Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameSamuel Boone 
Birth20 May 1728, Near Chalfont, New Britain Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
Deathbet 1811 - 1816, Near Athens, Fayette Co., Kentucky
BurialBoone Family Cemetery, Boone Station Historical Site, Lexington, Kentucky
FlagsServed in American Revolution
FatherSquire Boone (1696-1765)
MotherSarah Jarman Morgan (1700-1777)
Spouses
Birthabt 1730, Berks, Pennsylvania
Deathca 1819, Randolph Co., Missouri
Death MemoAt Home Of Son-In-Law, L. H. Bradley, MO
BurialBoone Family Cemetery, Boone Station Historical Site, Lexington, Kentucky
FatherUnknown Day
MotherUnknown [Day]
Marriage1748, Rowan Co., North Carolina
Marr Memoanother source says: marr. 1747
Notes for Samuel Boone
16A quote from Nathan Boone about Samuel Boone:
“Daniel’s brother Samuel was born in 1728 according to the records of Squire Boone, Jr. Samuel had a very intelligent wife (Sarah Day) who taught my father (Daniel) to read, spell, and write a little. This was all the education Daniel ever had, as he never attended school. But he acquired more education by his own efforts, particularly in writing, as he could at first do little more than rudely write his own name.”
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SARAH DAY BOONE’S BURIAL
By Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone, sister-in-law of Daniel Boone, is buried at the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station State Historical Site on the Gentry Road, near Athens (formerly Cross Plains) in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Her burial at Boone Station State Historic Site is commemorated on the burial monument at the site which monument was erected, in part, in her memory by the Captain John Waller Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and by the Boone Descendants.
The Kentucky General Assembly conferred upon Dr. Thomas D. Clark permanent status as Kentucky’s Historian Laureate. Dr. Thomas Clark twice dedicated the Boone Station Boone Descendants/ D.A.R. burial monument bearing Sarah Day Boone’s name and memorializing her Boone Station burial. Dr. Clark first did so on June 10, 1967. To emphasize his convictions, Dr. Clark re-dedicated the same burial monument in a well publicized 1997 ceremony at Boone Station. The Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, Kentucky is named for Dr. Thomas D. Clark.
The popular myth, provoked by an apparent error in Hazel Atterbury Spraker’s 1922 Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont published book, The Boone Family, (see page 58 entry #22, as reprinted by Higginson Book Compay), is that Sarah Day Boone’s circa 1819 death ( see Draper Manuscript 29 C 77) took place at the then Randolph County, Missouri home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley and that her remains are interred at an unknown location in Missouri. Evidence establishes that about 1819 Sarah Day Boone did live with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary “Polly” and Leonard Keeling Bradley, however, they all then lived in Fayette County, Kentucky where the Bradleys remained until about 1825.
The 1820 Fayette County, Kentucky census indicates that Leonard Keeling Bradley was living in Fayette County, Kentucky .
Supposedly, according to Elsie Dixon’s Manuscript, the Bradleys did not arrive in Randolph County, Missouri until 1824-1825.
A number of documents recorded in the Fayette County Clerk’s Office establish that in 1819 and well into the 1820's Leonard Keeling Bradley, and sometimes his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, signed and caused to be recorded documents transferring Fayette County property in which documents they indicated that at the times of these transactions they were of Fayette County, Kentucky.
On August 7, 1819 Leonard Keeling Bradley set his hand to and signed before witnesses a document wherein he said he was “of the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky” . Within that document, which is recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page 437, Bradley transferred personalty and slaves.
On September 21, 1819 Leonard K. Bradley appeared before the Fayette County Clerk and produced and acknowledged a document. This transaction, regarding 120 acres and personalty, can be found recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page527.
On July 14, 1820, at Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office Deed Book “U” page 249, Leonard K. Bradley set forth within a mortgage he then gave to Terry Bradley that he, Leonard, was “of Fayette County the State of Kentucky”.
On January 10, 1822, and recorded on August 7, 1822, in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “V” at page 503, a quit claim deed was issued by the Bradleys to William Fisher. Within that 1822 signed document it is stated that “...we Leonard K. Bradley and Mary his wife, of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky...quit claim unto William Fisher...land...in the said County of Fayette, on the waters of North Elkhorn which is embraced in a patent to Samuel Boon [husband of Sarah Day Boone], the father of the said Mary....” This document not only evidences that in 1822 both Leonard Keeling and Mary Boone Bradley still resided in Fayette County, Kentucky but it also evidences that by that date Sarah Day Boone had probably already died because the Bradley’s were deeding away Samuel Boone’s land. Samuel Boone’s land more than likely would only have come to his daughter, Mary Boone Bradley, and her husband, by inheritance which would have required that both Samuel Boone and his wife, Sarah Day Boone, who would have had at least a dower interest in her husband’s land holdings, had both become deceased prior to this 1822 transaction.
On October 23, 1824 Leonard Keeling and Mary Polly Bradley alleged in a document filed with the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky”. This allegation was recorded approximately five months later in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “Z” at page 140. The Bradley’s claim that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” was made in a document regarding 50.5 acres on Boggs Fork. The original October of 1824 document was not submitted to the Fayette County Clerk for filing until March 31, 1825. At that time the document was presented to the Fayette County Clerk by two persons other than the Bradleys and the document was recorded on the sworn oath of those two persons. That the Bradleys did not personally offer the document to the Clerk for filing could be an indication that the Bradleys were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” on October 23, 1824 when this document was originally created but that between October 23, 1824 and March 31, 1825, when the document was finally recorded by the Fayette County Clerk, the Bradleys may have left Kentucky and relocated in Missouri. It may have been that their departure to Missouri necessitated the presentation of the document to the Fayette County Clerk by others and necessitated the authentication of said document to the Clerk by sworn oath of two persons other than the Bradleys because the Bradleys were no longer living anywhere nearby.
In summation, there are three documents recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s office between 1820 and 1825 in which Leonard Keeling Bradley and/or his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley portrayed themselves as being of Fayette County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and there are two such documents so recorded in 1819. Consequently, proof exists to establish a very strong likelihood that until as late as October of 1824 the Bradleys resided in Fayette County, Kentucky , and not in Randolph County, Missouri. Pursuant to these documents the earliest the Bradleys would have moved to Randloph County, Missouri would have been after October 23, 1824.
If Sarah Day Boone died in 1819 in the home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley, and daughter, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, then evidence supports that Sarah Day Boone died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Interestingly, if Sarah Day Boone had retained until her death her dower interest in her husband, Samuel Boone’s land on the North Elkhorn and had lived there, then, more correctly Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary Boone Bradley may have made their home with Sarah Day Boone. Sarah Day Boone may have died in the home of Sarah Day Boone which was also occupied by her daughter, Mary Boone Bradley and Mary’s husband, Leonard Keeling Bradley. That in 1822 the Bradleys quit claimed Samuel Boone’s North Elkhorn land patent to William Fisher suggests that at Sarah Day Boone’s death in 1819 Sarah Day Boone may still have retained an interest in that land. It would be unlikely that the Bradleys and Sarah Day Boone would have uprooted from and abandoned Kentucky land, in which they had an interest, to journey to Missouri. This would be especially so when Sarah Day would have been greatly advanced in age.
Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is often cited for the mistaken proposition that Sarah Day Boone moved to Missouri before her death and that she died in and is buried in Randolph County, Missouri. Hazel Atterbury Spraker mistakenly relied on that manuscript for that mistaken assertion. Manuscript 29 C 77 has been misinterpreted and erroneously relied upon for any such proposition. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is an “interview” with James Bradley, grandson of Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley. The term “interview” is used very loosely as information apparently was solicited by Lyman Draper from James Bradley in a manner that was often utilized by Draper in that Draper submitted a list of questions to an “interviewee” and later received a written response to those questions. Often, as is the case with the James Bradley papers, the microfilmed response does not show the questions asked by Draper, but, instead, merely sets forth numbered written answers to the mysteriously absent questions Draper posed on another paper. Resultingly, sometimes the answers are peculiar and difficult to understand as they make disjointed comments out of the context of the question that provoked them. To read and make sense of them is much like trying to discern what all is being said by hearing only one half of a phone conversation. James Bradley’s manuscript responses are numbered, presumably to correspond with the also numbered, but separately presented, questions he was being asked.
In answer #2 James Bradley reports “I have no record [of what we do not know, as the question is missing].” He continues, in answer #2 that, “Sam’l Boone died before my recollection but my great grand [presumably, though not so stated this is a reference to Sarah Day Boone] mother died about 1819 - she died at the house of my grand father Bradley.” Please note that though one could assume that James Bradley’s grandfather, Leonard Keeling Bradley and his wife, Mary “Polly” Bradley also lived in this house at the time of Sarah Day Boone’s death, this is not stated explicitly. This is all that is written in response #2.
A new paragraph numbered “3.” now begins. It states in its entirety: “I do not know.”
The next new paragraph numbered “4-.” begins and merely states: “He with all others had to keep themselves in readiness at all times to go, and always be on the lookout.”
A paragraph numbered “5th” comes next and says in its entirety: “I have none.”
The #6 paragraph states merely: “I can not.”
The #7 response says only: “I have heard the name of one Calloway.”
In the right hand margin of the page on which James Bradley gives these responses and off to the side of the answers to questions #1 and #2 the margin space is clear and empty. However, in the right hand margin of the page below the answers to #1 and #2 and off to the side of the answer to #3 begins what is thought by many to be the handwritten note of Lyman Draper. Draper’s note, beginning to the right side of the answer to #3, appears to have no connection whatsoever to James Bradley’s prior numbered 1 and 2 responses involving his Kentucky great grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Day Boone or their deaths. There in the right margin off to the side of the answers numbered 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Draper wrote: “ one [not ALL] of the inquiries I made [undecipherable] Wm Bradely [space] he knows nothing [space] was whether he had any knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri? L C Draper.” These notes regarding Missouri deaths are well below the portion of the interview pertaining to Sarah Day Boone and, thus, are obviously inapplicable to her. Draper seems to be noting that for #3 Draper had inquired about Wm Bradley and noted that James Bradley’s #3 “I do not know” response indicated James Bradley “knows nothing” about Wm. Bradley. Draper also seems to be noting that James Bradley’s response #5 of that “I have none” indicates that James Bradley had no “knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri.” Moreover, even if these notes had been applicable to the portion of the responses regarding both Samuel and Sarah Day Boone, Draper is making it exceedingly clear that James Bradley knew “nothing” and had no knowledge of “traditions” regarding burials of Boones, generally, in Missouri. Consequently, this interview cannot be the basis for a conclusion that either Samuel and/or Sarah Day Boone and/or, for that matter, any Boone was ever buried in Missouri. Any reliance on Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 for the proposition that Sarah Day Boone died in the home of Leonard Keeling Bradley while he lived in that home or that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri or that Sarah Day Boone is buried in Missouri is a seriously mistaken reliance. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 offers absolutely no support for any such concept. Instead, 29 C 77 refutes the concept that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri. On Sunday, May 10, 1925 the Lexington Herald newspaper reported at page 1, section 2, that Mary Boon[e] Bradley (Mrs. Leonard Keeling Bradley) “removed to Missouri with her husband about 1820 or later.” [Emphasis added.] This would have been after Sarah Day Boone died.
That Sarah Day Boone died and is buried alongside her husband at Boone Station, in accordance with Captain John Waller DAR Chapter and Boone/Barker family tradition, can be established by Leonard Keeling Bradley’s pension’s mailing address and whether it was sent to a Fayette County, Kentucky address until about 1825. Such would indicate that Leonard Keeling Bradley resided in Fayette County, Kentucky until about 1825.
CONCLUSION
Boone/Barker family tradition says that Sarah Day Boone is buried next to her husband, Samuel Boone, brother of the famed pioneer, Daniel Boone, in the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station in Fayette County, Kentucky on the Gentry Lane nearby to Cross Plains/Athens. It is highly likely that Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone and sister-in-law of Daniel Boone is buried at what is now the Boone Station State Historical Site. Others and other Boones are very likely also buried on Boone Station State Historical Site lands. These long consecrated and hallowed graves are the only Kentucky land these pioneer Boones successfully perpetually claimed and possessed.
© Copyright 2009 by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones.
http://jkhg.org/sarah_day_boones_burial.htm
“Daniel’s brother Samuel was born in 1728 according to the records of Squire Boone, Jr. Samuel had a very intelligent wife (Sarah Day) who taught my father (Daniel) to read, spell, and write a little. This was all the education Daniel ever had, as he never attended school. But he acquired more education by his own efforts, particularly in writing, as he could at first do little more than rudely write his own name.”
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SARAH DAY BOONE’S BURIAL
By Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone, sister-in-law of Daniel Boone, is buried at the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station State Historical Site on the Gentry Road, near Athens (formerly Cross Plains) in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Her burial at Boone Station State Historic Site is commemorated on the burial monument at the site which monument was erected, in part, in her memory by the Captain John Waller Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and by the Boone Descendants.
The Kentucky General Assembly conferred upon Dr. Thomas D. Clark permanent status as Kentucky’s Historian Laureate. Dr. Thomas Clark twice dedicated the Boone Station Boone Descendants/ D.A.R. burial monument bearing Sarah Day Boone’s name and memorializing her Boone Station burial. Dr. Clark first did so on June 10, 1967. To emphasize his convictions, Dr. Clark re-dedicated the same burial monument in a well publicized 1997 ceremony at Boone Station. The Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, Kentucky is named for Dr. Thomas D. Clark.
The popular myth, provoked by an apparent error in Hazel Atterbury Spraker’s 1922 Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont published book, The Boone Family, (see page 58 entry #22, as reprinted by Higginson Book Compay), is that Sarah Day Boone’s circa 1819 death ( see Draper Manuscript 29 C 77) took place at the then Randolph County, Missouri home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley and that her remains are interred at an unknown location in Missouri. Evidence establishes that about 1819 Sarah Day Boone did live with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary “Polly” and Leonard Keeling Bradley, however, they all then lived in Fayette County, Kentucky where the Bradleys remained until about 1825.
The 1820 Fayette County, Kentucky census indicates that Leonard Keeling Bradley was living in Fayette County, Kentucky .
Supposedly, according to Elsie Dixon’s Manuscript, the Bradleys did not arrive in Randolph County, Missouri until 1824-1825.
A number of documents recorded in the Fayette County Clerk’s Office establish that in 1819 and well into the 1820's Leonard Keeling Bradley, and sometimes his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, signed and caused to be recorded documents transferring Fayette County property in which documents they indicated that at the times of these transactions they were of Fayette County, Kentucky.
On August 7, 1819 Leonard Keeling Bradley set his hand to and signed before witnesses a document wherein he said he was “of the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky” . Within that document, which is recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page 437, Bradley transferred personalty and slaves.
On September 21, 1819 Leonard K. Bradley appeared before the Fayette County Clerk and produced and acknowledged a document. This transaction, regarding 120 acres and personalty, can be found recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page527.
On July 14, 1820, at Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office Deed Book “U” page 249, Leonard K. Bradley set forth within a mortgage he then gave to Terry Bradley that he, Leonard, was “of Fayette County the State of Kentucky”.
On January 10, 1822, and recorded on August 7, 1822, in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “V” at page 503, a quit claim deed was issued by the Bradleys to William Fisher. Within that 1822 signed document it is stated that “...we Leonard K. Bradley and Mary his wife, of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky...quit claim unto William Fisher...land...in the said County of Fayette, on the waters of North Elkhorn which is embraced in a patent to Samuel Boon [husband of Sarah Day Boone], the father of the said Mary....” This document not only evidences that in 1822 both Leonard Keeling and Mary Boone Bradley still resided in Fayette County, Kentucky but it also evidences that by that date Sarah Day Boone had probably already died because the Bradley’s were deeding away Samuel Boone’s land. Samuel Boone’s land more than likely would only have come to his daughter, Mary Boone Bradley, and her husband, by inheritance which would have required that both Samuel Boone and his wife, Sarah Day Boone, who would have had at least a dower interest in her husband’s land holdings, had both become deceased prior to this 1822 transaction.
On October 23, 1824 Leonard Keeling and Mary Polly Bradley alleged in a document filed with the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky”. This allegation was recorded approximately five months later in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “Z” at page 140. The Bradley’s claim that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” was made in a document regarding 50.5 acres on Boggs Fork. The original October of 1824 document was not submitted to the Fayette County Clerk for filing until March 31, 1825. At that time the document was presented to the Fayette County Clerk by two persons other than the Bradleys and the document was recorded on the sworn oath of those two persons. That the Bradleys did not personally offer the document to the Clerk for filing could be an indication that the Bradleys were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” on October 23, 1824 when this document was originally created but that between October 23, 1824 and March 31, 1825, when the document was finally recorded by the Fayette County Clerk, the Bradleys may have left Kentucky and relocated in Missouri. It may have been that their departure to Missouri necessitated the presentation of the document to the Fayette County Clerk by others and necessitated the authentication of said document to the Clerk by sworn oath of two persons other than the Bradleys because the Bradleys were no longer living anywhere nearby.
In summation, there are three documents recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s office between 1820 and 1825 in which Leonard Keeling Bradley and/or his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley portrayed themselves as being of Fayette County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and there are two such documents so recorded in 1819. Consequently, proof exists to establish a very strong likelihood that until as late as October of 1824 the Bradleys resided in Fayette County, Kentucky , and not in Randolph County, Missouri. Pursuant to these documents the earliest the Bradleys would have moved to Randloph County, Missouri would have been after October 23, 1824.
If Sarah Day Boone died in 1819 in the home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley, and daughter, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, then evidence supports that Sarah Day Boone died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Interestingly, if Sarah Day Boone had retained until her death her dower interest in her husband, Samuel Boone’s land on the North Elkhorn and had lived there, then, more correctly Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary Boone Bradley may have made their home with Sarah Day Boone. Sarah Day Boone may have died in the home of Sarah Day Boone which was also occupied by her daughter, Mary Boone Bradley and Mary’s husband, Leonard Keeling Bradley. That in 1822 the Bradleys quit claimed Samuel Boone’s North Elkhorn land patent to William Fisher suggests that at Sarah Day Boone’s death in 1819 Sarah Day Boone may still have retained an interest in that land. It would be unlikely that the Bradleys and Sarah Day Boone would have uprooted from and abandoned Kentucky land, in which they had an interest, to journey to Missouri. This would be especially so when Sarah Day would have been greatly advanced in age.
Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is often cited for the mistaken proposition that Sarah Day Boone moved to Missouri before her death and that she died in and is buried in Randolph County, Missouri. Hazel Atterbury Spraker mistakenly relied on that manuscript for that mistaken assertion. Manuscript 29 C 77 has been misinterpreted and erroneously relied upon for any such proposition. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is an “interview” with James Bradley, grandson of Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley. The term “interview” is used very loosely as information apparently was solicited by Lyman Draper from James Bradley in a manner that was often utilized by Draper in that Draper submitted a list of questions to an “interviewee” and later received a written response to those questions. Often, as is the case with the James Bradley papers, the microfilmed response does not show the questions asked by Draper, but, instead, merely sets forth numbered written answers to the mysteriously absent questions Draper posed on another paper. Resultingly, sometimes the answers are peculiar and difficult to understand as they make disjointed comments out of the context of the question that provoked them. To read and make sense of them is much like trying to discern what all is being said by hearing only one half of a phone conversation. James Bradley’s manuscript responses are numbered, presumably to correspond with the also numbered, but separately presented, questions he was being asked.
In answer #2 James Bradley reports “I have no record [of what we do not know, as the question is missing].” He continues, in answer #2 that, “Sam’l Boone died before my recollection but my great grand [presumably, though not so stated this is a reference to Sarah Day Boone] mother died about 1819 - she died at the house of my grand father Bradley.” Please note that though one could assume that James Bradley’s grandfather, Leonard Keeling Bradley and his wife, Mary “Polly” Bradley also lived in this house at the time of Sarah Day Boone’s death, this is not stated explicitly. This is all that is written in response #2.
A new paragraph numbered “3.” now begins. It states in its entirety: “I do not know.”
The next new paragraph numbered “4-.” begins and merely states: “He with all others had to keep themselves in readiness at all times to go, and always be on the lookout.”
A paragraph numbered “5th” comes next and says in its entirety: “I have none.”
The #6 paragraph states merely: “I can not.”
The #7 response says only: “I have heard the name of one Calloway.”
In the right hand margin of the page on which James Bradley gives these responses and off to the side of the answers to questions #1 and #2 the margin space is clear and empty. However, in the right hand margin of the page below the answers to #1 and #2 and off to the side of the answer to #3 begins what is thought by many to be the handwritten note of Lyman Draper. Draper’s note, beginning to the right side of the answer to #3, appears to have no connection whatsoever to James Bradley’s prior numbered 1 and 2 responses involving his Kentucky great grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Day Boone or their deaths. There in the right margin off to the side of the answers numbered 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Draper wrote: “ one [not ALL] of the inquiries I made [undecipherable] Wm Bradely [space] he knows nothing [space] was whether he had any knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri? L C Draper.” These notes regarding Missouri deaths are well below the portion of the interview pertaining to Sarah Day Boone and, thus, are obviously inapplicable to her. Draper seems to be noting that for #3 Draper had inquired about Wm Bradley and noted that James Bradley’s #3 “I do not know” response indicated James Bradley “knows nothing” about Wm. Bradley. Draper also seems to be noting that James Bradley’s response #5 of that “I have none” indicates that James Bradley had no “knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri.” Moreover, even if these notes had been applicable to the portion of the responses regarding both Samuel and Sarah Day Boone, Draper is making it exceedingly clear that James Bradley knew “nothing” and had no knowledge of “traditions” regarding burials of Boones, generally, in Missouri. Consequently, this interview cannot be the basis for a conclusion that either Samuel and/or Sarah Day Boone and/or, for that matter, any Boone was ever buried in Missouri. Any reliance on Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 for the proposition that Sarah Day Boone died in the home of Leonard Keeling Bradley while he lived in that home or that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri or that Sarah Day Boone is buried in Missouri is a seriously mistaken reliance. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 offers absolutely no support for any such concept. Instead, 29 C 77 refutes the concept that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri. On Sunday, May 10, 1925 the Lexington Herald newspaper reported at page 1, section 2, that Mary Boon[e] Bradley (Mrs. Leonard Keeling Bradley) “removed to Missouri with her husband about 1820 or later.” [Emphasis added.] This would have been after Sarah Day Boone died.
That Sarah Day Boone died and is buried alongside her husband at Boone Station, in accordance with Captain John Waller DAR Chapter and Boone/Barker family tradition, can be established by Leonard Keeling Bradley’s pension’s mailing address and whether it was sent to a Fayette County, Kentucky address until about 1825. Such would indicate that Leonard Keeling Bradley resided in Fayette County, Kentucky until about 1825.
CONCLUSION
Boone/Barker family tradition says that Sarah Day Boone is buried next to her husband, Samuel Boone, brother of the famed pioneer, Daniel Boone, in the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station in Fayette County, Kentucky on the Gentry Lane nearby to Cross Plains/Athens. It is highly likely that Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone and sister-in-law of Daniel Boone is buried at what is now the Boone Station State Historical Site. Others and other Boones are very likely also buried on Boone Station State Historical Site lands. These long consecrated and hallowed graves are the only Kentucky land these pioneer Boones successfully perpetually claimed and possessed.
© Copyright 2009 by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones.
http://jkhg.org/sarah_day_boones_burial.htm
Notes for Sarah (Spouse 1)
35Sarah (Day) Boone, wife of Samuel, lived after her husband’s death with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Leonard Bradley, in Missouri. It was to her that Daniel Bone wrote the well-known letter, inwhich he states his simple profession of faith. As a reproduction of this letter given in Thwaite’s “Life of Daniel Boone,” only a transcription is given here:
October the 17th, 1816
“Dear Sister
With Pleasuer I red a later from your sun Samuel Boone who informs me that you are yet Living and in good health considering your age I wright to you to Latt you know I have not forgot you and to inform you of my own situation Sence the Death of your Sister Rabacah I Live with flanders Calaway But am at present at my sun Nathans and in tolerable halth you can gass at my feilings by your own as we are So Near one age I Need Not write you of our Satuation as Samuel Bradley or James Grimes’ Can inform you of Every Surcomstance Relating to our family and how we live in this World and what Chance we shall have in the next we know Not for my part I am as ignerant as a Child all the Relegan I have to Love and fear God beleve in Jeses Christ Dow all the good to my Nighbours and my Self that I can and Do as Little Harm as I can help and trust on God’s marcy for the Rest and I Beleve god never made a man of my prinsepal to be Lost and I flatter myself Dear Sister that you are well on your way in Cristianaty gave my Love to all your Children and all my frends fearwell my Dear Sister
Daniel Boone
Mrs
Sarah Boone
N B
I red a Lator yesterday from Sister Hanah peninton by hir gand sun Dal Ringe She and all hir Chilfren are well at present
D B”
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SARAH DAY BOONE’S BURIAL
By Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone, sister-in-law of Daniel Boone, is buried at the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station State Historical Site on the Gentry Road, near Athens (formerly Cross Plains) in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Her burial at Boone Station State Historic Site is commemorated on the burial monument at the site which monument was erected, in part, in her memory by the Captain John Waller Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and by the Boone Descendants.
The Kentucky General Assembly conferred upon Dr. Thomas D. Clark permanent status as Kentucky’s Historian Laureate. Dr. Thomas Clark twice dedicated the Boone Station Boone Descendants/ D.A.R. burial monument bearing Sarah Day Boone’s name and memorializing her Boone Station burial. Dr. Clark first did so on June 10, 1967. To emphasize his convictions, Dr. Clark re-dedicated the same burial monument in a well publicized 1997 ceremony at Boone Station. The Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, Kentucky is named for Dr. Thomas D. Clark.
The popular myth, provoked by an apparent error in Hazel Atterbury Spraker’s 1922 Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont published book, The Boone Family, (see page 58 entry #22, as reprinted by Higginson Book Compay), is that Sarah Day Boone’s circa 1819 death ( see Draper Manuscript 29 C 77) took place at the then Randolph County, Missouri home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley and that her remains are interred at an unknown location in Missouri. Evidence establishes that about 1819 Sarah Day Boone did live with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary “Polly” and Leonard Keeling Bradley, however, they all then lived in Fayette County, Kentucky where the Bradleys remained until about 1825.
The 1820 Fayette County, Kentucky census indicates that Leonard Keeling Bradley was living in Fayette County, Kentucky .
Supposedly, according to Elsie Dixon’s Manuscript, the Bradleys did not arrive in Randolph County, Missouri until 1824-1825.
A number of documents recorded in the Fayette County Clerk’s Office establish that in 1819 and well into the 1820's Leonard Keeling Bradley, and sometimes his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, signed and caused to be recorded documents transferring Fayette County property in which documents they indicated that at the times of these transactions they were of Fayette County, Kentucky.
On August 7, 1819 Leonard Keeling Bradley set his hand to and signed before witnesses a document wherein he said he was “of the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky” . Within that document, which is recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page 437, Bradley transferred personalty and slaves.
On September 21, 1819 Leonard K. Bradley appeared before the Fayette County Clerk and produced and acknowledged a document. This transaction, regarding 120 acres and personalty, can be found recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page527.
On July 14, 1820, at Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office Deed Book “U” page 249, Leonard K. Bradley set forth within a mortgage he then gave to Terry Bradley that he, Leonard, was “of Fayette County the State of Kentucky”.
On January 10, 1822, and recorded on August 7, 1822, in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “V” at page 503, a quit claim deed was issued by the Bradleys to William Fisher. Within that 1822 signed document it is stated that “...we Leonard K. Bradley and Mary his wife, of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky...quit claim unto William Fisher...land...in the said County of Fayette, on the waters of North Elkhorn which is embraced in a patent to Samuel Boon [husband of Sarah Day Boone], the father of the said Mary....” This document not only evidences that in 1822 both Leonard Keeling and Mary Boone Bradley still resided in Fayette County, Kentucky but it also evidences that by that date Sarah Day Boone had probably already died because the Bradley’s were deeding away Samuel Boone’s land. Samuel Boone’s land more than likely would only have come to his daughter, Mary Boone Bradley, and her husband, by inheritance which would have required that both Samuel Boone and his wife, Sarah Day Boone, who would have had at least a dower interest in her husband’s land holdings, had both become deceased prior to this 1822 transaction.
On October 23, 1824 Leonard Keeling and Mary Polly Bradley alleged in a document filed with the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky”. This allegation was recorded approximately five months later in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “Z” at page 140. The Bradley’s claim that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” was made in a document regarding 50.5 acres on Boggs Fork. The original October of 1824 document was not submitted to the Fayette County Clerk for filing until March 31, 1825. At that time the document was presented to the Fayette County Clerk by two persons other than the Bradleys and the document was recorded on the sworn oath of those two persons. That the Bradleys did not personally offer the document to the Clerk for filing could be an indication that the Bradleys were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” on October 23, 1824 when this document was originally created but that between October 23, 1824 and March 31, 1825, when the document was finally recorded by the Fayette County Clerk, the Bradleys may have left Kentucky and relocated in Missouri. It may have been that their departure to Missouri necessitated the presentation of the document to the Fayette County Clerk by others and necessitated the authentication of said document to the Clerk by sworn oath of two persons other than the Bradleys because the Bradleys were no longer living anywhere nearby.
In summation, there are three documents recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s office between 1820 and 1825 in which Leonard Keeling Bradley and/or his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley portrayed themselves as being of Fayette County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and there are two such documents so recorded in 1819. Consequently, proof exists to establish a very strong likelihood that until as late as October of 1824 the Bradleys resided in Fayette County, Kentucky , and not in Randolph County, Missouri. Pursuant to these documents the earliest the Bradleys would have moved to Randloph County, Missouri would have been after October 23, 1824.
If Sarah Day Boone died in 1819 in the home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley, and daughter, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, then evidence supports that Sarah Day Boone died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Interestingly, if Sarah Day Boone had retained until her death her dower interest in her husband, Samuel Boone’s land on the North Elkhorn and had lived there, then, more correctly Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary Boone Bradley may have made their home with Sarah Day Boone. Sarah Day Boone may have died in the home of Sarah Day Boone which was also occupied by her daughter, Mary Boone Bradley and Mary’s husband, Leonard Keeling Bradley. That in 1822 the Bradleys quit claimed Samuel Boone’s North Elkhorn land patent to William Fisher suggests that at Sarah Day Boone’s death in 1819 Sarah Day Boone may still have retained an interest in that land. It would be unlikely that the Bradleys and Sarah Day Boone would have uprooted from and abandoned Kentucky land, in which they had an interest, to journey to Missouri. This would be especially so when Sarah Day would have been greatly advanced in age.
Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is often cited for the mistaken proposition that Sarah Day Boone moved to Missouri before her death and that she died in and is buried in Randolph County, Missouri. Hazel Atterbury Spraker mistakenly relied on that manuscript for that mistaken assertion. Manuscript 29 C 77 has been misinterpreted and erroneously relied upon for any such proposition. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is an “interview” with James Bradley, grandson of Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley. The term “interview” is used very loosely as information apparently was solicited by Lyman Draper from James Bradley in a manner that was often utilized by Draper in that Draper submitted a list of questions to an “interviewee” and later received a written response to those questions. Often, as is the case with the James Bradley papers, the microfilmed response does not show the questions asked by Draper, but, instead, merely sets forth numbered written answers to the mysteriously absent questions Draper posed on another paper. Resultingly, sometimes the answers are peculiar and difficult to understand as they make disjointed comments out of the context of the question that provoked them. To read and make sense of them is much like trying to discern what all is being said by hearing only one half of a phone conversation. James Bradley’s manuscript responses are numbered, presumably to correspond with the also numbered, but separately presented, questions he was being asked.
In answer #2 James Bradley reports “I have no record [of what we do not know, as the question is missing].” He continues, in answer #2 that, “Sam’l Boone died before my recollection but my great grand [presumably, though not so stated this is a reference to Sarah Day Boone] mother died about 1819 - she died at the house of my grand father Bradley.” Please note that though one could assume that James Bradley’s grandfather, Leonard Keeling Bradley and his wife, Mary “Polly” Bradley also lived in this house at the time of Sarah Day Boone’s death, this is not stated explicitly. This is all that is written in response #2.
A new paragraph numbered “3.” now begins. It states in its entirety: “I do not know.”
The next new paragraph numbered “4-.” begins and merely states: “He with all others had to keep themselves in readiness at all times to go, and always be on the lookout.”
A paragraph numbered “5th” comes next and says in its entirety: “I have none.”
The #6 paragraph states merely: “I can not.”
The #7 response says only: “I have heard the name of one Calloway.”
In the right hand margin of the page on which James Bradley gives these responses and off to the side of the answers to questions #1 and #2 the margin space is clear and empty. However, in the right hand margin of the page below the answers to #1 and #2 and off to the side of the answer to #3 begins what is thought by many to be the handwritten note of Lyman Draper. Draper’s note, beginning to the right side of the answer to #3, appears to have no connection whatsoever to James Bradley’s prior numbered 1 and 2 responses involving his Kentucky great grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Day Boone or their deaths. There in the right margin off to the side of the answers numbered 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Draper wrote: “ one [not ALL] of the inquiries I made [undecipherable] Wm Bradely [space] he knows nothing [space] was whether he had any knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri? L C Draper.” These notes regarding Missouri deaths are well below the portion of the interview pertaining to Sarah Day Boone and, thus, are obviously inapplicable to her. Draper seems to be noting that for #3 Draper had inquired about Wm Bradley and noted that James Bradley’s #3 “I do not know” response indicated James Bradley “knows nothing” about Wm. Bradley. Draper also seems to be noting that James Bradley’s response #5 of that “I have none” indicates that James Bradley had no “knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri.” Moreover, even if these notes had been applicable to the portion of the responses regarding both Samuel and Sarah Day Boone, Draper is making it exceedingly clear that James Bradley knew “nothing” and had no knowledge of “traditions” regarding burials of Boones, generally, in Missouri. Consequently, this interview cannot be the basis for a conclusion that either Samuel and/or Sarah Day Boone and/or, for that matter, any Boone was ever buried in Missouri. Any reliance on Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 for the proposition that Sarah Day Boone died in the home of Leonard Keeling Bradley while he lived in that home or that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri or that Sarah Day Boone is buried in Missouri is a seriously mistaken reliance. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 offers absolutely no support for any such concept. Instead, 29 C 77 refutes the concept that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri. On Sunday, May 10, 1925 the Lexington Herald newspaper reported at page 1, section 2, that Mary Boon[e] Bradley (Mrs. Leonard Keeling Bradley) “removed to Missouri with her husband about 1820 or later.” [Emphasis added.] This would have been after Sarah Day Boone died.
That Sarah Day Boone died and is buried alongside her husband at Boone Station, in accordance with Captain John Waller DAR Chapter and Boone/Barker family tradition, can be established by Leonard Keeling Bradley’s pension’s mailing address and whether it was sent to a Fayette County, Kentucky address until about 1825. Such would indicate that Leonard Keeling Bradley resided in Fayette County, Kentucky until about 1825.
CONCLUSION
Boone/Barker family tradition says that Sarah Day Boone is buried next to her husband, Samuel Boone, brother of the famed pioneer, Daniel Boone, in the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station in Fayette County, Kentucky on the Gentry Lane nearby to Cross Plains/Athens. It is highly likely that Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone and sister-in-law of Daniel Boone is buried at what is now the Boone Station State Historical Site. Others and other Boones are very likely also buried on Boone Station State Historical Site lands. These long consecrated and hallowed graves are the only Kentucky land these pioneer Boones successfully perpetually claimed and possessed.
© Copyright 2009 by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones.
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October the 17th, 1816
“Dear Sister
With Pleasuer I red a later from your sun Samuel Boone who informs me that you are yet Living and in good health considering your age I wright to you to Latt you know I have not forgot you and to inform you of my own situation Sence the Death of your Sister Rabacah I Live with flanders Calaway But am at present at my sun Nathans and in tolerable halth you can gass at my feilings by your own as we are So Near one age I Need Not write you of our Satuation as Samuel Bradley or James Grimes’ Can inform you of Every Surcomstance Relating to our family and how we live in this World and what Chance we shall have in the next we know Not for my part I am as ignerant as a Child all the Relegan I have to Love and fear God beleve in Jeses Christ Dow all the good to my Nighbours and my Self that I can and Do as Little Harm as I can help and trust on God’s marcy for the Rest and I Beleve god never made a man of my prinsepal to be Lost and I flatter myself Dear Sister that you are well on your way in Cristianaty gave my Love to all your Children and all my frends fearwell my Dear Sister
Daniel Boone
Mrs
Sarah Boone
N B
I red a Lator yesterday from Sister Hanah peninton by hir gand sun Dal Ringe She and all hir Chilfren are well at present
D B”
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SARAH DAY BOONE’S BURIAL
By Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D.
Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone, sister-in-law of Daniel Boone, is buried at the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station State Historical Site on the Gentry Road, near Athens (formerly Cross Plains) in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Her burial at Boone Station State Historic Site is commemorated on the burial monument at the site which monument was erected, in part, in her memory by the Captain John Waller Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and by the Boone Descendants.
The Kentucky General Assembly conferred upon Dr. Thomas D. Clark permanent status as Kentucky’s Historian Laureate. Dr. Thomas Clark twice dedicated the Boone Station Boone Descendants/ D.A.R. burial monument bearing Sarah Day Boone’s name and memorializing her Boone Station burial. Dr. Clark first did so on June 10, 1967. To emphasize his convictions, Dr. Clark re-dedicated the same burial monument in a well publicized 1997 ceremony at Boone Station. The Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, Kentucky is named for Dr. Thomas D. Clark.
The popular myth, provoked by an apparent error in Hazel Atterbury Spraker’s 1922 Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont published book, The Boone Family, (see page 58 entry #22, as reprinted by Higginson Book Compay), is that Sarah Day Boone’s circa 1819 death ( see Draper Manuscript 29 C 77) took place at the then Randolph County, Missouri home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley and that her remains are interred at an unknown location in Missouri. Evidence establishes that about 1819 Sarah Day Boone did live with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary “Polly” and Leonard Keeling Bradley, however, they all then lived in Fayette County, Kentucky where the Bradleys remained until about 1825.
The 1820 Fayette County, Kentucky census indicates that Leonard Keeling Bradley was living in Fayette County, Kentucky .
Supposedly, according to Elsie Dixon’s Manuscript, the Bradleys did not arrive in Randolph County, Missouri until 1824-1825.
A number of documents recorded in the Fayette County Clerk’s Office establish that in 1819 and well into the 1820's Leonard Keeling Bradley, and sometimes his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, signed and caused to be recorded documents transferring Fayette County property in which documents they indicated that at the times of these transactions they were of Fayette County, Kentucky.
On August 7, 1819 Leonard Keeling Bradley set his hand to and signed before witnesses a document wherein he said he was “of the County of Fayette and State of Kentucky” . Within that document, which is recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page 437, Bradley transferred personalty and slaves.
On September 21, 1819 Leonard K. Bradley appeared before the Fayette County Clerk and produced and acknowledged a document. This transaction, regarding 120 acres and personalty, can be found recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office at Deed Book “S” page527.
On July 14, 1820, at Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office Deed Book “U” page 249, Leonard K. Bradley set forth within a mortgage he then gave to Terry Bradley that he, Leonard, was “of Fayette County the State of Kentucky”.
On January 10, 1822, and recorded on August 7, 1822, in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “V” at page 503, a quit claim deed was issued by the Bradleys to William Fisher. Within that 1822 signed document it is stated that “...we Leonard K. Bradley and Mary his wife, of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky...quit claim unto William Fisher...land...in the said County of Fayette, on the waters of North Elkhorn which is embraced in a patent to Samuel Boon [husband of Sarah Day Boone], the father of the said Mary....” This document not only evidences that in 1822 both Leonard Keeling and Mary Boone Bradley still resided in Fayette County, Kentucky but it also evidences that by that date Sarah Day Boone had probably already died because the Bradley’s were deeding away Samuel Boone’s land. Samuel Boone’s land more than likely would only have come to his daughter, Mary Boone Bradley, and her husband, by inheritance which would have required that both Samuel Boone and his wife, Sarah Day Boone, who would have had at least a dower interest in her husband’s land holdings, had both become deceased prior to this 1822 transaction.
On October 23, 1824 Leonard Keeling and Mary Polly Bradley alleged in a document filed with the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky”. This allegation was recorded approximately five months later in Fayette County Clerk’s Office Deed Book “Z” at page 140. The Bradley’s claim that they were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” was made in a document regarding 50.5 acres on Boggs Fork. The original October of 1824 document was not submitted to the Fayette County Clerk for filing until March 31, 1825. At that time the document was presented to the Fayette County Clerk by two persons other than the Bradleys and the document was recorded on the sworn oath of those two persons. That the Bradleys did not personally offer the document to the Clerk for filing could be an indication that the Bradleys were “of the County of Fayette and Commonwealth of Kentucky” on October 23, 1824 when this document was originally created but that between October 23, 1824 and March 31, 1825, when the document was finally recorded by the Fayette County Clerk, the Bradleys may have left Kentucky and relocated in Missouri. It may have been that their departure to Missouri necessitated the presentation of the document to the Fayette County Clerk by others and necessitated the authentication of said document to the Clerk by sworn oath of two persons other than the Bradleys because the Bradleys were no longer living anywhere nearby.
In summation, there are three documents recorded in the Fayette County, Kentucky Clerk’s office between 1820 and 1825 in which Leonard Keeling Bradley and/or his wife, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley portrayed themselves as being of Fayette County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and there are two such documents so recorded in 1819. Consequently, proof exists to establish a very strong likelihood that until as late as October of 1824 the Bradleys resided in Fayette County, Kentucky , and not in Randolph County, Missouri. Pursuant to these documents the earliest the Bradleys would have moved to Randloph County, Missouri would have been after October 23, 1824.
If Sarah Day Boone died in 1819 in the home of her son-in-law, Leonard Keeling Bradley, and daughter, Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley, then evidence supports that Sarah Day Boone died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Interestingly, if Sarah Day Boone had retained until her death her dower interest in her husband, Samuel Boone’s land on the North Elkhorn and had lived there, then, more correctly Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary Boone Bradley may have made their home with Sarah Day Boone. Sarah Day Boone may have died in the home of Sarah Day Boone which was also occupied by her daughter, Mary Boone Bradley and Mary’s husband, Leonard Keeling Bradley. That in 1822 the Bradleys quit claimed Samuel Boone’s North Elkhorn land patent to William Fisher suggests that at Sarah Day Boone’s death in 1819 Sarah Day Boone may still have retained an interest in that land. It would be unlikely that the Bradleys and Sarah Day Boone would have uprooted from and abandoned Kentucky land, in which they had an interest, to journey to Missouri. This would be especially so when Sarah Day would have been greatly advanced in age.
Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is often cited for the mistaken proposition that Sarah Day Boone moved to Missouri before her death and that she died in and is buried in Randolph County, Missouri. Hazel Atterbury Spraker mistakenly relied on that manuscript for that mistaken assertion. Manuscript 29 C 77 has been misinterpreted and erroneously relied upon for any such proposition. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 is an “interview” with James Bradley, grandson of Leonard Keeling Bradley and Mary “Polly” Boone Bradley. The term “interview” is used very loosely as information apparently was solicited by Lyman Draper from James Bradley in a manner that was often utilized by Draper in that Draper submitted a list of questions to an “interviewee” and later received a written response to those questions. Often, as is the case with the James Bradley papers, the microfilmed response does not show the questions asked by Draper, but, instead, merely sets forth numbered written answers to the mysteriously absent questions Draper posed on another paper. Resultingly, sometimes the answers are peculiar and difficult to understand as they make disjointed comments out of the context of the question that provoked them. To read and make sense of them is much like trying to discern what all is being said by hearing only one half of a phone conversation. James Bradley’s manuscript responses are numbered, presumably to correspond with the also numbered, but separately presented, questions he was being asked.
In answer #2 James Bradley reports “I have no record [of what we do not know, as the question is missing].” He continues, in answer #2 that, “Sam’l Boone died before my recollection but my great grand [presumably, though not so stated this is a reference to Sarah Day Boone] mother died about 1819 - she died at the house of my grand father Bradley.” Please note that though one could assume that James Bradley’s grandfather, Leonard Keeling Bradley and his wife, Mary “Polly” Bradley also lived in this house at the time of Sarah Day Boone’s death, this is not stated explicitly. This is all that is written in response #2.
A new paragraph numbered “3.” now begins. It states in its entirety: “I do not know.”
The next new paragraph numbered “4-.” begins and merely states: “He with all others had to keep themselves in readiness at all times to go, and always be on the lookout.”
A paragraph numbered “5th” comes next and says in its entirety: “I have none.”
The #6 paragraph states merely: “I can not.”
The #7 response says only: “I have heard the name of one Calloway.”
In the right hand margin of the page on which James Bradley gives these responses and off to the side of the answers to questions #1 and #2 the margin space is clear and empty. However, in the right hand margin of the page below the answers to #1 and #2 and off to the side of the answer to #3 begins what is thought by many to be the handwritten note of Lyman Draper. Draper’s note, beginning to the right side of the answer to #3, appears to have no connection whatsoever to James Bradley’s prior numbered 1 and 2 responses involving his Kentucky great grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Day Boone or their deaths. There in the right margin off to the side of the answers numbered 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Draper wrote: “ one [not ALL] of the inquiries I made [undecipherable] Wm Bradely [space] he knows nothing [space] was whether he had any knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri? L C Draper.” These notes regarding Missouri deaths are well below the portion of the interview pertaining to Sarah Day Boone and, thus, are obviously inapplicable to her. Draper seems to be noting that for #3 Draper had inquired about Wm Bradley and noted that James Bradley’s #3 “I do not know” response indicated James Bradley “knows nothing” about Wm. Bradley. Draper also seems to be noting that James Bradley’s response #5 of that “I have none” indicates that James Bradley had no “knowledge on traditions of Boone burials in Missouri.” Moreover, even if these notes had been applicable to the portion of the responses regarding both Samuel and Sarah Day Boone, Draper is making it exceedingly clear that James Bradley knew “nothing” and had no knowledge of “traditions” regarding burials of Boones, generally, in Missouri. Consequently, this interview cannot be the basis for a conclusion that either Samuel and/or Sarah Day Boone and/or, for that matter, any Boone was ever buried in Missouri. Any reliance on Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 for the proposition that Sarah Day Boone died in the home of Leonard Keeling Bradley while he lived in that home or that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri or that Sarah Day Boone is buried in Missouri is a seriously mistaken reliance. Draper Manuscript 29 C 77 offers absolutely no support for any such concept. Instead, 29 C 77 refutes the concept that Sarah Day Boone died in Missouri. On Sunday, May 10, 1925 the Lexington Herald newspaper reported at page 1, section 2, that Mary Boon[e] Bradley (Mrs. Leonard Keeling Bradley) “removed to Missouri with her husband about 1820 or later.” [Emphasis added.] This would have been after Sarah Day Boone died.
That Sarah Day Boone died and is buried alongside her husband at Boone Station, in accordance with Captain John Waller DAR Chapter and Boone/Barker family tradition, can be established by Leonard Keeling Bradley’s pension’s mailing address and whether it was sent to a Fayette County, Kentucky address until about 1825. Such would indicate that Leonard Keeling Bradley resided in Fayette County, Kentucky until about 1825.
CONCLUSION
Boone/Barker family tradition says that Sarah Day Boone is buried next to her husband, Samuel Boone, brother of the famed pioneer, Daniel Boone, in the Boone Family Cemetery at Boone Station in Fayette County, Kentucky on the Gentry Lane nearby to Cross Plains/Athens. It is highly likely that Sarah Day Boone, wife of Samuel Boone and sister-in-law of Daniel Boone is buried at what is now the Boone Station State Historical Site. Others and other Boones are very likely also buried on Boone Station State Historical Site lands. These long consecrated and hallowed graves are the only Kentucky land these pioneer Boones successfully perpetually claimed and possessed.
© Copyright 2009 by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones.
http://jkhg.org/sarah_day_boones_burial.htm