541BRYAN FAMILY  Martha Bryan, wife of Edward Boone, was a daughter of Joseph and Alee ( ) Bryan of Virginia. Her grandfather, Morgan Bryan (born 1671 and no revious Morgan connection to indicate that he was given the name Morgan because of family ties) came to America in 1695 and here married Martha Strode in 1719, a descendant of sir William Strode one of the signers of the death warrant of King Charles I. From his brother came the great commoner, William Jennings Bryan. 

The father of Morgan Bryan was Francis Bryan III, who married Sarah Brinker, a cousin of the Prince of Grange, and his father was William Smith Bryan, son of Sir Francis Bryan II(born 1649) and Ann, daughter of Sir William Smith. Sir Francis Bryan II, was a son of Sir Francis Bryan I and Lady Joan Fitz-Gerald, and he was a son of Sir Thomas Bryan and Lady Margaret, daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and parents were Sir John Bourchier (Earl of Eire) and Lady Ann Plantagenet. This Lady Ann was a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (Duke of Gloucester) and Lady Eleanor de Bohun (pronounced Boone and said to be the same family as the American Boones. Thomas of Woodstock was a son of Edward III, king of England and Phillips of Hainault. 

Lady Margaret Bouchier, wife of Sir Thomas Bryan, was a cousin of Queen Ann Boleyn and was a great favorite at the glamorous court of Henry VIII, who had a predeliction for wives. She is said to have been very beautiful and most fascinating and her influence was so great and far-reaching that jealoous courtiers in their "whisperings" even suggested a "royal romance." 
 
 
 

Copy of the Will of Marth Boone 
recorded in Book 1, Page 7, Records 
Clark Count, Ky., copied by 
S.J. Conkwright, Winchester, KY., 
July 13, 1910 for: 
Mrs. Roberta Stuart Sims, 
319 Forest Avenue 
Shreveport, La. 

16A quote from Nathan Boone about Edward’s death:
"I am quite certain my father (Daniel Boone) and his brother (Edward) went to hunt buffalo meat. I think from the locality it was most likely the Upper Blue Licks where they had been. They had their horses loaded with buffalo meat and stopped at the lick, probably for a rest. They were probably leading their horse or horses and had been just stopped a very few minutes, with the lick close at hand. While Father was cracking some black walnuts, Edward saw a deer enter the lick, and stole up and shot the deer and dragged the carcass into the shade nearby. Some Indians who had probably been watching the lick from a canebrake (caneobrake (kEn2brEk1) n. 1. A dense thicket of cane.) Then shot Edward dead.
My father then jumped on a horse and attempted to throw off the load of meat, but the Indians rushed him, so that he had to abandon the horse and dash off into the canebrake. In the bustle he lost his large, cheap, one-bladed pocketknife, which he had in his hand picking out walnut meats, which probably fell into the creek. The Indians chased him into the cane. The Indians had a dog, and Father shot twice at him. Once or twice the dog ran back, and the Indians would sic him on Father again. Finally he shot the dog, and he was confident the Indians never followed him any farther. I think it was two or three miles that the Indians and their dog chased him, and that the entire distance was a canebrake.
In 1822 some people found this knife with ‘D. Boone’ and the year it was purchased engraved on the handle. It was sent to me, and in 1842 I gave it to Dr. Edward Macomb of the U.S. Army, who wished to deposit it in some eastern museum. The doctor was raised in New York City and was probably a brother of General Macomb. He settled there to practice and since died. Judge Roberts I Kentucky says the knife is in the historic cabinet at Washington.
In consequence of Edward Boone’s being killed, that is how Boone Creek and Boone’s Lick received their names."