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