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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Samuel N. Rogers, Sr., Soldier of the American Revolution WI225

Born on June 3, 1760, at Branford, Connecticut, Samuel N. Rogers Sr. served several terms of enlistment with Captain Peck's Company, Col. Roger Eno's Regiment of the Connecticut militia from 1777 to 1781. Following the war, he moved to New York state, and in 1839 he moved to Walworth County, Wisconsin. In 1848, at an advanced age, he accompanied his son, Samuel N. Rogers Jr., to Winnebago County, settling in the Town of Winchester. He died at the age of ninety-two in 1852 and is buried in this cemetery.

Three veterans of the War of 1812, John D. Clarke, Mayhew D. Mott, and Jacob A. Raught, are also buried here in the Winchester Township Cemetery.

Erected 1976

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Fort Nelson K265
On the site of Portsmouth Navel Hospital stood Fort Nelson. There, Virginia’s Revolutionary government late in 1776constructed the fort of timber and rammed earth. Three years later, the British fleet commanded by Admiral Sir George Collier confiscated its artillery and supplies and destroyed most of the parapet. In 1779-1781, both Lord Cornwallis and General Benedict Arnold occupied the fort. It was reconstructed in 1799 of earth lined with brick, following a design by architect S. Henry Latrobe, and abandoned after the War of 1812. The Confederate government strengthened Fort Nelson, but on 10 May 1862 the Union army occupied Norfolk and Fort Nelson.

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Craney Island K266
Seven miles northeast in the Elizabeth River is Cranery Island, a landmark of two wars. During the War of 1812, the British attacked its fortifications on 22 June 1813, but were repulsed by its defenders including the Portsmouth artillery. During the Civil War, while abandoning Norfolk in April 1861, the Union forces scuttled the USS Merrimack. The Confederates refloated it and transformed it into their first Ironclad, the CSS Virginia. Famous for its duel to a draw with the USS Monitor, the Virginia was scuttled at Cranery Island on 11 May 1862, when the Confederates evacuated Norfolk.

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Ballhouse Q8D
Built about 1784 by John Nivison at the comer of Crawford and Glasgow streets and moved to this site in 1869. It served as a barracks in the War of 1812. Lafayette was entertained here in 1824 and President Andrew Jackson in 1833. The Ball family acquired the property in 1870.

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The Battle of Tippecanoe - November 7, 1811

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Peter Weaver Home 1976
An early settler in Tippecanoe County, Peter Weaver was one of the most widely and favorably known of all the early inhabitants.  Born in Virginia, 1774, he was married there to Martha Walker.  Weaver brought his family west in 1807, settling first in Wayne Co., Indiana, then here on the great Wea Plain by 1822.  The building of this two-story brick home, begun about 1823, was interrupted by Martha's death in 1825 and not completed until 1828. It became a favorite stopping place for early settlers, traders and travelers.  Weaver was a 1st Lt. in the War of 1812 and a County Commissioner, 1830-1832. He died in 1863 at 89 years of age. Erected by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, 1976 Located on county road 850 S. in Wayne Township

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Abshier Cemetery TX9635

The families of Benjamin and Hannah (Weed) Abshier and Benjamin and Sarah (Hanks) Weed came to this area of Texas from Louisiana in 1843. The extended families purchased land and established farms in this vicinity. In June 1852 the Abshiers' 27-year-old daughter, Lucinda Abshier Higginbotham, died, leaving a husband and six children. She was laid to rest on the Abshier family farm, in a plot of land which would become a family graveyard. Since that time, members of many generations of Abshier, Weed, and related families have been interred in the cemetery.

Among those buried here are veterans of the War of 1812, the Texas Revolution, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korea. A number of unusual and elaborate grave markers can be seen, including tree-trunk-shaped monuments of the Woodmen of the World Lodge, a 19th-century fraternal organization. There are also a number of unmarked burials.

Established in 1896, a cemetery association maintains the historic graveyard. The original two-acre plot was enlarged to three acres in 1938. The cemetery continues to serve as a reminder of early Liberty County pioneers.

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Baccus Cemetery TX272

Henry Cook (1775-1862), a veteran of the War of 1812, settled here in 1845 as a member of the Peters Colony. His log house, located nearby, was a landmark on the Shawnee Trail. He first used this property as a family cemetery in 1847 for the burial of his son Daniel (b.1831). His daughter Rachel Cook Baccus deeded the burial ground to his heirs in 1878. She later donated adjoining land for construction of the Baccus Christian Church Sanctuary. The cemetery, named in her honor about 1915, is still in use. The church was disbanded in the 1930s.

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Bascom Cemetery TX7703

Bascom was settled in the mid-1840s and named for a Tennessee Methodist bishop by early settler Lazariah Smith. Burials took place just north of this site until 1857 when one acre west of the Tyler to Henderson Road (present-day FM 848) and two acres east of the road were set aside for cemetery purposes. Graves from the early site were reinterred in Bascom Cemetery. The first recorded burial was that of John Pinkerton in 1851. Included among the more than 2,000 interments are those of the area's earliest settlers and their descendants and at least one veteran of the War of 1812.

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