Washington Co., AR - Cemeteries - Benjamin Franklin Boone

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Obituary
Another brave one has found peace.  B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Boone 1st Lt. In Co. K Capt.
Petigrew, Col. Brooks Regt. Fell asleep in the hospital at Cane Hill on
Sunday March the 1st 1863.  He was a native of Tenn and a resident of
Washington Co. Ark at the time of his death.  Was Wounded in the Prairie
Grove Battle December the 7th 1862 by a ball passing through his thigh
shattering the bone causing his affliction.  Thirty two pieces of bone
were taken from the wond he suffered much excruciating pain before the
messanger announced "the Master is come and calleth for thee" but he
bore
it with manly fortitude and Christian resignation.  He was favorable
known as a public man was at the time of his inlistment a member of the
State Legislature was among the warmest advocates of our cause and almost to
his last moments rejoiced at the announcement of our success.  He was 33
years of age left a wife and several children and many warm friends to
morn his untimely sencoceal(? Can't read)  Was a member of the Baptist
church and after on his death bed spoak freely of his heavenly prospects
and that blissfull invortality that belongs only to the truly pious. 
May God take care of his bereaved family and finly lead them thro himself
in glory. Sleep on brave man.  Never can the din of Battle disturb thy quite
repose. He sleeps.  The brave man has found his house.  The summons came
he was prepared His Mouldring body is in the tomb His spirit was winged
it way to God. 
 
(Signed) P. A. Moses Chaplain 
 Col Brooks Regt. Arks Infg. Fagaus Regt. In Camp near Little Rock March
18, 1863. 

I copied this with the same spelling and punctuation of the document. 
It was in Lillie Mae's Bible.

His brother was Daniel Thales Beya Boone.
Daniel's granddaughter, Lillie Mae Boone, had the note in her bible. This
is the same Benjamin Boone that is listed in Goodspeed's Biographies of
Washington County.

Submitted by:
David A. Boone
Round Rock, TX