Andrew Jackson Boone

ANDREW JACKSON BOON

Another story about the Andrew Jackson Boon family that was posted for me on Rootsweb’s forums back in November 1998

ANDREW JACKSON BOON FAMILY

Andrew Jackson Boon was born in North Carolina in the year of 1815. He married Sarah Miller on July 4, 1838 in Obion County, Tennessee. They were the parents of eight children. He died around 1855 in Livingston County. His wife remarried to Reverend James Turner. Andrew Jackson dropped the “e” from Boone.

He left Tennessee in 1842 and came to Cole County; he was also in Boone County before coming to Livingston County in 1852. His children were: Mary (1839) born in Tennessee; Lucinda (1840-1930). She married W. H. Varney and had four children Lucretia (1842-1868) whose husband was William Hughes. They had three children; John Daniel (1846-1913). He married Hester Mariah Turner. They had nine children;

Jackson Melvin (1851); Sarah (1852) who married Isham Weaver and had three children and Andrew C. (8-19-1844) born in Cole County, Missouri. He came to Livingston County with his parents in or around the year of 1852. He married Martha Asbury Brassfield (1847-1926) in 1865. Her parents were Riley and Rachel Brassfield also from Livingston County, Missouri. See Volume 1, page 103 Livingston County Book for more information. Their children were: James Riley (1866-1933) married to Sadie Renchler and they had seven children; Mahala Ann (1868-1871); William Henry (1870-1923) married to Fanny Russell, one child; Francis Marion “Frank” (1872-1955) married Pearl Renchler, one child; Rachel Isabel “Issie” (1874-1963) married Pat Mallen, two girls and two boys; Sanford Clarence (1877-1959); Della Maud (1879-1968) married to Fred Hargrave and have six children; Lizzie Katherine (1882-1946) married William Henry Sterling. They had one child; Claud (1885-1962) married Sarah Hargrave and had eight children; Nora Ellen (1888-1977) married Frank Wilson and had three children; Charlie (1891).

Sanford Clarence Boon was known by most people in Livingston County, Missouri as “Clarence”. He was born 11-13-1877. He was the sixth child of Andy and Martha Brassfield Boon.

In 1897 Clarence was married to Lucy Ann Anderson. Most people called her “Lula”. She was the daughter of Thee and Ellen Lucan Anderson also from Livingston County, Missouri.

Clarence and Lucy Ann lived several places while in Livingston County. To this marriage four children were born: Arthur (7-4-1898) married Velma Wilburn and had three children: Wilford, Mildred, and Verda. Wilford is still living in Chula. His first wife was Dorothy Marshall and his second wife is Margaret (Peggy) Englert. He has five children by this marriage: Wayne, Gerald, Ann, Arte, and Clint.

Mildred married Herman Reich and had one son, Donnie of Grundy County. He and his wife Ruby have two children. Mildred died in 1960, Verda married Lowell Jackson and died in 1953, Velma died in 1964.

Sandford and Lucy Ann’s second child was Hazel (1900-1980), married to Clarence Prewitt with two children, Robert and Phyllis and four grandchildren.

Their third child was Robert (1906). He moved to Grundy County in 1936 and still lives in Trenton. He married Alice Ella Cravens Cartmill (11-5-09) in 1946. She was the daughter of Grover Cleveland and Lillian Myrtle Retherford Cravens. Their one child was Dorthy Marie (2-4-1946) married to David Gott, (6-9-1965) the son of Waiter and Cordie Meek Gott. They live in Gladstone, Missouri and have Michelle (12-29-65); Anthony (10-12-72) and Brandon (9-9-73). Robert has three step children, James, Myrtle, and Marilyn.

The fourth child of Sanford and Lucy Ann was Rive (1906-1980) a twin to Robert. She had rheumatic fever as a child and lived with her parents until they died, then with a nephew Robin Prewitt in a boarding home.