Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1919 — Twenty Five Years After Death, Boone’s Body Was Re-Interred in Kentucky [ARTICLE]

Twenty Five Years After Death, Boone’s Body Was Re-Interred in Kentucky

“With Kentcky won Boone found that, by one of the twists of law, the piotrof ground he thought Was his was not his at all,” says William Heyliger in, concluding an article on “Daniel Boone" in Boys’ Life, the official magazine of the boy scout organization. "Almost like a penniless outcast he mov+'d to Virginia, but when fresh tales came to him of land to the west of the Mississippi, then called Louisiana, his sixty-one years did not deter him from risking a fresh start. In 1795 he established himself near the present city of St. Louis and took what he thought was a deed to land; but In ISO 3. when this territory passed from Spain to the United States, he found this claim worthless. "But now the American people were awakening to a realization of what Boone’s leadership in Kentucky had meant to the nation. Congress granted him 850 acres of land. There in the West, free from want, he passed his last days. Twenty-five years after his death his remains were brought back to Kentucky. And, in the land he gave to civilization, he sleeps, this man who Carried the torch of civilization among a savage people and bared his chest to the shock of battle that its flame might not be extinguished.” --