Daniel Boone - Gottfried Duden MO302
DANIEL BOONE

Daniel Boone, universal symbol of the American frontier, was 65 when he came to the Upper Louisiana, now Missouri, 1799. His wife Rebecca was 60. The Spanish lieutenant governor granted Boone 845 acres nearby here on Femme Osage creek.

Boone did not settle on this grant, instead he and his wife made their home with their children. Two of their sons, Daniel Morgan and Nathan, held land in the locality of the Femme Osage, near the present Matson and Defiance in St. Charles County. Their daughter and son-in-law Jemima and Flanders Callaway, lived near the present Marthasville in Warren County.

Boone served as syndic or judge for the Femme Osage settlements, 1800-1804. Near the Nathan Boone House, still standing, five miles from Defiance, is the site of "Judgment Elm" where Boone is said to have held court.

The trace to the saline in Howard County where Daniel Morgan and Nathan boiled salt about 1807 became the Boon's Lick Trail, in the War of 1812. Daniel Morgan was a Captain and Nathan a Major in the Missouri Rangers.

Daniel Boone died at the home of his son Nathan, 1820, and was buried beside his wife Rebecca Bryan Boone, overlooking Missouri River near Marthasville. In 1845, the bodies were removed to Frankfort, KY. A marker stands at the original gravesites.

GOTTFRIED DUDEN
(1785 - 1855)

German scholar and humanitarian, came to Missouri, 1824 to investigate opportunities for German immigrants on the American frontier. Near the present Dutzow in Warren County is the site of his farm. Nathan Boone, his neighbor, spent some time with Duden showing him the countryside. In 1827 Duden returned to Germany. Here he published a "Report" which pictured Missouri an ideal spot and inspired a large German immigration to the state. Followers of Duden settled mainly in St. Charles and Warren Counties. Many members of the Glessen (immigration) Society settled in Warren County, 1834.

Nearby Warrenton has been county seat of Warren Co., since 1835. Here was German Methodist Central Wesleyan College, chartered 1864. Marthasville Seminary was chartered 1855, as German Evangelical Missouri College.

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La Charrette - Marthasville MO304

Two sided marker:
LA CHARRETTE
1800 - 02: A small French settlement, located in the western part of the Boone settlement along the Missouri River, south of the present town of Marthasville. It consisted of 7 houses, and was known to be a convenient place for hunting and trading with the Indians.

1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition came to this small settlement on May 25. This was the Expedition's last white settlement as they journeyed on to the Pacific Ocean. People in the settlement gave them milk and eggs to eat.

1806 - 07: In September 1806, Lewis and Clark stopped again at this small settlement on their way back from the West. A schoolhouse was built on the edge of La Charrette. Anthony C. Palmer was the teacher. He was paid $9 per student per year in trade for meat, cattle or country linen, and given a sufficient schoolhouse with firewood.

1813: Rebecca Boone, age 74, wife of Daniel, died at the home of their daughter, Jemima Callaway, and was buried in the Bryan Cemetery near Marthasville.

Side Two:
Marthasville the oldest village in Warren County, it succeeded the French Village, La Charrette. Dr. John Young named this village for his first wife, Martha.

1817: This village was part of Dr. Young's farm and part of the William Ramsey Spanish Land Grant #1688.

1818: A post office was established at Marthasville with Warren Swain Postmaster.

1820: Daniel Boone, age 86, died at the home of his son, Nathan, and was buried in the Bryan Cemetery near Marthasville.

1826: Dr. Young sold most of his property to Harvey Griswold.

1830's: German settlers began arriving on farms nearby.

1840: Marthasville was the main landing place on the Missouri River for Warren County.

1855: Griswold died. Augustus F. Grabs became Justice of the Peace and Postmaster.

1865: Grabs died. In later years, Helen Rusche, great-granddaughter of Grabs, donated his house to the city of Marthasville.

1893: The M.K.T. Railroad came to Marthasville. The depot is the oldest on the railroad.

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Daniel Boone Monument MO303
notice: this monument was stolen and destroyed prior to 24 June 2008.
Ploice did arrest suspect and recovered a couple of pieces of a brass plaque. The DAR along with Warren County Historical Society and the Washington Historical Society are meeting to plan replacement project. Afraid to use brass of bronze fearing it will just be stolen again for scrap.


---DANIEL BOONE---
Born in Bucks County, PA.
Feb. 11, 1735.
Died in St. Charles County, MO.
Sept. 26, 1820.
and wife
---REBECCA BRYAN---
Born.........1737
Died March 18, 1813.
Removed to Frankfort, KY. 1845.

[In 1813 Rebecca Bryan Boone passed away at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Flanders and Jamima Callaway (located near the present town of Dutzow, Warren County, MO) and was buried in the Bryan family cemetery. In 1820 Daniel Boone passed away at the home of his son, Nathan (located near the present town of Defiance, St. Charles County, MO) and was buried next to his wife in the Bryan Cemetery. In 1845 people from Frankfort, KY exhumed both bodies and transported them back to Frankfort, KY. State Historical records seem to indicate that neither the State nor the family was informed, nor permission asked for them to exhume and remove the bodies.]

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Daniel Boone PA381-2
Greatest American pioneer and wilderness scout. Born Nov. 2, 1734. Spent the first 16 years of his life on the Boone Homestead a few miles north. Now a State historical shrine dedicated to American youth.

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Graham Point Cemetery TX7794

Named for Daniel Boone Graham and his family who settled in this area in the mid-1800s, this cemetery, established on Graham's land, served the Graham Point and Union Valley communities for more than 100 years. One of the earliest graves was that of Resina Graham in 1860. Many early graves were marked with bois d'arc posts that either burned or were removed. Several pioneer families and their descendants are buried here, including early settlers named Hurst, Lindsey, McCasland, Partin, and Williams. The last recorded burial occurred here in 1991.

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Site of Friar - Cardwell Stage Stand TX4802

In 1839 or 1840 at the junction of the La Grange - La Bahia and Victoria - Gonzales Roads (.5 miles east), Daniel Boone Friar (1800-58) built a home and store that served as a social, political, transportation, and trade center for early DeWitt County. In 1841 the two-story frame structure became an overnight stop on stagecoach lines between San Antonio and coastal towns. It was designed as a temporary courthouse for the short-lived Judicial County of DeWitt in 1842. When the county was actually organized in 1846, the court met at Friar's place for several months. It was also the county's first post office, established on May 22, 1846, and named Cuero, with Friar as postmaster.

In 1849 Friar sold the building to Crockett Cardwell (1812-91), who continued to operate it as a stage stand, store, post office, and community meeting place. The county's first Masonic lodge, Cameron Lodge No.76, A.F.& A.M., was organized in an upstairs room in Nov. 1850 and met there until Jan. 1853. When the Gulf, Western Texas, and Pacific Railroad located the town of Cuero four miles south of the Cardwell stand in 1873, the post office was moved to that site. As the town along the railroad grew, other activities at the old stage stand ended. It was torn down in 1916.

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The Darst - Yoder House TX8986

This 14-room classical revival structure of cypress and pine has 11-foot ceilings, four fireplaces; built in 1908 by R.H. Darst (1859-1938), grandson of an 1829 Texas pioneer, direct descendant of Daniel Boone. Here Darst and his wife Pearle (Ransom) reared three sons, kept open house, lived to old age -- Mrs. Darst surviving to 94. Virtually unchanged in 68 years, reflecting stability of city and family, the house has been owned since 1971 by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Yoder.

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Upper Yorktown Cemetery TX11989
Upper Yorktown Cemetery

In 1872, Ann Friar (1802-1899) formally established Upper Yorktown (Friar) Cemetery, where her husband, rancher-businessman Daniel Boone Friar (1800-1858), local Masons and others were interred. In 1949, Barbara Respondek (1882-1949) donated one acre to the east for African-American residents, adding to its diverse Anglo, German and Hispanic origins. Noted burials include: Friar family members; 1876 feud victims Dr. Philip Brassell (b.1827) and son, George (b.1855); settlers Gotlieb (1790-1867) and Marie (1790-1869) Heissig; Union Sailor Timothy Sullivan (1836-1909); and numerous war veterans and local pioneers.

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Daniel Boone PA380
Greatest of American pioneers and wilderness scouts. Born on Nov. 2, 1734. Spent the first 16 years of his life on the Boone Homestead three miles to the north. This property is a State historical shrine and is dedicated to American youth.

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Daniel Boone PA381-1
Greatest American pioneer and wilderness scout. Born Nov. 2, 1734. Spent the first 16 years of his life on the Boone Homestead a few miles north. Now a State historical shrine dedicated to American youth.

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