Levina (Boone) Scholl (1766-1802)

Levina (Boone) Scholl was the fifth child of Daniel and Rebecca Boone. She was born on March 23, 1766 in the Yadkin valley in North Carolina and died on April 6, 1802 in Clark County, Kentucky.[1] She lived 36 years and 15 days.

Levina married Joseph Scholl (1755-1833) around 1783.[2] Joseph had come from Virginia to Kentucky in 1779 and had fought at the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782.[3] In 1792, Joseph moved his family and established Scholl's Station (Schollsville) with his two brothers on land Joseph's father had purchased from Daniel Boone.[4] It was between present-day Winchester and Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

Joseph traveled with Daniel Morgan Boone and Colonel James Smith in 1797 to investigate the land west of the Mississippi. Since he and Smith were not pleased with the country, they turned back after making it as far as Fort de Chartres and Kaskaskia.[5] Thus, when Levina's parents and most of her siblings moved west in 1799, the Scholls remained in Scholl's Station. Levina died in 1802, leaving behind her husband Joseph and their eight children, aged 2 to 13. Soon after that, Joseph visited Missouri but then returned to Kentucky. Several of their children later moved out to Missouri, settling in St. Charles, Callaway, and Jackson counties.[6]

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 121.

[2] Spraker, 121 says they married "about 1785," but it appears that they married before the fall of 1784 when Daniel Boone and Joseph Scholl moved from Boone's Station to Marble Creek (“Joseph Scholl” Trumboldfamilies.com. Accessed June 22, 2026. http://trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephscholl.html). Also, their first child was born on January 28, 1784 (according to her gravestone). 

[3] Spraker, 121.

[4] “Joseph Scholl” Trumboldfamilies.com. Accessed June 22, 2026. http://trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephscholl.html. 

[5] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 107.

[6] Meredith Mason Brown, Frontiersman (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2008), 247; Spraker, 121-122, 184-185; “Joseph Scholl” Trumboldfamilies.com. Accessed June 22, 2026. http://trumboldfamilies.com/scholl/josephscholl.html.