Sunset Hill Cemetery Entrance, Warrensburg, Missouri

ID: 354 ~ Source: Photo by Dr. Jon E. Taylor August, 2022 ~ Creator: Photo by Dr. Jon E. Taylor August, 2022 ~ Date: August, 2022

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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…