Rachel Boone Hendricks, mother of Blind Boone

ID: 351 ~ Source: Melissa Fuell-Cuther. Blind Boone: His Early Life and His Achievements. Robins, TN: Evangel Publishing Society, 1918. ~ Creator: Melissa Fuell-Cuther. Blind Boone: His Early Life and His Achievements. Robins, TN: Evangel Publishing Society, 1918. ~ Date: unknown

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

Blind Boone in Warrensburg

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Dr. Jon E. Taylor

John William Boone was born on May 17, 1864, to Rachel Boone in Miami, Missouri, in a Union army camp occupied by the Seventh Militia, Company I. Rachel Boone had been enslaved at birth in 1843 in Kentucky. It is unclear just exactly who enslaved…