"The Boone Family" by Hazel Afterbury Spraker, pp 72-83 Squire Boone, brother to the famous pioneer Daniel Boone, first came to present day Shelby County in 1775. He writes, " In the spring of the year 1776, I came again to the same place and took a stone out of the creek and with a mill pick, picked my name in full and the date of the year thereon, and I painted the letter and figures all red from which this tract of land took the name of Painted Stone Station." Squire Boone, Jr., was married to Jane Van Cleave d/o Aaron Van Cleave and Rachel Schenk. Angela <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.