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    1. Squire & Sarah Morgan Boone's gravesite
    2. 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

    07/10/2005 05:27:46