Thanks to all who answered my Boone questions. I also went on the internet and found pictures of the tombstones encased in Brick etc. Thanks again! G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.

Lois, I have an old computer (Windows 98) and I do fine with just the Google Map function and I can drag the map around. I like the satellite view. Granted, I can't get this extra special program. Betty On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:56:00 -0500 Lois Willand <[email protected]> writes: > Thanks once again, Betty, for sending valuable information to the > lists. > > But it should be noted that you have to have a fairly new computer > and > software to make this work. Currently you can't do this on a Mac as > well. > > Someone recently steered me to maps.google.com as a far superior way > to get > driving instructions. And that too wouldn't work on my aging Mac. > > Lois > > > From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:44:51 -0400 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [RowanRoots] Google Maps -- Worldwide > > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:45:23 -0600 > > > > I use Google maps for addresses and satellite views of addresses. > But > > there is a program that improves on what I have been doing. Even > without > > the download, I tried my own address and with the satellite view, > I could > > see my own house. > > > > Try Google maps for area search...New and BRILLIANT, road maps > and > > satellite views with infinite scrolling in any direction. > > > > An astonishingly intimate view; see fields and rivers in > Greensboro, > > Liverpool, Iraq, Western Australia as easy as pushing a button, > find the > > highest point on > > Ararat, find your house (though you have to imagine the garden > gnomes), > > make > > the earth spin and stop as you choose. Google Earth. > earth.google.com > > for > > Windows XP or 2000 http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ > to > > download the application. > > > > "The Fly To feature accepts an address, place name, cross street > or > > simple > > Latitude/Longitude coordinates and zooms you quickly in to the > specified > > location, typically stopping at an altitude of about 3,000 feet > above > > ground. From this point, use the controls to zoom, tilt, pan or > rotate > > the > > view. > > > > Checkboxes next to the navigation controls allow you to overlay > lodging, > > roads, terrain, dining, geographical borders and 3D buildings over > the > > satellite image. Even more overlays are available using the > "layers" > > features. > > > > Additional layers allow you to overlay data points of geographic > interest > > > > over images." > > > > ______________________________ > > > > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > > The list administrator can be reached at [email protected] > > > > >

For those interested in the family of Daniel Boone and families associated (Morgan Bryan, etc.) I recommend two books: Daniel Boone The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer - John Mack Faragher, 1992 , Henry Holt and Company - Owl Books The Life of Daniel Boone - Lyman C. Draper, LL.D., edited with introduction by Ted Franklin Belue - 1998, Stackpole Books In reference to the death of Squire Boone, the Lyman/Belue book states: p. 183 "On the 2nd of January , 1765, Squire Boone, the father of Daniel, died at his residence at the Buffalo Lick in his sixty-ninth year, leaving behind him an unblemished reputation and numerous respectable descendants. (a) He had served several years as a justice of the peace and was esteemed a useful and honored member of society.(2) a. (Editor's Notes) The picturesque and well maintained Joppa cemetery is easily accessible off North Carolina's I-40 at the Mocksville exit. At the cemetery's gate a sign reads: Daniel Boone's Parents Squire and Sarah Boone are Buried here. Daniel Boone, 1734 -1820 lived many years in this region. Vandals chipped away at the couple's soapstone headstones, and in the early 1900s caretakers removed them to a Mocksville bank vault. In 1922 brick masons inset the slabs in a concrete monument encased in red brick and reinstalled the protected headstones on their original site where they now sit. The inscription on the larger headstone, of Squire Boone, Sr., reads: Squire Boone departed this life they sixty-ninth year of his age in thay year of our Lord 1765. Geneiary Tha 2. The following is inscribed on the smaller slab of Sarah Boone's: Sah Boone desowned this life, 1777, aged 77 yars. The remains of Morgan Bryan, grandfather of Daniel's wife, Rebecca Bryan Boone, are also interred at the Joppa cemetery. 2. MS. letter of C. Harbin, Esq., who obtained the date of Squire Boone's death from the neatly finished soap-stone at the head of his grave, in the Joppa church yard, near Mocksville, Davie County, formerly a part of Rowan County, North Carolina. Joppa Meeting House was at this period free to all religious denominations. It will be remembered that Squire Boone was disowned by the Friends' Exeter Meeting, in Pennsylvania, for countenancing the marriage of his children out of order. "So far as I can judge," says Thomas Pearson of Berks County, who has carefully examined the records, "Squire Boone was a respectable and orderly man, as he was appointed to perform services for the meeting several times, and no mention whatever of disorderly conduct." His widow survived till 1776 or '77, when she died at their son-in-law, William Bryan's, in the Bryan settlement in the Forks of the Yadkin, upwards of seventy years of age." I hope this is helpful to those interested in researching Daniel Boone and family. Charmaine Ernst

Thanks once again, Betty, for sending valuable information to the lists. But it should be noted that you have to have a fairly new computer and software to make this work. Currently you can't do this on a Mac as well. Someone recently steered me to maps.google.com as a far superior way to get driving instructions. And that too wouldn't work on my aging Mac. Lois > From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:44:51 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RowanRoots] Google Maps -- Worldwide > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:45:23 -0600 > > I use Google maps for addresses and satellite views of addresses. But > there is a program that improves on what I have been doing. Even without > the download, I tried my own address and with the satellite view, I could > see my own house. > > Try Google maps for area search...New and BRILLIANT, road maps and > satellite views with infinite scrolling in any direction. > > An astonishingly intimate view; see fields and rivers in Greensboro, > Liverpool, Iraq, Western Australia as easy as pushing a button, find the > highest point on > Ararat, find your house (though you have to imagine the garden gnomes), > make > the earth spin and stop as you choose. Google Earth. earth.google.com > for > Windows XP or 2000 http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ to > download the application. > > "The Fly To feature accepts an address, place name, cross street or > simple > Latitude/Longitude coordinates and zooms you quickly in to the specified > location, typically stopping at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above > ground. From this point, use the controls to zoom, tilt, pan or rotate > the > view. > > Checkboxes next to the navigation controls allow you to overlay lodging, > roads, terrain, dining, geographical borders and 3D buildings over the > satellite image. Even more overlays are available using the "layers" > features. > > Additional layers allow you to overlay data points of geographic interest > > over images." > > ______________________________ > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > The list administrator can be reached at [email protected] >

Thank you so much.

I have a question: I understand the Boone family (Daniels father and mother and others) removed from the Yadkin River and moved to Maryland during a period of Indian attacks on the NC settlements and during that time Daniel Boone married in Virginia, possibly in Culpeper co., Va. (This may be wrong) Question: When did Daniel Boone's father and mother return to the Yadkin, or did he remain in Maryland and die there? Thanks for clarification of this. G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.

>I forgot to see if there was a name for the cemetery, but I didn't see >any signs other than the historical marker about the Boone family graves. I know they were buried in Old Joppa Cemetery, as I have several ancestors that were buried there. Rick Saunders -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: 7/9/2005

I use Google maps for addresses and satellite views of addresses. But there is a program that improves on what I have been doing. Even without the download, I tried my own address and with the satellite view, I could see my own house. Try Google maps for area search...New and BRILLIANT, road maps and satellite views with infinite scrolling in any direction. An astonishingly intimate view; see fields and rivers in Greensboro, Liverpool, Iraq, Western Australia as easy as pushing a button, find the highest point on Ararat, find your house (though you have to imagine the garden gnomes), make the earth spin and stop as you choose. Google Earth. earth.google.com for Windows XP or 2000 http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ to download the application. "The Fly To feature accepts an address, place name, cross street or simple Latitude/Longitude coordinates and zooms you quickly in to the specified location, typically stopping at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above ground. From this point, use the controls to zoom, tilt, pan or rotate the view. Checkboxes next to the navigation controls allow you to overlay lodging, roads, terrain, dining, geographical borders and 3D buildings over the satellite image. Even more overlays are available using the "layers" features. Additional layers allow you to overlay data points of geographic interest over images." ______________________________

I checked my Jo White Linn abstracts for Rowan wills (in 1765, it would be Rowan County). There's no will listed, and he's also not showing in estate records that were known to exist at the time (1979). Davie County wasn't created until 1836. My Thornton Mitchell index of NC wills does not show any wills for Squire Boone, or a Sarah Boon/Boone of the right time period. Again, being local <g>, I can check with the NC Archives easily, without paying the out-of-state search fee, to see if they have discovered any estate records since 1979. If I find anything, I'll post it here. I'm not a descendant; is there anyone who is who knows more about this? Katherine

In a message dated 7/10/2005 11:28:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: http://charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com/BooneFamily.html Thank you Katherine, for thinking of us. I am interested in Squire's will, anyone know where that can be found? Vic

Being local ... <g> Since you're discussing the Boone family some, I remembered that I have some pictures that may interest some of you. We were on our way to a family reunion last month, when we were driving through Mocksville NC (in Davie County) and saw a sign for the graves of Daniel Boone's parents. My husband knew I'd want to stop there on the way back (he's such a good sport about graveyards), and so we did. This is right by the side of Route 601 as you go through town; it is well-marked and the cemetery is right next to a little strip mall named Boone Plaza, so it's hard to miss. It's a small cemetery, between the plaza and a house, on the east side of the road. We jumped out of the car, took the pictures, and jumped back in, as we were leaving to go out of town the next day, and I forgot to see if there was a name for the cemetery, but I didn't see any signs other than the historical marker about the Boone family graves. The original markers themselves are encased in brick, to protect the original stones from being damaged, lost, etc. I wish they had used stone as a building material, instead of brick, but... Anyway, I wondered if anyone would like to have copies of these images. Since it takes a while to upload these images (I'm still on dial-up but will go to broadband soon), I put them on a special page on the family website, that I set up in a hurry this morning. The page won't have a navigation menu back to the main website or anything fancy, and I'm not sure how long I'll leave this page up, so feel free to click on the images and save them to your computer. They have been optimized, to reduce their size. Hopefully, you can still read the words on the marker, particularly if you enlarge the image. The web page address is: http://charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com/BooneFamily.html Hope you like these. You should be able to see that Squire Boone's marker is the second image, and Sarah's is the third. If you have questions or problems, contact me. Katherine Dick Benbow

Hi If you have had trouble with Amazon and are leary. Barnes and Noble is also on line you might try there :) Katherine do I envy you :) Julie

Hi Janet, I am not sure if your WEBB are the same as my Husbands WEBB. They are a rather larger family from the Reading PA are and before that England. Some where Quakers and the one that my husband is descended from Married a Boone. Mary Boone ,daughter of George Boone III, m. John Webb. I am going to take an educated guess (and maybe not) that it may be the same family as the Bryans also traveled with the Boones. John and Mary to my knowledge never left PA and they are both buried I have been told at the Boone Homestead. I do find their son James Webb in NC and dying in Letcher Co. KY. He had other siblings but these men and women I have little information on. If you would be interested in what I do have just let me know. Sincerely Yours Julia K. Hogston http://www.genealogyforum.org http://www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mytree/Tree2.html

You can try that, of course. We've had problems with Amazon, so I won't use them. But "to each his own." I also have the advantage of being able to find things locally, since I live in NC, next-door to Rowan County - in fact, three miles from the county line. Katherine

Hi All, As Margaret mentioned earlier I believe I also got my copy of Carolina Cradle through Amazon.com Julie

> Thanks for all of this discussion of Places in Rowan > Co. One of my favorite things about genealogy is > finding the history that goes along with the people. > Sincerely, > Susan O. Palmer > searching: Lewis/Stapleton >

Does anyone know which Davis family Esther Davis (who married Joseph Whaley Jr. 20 Dec. 1781-Rowan Co.) was part of. Thomas McKay was bondsman - perhaps this family was not from Rowan?? Also, is anyone researching the Justice family? Thank you. Margaret Johnson

Let my stick my nose in - Amazon.com is where I found my copy of "Carolina Cradle" as well as a few other interesting books- often there is free shipping, especially if you get a bit carried away and order more than you had plannned. -Margaret Johnson ----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RowanRoots] Old Rowan geography questions Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:32:57 EDT Diane, if you haven't done so already, I'd suggest that you find a copy of "Carolina Cradle," by Robert Ramsey (University of North Carolina Press). It focuses on the early beginnings of NC settlement, and is well illustrated with maps. And - so important to us genealogists - it mentions many, many families and individuals who were early settlers. You should be able to order it through the UNC Press or Willow Bend Books (you can Google those easily). Perhaps your local library or history room has a copy on the shelf. Happy hunting! Katherine Dick Benbow ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== RowanRoots is a genealogy/history discussion list. Please stay on topic.

Hi Larry, The only Potts Creek (north and south branches) I can find is east of the Yadkin River, near [north of] the Trading Ford; this from the map in Ms. Jo white Linn's "Tax Lists of 1757-1800". The Bryan Settlement was quite a bit north, maybe 20-30 miles [depending on whether you're a crow or afoot], and is on the west side of the river, near the Shallow Ford. The Lagle map is available through the Davie Co. Historical Society. I'm sure their address is available online. What relationship to the Bryan Settlement are you pursuing? Did your William Coates have a daughter Charity who m. Runyon? Kathryn [email protected] wrote: >--------------- > > Subject: Old Rowan geography questions > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:16:10 -0500 > From: "Larry Coats" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hello all, > Could anyone tell me the approximate distance and bearing from: > (1)the Bryan Settlement to Coats Branch > and > (2)the Bryan Settlement to Potts Creek(1st and 2d Potts) > > I am also looking for a decent map of this part of Old Rowan, so if anyone can put me on to a source that I can either purchase or get via ILL, I would appreciate it. > Regards, > Larry > PS: John D. Coates.....are you still the list manager here? If so, drop me a line when you get the chance; I have some ideas relating to Wm Coat(e)s of Potts Creek.

Diane, if you haven't done so already, I'd suggest that you find a copy of "Carolina Cradle," by Robert Ramsey (University of North Carolina Press). It focuses on the early beginnings of NC settlement, and is well illustrated with maps. And - so important to us genealogists - it mentions many, many families and individuals who were early settlers. You should be able to order it through the UNC Press or Willow Bend Books (you can Google those easily). Perhaps your local library or history room has a copy on the shelf. Happy hunting! Katherine Dick Benbow