My line goes back to Mary Elizabeth Boon(e) (called Mary/Polly) born c1750 +/-, who married John Couch. They lived in Fincastle and Botetourt Counties VA as early as 1773, Wilkes and Ashe Counties NC. Mary/Polly died in area now Ashe County c1781. I descend from two of their three daughters: Family #1 Sarah/Sally Couch, and James T Lewis, Jr., Margaret/Peggy Lewis and Allen Moore, Mary/Polly Moore and Jeremiah Davidson, Allen Davidson and Amanda Moore, Raymond Davidson and Mary Susan Davidson, Joyce Davidson (me) Family #2 Nancy Ann Couch and William Campbell (said to have been the son of Nancy's stepmother, Elizabeth Campbell Couch), Mary/Polly Campbell and John Madison Davidson (older 1/2 brother of Robert in family #1), Robert Davidson and Nancy Hays William Davidson and Tobitha Allen, Mary Susan Davidson and Raymond Davidson, Joyce Davidson (me) Family traditions that have come down in all three branches of the Couch daughters from Mary/Polly Boon(e) say that she was "close kin" to Daniel Boone, and further that her father was Squire Edward, or Edward Squire Boone. In the Lewis family, the tradition states her mother was an Indian woman. One Lewis son's obituary even went so far as to mention that his "maternal grandmother (i.e. Mary Boon(e) Couch) was a sister of Daniel Boone the famous frontiersman". We know this to not be factual. Our Mary Elizabeth is a "forgotten" Boone, but suely she fits in somewhere. One would think that nearly two-hundred years of tradition would count for something... Besides traditions, our families also have a document from the 1770's naming Mary Elizabeth Boon as "wife of John Couch", and she was "with childe" at the time. We believe the "childe" to have been my ggg grandmother, Sarah Couch Lewis. Joyce