Rebecca married Philip Goe (1767-1805) around 1785.[2] When Daniel Boone traveled to Philadelphia in 1788 with a load of ginseng, he "left his son-in-law Philip Goe to operate his warehouse and run the business at Limestone" (Maysville, KY).[3] In general, though, Philip seems to have been rather unreliable. A relative later reported that Daniel said that he had provided Philip with “enough for a comfortable start three or four times, but that he would drink and run it out.”[4]
When Daniel Boone and most of his family headed west in 1799, Philip Goe purchased the Brushy Creek farm where Daniel Boone had been living since 1795 (near present day Carlisle, KY), and Philip and his wife and seven children lived there until 1805. That year Philip “drank himself to death” in March and then Rebecca died at her sister Levina's house in July, being “weakly” and suffering from “consumption.”[5] Her brother, Daniel Morgan Boone, came out to Kentucky and brought back the oldest six children to Missouri, five of whom lived with him and his wife.[6]
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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 122.
[2] John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1992), 236
[3] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 82.
[4] Delinda Boone Craig, DM 30C73-74, quoted in Faragher, 236.
[5] Delinda Boone Craig, DM 30C73-74, quoted in Faragher, 287-288; Spraker, 122; Letter from D.C. Daniel to Lyman Draper (Dec 16t, 1853).
[6] Spraker, 123.
