This Benton County, OR info (see below) from Debbi Geer is very interesting to me. In 1869, my gg grandfather Theodore Warner Boone married Martha Alice Thompson, daughter of pioneer Enoch Thompson in neighboring Linn County. They married in Martha's new home town, Brownsville, OR. I am still looking for information on Theodore's immigration west. It is a given that he would have traveled with family members... they all did. Also interesting is mention of the May family. My grandmother Martha Alice Thompson Boone was misidentified as Martha May by Spraker and even in some information from the Canyon County, ID, area where she and Theodore were settled by 1870...I'm sure these names and events are connected...but how? Geraldine Daniel Boone & Rebecca Bryan > Daniel Morgan Boone & Sarah Griffin Lewis> Daniel Boone III 3/27/1809-2/22/1880 & Mary Constance Philibert 9/28/1814-7/13/1904> Theodore Warner Boone 10/11/1844-11/2/1917     & Martha Alice Thompson 11/18/1849-11/17/1942> Minnie Boone 12/18/1882-5/19/1960     & Guy Earl Ingersoll 4/28/1893-2/18/1957> Willard B. Ingersoll 9/17/1919-4/6/1980>Geraldine Ingersoll From: Debbi Geer <dgirth@yahoo.com> I was trying to locate something on the web which would help identify who the mysterious Hannah Boone Wells is.  Note that this is the one that some of her descendants in SE MO say was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Carter Boone. I accidentally came across a transcript of some interviews done as part of the WPA records for Benton Co OR.  Here is the paragraph from the interview with Robert Gellatly that refers to some of Edward Boone's descendants who appear to have went and settled in Benton Co OR: "In 1870 my parents came to Oregon and bought this farm from James BONDS. The farm originally was the George BOONE donation land claim. This George L. BOONE was a nephew of Daniel BOONE, the famous Indian fighter in Kentucky, His sister, Mrs. Delia MAY, also lived in Pleasant Valley then and used to tell us children stories of the famous hunter and scout. George BOONE and the MAY family moved to the Yaquina country, and at her death Mrs. MAY was brought back to Pleasant Valley Cemetery for burial." I figured out that this George Boone is Edward's son. Also found in Benton Co OR are other Boone family members but the exact relationship is not given.  The interview that mentions these other family members was given by Adaline Scholl Larkin daughter of Joseph Boone Scholl and his wife Sarah E Floyd. Now Benton Co OR is where some of the descendants of Hannah Boone Wells landed.  Evidently somewhere in the county records, there is mention that a Hannah Boone married a William Wells and that they had a daughter Martha (Patsy) who married Reuben Pickett Owen.  One of Martha's granddaughters, Mrs Margaret (nee Owen) Bayne also gave an interview.  She didn't mention the Boone connection, but the Benton Co OR has a submission to Rootsweb giving the various family lines of the early pioneers.  It is in this listing that the Wells-Boone marriage is given... Debbi Geer