Daniel Boone's First Grave - Marthasville, MO - Roadside Attractions on Waymarking.com

NOTICE: Prior to 24 June 2008 this monument was stolen and destroyed.
Police apprehended suspects but only a couple pieces of brass plaque.
The DAR, Warren County Historical Society & Washington Historical Society
Have been meeting to plan a course of action to replace the monument.
They are afraid to use brass or bronze fearing it will just be stolen again for scrap.
(13Aug.2008)

Marker: Daniel Boone Monument.
Sponsor: The descendants of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone and the DAR.
Date Marker Erected: 1915
County of marker: Warren County.
Location of marker: Boone Monument Rd., off MO-47, 1/2 mile S. of Marthasville.

Marker Text:

---DANIEL BOONE---
Born in Bucks County, PA.
Feb. 11, 1735
Died St. Charles County, MO.
Sept. 26, 1820
and wife

---REBECCA BRYAN---
Born.........1737
Died March 18, 1813
Removed to Frankfort, KY. 1845.

This monument has been re-dedicated in 2009

Marker Dedicated: July 25, 2009
Marker erected by: Missouri State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Hardin Camp Chapter (NSDAR) & Valley of the Meramec Chapter (NSDAR)
New Monument Plaque:

DANIEL BOONE
Born in Philadelphia County
(later Berks [sic] County)
OCTOBER 22, 1734
(Modern: November 2, 1734)
Died in St. Charles County, MO
September 26, 1820
and wife

REBECCA BRYAN
Born January 9, 1739
Died March 18, 1813
Removed to Frankfort, KY 1845

[In 1813 Rebecca Bryan Boone passed away at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Flanders and Jamima Callaway (located near the present town of Dutzow, Warren County, MO) and was buried in the Bryan family cemetery. In 1820 Daniel Boone passed away at the home of his son, Nathan (located near the present town of Defiance, St. Charles County, MO) and was buried next to his wife in the Bryan Cemetery. In 1845 people from Frankfort, KY exhumed both bodies and transported them back to Frankfort, KY. State Historical records seem to indicate that neither the State nor the family was informed, nor permission asked for to exhume and remove the bodies.]

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