Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameJesse Van Bibber Boone 
Birth1824, Missouri
Death1872, Oregon
Death MemoJesse returned to Oregon and ran the ferry for 26 years, until he was murdered by a neighbor in a dispute over access to the river
FatherCol. Alphonso D. Boone (1796-1850)
MotherNancy Linville Boone (-1837)
Notes for Jesse Van Bibber Boone
648. . . When word of the gold strikes in California reached Oregon in 1848, Alphonso and his boys headed south to make their fortune. On February 1, 1850, Alphonso died at Long's Bar of an illness contracted in the gold fields. Though they lost their father, the Boone brothers did well in the mines, and Alphonso's sons gradually dispersed across the Northwest with their fortunes assured: Jesse returned to Oregon and ran the ferry for 26 years, until he was murdered by a neighbor in a dispute over access to the river; Alphonso (junior) briefly ran the ferry before selling it to Jesse and going into the steamboat business; Joshua settled in Benton County, Oregon; and James moved to Idaho and ran the Morning Star Silver Mine.
The only son of Alphonso Boone who didn't accompany him to Oregon was George Luther Boone. Many years later, he told his story to fellow Oregon Trail emigrant Eva Emery Dye:
30 . . . George Luther's brother, Jesse Van Bibber Boone, also lived in the area for a time. He was murdered at Boone's Ferry in a land dispute. His son, Van Daniel Boone, married Emma Jane Ferr in Oysterville.
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JESSE VAN BIBBER BOONE
Jesse Van Bibber Boone left Missouri in May 1846 with his father Alphonso and three brothers and three sisters ages twenty-two through nine.. After many hardships they arrived in the Willamette Valley at Christmas time in 1846. Alphonso acquired land on both sides of the Willamette River and decided with the help of his sons to establish ferry service. This plan was interrupted when the Boones heard that gold had been discovered in California. Jesse, his father and three brothers left for the gold fields in 1849. Alphonso died in 1850 of fever and the four sons returned to Oregon. Jesse Van Bibber Boone and his brother Alphonso Jr. resumed the operation of the ferry from their brother-in-law George Law Curry who had temporarily taken over in their absence. However Alphonso Jr. sold his interest within a year to Jesse and went steam boating on the Willamette, Snake, Columbia, Yaquina and Coquille Rivers. Jesse had steady business for it was the only direct route in the transportation system at that time between Portland and Salem. In 1872 he was murdered by a neighbor, farmer Jacob Engle over a dispute of shore and water rights. On May 2, 1870, for the sum of five dollars, he deeded land to School District 23 in Clackamas County, Oregon to be held in trust for public use. Jump ahead 131 years. The Wilsonville primary school in Oregon situated on Boone's Ferry Road is being closed. A new elementary school will open in September 2001. How appropriate that it is to be named Boone's Ferry Elementary School because after intensive investigation at the County Land Office, Surveyor and Title Company we have discovered that the original school was actually built on the land that Jesse Van Bibber Boone "bargained and sold and conveyed" to School District 23 in 1870.
Source: Arlene Curry Buschert
http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html
The only son of Alphonso Boone who didn't accompany him to Oregon was George Luther Boone. Many years later, he told his story to fellow Oregon Trail emigrant Eva Emery Dye:
30 . . . George Luther's brother, Jesse Van Bibber Boone, also lived in the area for a time. He was murdered at Boone's Ferry in a land dispute. His son, Van Daniel Boone, married Emma Jane Ferr in Oysterville.
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JESSE VAN BIBBER BOONE
Jesse Van Bibber Boone left Missouri in May 1846 with his father Alphonso and three brothers and three sisters ages twenty-two through nine.. After many hardships they arrived in the Willamette Valley at Christmas time in 1846. Alphonso acquired land on both sides of the Willamette River and decided with the help of his sons to establish ferry service. This plan was interrupted when the Boones heard that gold had been discovered in California. Jesse, his father and three brothers left for the gold fields in 1849. Alphonso died in 1850 of fever and the four sons returned to Oregon. Jesse Van Bibber Boone and his brother Alphonso Jr. resumed the operation of the ferry from their brother-in-law George Law Curry who had temporarily taken over in their absence. However Alphonso Jr. sold his interest within a year to Jesse and went steam boating on the Willamette, Snake, Columbia, Yaquina and Coquille Rivers. Jesse had steady business for it was the only direct route in the transportation system at that time between Portland and Salem. In 1872 he was murdered by a neighbor, farmer Jacob Engle over a dispute of shore and water rights. On May 2, 1870, for the sum of five dollars, he deeded land to School District 23 in Clackamas County, Oregon to be held in trust for public use. Jump ahead 131 years. The Wilsonville primary school in Oregon situated on Boone's Ferry Road is being closed. A new elementary school will open in September 2001. How appropriate that it is to be named Boone's Ferry Elementary School because after intensive investigation at the County Land Office, Surveyor and Title Company we have discovered that the original school was actually built on the land that Jesse Van Bibber Boone "bargained and sold and conveyed" to School District 23 in 1870.
Source: Arlene Curry Buschert
http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html