Statewide County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boone, Col. Daniel 1820
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Weekly Raleigh Newspaper
(A few words show up as being spelled wrong, and this is word for word as it 
appeared in original article). 

       At Charrette village, in the State of Missouri, on the 26th of September 
last, Colonel Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky, in the 90th year of 
his age. He was a native of Buck's county Pennsylvania, he left that state at 18 
years of age and settled in North Carolina. He was one of the few men of our 
country whose enterprise led him to search in the wilderness for the best tracts 
of land for man to inhabit. As early as 1775, he removed with his family, and 
settled on the Kentucky River, (with the loss of his eldest son, killed by the 
attack of Indians,) at a plain now called Boonsborough, then an Indian country, 
where he remained until the 1799. During this period of time, although most of 
his time had been spent in agricultural pursuits, and he had been frequently 
honored by his countrymen, as a member of Virginia Legislature, and lived, at the 
close of the Revolutionary war, in peace and plenty, yet such was his delight in 
hunting--such his devotedness to it, that in the year 1799, with a numerous train 
of followers, he removed from Kentucky, and settled on the Femme Osage River, 
which empties itself into the Missouri river about 50 miles above its mouth, then 
a wilderness. The year after he discovered Boon Lick country, which now forms one 
of the best settlements of the state. In that year he also visited the head 
waters of the Grand Osage River, and spent the winter upon the headwaters of the 
river Arkansas. At the age of 80, in company with one white man and a black man, 
whom he had laid 'under strict-injunction to return him to his family, dead or 
alive, he made a hunting trip to the headwaters of the Great Osage, where he was 
successful in trapping of beaver, and in taking other game.
  Colonel Boone was a man of common stature, of great enterprize, strong 
intellect, amiable disposition, and inviolable integrity. He died universally 
regretted by all who knew him; and such is the veneration for his name and 
character that both the houses of the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, 
upon information of his death being communicated, resolved to wear crepe on the 
left arm for 20 days, as a token of memory.
   His wife died about seven years since and both have been interred in the same 
grave, at Charrette village, in the county of Montgomery, and state of Missouri.
 Missouri Gazette
Weekly Raleigh Register
Fri, Nov 10, 1820, Page 3


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