I believe Henry Boone with wife Mary Barbara Rice have been correctly identified as parents of Joseph R. Boone who died in Fannin Co., TX 10-3-1899. Anyone interested in this newly discovered information can contact me at ruthwalsh@excite.com -- or if the spam copy stops your email to that address then an alternate address is rawalshusmc@yahoo.com. The names of a Henry Boone b. 1793 and Mary Boone b. 1795 appear in the family Bible of Joseph R. Boone and Virginia E. M. Crenshaw. Newly discovered information has identifried a Henry Boone b .8-6-1793 in PA and wife Mary Barbara Rice b. NJ 3-1-1795 had 3 children. One of those was a Joseph R. Boone who, in census data, fits the description of "our" Joseph R. Boone. The census data, as well as other data on Joseph R. Boone's parents and siblings, will be shared with anyone who writes.