544“... The four, Stewart, Daniel and Squire Boone, Jr., and Neely, decided to stay longer, hunting and trapping, and made a permanent camp at the mouth of the Red River. There Stewart often went out on solitary hunts, and from one of these he never returned. Five years later when cutting out the “Wilderness Trail,” Boone and his companions discovered, near the old crossing at Rockcastle, the remains of Stewart in a “standing hollow sycamore.” No on ever knew the secret of his death.”

.  Sex  Name
F Sarah (Sally) STEWART (AFN:17J7-RKL)
Born:  1765 Place:  , Rowan, Nc
Died:  1 Sep 1815 Place:  , Macon, Tn
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2.  Sex  Name
F Mary (Polly) STEWART (AFN:17J7-RM1)
Born:  9 May 1766 Place:  Yadkin, Rowan, No.carolina
Died:  1832 Place:  Vermillion, , Il
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3.  Sex  Name
F Elizabeth (Betsy) STEWART (AFN:1ZCG-DS4)
Born:  Abt. 1770 Place:  <Nc>
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4.  Sex  Name
F Rachel STEWART (AFN:17J7-RRT)
Born:  1770 Place:  Yadkin, Rowan, No.carolina
Died:  Oct 1853 Place:  , Platte, Mo
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5.  Sex  Name
F Elizabeth Ann STEWART (AFN:17J7-RPF)
Born:  25 Feb 1770 Place:  , Rowan, Nc
Died:  Aft 1840 Place:  Missouri

Hannah Boone, b. 1746, youngest sister of Col. Daniel Boone, and wife of 1) John Stewart and 2) Richard Pennington, died in Monroe Co., KY on April 9, 1828. 
  She and Richard Pennington brought the eight children from North Carolina and settled in the area about 1798. Hannah was buried at Mill Creek Church nearby, and in 1928, her remains were moved to Old Mulkey Meeting House State Park in Tompkinsville, KY. Hannah's gravestone is broken and repaired and one of the most photographed areas in the park, as is the log meetinghouse. Many Revolutionary War soldiers are interred in the cemetery there as well as early settlers.  

She was buried at Mill Creek Church, and in 1920, her remains were moved to Old Mulkey Meeting House State Park in Tompkinsville, KY.


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”