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Nancy Smith from Kansas City, MO on 7/26/2007 9:21:16 AM:
Where is the first grave of Daniel Boone and is it on the old
Boone fort?

 
K McCoy from St. Charles on 7/26/2007 12:25:41 PM:
Good question! From Boone's wikipedia entry:

Boone died on September 26, 1820, at Nathan Boone's home on Femme Osage Creek. He was buried next to Rebecca, who had died on March 18, 1813. The graves, which were unmarked until the mid-1830s, were near Jemima (Boone) Callaway's home on Tuque Creek, about two miles (3 km) from present day Marthasville, Missouri. In 1845, the Boones' remains were disinterred and reburied in a new cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. Resentment in Missouri about the disinterment grew over the years, and a legend arose that Boone's remains never left Missouri. According to this story, Boone's tombstone in Missouri had been inadvertently placed over the wrong grave, but no one had corrected the error. Boone's Missouri relatives, displeased with the Kentuckians who came to exhume Boone, kept quiet about the mistake and allowed the Kentuckians to dig up the wrong remains. There is no contemporary evidence that this actually happened, but in 1983, a forensic anthropologist examined a crude plaster cast of Boone's skull made before the Kentucky reburial and announced that it might be the skull of an African American. Black slaves were also buried at Tuque Creek, so it is possible that the wrong remains were mistakenly removed from the crowded graveyard. Both the Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky and the Old Bryan Farm graveyard in Missouri claim to have Boone's remains.[26]

 
K McCoy from St. Charles on 7/26/2007 12:26:21 PM:
Link if you're interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone

 
N. Smith from Gladstone, MO on 7/28/2007 3:52:30 PM:
I am researching the Kennedy family who had a fort next to the
Boone fort. Daniel Boone loaned money to one of my Kennedy
ancesters and we have a copy of the note signed by James Kennedy
that he borrowed this money from D. Boone. Some Kennedy's are
buried in the Wright City Cemetary, but I have known there are
more graves closer to their fort. Thanks for this information.