Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — NOT DANIEL BOONE’S BODY. [ARTICLE]

NOT DANIEL BOONE’S BODY.

Wrong Corpse Dug Up In Missouri and Sent to Be Buried In Kentucky. Montgomery. Mo., Aug. 14.—‘Rev. R. R. McQuie. a Baptist minister residing in this city, gave the following statement to a local paper: “In company with some of the old settlers of that community, I visited the Bryan graveyard near Marthasville, Warren county, Mo., the burying place of Daniel Boone, aud after gathering all the information possible relative to the remains of this old pioneer. the company decided unanimously that it was evident that the body of Daniel Boone was never removed to Kentucky, but that the men sent out from Kentucky to remove the remains, being strangers and there being no tombstone to mark the graves of those who slept in the old cemetery, made a mistake and took up the remains of a stranger who was buried near the grave of Mrs. Boone.”