good education, was a fine businessman, and left his family in good circumstances at his death.”[18] Frances and William had ten children[19] and lived on 800 arpents (675 acres) between Marthasville and the Bryan cemetery in Warren County, Missouri.[20] The family had some interesting names. Some of his children were named Czarina, Missouri, Leonidas, Achilles, and Napoleon, and the younger slaves were named Calvin, Milton, and Wesley. William's will mentions six slaves, and provides that, if they were to be sold in the case of his wife dying or marrying, that "I desire particularly in behalf of my woman servant Mary and as a mark of my favor to her, because of her signal fidelity to me that she and all her children be sold together and to the same bidder and I further request that my family will use all reasonable efforts to enable her to procure an acceptable purchaser."[21] William died in 1840, and Frances died in 1856 in De Kalb, Missouri, visiting her son Achilles.[22]

5. Susannah Callaway (Jan. 1, 1791 - Dec. 1876), married Thomas Howell

Susannah and Thomas were married on July 10, 1806, lived on a farm on Howell’s Prairie (their house was near what is now the Thomas Howell Cemetery), and had fourteen children.[23] Daniel Boone, near the end of his life, named one of their children Amazon Howell for the river in South America.[24] Thomas was known as a hunter, ranger, fiddle player, farmer, and a good runner.[25] Thomas Howell's ferry crossed the Missouri near where the Daniel Boone Bridge is today, next to Howell's Island.[26] One of his daughters, Eviza Coshow, wrote about him, saying, "I oftimes herd him say he came here--helped drive the red skins from the Land--then the Hessian Dutch come and Stole and confiscated his property forst [forced] him to take some unlawful oaths where he had beat his meal ... He was very Stout active robust man died of Pralysis. I herd him say they frist settled in Bonhom Bottom afterwards to Howells Prarie ... I remember of hearing him say he Swam the Missouri river, that on his head dry, hunting shirt, trousers mocasons and violin--first to Play for a party in Bonhom Bottom ... he was a good musician--died in his Eighty Seventh year. Belonged to the same company that Uncle James Callaway was killed in."[27] The Howells had twenty slaves in 1860 in three slave houses, ranging from age 61 years to 3 months.[28] Susannah and Thomas are buried in the "Thomas Howell Cemetery" at the intersection of 94 and D.

6. Tabitha Callaway (1792 - 1818), married Abraham Darst

Tabitha married Abraham Darst in 1810 and they lived in the Femme Osage valley near Callaway Fork. They had five children. Abraham's father David had served under George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution before moving the family in 1798 to what became known as Darst Bottom (around present-day Defiance, Missouri). Tabitha died in 1818 and was buried in the Bryan cemetery. Abraham remarried in 1820 and he, his wife, and his children from both marriages later traveled in 1829 with Stephen Austin’s second colony to Texas. A number of them, including Tabitha’s sons Emory, Edmund, Patrick, and John, fought in the War for Texan Independence.[29]

7. Larkin Callaway (March 17, 1794 - 1839), married Susannah Howell

In 1813, Larkin enlisted in the company of rangers commanded by his brother, Captain James Callaway.[30] Larkin and Susannah married on December 21, 1815. (This means that Susannah Howell became Susannah Callaway, while Larkin's sister Susannah Callaway became Susannah Howell.) Larkin and his wife Susannah had seven children and lived near Marthasville, Missouri. Susannah died at the age of 33 and Larkin died eight years later at the age of 44.[31]

8. Elizabeth Callaway (Feb. 15, 1797 - June 1, 1867), married Morgan Bryan

Elizabeth married Morgan on February 15, 1815. Morgan was the son of David Bryan, who had been raised largely by Daniel and Rebecca Boone, and whose brother Jonathan and father James lived a mile from where Daniel Boone lived with his son Nathan. Morgan had served in Nathan Boone's company of rangers during the War of 1812.[32] Morgan and Elizabeth had two children. She died in Everett, Boone County, Missouri on June 1, 1867.[33] She had been living there with her son Julius since at least 1860.[34]

9. Minerva Callaway (1801 - November 21, 1850), married Dr. John Jones

Minerva married Dr. John Jones in 1819. Dr. Jones had come from Kentucky to Marthasville, Missouri as a doctor in 1812. Dr. Jones was well known as a doctor across the region and served as the surgeon for the state militia. He is the doctor that cared for Daniel Boone in his final years, including the summer of 1820. Daniel Boone narrated his life and adventures to Dr. Jones so that he might prepare it for the press, but this document was lost after Dr. Jones's death.[35] He was assassinated in 1842 by a band of counterfeiters after his investigation had led to the arrest of one of them. Minerva continued to live in the old homestead in Marthasville until her death in 1850.[36] They had ten children.[37] They had bought Derry, the slave that had accompanied Daniel Boone on some of his hunting trips, from Nathan Boone around 1821 and had given Derry "full charge" of the farm. As their son Paul recounted, "all other laborers my brothers not excepted obeyed the orders of Uncle Derry as I was taught by my parents to call him, as implicitly as though he had been the actual owner of the outfit." Minerva freed Derry after her husband’s death. Paul recounted that she also "set apart a portion of our old home farm to Derry which he worked as his own. Derry and his excilent wife Sofy, who was a fit wife for so pure a man as he was, lived on that land donated to this use by my mother, in the former office or house used by my father, Dr John Jones, as his professional office."[38] There was another slave who grew up with Minerva, whom Minerva taught to read and write, and who was given to her and her husband at their marriage and later helped care for her children.[39]

10. Daniel Boone Callaway (1803 - 1848), married Anna Griswold

He is listed in his father’s will as the heir of his parents’ land near Marthasville,[40] and the 1830 census shows him and a woman between 60 and 70 living with him (almost certainly his mother Jemima).[41] He married Anna in 1829 or 1830. They had at least three children,[42] although the census of 1840 shows 5 free white children under 9 years of age in their household (as well as one slave and two men in their twenties besides Daniel and Anna). By that time they lived across the river in St. John, Franklin County, Missouri.[43] There is record of him getting land near Fayette, Missouri in 1845,[44] but he died a few years later in 1848.

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[1] Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1977 [1876]), 242. Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

[2] Evisa Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 58. She says “the first twins both died” after coming to Missouri.

[3] Larkin Barnes, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letters 11 and 14. Note: Warren County was formed out of Montgomery County in 1833; in this case they moved to what is now Warren County, near Marthasville.

[4] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 33.

[5] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 24.

[6] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 181; Bryan and Rose, 209; My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 135.

[7] “Last Will and Testament of John B. Callaway” Family History Library #967511 or Missouri Archives #5929, Wills & Letters of Administration & Letters Testamentary #1 1822 - 1833 St. Charles County Missouri

[8] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 122, 124. 

[9] Spraker, 181.

[10] Bryan and Rose, 96.

[11] "Short Biographical Sketch of the Life of Captain James Callaway by Lewis Howell" in Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 155.

[12] My Father, Daniel Boone, 130-131. Daniel T. Brown, Westering River, Westering Trail: A History of St. Charles County, Missouri to 1849 (St. Charles, MO: St. Charles County Historical Society), 214-218.

[13] My Father, Daniel Boone, 132-133.

[14] https://callawaycounty.org/history/ 

[15] "Short Biographical Sketch of the Life of Captain James Callaway by Lewis Howell" in Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 156-157.

[16] Oliver, 176

[17] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 122.

[18] Spraker, 183.

[19] Spraker, 183.

[20] Ken Kamper’s Historical Reference Map shows the Lamme’s land near Marthasville. See also, Oliver, 176.

[21] Oliver, 176-178.

[22] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11770983/frances-lamme, and Oliver, 176. For her birth, see the 1850 census, which records her as 64 years old, living in Warren County with her son Napoleon. Spraker, 182-183 records her death in 1865 (Oliver, 176 says "ca 1865"), but her gravestone says she died in 1856.

[23] Oliver, 338-339. See pictures of their house online at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/MO0899/

[24] Spraker, 182; Oliver, 344; Lilburn Boggs, Draper Manuscript vol. 23, letter 27. Boggs said, "A few years before his [Daniel’s] death he expressed a great desire to explore the Amazon River in South America & being called upon at that time (while the Amazon fever was upon him) to name a grandson, he called him 'Amazon.'"

[25] Bryan and Rose, 227, 507; Oliver, Crow’s Nest, https://thetntstory.blogspot.com/2013/09/crows-nest-homes-49-52.html; Coshow, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 24 

[26] Oliver, 338. 

[27] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 24. The reference to “Hessians,” recalling the earlier pro-British German soldiers in the American Revolution, refers to the Civil War and their pro-Union German neighbors. 

[28] 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.

[29] For this information on Tabitha and her family see Sanford Gladden, The Durst and Darst Families of America, Vol. 1 (Boulder Genealogical Society, 2013) 69-70, 73.

[30] Oliver, 157. 

[31] Bryan and Rose, 155; Oliver, 180; Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007; 1830 Census; Census Place: Charette, Montgomery, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 72; Page: 208; Family History Library Film: 0014853. They are buried in the Bryan cemetery. His will was done in Franklin County, causing some to think he moved to the town of Franklin, but he doesn’t seem to have moved.

[32] Oliver, 79.

[33] Spraker, 183.

[34] 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. The census seems to spell Julius as Icilius. 

[35] My Father, Daniel Boone, 136, 138

[36] Goodspeed's Franklin County History, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co. (link). 

[37] Spraker, 183-184.

[38] S. Paul Jones, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letters 1.

[39] S. Paul Jones, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 5.

[40] Flanders Callaway, “The Will of Flanders Callaway” Geni.com (link).

[41] 1830; Census Place: Charette, Montgomery, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 72; Page: 208; Family History Library Film: 0014853.

[42] https://web.archive.org/web/20190421151753/http://www.ronulrich.com/rfuged/fam08119.htm; and Oliver, 194. Some sources say they married in 1820, but this might be a misreading of 1830. Note that all the children were born after 1829). 

[43] Year: 1840; Census Place: St John, Franklin, Missouri; Roll: 223; Page: 216; Image: 1144; Family History Library Film: 0014855. 

[44] Land Patent 10/1/1845 Accession Nr:MO2960__.104 GloRecords.blm.gov.

The Children of William and Susannah (Boone) Hays

Daniel Boone's daughter Susannah married William Hays, and they had 10 children and at least 79 grandchildren.

1. Elizabeth Hays (June 12, 1776 - Aug. 3, 1828), married Isaac Van Bibber

Elizabeth was born in Fort Boonesborough in the midst of the wilderness in 1776, the year after her parents had helped to establish it. In 1797, she married Isaac Van Bibber (1771-1840). Isaac's father had died in the battle of Point Pleasant, and so Isaac had been raised by Daniel and Rebecca Boone. Isaac and Elizabeth moved in 1799 from Kentucky to Darst Bottom (in present-day Missouri) and then again in 1815 to Loutre Lick in Montgomery County, Missouri (near present-day Mineola). There Isaac ran a tavern along the Booneslick Trail. They had ten children.[1] This house of theirs near Loutre Lick is where Daniel Boone stayed after he fell ill on a hunting trip in 1817,[2] and it is where Daniel Boone killed his last deer, hunting there at the salt lick in 1820.[3] Isaac’s obituary in 1840 said “For years, he kept public entertainment, and travelers will long remember his hospitality, his interesting colloquial powers, his thrilling accounts of things chilling to the blood. As a member of the high and Holy institution of Masonry, he discharged without ostentation and with much liberality, his duties, and the widow and orphan, and indeed every object of charity, received his open hand, the required assistance-innumerable benedictions attend his memory."[4]

2. Jemima Hays (Aug. 31, 1778 - Nov. 6, 1843), married James Davis

Jemima married James Davis, who had also moved to the Femme Osage valley in 1800. They had nine children. In 1804, James shot and killed her father during a dispute - William Hays had been drinking and it was determined that James had acted in self-defense. Sometime after he was acquitted they moved to Kentucky, and in 1819 they moved to Montgomery County, Missouri.[5]

3. William Hays Jr. (1780 - 1845), married Phoebe Stevens

William was born in Boone’s Station in Kentucky and died at home near Fulton, Missouri.[6] He went on several long hunts with his grandfather in Missouri (he claimed that they made it to the Yellowstone River on a hunt with others in 1810-1811).[7] He was a justice of the peace in St. Charles County. The 1830 census records 11 free white people in his household besides him and his wife (11 children?), and his will from 1845 mentions ten children of theirs.[8]

4. Susannah Hays (1782 - c. 1818), married Joshua Dodson

Susannah and Joshua were married on August 25, 1801 in St. Charles.[9] Joshua was one of the Hays’ neighbors in the Femme Osage valley (Missouri) and in 1810 was one of those who formally complained about the Spanish land grants that were being rejected.[10] He was appointed as lieutenant in the militia in 1806.[11] They had six children. Since these children came under Greenup Hays’s guardianship as orphans on November 26, 1818 and Joshua had died in the October of 1816, Susannah probably died sometime in 1818.[12]

5. Boone Hays (1783 - 1850), married Lydia Ann Scholl; 2nd wife ___ Frazier

Born in 1783 in Kentucky, Boone came to present-day Missouri with his parents in 1799 and then settled on his own place in Darst Bottom in 1801.[13] He married Lydia in 1807 and they went on to have ten children. He and his brother Daniel served under their cousin Captain James Callaway in his company of rangers.[14] In 1818, Boone moved to Callaway County, Missouri and built a horse-run mill. In 1836, he purchased some of his uncle Daniel Morgan Boone’s land near Westport, Missouri (near the intersection of 63rd and Holmes).[15] “The roving disposition of Boone Hays took him with his boys alternately across the plains to Old and New Mexico and to the mountains, freighting and trading for profit, and to Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia from whence they brought the finest live stock obtainable to this county. He maintained a large racing stable and his horses met all comers.”[16] He left in 1849 for the gold rush in California with three of his sons and other relatives,[17] and died in Marysville, California the next year.[18]

6. Delinda Hays (1784 - 1850), married Lewis Jones

They were married on April 6, 1815 and had at least four children.[19] Lewis had arrived in Missouri in 1802 and would explore the Rocky Mountains and work as a surveyor in Missouri.[20] They moved from St. Charles County to Montgomery County after the War of 1812, settling about four miles north of Rhineland in the Loutre Rover valley, not far from Delinda’s sister Elizabeth Van Bibber.[21] Lewis was the county surveyor for Montgomery County for a long time, eventually stepping down “on the grounds that he does not expect to live 4 more years and the people would be at the trouble and expence of another election.”[22] Delinda died on their Loutre Valley farm.[23]

7. Daniel Boone Hays (1789 - 1866), married Mary “Polly” Bryan

Daniel moved with his parents to present-day Missouri in 1799. He was wounded twice during his service in the War of 1812, having a limp and a bullet in his neck the rest of his life. He married Polly in 1813. They had twelve children. He owned land along the Femme Osage Creek by 1818. There he built a substantial stone house and several mills. You can still visit his house today at Matson Hill Park. In 1821 he became constable of the Femme Osage District.[24] A company of the Missouri State Guard would be mustered at his place in 1861, a company that included his son John.[25]

8. Greenup Hays (b. 1790), married Eliza Clanton

Greenup acquired land in Montgomery County, Missouri in 1821.[26] There he married Eliza on July 24, 1823.[27] They had four children.[28] He seems to have died before 1850, since by that time Eliza was living with their son Greenup Christopher Hays in Callaway County, Missouri.[29]

9. Mahala Hays (b. 1792 or 1800)[30], married Jonathan Davis

Mahala's husband Jonathan was the brother of James Davis (who was the husband of her sister Jemima, see above). Jonathan had moved to Missouri in 1820,[31] and they married in 1822.[32] They had 13 children.[33] They first lived in the southeastern part of Warren County, Missouri.[34] In 1850 they were farming in Osage County, Missouri with six of the children still at home.[35]

10. Jesse Hays (b. 1794)

He died unmarried before 1817.[36]

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 178-179.

[2] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 137.

[3] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.

[4] “OBITUARY OF MAJOR ISAAC VAN BIBBER” https://web.archive.org/web/20160403000348/http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html

[5] Spraker, 179-180. Meredith Mason Brown, Frontiersman (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2008), 239; John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1992), 287. (Montgomery Co., MO included what is now Warren Co. until 1833).

[6] Spraker, 117; My Father, Daniel Boone, 128.

[7] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 127; Brown, 248, 335n42.

[8] 1830; Census Place: Callaway, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 73; Page: 76; Family History Library Film: 0014854; and Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 265-266. 

[9] Ken Kamper, “Boone Documents” (Boone Campus Library-Archives, 2004), 18.

[10] Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 14; Page Number: 389. Accessed on Ancestry.com (link).

[11] Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 13; Page Number: 547. Accessed on Ancestry.com (link).

[12] Oliver, 272-273, 329; Ken Kamper, “Boone Documents” (Boone Campus Library-Archives, 2004), 18. 

[13] Spraker, 180.

[14] Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1977 [1876]), 96.

[15] Ken Kamper, Daniel Morgan Boone 1769-1839 - Son of Daniel and Rebecca Boone (2007), p. 6.

[16] Virginia Hays Asbury and Albert Doerschuk, "The Boone, Hays, and Berry Families of Jackson County" Missouri Historical Review (July 1929), 541. 

[17] From a letter of Septimus Scholl to Rodney M. Hinde, 1849, quoted here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180816050311/http://wattshaysletters.com/letters/1-lettrs-49-jan61/hist-letters49-j61.html. This website contains many letters regarding Boone Hays’ son Upton Hays.

[18] Spraker, 180.

[19] Spraker, 117; Oliver, 311-313.

[20] William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Genealogical Pub. 1977 [1876]), 504-505 (they have a section title “Adventures of Lewis Jones”).

[21] Oliver, 311; Bryan and Rose, 234.

[22] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.

[23] Montgomery County, Missouri, Cemetery Index, 1836-1954. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001. 

[24] “Boone-Hays History” Matson Hill Park: Master Plan, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20240222235015/https://www.sccmo.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/781, 9-11.

[25] “Boone-Hays History”, 11; and Michael E. Banasik, ed. Confederate Tales of the War (Iowa City, IA: Camp Pope Bookshop, 2010), 162. 

[26] U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. (Meridian: 5th PM, Township: 48-N, Range: 6-W.)

[27] Oliver, 329. 

[28] Oliver, 329.

[29] Year: 1850; Census Place: District 12, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: M432_393; Page: 214A; Image: 428 (link).

[30] Oliver, 330 says 1792; the year 1800 is calculated from a census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Benton, Osage, Missouri; Roll: M432_408; Page: 459A; Image: 479 (link).

[31] Spraker, 117; Bryan and Rose, 253.

[32] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.

[33] Oliver, 330; Spraker, 117.

[34] History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1885), p. 959.

[35] Year: 1850; Census Place: Benton, Osage, Missouri; Roll: M432_408; Page: 459A; Image: 479 (link).

[36] Oliver, 330; Spraker, 117.

Nathan Boone (1781-1856)

Nathan Boone was the tenth and youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. He was born on March 2, 1781 at Boone’s Station, Kentucky and died on October 16, 1856 in Green County, Missouri.[1] He lived 75 years, 7 months, and 14 days. 

When Nathan was born, his father was away serving in the Virginia legislature (Kentucky at that time was part of Virginia). In fact, Daniel Boone was still in Charlottesville when on June 4th the city was taken by the British, and he was taken into custody for a couple days by Colonel Tarleton. When Daniel returned home to Boone's Station, he found that not only had his wife given birth, but so had his daughters Susannah and Jemima. Thus, they decided to see if Daniel could discern which was his child. He “was presented successively with the grandchildren, which he said were not his, but quickly recognized the right one.”[2]

Nathan was eight years old when the family moved in 1789 to Point Pleasant in present-day West Virginia. When he was ten years old, he traveled with his father and mother to Richmond, Virginia while his father served in the legislature for a few months.[3] When he was about 13 years old, he went to stay with the Hays and Callaways, his sisters' families, in Kentucky. There he attended a school run by a Baptist clergyman, Rev. John Rice.[4] After a year or two he returned to his parents in Point Pleasant. 

Nathan learned to hunt at an early age. On a hunt just north of the Ohio River in the fall of 1794, Nathan killed his first several deer (he had already hunted squirrels and birds). He and his father narrowly escaped hostile Indians on the fifth night of the hunt.[5] In 1795, Nathan moved with his parents back to Kentucky, settling on Brushy Fork near present-day Carlisle, KY. He went on hunts that became longer and longer, in search of buffalo, deer, and bear. In 1798 he settled on his own place near the mouth of the Little Sandy River in northeastern Kentucky, and his parents moved to his place later that year.[6]

When the Boones left for Spanish Louisiana (Missouri) in 1799, eighteen-year-old Nathan stopped to get a marriage license and then headed back 75 miles to the Van Bibber home and married sixteen-year-old Olive Van Bibber on September 26th, 1799.[7] A week later, the two teenagers traveled mostly by themselves to the Femme Osage settlement, about 25 miles upriver from St. Charles (MO), acquiring 680 acres for a horse, bridle, and saddle.[8] The couple went on to have fourteen children: eleven girls and three boys.[9] On this land, they would build a log house, and then a “commodious stone building,” in which his father would die in 1820.[10] This stone house can still be visited today. Daniel Boone lived with Nathan from 1804 until 1813, and then for most of the time from 1816 to 1820.[11]

Nathan continued to hunt deer and trap beaver during these years. For example, he and a friend trapped 800 beaver skins in 1802 and sold them for $2.50 each.[12] He and his brother, Daniel Morgan Boone, also operated Boone’s Lick from 1806 to 1810, making about 25 or 30 bushels of salt per day.[13] This led to the development of the Booneslick Trail from St. Charles to Boone's Lick.[14] In 1808, Nathan guided William Clark and his men along that route and assisted with the establishment of Fort Osage. During the War of 1812, Nathan served as a captain of a company of rangers, scouting and fighting in Missouri and Illinois.[15] In the post-war years, Nathan was busy managing his farm and a horse-run mill in St. Charles, producing government surveys nearby and abroad,[16] and serving in the 1820 Missouri Constitutional Convention.[17] He also began to accumulate more slaves, from one in 1817 to nine in 1830.[18] 

In the June of 1832 he began to muster a company of rangers from St. Charles County, of which he was the captain, for the Blackhawk War.[19] His company was formed too late to fight in that war, but they were sent to Fort Gibson in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).[20] When their enlistments were up, Nathan accepted a commission as a captain in the U.S. Dragoons, in which he would serve until 1853, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.[21] Most of this service focused on keeping the peace among various native tribes, and it took Nathan to what is now Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas.[22] His skills and experiences had prepared him well for this work, which included expeditions in the wilderness and surveying boundaries. He was also described by one of his soldiers as a “good, Christian man” who would kneel in prayer on his buffalo robe in his tent.[23] In 1837 he sold his property along the Femme Osage for $6,120 and moved his family to Ash Grove, Missouri, closer to where he was working.[24] This home can also be visited today. Nathan formerly retired from the military in 1853 at the age of 72 and passed away in 1856. His wife, Olive, died two years later in 1858.

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 126.
[2] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 73. When the British took Charlottesville, Daniel Boone had remained behind with Jack Jouett to load up on wagons some of the public records. As they walked away from the British, Jouett slipped up by calling Daniel Boone "Captain Boone." This caused the British to take him into custody.
[3] My Father, Daniel Boone, 89-90, 158.
[4] My Father, Daniel Boone, 97. 
[5] My Father, Daniel Boone, 98-99.

[6] My Father, Daniel Boone, 101-104.
[7] My Father, Daniel Boone, 111-112.
[8] Spraker, 127; My Father, Daniel Boone, 112-113, 121. 

[9] R. Douglas Hurt, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998), 218.
[10] My Father, Daniel Boone, 125, 138-139.
[11] My Father, Daniel Boone, 119, 138; Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007), 432.
[12] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120. Thus, each of them got $1,000 in a day where an average day's wage was around a dollar.
[13] My Father, Daniel Boone, 126-127.
[14] Spraker, 126.
[15] Spraker, 127; My Father, Daniel Boone, 129-133. 

[16] Hurt, 111-112, 129.
[17] Spraker, 126. Hurt, 113-118.
[18] Dakota Russell, “African-American Slavery and Freedom on the Nathan Boone Farm,” (Ash Grove, MO: Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site, 2007), 4. The number of slaves would fluctuate over the years between one and thirteen.
[19] Hurt, 135.
[20] Hurt, 138-139.
[21] Hurt, 142, 147. Spraker, 127.
[22] For more information on this aspect of his life, see Hurt, 140-216. A briefer overview can be found at "Boone, Nathan 1781-1856" in the online Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. 
[23] Gen. Abraham Buford, “Religion and the Turf” Wallace’s Monthly vol. VIII, num. 5, June 1882, 331 (available online at Google books). Buford wrote, "My first captain in the dragoon service was Nathan Boone, who was a son of Daniel Boone. Captain Nathan Boone was a good, Christian man. I have often seen him kneel in his tent on his buffalo robe and pray fervently, at which I, a young dashing dragoon, would laugh in derision at what I thought was the weakness of the old man. I now rejoice in the fact that I have lived to see the day when I am convinced that the weakness was on my part and not that of the old Christian pioneer." 
[24] Hurt, 185.

William Boone (1775)

William Boone was the ninth child of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. He was born in North Carolina on June 20, 1775 and died in infancy.[1]

When Daniel Boone set out to blaze the Wilderness Road and establish Fort Boonesborough in Kentucky in early 1775, his wife remained at home in North Carolina with most of the children, expecting their ninth child. After establishing the fort, he returned to his family around the time William was born. Sadly, William died shortly afterwards. Daniel then took the rest of the family to Kentucky in August, arriving at the fort on September 8th.

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 65. Spraker cites Daniel Boone's Bible Record. 

Jesse Boone (1773-1820)

Jesse Bryan Boone was the eighth child of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. He was born on May 23, 1773 in North Carolina and he died on December 22, 1820 in Montgomery County, Missouri.[1] He lived 47 years, 6 months, and 29 days. 

Jesse was a baby when the Boones first attempted to move to Kentucky in 1773 and was two years old when they settled at Fort Boonesborough in 1775. He grew up on the Kentucky frontier and then moved with the family in 1789 to Point Pleasant (now in West Virginia). During the summer of 1790, 17-year-old Jesse traveled in a canoe with six armed friends from Point Pleasant to what is now Charleston, West Virginia to acquire a marriage license.[2] On their journey, they almost encountered a band of Shawnee warriors who attacked Coal Fort an hour or so after they passed by (the fort, also known as Fort Tackett, was attacked and burned on August 26, 1790). Having acquired the marriage license, Jesse married 18-year-old Chloe Van Bibber (1772-1822), a daughter of John Van Bibber (her cousin Olive later married Jesse's brother Nathan). Jesse and Chloe went on to have nine children. During the early 1790s Jesse fought a couple times as Indians attacked him and other men working in the common fields outside of Point Pleasant.[3] The smallpox swept through Point Pleasant while he was living there in 1793 and his infant firstborn child named Jemima died from it.[4] 

In 1797, Jesse and his family followed other Boones to the area near present-day Carlisle, Kentucky, and then again in 1799 to the Little Sandy River near Greenup, Kentucky. In the fall of 1797, he and his brother Nathan and brother-in-law Flanders went hunting together in eastern Kentucky and they killed 156 bears, selling the meat, oil, and skins. After moving to Greenup, Jesse became the inspector of the saltworks on the Little Sandy River and the Justice of the Kentucky County Court for Greenup.[5] During the War of 1812, he was the aide to General Joseph Desha on General Harrison's 1813 campaign to Canada and fought at the battle of the Thames, an American victory in which Tecumseh was killed.[6] Lilburn Boggs, who married Jesse's daughter Panthea in 1823, later recounted,

he was at the Battle of the Thames. This I know personally as I was myself there at the same time & met with him frequently. I was then about 17 or 18 years of age, he joined our Company & requested permission to fight in our ranks at the “skirmish” (the day before the main battle) at the bridge across the Thames[.] his own Brigade was in the rear that day but hearing the firing upfront he got permission to leave & joined the troops in front[.] our boys were delighted to have him join our company & he was joyfully welcomed.[7]

Jesse moved from Greenup, Kentucky to Montgomery County, Missouri (near Loutre Lick and present-day Mineola) in the spring of 1818.[8] He was elected in 1820 to be the representative of Montgomery County in the first session of Missouri's House of Representatives.[9] He was serving there as it met in St. Louis when his father died on September 26, 1820. Jesse himself "was taken sick during the session and died a few days after the adjournment, the corps was taken to his home in Montgomery Co & burried the day after Christmas."[10] 

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 125; and Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 27, Lilburn W. Boggs to Lyman Draper (January 18, 1857). 

[2] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 90-91.

[3] My Father, Daniel Boone, 95-96.

[4] Boggs (see citation above). He notes that "(it was a girl and named Jemima on the record it is printed 'Jeremiah' a mistake of the printer)".

[5] My Father, Daniel Boone, 102, 104-105. See also, Draper Manuscript 6S13-16, quoted in Spraker, 125. 

[6] My Father, Daniel Boone, 105; and Boggs. 

[7] Boggs.

[8] My Father, Daniel Boone, 93; and Boggs. 

[9] Spraker, 125. 

[10] Boggs.