This was posted on the PAWASHIN-L........Maybe this will be of some interest to Boon/Boone cousins. Tuesday, May 8, 2001 "Observer-Reporter" Online, Washington, PA.           Monumental honor BY KATHIE O. WARCO THE OBSERVER-REPORTER [email protected] Thomas Seybert knew from the stories told by his mother that a member of his family had received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor. It wasn't until a few weeks ago, though, that the Washington man learned that relatives of U.S. Army Capt. Hugh Patterson Boon were being sought by organizers of a monument project to honor medal winners born in Washington County. Boon fought in the Civil War as a member of Company B, 1st West Virginia Cavalry. He received the medal for capturing the Confederate flag at Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek) in Virginia on April 6, 1865. He died Jan. 14, 1908, and is buried in Washington Cemetery. Having difficulty tracking down descendants of Boon, Edward Snarey, chairman of the project, went to a meeting at American Legion Post 175, Washington, to seek members' help. Snarey's co-chairman, Charles Pollacci, died in April, which also hampered efforts to find family members. Seybert, a member of the Legion, missed that meeting and didn't hear about the search until minutes were read at the following meeting. "My grandfather was E.T. Boone, and his father was James Milhollan Boone Jr.," Seybert said. "Hugh Boon was my great-grandfather's brother." Seybert said he remembered his mother talking about Hugh Boon winning the award. "So when the name was mentioned in the minutes, an antenna went up," Seybert said. Boon is the seventh and last of the Washington County medal winners to be recognized. Snarey organized the effort to place a monument at the entrance to the cemeteries in Washington County where Medal of Honor winners are buried. Part of the problem in tracking down relatives was the change in the spelling of "Boon," Snarey said. Seybert's relatives, doing genealogical research, learned the "e" had been added to the family name about 1900. Seybert has been on a mission of his own in the last week, trying to find direct descendants of Boon who may live in Iowa. His mother kept in touch with relatives Loftus and Carolyn Fox, who lived Sharon, Iowa, which has a population of about 1,300. "They had Hugh Boon's flag and uniform," Seybert said. "If they have that, I am thinking they might be direct descendants." Seybert said his research determined that Carolyn Fox died in 1994. He has no information on Loftus Fox. Hugh Boon did have a daughter, Mattie, who married J. Wilbert Wallace of the Dunbar and Wallace Lumber Co. in Washington. Seybert said she had at least one child. "But I'd like to find out if Carolyn and Loftus had children," Seybert said. "They may be interested in what's going on Saturday." "This whole thing has set off a real hullabaloo," Seybert said, with a chuckle. A monument honoring Boon will be unveiled in a ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday at the entrance to Washington Cemetery off Park Avenue in North Franklin Township. Seybert and several other of Boon's descendants will participate in the unveiling.