Monday, September 28, 2026

The Children of Philip and Rebecca (Boone) Goe

Daniel Boone's daughter Rebecca married Philip Goe, and they had 7 children and at least 20 grandchildren. 

1. Daniel Boone Goe

Daniel “lived after his parent’s death [1805] at the home of his cousin, John Callaway, son of Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway. He died young.”[1] While he is often listed first, it not clear that he was the oldest child. 

2. Nathan B. Goe (1791 - 1862/5), married Elizabeth Frame

Nathan was born in Kentucky in 1791.[2] Nathan was possibly one of the five siblings who came to live in Missouri after his parents died in 1805, although it is possible that he was the oldest child who was left in Kentucky.[3] By 1812 he was in Kentucky and served in the War of 1812 with Captain John Martin’s company of Kentucky Militia from August 15, 1812 to March 25, 1813. He married Elizabeth in 1815 or 1822 in Clark County, Kentucky.[4] They had ten children, all listed on the 1840 census in Clark County, Kentucky.[5] In 1860, they were living with their son Benjamin in Estill County, Kentucky (the census of that year noted that Nathan did not know how to read or write).[6] Nathan died in 1862 (according to his grave stone) or 1865 (according to his pension record).[7] His widow was living with the family of their daughter Dorcas in 1880.[8] 

3. Nobel Goe, married Jane Smith

Nobel was born in Kentucky and came to live with Daniel Morgan Boone and his wife Sarah after his parents died in 1805.[9] Noble married Jane (“Jenny”) Smith in St. Charles County, Missouri on November 5, 1817. They had moved to Ray County, Missouri by 1830.[10] They had nine children.[11]

4. Tarleton Goe (b. 1800)

Tarleton was born in Kentucky and came with his siblings to live with Daniel M. Boone and his wife Sarah after their parents died in 1805.[12] Tarleton engraved the gravestone for his cousin Capt. James Callaway in 1815 and the gravestone for his grandfather Daniel Boone after he died in 1820.[13] In 1820 he is listed in the St. Charles Circuit Court Records as an “insolvent debtor … in prison under execution of suit by James Catell.”[14] Around the same time, he worked on the construction of the Boone's Lick Road, and he and one of the other workers (David Craig) had a fight "while they were at work on the hill west of Loutre creek."[15] Spraker records that Tarleton was living in Warren County in 1854, and the 1850 and 1860 censuses record that Tarleton Goe, born in 1800 in Kentucky, was living in Franklin County, Missouri (1850) and Warren County, Missouri (1860) as a brick mason (in 1860 it seems he was living with a Bryan family near Marthasville).[16]

5. Nellie Goe (b. pre-1805), married Mr. Bloss[17]

Nellie was born in Kentucky and came to live with Daniel M. Boone and his wife Sarah after her parents died in 1805.[18] She married someone with the last name Bloss and resided in Jackson County, Missouri. She had at least one son, Tarleton, who died in the Confederate service.[19]

6. Dorcas Goe (b. pre-1805), possibly married Mr. Newman[20]

Dorcas was born in Kentucky and came to live with Daniel M. Boone and his wife Sarah after her parents died in 1805. Not much else seems to be known about her.

7. William Goe (b. pre-1805) 

William, the youngest, was left in Kentucky with Jesse Boone’s family when most of his siblings were taken to Missouri.[21] Jesse moved his family to Missouri in 1818, but it is unclear what happened to William. Spraker records that William died prior to 1868.[22] There is a William Goe in Kentucky in the 1820 census and 1830 census, but he appears to be a little too old (he married in 1818 and was born between 1794 and 1800) and connected with a John Goe.[23]

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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 123.
[2] 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Also see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goe-2 
[3] Spraker, 123.
[4] The Pension Record records the marriage in 1815, but other sources say 1822 (Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004). 
[5] Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Also: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goe-2 
[6] Year: 1860; Census Place: Estill, Kentucky; Roll: M653_365; Page: 141; Family History Library Film: 803365 (Link). See also: DM vol. 23, letter 6.
[7] Pension Record records his death as June 5, 1865, but his gravestone lists it as 1862 (War of 1812 Pension Applications. Washington D.C.: National Archives. NARA Microfilm Publication M313, 102 rolls. Records of the DVA, Record Group Number 15., link); for the gravesite: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11770929.
[9] Spraker, 123.
[10] 1830; Census Place: Ray, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 73; Page: 385; Family History Library Film: 0014854. At that time, Nobel was between 30 and 40, Jane was between 20 and 30, and they had 5 children. 
[11] Spraker, 186.
[12] Spraker, 123.
[13] Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1977 [1876]), 100. Eviza Coshow, DM vol. 21, letter 24.
[14] 1820 -1823 Circuit Court Records, accessed at https://web.archive.org/web/20220930055505/https://scchs.org/cpage.php?pt=79. 
[15] History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1885), p. 573. 
[16] Spraker, 123; Year: 1850; Census Place: District 31, Franklin, Missouri; Roll: M432_399; Page: 119B; Image: 242 (link). Year: 1860; Census Place: Charrette, Warren, Missouri; Roll: M653_659; Page: 317; Family History Library Film: 803659 (link).
[17] Spraker, 186.
[18] Spraker, 123.
[19] Spraker, 186.
[20] Spraker, 123.
[21] From an 1861 letter to Draper from Jesse’s daughter, Harriet Baber (DM vol. 23, letter 29). Spraker, 123.
[22] Spraker, 123. 
[23] 1820 US Census; Census Place: Shelby, Kentucky; Page: 151; NARA Roll: M33_24; Image: 165 (accessed at Ancestry.com, link); 1830; Census Place: North of The Road From Louisville To Frankfort, Shelby, Kentucky; Series: M19; Roll: 41; Page: 280; Family History Library Film: 0007820 (accessed at Ancestry.com, link).

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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
[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.