Andrew Jackson Boon
The following story
was posted on a Boone family forum on the Rootsweb site back in November 1998.
I want to share them for any family who wants them.
ANDREW JACKSON
BOONE FAMILY
There are few documents to verify the family story on
Andrew Jackson Boon. Lucinda Jane
(Boone) Varney, second great grandmother of Marsha Sylvester, (author of this
article) outlived all the other children of Jackson and Sarah (Miller) Boon.
Her story comes from two sources, the first source was a newspaper clipping
written in August, 1930, and saved by her granddaughter Jessie I’Lee Epperson;
the second source was a little journal from her grandson, William (Willie)
Worth Alien. These sources have been combined.
Lucinda Jane (Boon) Varney was born in Obion County,
Tennessee, August 9, 1840. When she was two or three years old her parents,
Andrew Jackson Boon and Sarah Elizabeth (Miller) Boon, moved to Boone County by
flat boat up the Mississippi River and the Missouri river to Boonville and
later to Moniteau County adjoining Boone County where they lived for eight
years. When Lucinda was ten years old the family moved to Livingston County.
Their livestock was two yoke of oxen and two milk cows. Two other wagons with
them on this move went on up into Iowa.
They settled northeast of Springhill, which then was
larger than Chillicothe which had only a tavern, two trading posts and a few
log houses.
Her grandfather was a cousin to famous frontiersman,
Daniel Boone, and many times Lucinda heard her father tell of the famous
pioneer coming to his home to go “bar” hunting when Lucinda’s father was a boy.
When Lucinda was about twelve her father died and she
tells how she and her sister Mary, with the help of oxen pulled logs out of the
woods and helped tend the crops. Her mother lived to rear the family and to get
married again to Reverend James Turner, May 13, 1860 (Livingston County, MO,
Volume 1 page 31).
Sarah (Miller) Boon died in the 1860’s and she and Andrew
Jackson Boon were buried in the Canady (Kennedy) Cemetery east side of the old
Curtis farm and ¼ mile northeast of the Henry Caddell’s place. Andrew Jackson
Boon’s grave was marked by a big old cedar tree that was planted by Lucinda.
Near the grave are two head stones marked Newton and Nancy Cincid.
Jackson and Sarah Boon’s eight children were:
1.
Mary Eliza (8,10,1839) born in Tennessee,
married June 24, 1856 to Benjamin Franklin Gibbs in Livingston County. Marriage
Record Vol. 1 Page 19. Mary died in her twenties.
2.
Lucinda Jane (8,9,1840-8,31,1934) was married
December 9, 1859 to William Hawkins Varney, they had ten children.
3.
Lucrecy Eliza (5,6,1842) was born in Tennessee.
She was married to William Hughes and died after giving birth to her third
child when she was not over thirty years old.
4.
Andrew C. (8,19,1844-2,26,1922) married Martha
Asbury Brassfield on October 28, 1865. They had eleven children.
5.
John Daniel (8,25, 1846-8,4,1913) was born in
Moniteau County, Missouri. He married Hester Mariah Turner on February 4, 1869.
They had nine children.
6.
William Henry (4,2,1848-1,24, 1924) married
Nancy Jane Turner on March 14, 1865. They had nine children.
7.
Jackson Melven (3,1,1850) married Mrs. Delaney
E. Kirby on February 4, 1889.
8.
Sarah Elizabeth (4, 1, 1852) married Isham B.
Weaver, on October 3, 1867. They had five children.
The names and birth dates of the children of Andrew
Jackson Boon as recorded by him on the fly leaves of a book of the life of
Benjamin Franklin 1825
It is written that Sarah (Miller) Boon had a brother,
William Henry Miller, and a sister, Jane (Miller) Tidy.
Submitted by Marsha Sylvester
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