Richard Bass Boone (1862 - 1963)

Born 23 Oct 1862 in Montgomery, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy Jane (Tate) Boone — married 9 Nov 1890 in Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1963 at age 100 in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States

Biography

For more than 20 years, Boone was a steam threshing machine operator doing custom work and also his own threshing, and put long hours in the hot sun during the harvest season each year.

"I was the first man to swing an ax to clear the right of way for the Katy (Missouri- Kansas - and Texas) Railroad in the Portland (Callaway County Mo.) area "he recalls, "I always worked hard and long hours".^[1]

For the last 35 years of his life he just tended his own farm work.

A life long resident of Callaway County, he was born near the Montgomery County line on Oct . 23, 1862, son of Alonzo Boone (1810 - 1896) and Martha Boone (1825 - 1873).^{[2] [3]}

Mr. Boone's great-great grandfather was a brother of Daniel Boone, according to family records.

He was first married to the former Lucy Tate (1869 - 1919), and ten children were born to the couple. Lucy died in 1919 and on Oct. 31, 1920, he married the former Mrs. Eva Garrett Wyatt (1886 - 1972).

His children are David Crockett Boone (1890 - 1986), St. Louis, Gailey Kring Boone (1905 - 1998), Norfolk, Va., Leo Alonzo Boone (1899 - 1979), Fulton, John Boone, Kansas City; Mrs. Whit Bruce, New Franklin. One son, Mann died of battle injuries during WWI and another son and two daughters died in infancy.

He also has step-daughters, Mrs. Virginia Veatch, Fulton, and Mrs. Lois Shively.

Other children include Birdie May Boone Leukhardt (1891 - 1923), Bettie Florence Boone Bruce (1892 - 1967), Richard Bennett Boone (1895 - 1918), and Naomi Ruth Boone Bridges (1906 - 1998).

He died 26 Sep 1963 in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States and was buried in Callaway Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Fulton Sun Gazette: Fulton, Callaway County Missouri - October 24, 1961
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4XC-BCB : 12 April 2016), Richard Boon in household of Alonzo Boon, Missouri, United States; citing p. 10, family 70, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,263.
3. ↑ Callaway Countian 100 Years Old Today, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO, Tues., Oct. 23, 1962, page 13A. [Newspaper Clipping]
4. ↑ Death Certificate of Richard Bass Boone, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1963/1963_00035291.PDF
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK1-8MF5 : 13 December 2015), Richard Bass Boone, 1963; Burial, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States of America, Callaway Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum; citing record ID 52106775, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2TF-YHF : accessed 8 June 2018), Richard B Boone, Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 2A, family 36, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 774; FHL microfilm 1,374,787.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHVK-Z7C : accessed 8 June 2018), Richard B Boone, Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 2B, line 56, family 34, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1179; FHL microfilm 2,340,914.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K73L-YJZ : accessed 8 June 2018), Richard B Boone, Auxvasse Township, Callaway, Callaway, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 14-2, sheet 1A, line 31, family 8, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2092.