Early Settlements, Boone Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Capt. Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, the old Kentucky pioneer, was
one of the first settlers of Boone Township, and located in the heart 
of the ash grove, a large grove of timber, lying mostly in sections 9
and 16, in which the principal timber, lying mostly in walnut.  Nathan
Boone's sons were James, John, Benjamin and Howard.  The Boones came 
here in 1834.  It was Nathan Boone and his brother Daniel M. Boone,
sons of old Daniel Boone, who came up the Missouri in 1807, to where
is now Howard county, and manufactured salt at what afterwards came to
be known as "Boone's Lick."  The popular conviction is that the old
pioneer, Daniel Boone himself, gave his name to "Boone's Lick" and the
"Boone's Lick Country," when the fact is that he never owned salt 
springs in Howard county, and never even resided in that settlement.
Old Nathan Boone died in 1856, and is buried in this township, a mile
and a half north of Ash Grove, with no monument to mark his resting
place, and only one or two books to keep his memory green in the minds
of Missourians.  It was for Nathan Boone that this township was named,
and perhaps this will prove a more lasting monument than a shaft of
marble or brass.  Thomas and Thomas Caulfield and Alfred Hosman were
also early pioneers in the grove.  Josiah Burney came from North Caro-
lina, and at an early date settled in this township.  Wm. G. Sumners
came to the township from North Carolina in the fall of 1834, and after
temporarily locating at the Walnut Grove, came to what is now Boone
Township, and settled in sections 15, 30 and 24.  Other early settlers
were Thomas G. Barham, John C. Johnson, William Haralsou, William 
Tatum, Silas Grantham, R. K. Boyd, John Rush, James Cox and John Mc-
Elhanon.  The latter came from Bedford County, Tennessee, and settled
in the ash grove in 1835.  Boyd, Rush and Cox lived on the west side of
the grove.  James Dunn settled on Clear creek, on section eleven.  
Michael Welsh was an old settler, who lived on Clear Creek, in section
three.  Peter Ooley located on section five, at an early day.  Some
families, named Johnson, lived in the eastern part of Leeper Prairie in
1835.


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