Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameJohn Stewart Jones 
Birth3 Sep 1828, Warren Co., Missouri
Death3 Mar 1919, Mexico, Missouri
FatherJohn Harvey Jones M.D. (~1798-1842)
MotherMinerva B. Callaway (~1801-1850)
Spouses
Marriage20 Oct 1852, Warren Co., Missouri
Notes for John Stewart Jones
899The following article appeared in a St. Louis paper about 1921:
"About two years ago there occurred at Mexico, MO., the death of John S. Jones, 91 years old,(husband of Nancy Wyatt), great-grandson of Daniel Boone. A few years ago the Mexico Evening Ledger published the following interview held at the time with Mr. Jones.
"It is very uncertain whether the body of Daniel Boone was ever removed from the old Bryan Cemetery at Marthasville, Warren Co., MO., to Frankfort, KY., said John S. Jones of this city, the great-grandson of Boone and father of Lan Jones of this city. Mr. Jones who is 88 years old and has a very active mind, spoke of incidents surrounding the burial place of Boone and his wife only as one can who is intimate with the circumstances and as one relating a family tradition. His father, Dr. John Jones, was Daniel Boone's physician during his declining years and was the source of much of the information we have concerning the pioneer.
"I believe these are grandmother's and grandfather's graves, 'said Susan Bryan* to John S. Wyatt, who placed the marker over the spot 16 years after Boone died. A body was removed from this marked mound and placed in the Frankfort, Ky., Cemetery in 1848. But still doubters, and I am one of them, think that Boone's body was never taken to Frankfort.
"John S. Wyatt, a blacksmith and pioneer of St. Charles County, and a man in whom I have the utmost confidence told me the day they removed my great-grandfather's body, 'They think they have Boone's body but they don't know.'
"'For 16 years his body had lain in the old Bryan Cemetery about a mile from Marthasville, unmarked, 'says Mr. Wyatt. 'David Bryan sent for a stone mason from St. Charles to mark the grave. Watson, the stone mason came up here on Saturday, but forgot his chisel to carve D. B. on the headstone. He came to me to get me to make it rather than to make the extra trip to St. Charles. I suggested that I would make the chisel and do the work for him so that he could return home. Monday I went down to Bryan to have him point out the grave.'
" 'He was ill and sent his daughter Susie with me to the old burial ground. It had been the Bryan cemetery for years and many unmarked mounds were in the place. After deliberating for some time, Susie pointed to two graves side by side and said, 'I believe grandmother and grandfather are buried here.' So I put up these stones."
"This is Wyatt's story - the man who should know and doesn't and I think that it is good ground for my belief that Daniel Boone is resting in the old Bryan burial place at Marthasville," said Mr. Jones, in conclusion.
*The Susie Bryan mentioned in the above article was a daughter of David Bryan, one of the six children of James Bryan reared by their cousin, Rebecca Bryan Boone. Therefore it was natural for Susannah Bryan to refer to Rebecca and Daniel Boone as grandmother and grandfather.
ref: "Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District", by Lillian Hays Oliver, pp. 191
"About two years ago there occurred at Mexico, MO., the death of John S. Jones, 91 years old,(husband of Nancy Wyatt), great-grandson of Daniel Boone. A few years ago the Mexico Evening Ledger published the following interview held at the time with Mr. Jones.
"It is very uncertain whether the body of Daniel Boone was ever removed from the old Bryan Cemetery at Marthasville, Warren Co., MO., to Frankfort, KY., said John S. Jones of this city, the great-grandson of Boone and father of Lan Jones of this city. Mr. Jones who is 88 years old and has a very active mind, spoke of incidents surrounding the burial place of Boone and his wife only as one can who is intimate with the circumstances and as one relating a family tradition. His father, Dr. John Jones, was Daniel Boone's physician during his declining years and was the source of much of the information we have concerning the pioneer.
"I believe these are grandmother's and grandfather's graves, 'said Susan Bryan* to John S. Wyatt, who placed the marker over the spot 16 years after Boone died. A body was removed from this marked mound and placed in the Frankfort, Ky., Cemetery in 1848. But still doubters, and I am one of them, think that Boone's body was never taken to Frankfort.
"John S. Wyatt, a blacksmith and pioneer of St. Charles County, and a man in whom I have the utmost confidence told me the day they removed my great-grandfather's body, 'They think they have Boone's body but they don't know.'
"'For 16 years his body had lain in the old Bryan Cemetery about a mile from Marthasville, unmarked, 'says Mr. Wyatt. 'David Bryan sent for a stone mason from St. Charles to mark the grave. Watson, the stone mason came up here on Saturday, but forgot his chisel to carve D. B. on the headstone. He came to me to get me to make it rather than to make the extra trip to St. Charles. I suggested that I would make the chisel and do the work for him so that he could return home. Monday I went down to Bryan to have him point out the grave.'
" 'He was ill and sent his daughter Susie with me to the old burial ground. It had been the Bryan cemetery for years and many unmarked mounds were in the place. After deliberating for some time, Susie pointed to two graves side by side and said, 'I believe grandmother and grandfather are buried here.' So I put up these stones."
"This is Wyatt's story - the man who should know and doesn't and I think that it is good ground for my belief that Daniel Boone is resting in the old Bryan burial place at Marthasville," said Mr. Jones, in conclusion.
*The Susie Bryan mentioned in the above article was a daughter of David Bryan, one of the six children of James Bryan reared by their cousin, Rebecca Bryan Boone. Therefore it was natural for Susannah Bryan to refer to Rebecca and Daniel Boone as grandmother and grandfather.
ref: "Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District", by Lillian Hays Oliver, pp. 191