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Author: Will T. Hale

   WILLIAM ROBERT BOONE. Among the public officials of Houston county whose

services have resulted in the material advancement of their community's

interests, William Robert Boone holds prominent position. During the past

fifteen years he has served as county trustee, where his labors have been

appreciated, while his able and conscientious discharge of his duties has gained

him the unqualified respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. He was born in

Erin, the city where he now resides, August 13, 1869, and is a son of Etheldred

and Martha M. (Turner) Boone.



   The Boone family has resided in the vicinity of Erin for more than a century

of time, having been founded here by the great-grandfather of William Robert

Boone, "Uncle Dreddy" Boone, who came from North Carolina in 1804 and settled on

Wells creek, two and one-half miles east of Erin. There he took up a large tract

of land and spent the remainder of his life in farming, becoming one of his

locality's most substantial citizens. He married a Miss Holly, and they had a

family of five sons and three daughters. William Boone, son of the pioneer, grew

to manhood in Houston county, where he became a prominent farmer, and here was

married (first) to Polly Osbrooks, by whom he had five sons and three daughters,

Etheldred being the third child in order of birth. After the death of his first

wife he married Lytha McCowen, and they had two sons and one daughter.



   Etheldred Boone was born in 1839 in Houston county, Tennessee, was here

educated and reared to manhood, and at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted in

Company B, Fourteenth Eegiment, Tennessee Infantry, serving therewith until the

battle of Gettysburg, when he was seriously wounded during Pickett's charge. He

was carried back with the army into Virginia, and remained in the hospital at

Richmond until the close of the war, and for some time thereafter was compelled

to use crutches. On September 17, 1867, Mr. Boone was married at Waverly

Landing, Humphreys county, to Martha M. Turner, who was born in that county,

September 15, 1850, and they had two children: William Robert and Lura E. After

his marriage Mr. Boone was engaged in farming for two years, and then embarked

in the mercantile business at Erin, continuing therein until his death, August

5, 1873, which was caused by Asiatic cholera. He was a Democrat in his political

views, and was prominent in Masonry, belonging to the lodge, chapter and council

at Erin. His widow, who survives him and is engaged in the hotel business at

Erin, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.



   William Robert Boone received excellent educational advantages, attending the

public schools of Houston county, Edgewood Academy, Dickson Normal Academy and

the University of Nashville. When fourteen years of age he began to work at

railroading and continued to follow this line until he was eighteen years of

age, when he lost an arm in an accident and was obliged to turn to other

pursuits. For a time he was in the mercantile business, but on his return from

the University of Nashville he was made superintendent of public instruction at

Erin, for Houston county, a position which he held four years, and in 1898 was

elected the trustee of Houston county, an office to which he has been regularly

re-elected in each succeeding election. Mr. Boone has interested himself in

matters of a business and financial nature, being a director of the Home

Telephone Company of Houston county, and a stockholder in the Bank of Erin and

the Erin Banking Company. His political belief is that of the Democratic party.

Fraternally, he is affiliated with Wisdom Lodge No. 300, A. F. & A. M., at Erin,

the Modern Woodmen of America at this place, Erin Lodge No. 382, I. O. O. F., of

which he is a charter member, and in which he passed through all the chairs, and

Emerald Lodge No. 58. Knights of Pythias, at Erin, in which he has also passed

through all the chairs. He is steward of Erin Methodist Episcopal church, South.



   In 1900 Mr. Boone was married to Miss Lois Uffelman, daughter of J. H.

Uffelman, of Erin, a native of Pennsylvania, and seven children were born to

this union: Lura Agnes, Dixie, Mamie, Carmack, William Robert, Jr., who died in

infancy, Wildred and Lois. Mrs. Boone died July 15, 1911, in the faith of the

Methodist Episcopal church, South, and on May 26, 1912, Mr. Boone was married to

Elvira Uffelman, the sister of his first wife.



Additional Comments:
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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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