NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11408 WARREN CO REV. WILLIAM COOKE BOONE Boone, Edwards, Cooke, Burnam, Trotter, Eager 11408 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago Louisville, 1928. REV. WILLIAM COOKE BOONE. Reared in a religious environment an surrounded by uplifting influences, the Rev. William Cooke Boone naturally turned toward spiritual work, in which he has found a field of activity well suited to his talents, and for eight years, he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Owensboro. He was born February 8, 1892, in Bowling Green, and worthily bears a name that has long been an honored one in Kentuckys history. His father, the Rev. Arthur Upshaw Boone, D. D., was born September 7, 1860, in Elkton, Kentucky, and completed a course in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Union University at Jackson, Tennessee, and is now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Memphis. He is a gentleman of scholarly attainments, and the far-reaching effects of his work are attested in every community in which he has labored. He is an independent voter and liberal and broadminded in his views on all subjects. His parents were Higgason G. and Martha Maria (Edwards) Boone, natives of Todd county, Kentucky. The mother was born in 1816 and passed away at Elkton, Kentucky, in 1910, when ninety-three years of age. Her grandfather, Benjamin Edwards, was a pioneer settler of Todd county, which he represented in congress, and was one of the influential men of that district. Higgason Boone was born in 1806 and his demise occurred at Elkton in 1885. He was a well-to-do farmer and an earnest member of the Baptist church, of which he was clerk for fifty years. His father, Isaiah Boone, was a nephew of Daniel Boone, the noted Indian fighter, who was one of Kentuckys earliest settlers. Daniel Boones grandfather was a native of England and became the founder of the Boone family in the new world. He settled in Pennsylvania about 1634 and the family migrated from that state to North Carolina and thence to Kentucky, in which they located in 1774. Mrs. Eddie Belle (Cooke) Boone, the mother of the Rev. William Cooke Boone, was a graduate of the Mary Sharp College at Winchester, Tennessee. She was born August 22, 1866, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and passed away September 24, 1924, in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a daughter of William Alexander and Nannie (Burnam) Cooke. The latter was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and is living at Long Beach, California, at the venerable age of ninety-one years. Her father, John Burnam, was provisional treasurer of the Confederacy and lived for some time in Richmond, Kentucky, later moving to Bowling Green, this state, where he passed away. William A. Cooke was born in 1833 at Paris, Tennessee, and died in Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 15, 1907. He was engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Bowling Green and served as a deacon in the Baptist church. His father, Giles Cooke, was a lineal descendant of Mordecai Cooke, who was one of the early settlers of Gloucester county, Virginia. In the acquirement of an education, the Rev. William C. Boone attended the public schools of Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1909 completed a course in the University school of that city. He then entered William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri, from which he won the A. B. degree in 1912 and that of A. M. in the following year. He was a student at the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, from 1912 until 1914 and also took postgraduate work in Columbia University, New York city. He was ordained March 24, 1914, at Memphis, Tennessee, and on May 1, 1914, became pastor of the First Baptist Church at Hernando, Mississippi where he remained until July, 1916. He was assistant pastor of the First Baptist church at Memphis, Tennessee, for four months and from February, 1917, until August, 1918, had charge of the first Baptist church at Marianna, Arkansas. On September 1, 1918, he entered the pulpit of the First Baptist church at Owensboro and during his pastorate there its numerical and financial strength was greatly augmented. The church has over fourteen hundred members and has grown rapidly. It is a yellow brick structure with colonial pillars of white stone and is an ornament to the city. It was built in 1924, at a cost of about two hundred thousand dollars and ranks with the finest religious edifices in the state. On March 1, 1927, Rev. Boone became pastor of the First Baptist church at Roanoke, Virginia, where he is continuing his good work. He is an eloquent speaker, sending his message straight to the hearts of the hearers, and a strong bond of sympathy exists between pastor and people. On September 1, 1915, at Grenada, Mississippi, was solemnized the marriage of the Rev. William C. Boone and Miss Ruth Trotter. Her father, the Rev. I. P. Trotter, D. D. was a native of Mississippi, and passed away in Winona, that state. He received his theological training in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, and was one of the strong individual forces in the spread of the Baptist religion, holding pastorates at Brownsville, Tennessee, Bardstown and Maysville, Kentucky, and in Hattiesburg, Grenada and Shaw, Mississippi. He married Miss Susie Eager, who was also born in the Bayou state and is now living in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a sister of the Rev. John H. Eager, a Baptist minister residing in Baltimore, Maryland, and another brother, Professor George B. Eager, was for a member of the faculty of the Southern Baptist Seminary. Rev. and Mrs. Boone are the parents of four children: Ruth Trotter, whose birth occurred December 5, 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee; Martha Maria, who was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, November 26, 1919; Arthur Upshaw (II), born August 13, 1921, in Owensboro; and Nan Eager, born July 28, 1926, in Owensboro. Mrs. Boone was born September 19, 1893, in Brownsville, Tennessee, and received her higher education in Judson College at Marion, Alabama, from which she was graduated in 1914 with the A. B. degree. She is a zealous church worker and at Owensboro taught a class in the Sunday School, aiding and encouraging her husband in his altruistic work. Rev. Boone is a democrat in his political views but not a strong partisan, casting an independent ballot at local elections. He is a member of the Investigators Club and of Sigma Nu, a college fraternity. He is a Mason and became connected with the Owensboro Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M.; Joe Daviess Chapter, No. 32, R. A. M.; and Owensboro Commandery, No. 15, K. T., while his public spirit resulted in membership in the Chamber of Commerce. He turns to golf, hunting and fishing for recreation. He has never been an idle sentimentalist, but a worker, and the lofty ideals which he cherishes find embodiment in practical effort for their adoption. The Rev. Mr. Boone is a young man of winning personality, imbued with firm faith in the doctrines he preaches, and is a strong force for moral progress in his community. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx