Aloha! Found this bit of history on Samuel and Sarah (Day) Boone. -------------------- Ref: Boone's Creek Baptist Church Lexington, KY History Part 1 1785-1839 Eighteen people, including Daniel Boone's brother Samuel and wife Sarah, joined together on the second Sunday of November in 1785 to form Boone's Creek Baptist Church. Also included were Boone's cousin, William Scholl, a Virginian, and his wife Lea, Robert Fryer, George Shortige, Turner Crump, John Morgan, James Hazelrigg, Kizziah Shortige, Margaret Shortige, Grace Jones, and Elizabeth Hazelrigg. Samuel Boone was born in 1728 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which is now an affluent northern suburb of Philadelphia, and he married Sarah Day, a young Quakeress also from Pennsylvania, sometime in the mid - 1750s. At about the same time, he moved to North Carolina, settling in the Piedmont region near Salisbury, which was then the western border of the colony. Indian hostility made that an unsafe locale for white settlers, so Boone moved his young family to an older, more established part of South Carolina, thought to be somewhere in northeastern South Carolina, near or along the Congaree River. He came to Kentucky in 1779, not long before his younger brother Daniel packed up his own family and those of his closest associates and moved from Boonesboro to what they hoped was a safer spot (further from the Indians) near Cross Plains. Sarah Boone is credited with teaching her brother-in-law Daniel to read and write and it is probable that she did the same for her husband. Samuel Boone was a member of the Boone's Creek congregation for the remaining years of his life after being one of its founding members, and his children were also members, as well as his wife. He is believed to have died in 1816, and is buried on Gentry Road at Boone's Station, about a quarter of a mile from the present church site. The first recorded deacon of the church was Squire Boone, son of Samuel, who was mentioned as a deacon in 1814. It appears that there was only one active deacon in service at a time, and that he was entrusted with such funds as the church raised for any purpose. Jeremiah Vardeman, who probably succeeded David Thompson as the church's pastor, was also seemingly the first minister to be paid for his services. Leonard Bradley, son-in-law of Samuel and Sarah Boone, had difficulties staying out of personal altercations, like fist fights. He was cleared of charges brought before the church in 1799 concerning one such fight, then later that same year had some sort of disagreement with Brother George Winn, one of the most frequently mentioned leaders of the church during that period. Leonard was evidently prone to get into trouble, being suspended in 1801 by the church for drinking to excess, and it is probably, good that the minutes for 1800 are missing, since it seems likely that he would look even worse if we knew what went on that year. He subsequently moved his family, to Missouri, following several members of the Boone family although it is not known when the move happened, and it might not have been until after his father-in-law died in 1816. Mahalo! S. Viehweg Viehweg Family Homepage http://www.viehweg.org