County of Marker: Boone County
Location of Marker: MO Hwy WW, 2 miles W. Millersburg
Marker Erected by: Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Missouri
Date marker Erected: 1913
"Boone County, astride the Boon’s Lick Trail and also situated along the north bank of the Missouri River, had a sizable portion of these early taverns. Nine and a half miles east of Columbia, on the old Fulton Gravel Road, was Vivion’s Taverns, a stage stop. Five miles west of Columbia, near present Highway 70, was the Ishmael Van Horn Tavern. Several miles north of Rocheport was the tavern of Augustus Thrall. These three hostelries were on the St. Charles-Old Franklin land route." ~ Boone County History
Marker Text:
BOONE'S LICK ROAD
Vivions Stage Stand-1827Not much info here. Have a letter to an Irvin C. Vivion, from Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO; pertaining to burial of Irvin C. Vivion, 6 months.
More About JOHN GHOLSON VIVION:
Burial: Millersburg, Boone County, Missouri
A Charles Cotton, descendent of Adm. William C. Robnett, married Flaniann Vivion, about 1847 Boone County, MO.
From the 1840 census: Boone Couty, MO:
W. H. VIVION, b. Abt. 1827, Missouri.
LOUISA VIVION, b. Abt. 1830, Missouri.
MARY VIVION, b. Abt. 1834, Missouri.
ELIZA VIVION, b. Abt. 1835, Missouri.
ROBERT R. VIVION, b. Abt. 1837, Missouri; m. ELIZABETH J. MILLER, May 27, 1858, Callaway County, Missouri; b. Bef. 1844.
DAVID C. VIVION, b. Abt. 1839, Missouri.
SARAH ANN VIVION, b. Abt. 1842, Missouri; m. COLUMBUS BOONE, October 24, 1869, Boone County, Missouri; b. Abt. 1840, Tennessee.
Mr. Willison wrote in March 1918, "I can stand in my barnyard and see the spot where ..... Columbia road to Millersburg and Fulton; kept a stage stand. ... Abt. 1827, Missouri.