Boone Remembers His Mother Warrensburg Journal Democrat August 18, 1899

ID: 355 ~ Source: Warrensburg Journal Democrat August 18, 1899 ~ Creator: Warrensburg Journal Democrat ~ Date: August 18, 1899

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…