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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0428dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>        The Boone Family  Journal                                   </B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" The Boone Family Journal "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Me"><U>About  Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Latest News"><U>Latest News</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Family History"><U>Our Family History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Friends and Relatives"><U>Friends and Relatives</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MISCELLANEOUS"><U>MISCELLANEOUS</U></A>   |   <B>Photos</B>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Virginia"><U>Virginia</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0428dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Photos</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="06152bd0.jpg" border=0 width="82" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><B>Louis Wellington Munroe</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> August 29, 1828 - March 25, 1911</div> <bR> <div> Major Munroe was born in Virginia August 28,1829. He was one of three sons and three daughters of David Wellington and Mahala Dowdy Munroe. I know the name of one sibling and that was David Munroe. He remained single. His father, David W. Munroe was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts. His wife, Mahala was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. They were married in Virginia. The Munroes moved to Tennessee when Louis was a young boy. Satisfying an ambition of his boyhood, Mr. Munroe made a trip across the Mississippi River and like the west country so well that he sent later for his family and made a home for them in Brownsville, the original county seat of Lonoke County, Arkansas. He engaged in the mercantile business and was very successful financially. After the Civil War Mr. Munroe loaned money to many families that needed aid to recoup their livelihood. In 1880 Mr. Munroe and family moved to Lonoke, where he again owned a mercantile business and at one time was associated with his son-in-law the late W.H. Eagle. He was known for his fair and just dealings in business. Three daughters of David Wellington and Mahala Dowdy Munroe. I know the name of one sibling and that was David Munroe. He remained single. His father, David W. Munroe was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts. His wife, Mahala was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. They were married in Virginia. The Munroes moved to Tennessee when Louis was a young boy. Satisfying an ambition of his boyhood, Mr. Munroe made a trip across the Mississippi River and like the west country so well that he sent later for his family and made a home for them in Brownsville, the original county seat of Lonoke County, Arkansas. He engaged in the mercantile business and was very successful financially. After the Civil War Mr. Munroe loaned money to many families that needed aid to recoup their livelihood. In 1880 Mr. Munroe and family moved to Lonoke, where he again owned a mercantile business and at one time was associated with his son-in-law the late W.H. Eagle. He was known for his fair and just dealings in business. Mr. Munroe died March 25, 1911.</div> <bR> <div> There's a lot of folklore I grew up with over the years when I visited my family in Lonoke. I knew that he held large tracts of land. I've gone through microfilms of Lonoke's newspaper as early as 1885 and he is seldom mentioned in the gossip section that was so much a part of the news at the time. He was held in high esteem, perhaps in awe. He's referred to and known to this day in Lonoke as </div> <div> Major Munroe. I suppose it was an honorific title. He didn't fight in the Civil War due to some minor physical ailment. I heard that in the early days after his death he was known as "Old 10 Percent". When he was buried and before the permanent monument was installed, some kids scrawled on his grave </div> <bR> <div> "Here lies Old 10%</div> <div> The more he made</div> <div> The less he spent,</div> <div> And when he died</div> <div> to hell he went." </div> <bR> <div> I don't think he was bad as the kids made him out to be, but having money when others struggled was a classic case of the Have and Have Nots.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06370fa0.jpg" border=0 width="112" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>America Thompson Munroe  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> January 2,  1836 - March 15,  1920</div> <bR> <div> He married America Thompson, the daughter of William and Martha Farmer Thompson of Kentucky. Mrs. Munroe was born January 2, 1836 in Moscow, Tennessee. Her marriage to Mr. Munroe was February 17, 1858.</div> <div> Her father was a Presbyterian minister and had his church near Brownsville in Watensaw.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0658abd0.jpg" border=0 width="138" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <B>Martha Jane "Mattie" Munroe Boone</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> </div> <bR> <div> January 3, 1966 - April 20, 1932</div> <bR> <div> The wife of my great grandfather Daniel Munroe Boone. She was born in Brownsville, Arkansas and married Daniel March 25, 1885. To Daniel she bore 6 children (Louise, Daniel, Wellington, Lemuel, William,  and Allie Mae). Her grandchildren called her </div> <div> "Ma Boone".</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0677dbd0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Captain</B></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>William John Abner Boon</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> September 24, 1821 - July 13, 1885</div> <bR> <div> William John Abner Boon was the first son of a prominent family in Johnston County, North Carolina. He was born in the town Boon Hill (now Princeton) on September 24, 1821. His father Daniel and mother Sarah were planters in North Carolina. His grandfather was Joseph Boon III who served as a U. S. Senator from North Carolina in 1787. Daniel (no direct kinship known to the frontiersman Daniel) was a staunch Baptist who was frequently referred to as Reverend Boon. He had been one of the founders and trustee of Wake Forest College in 1833, later to become a well known university. William was among the first class and studied and lived in Wake Forest, North Carolina from 1833-1841. He married a young girl of 16, my great-great grandmother Augusta White in 1846.  Shortly after his graduation his and his entire immediate family moved to Mississippi sometime around 1837 with the large migration that followed after the last of the  Choctaw Indian land treaty had been signed and the available land resulted in a relatively large migration of North Carolinians to Mississippi. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New" >He was a planter and raised fine horses on his plantation. </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Though it has been over 120 years since his death  WJA perhaps arrived  to escape his debtors in De Soto County Mississippi. We now know that his close friend, Dr. Lemuel Hall, was already in Lonoke with his medical practice before his arrival. Dr. Hall had served under Capt. Boon as lieutenant of Company D of the 1st Mississippi Regiment, also known as the "DeSoto Greys". Together they fought  numerous campaigns with General Beale in Mississippi, Tennessee, Ft. Donelson until their surrender in a campaign in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Captain Boon never really gave up hope on the Confederate Sates cause. After the war he returned to his family plantation in Hernando still paying his debtors with worthless confederate bills. If it weren't for his family having buried their valuables during General Grant's march to Vicksburg, the family would have been certainly impoverished after the war. Rebuilding his life in Hernando was too costly. Foolishly he bought confederate bills from others who were more than willing to dispose of the worthless note. Perhaps he thought that the bills would be restored with the Confederacy in time. </div> <bR> <div> The details of his departure from Hernando was quick as there are no records found from that town at that time. It is known that he moved to Lonoke where his former lieutenant, Dr. Hall, was in practice. It is also now known that his son, D.R. Boone arrived around the same time or shortly after. There was probably very little time left for him as his obituary lists the cause of death as "Malignant Carbuncle" which claimed his life on July 13, 1885. His burial at the Lonoke City Cemetery was in  Dr. Hall's family plot. His  marker , next to the grave of Dr. Hall has languished over the years. The lawn had covered his grave marker so effectively that later Lonoke family probably had only a vague family history that he was buried 'somewhere' in the cemetery until even that was forgotten in time. I discovered it only after finding Dr. Hall's grave. Capt. Boon's marker was barely visible. The flat marker had crumbled, and the only inscription read "WJA Boon 1821-1885" in small letters was readable. Incidentally, the grave of D.R. Boone's infant son Wellington Boone was next to his grandfather. Currently I am arranging for a replacement marker for both.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06c84bd0.jpg" border=0 width="132" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Augusta Ann White</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> June 13, 1828 - May 27, 1857</div> <bR> <div> On Febuary 1, 1846 William J. A. Boon married Augusta Ann White near Goldsburg, North Carolina at the tender age of 18, by George Tucker, Minister of the Gospel.In <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1848 she became a member of the Hernando Baptist Church.</FONT></div> <div>  </div> <div> Augusta White was the daughter of Edward White of North Carolina.</div> <div> She bore him four children; Mary Elizabeth, Daniel, Louise Miller, and Daniel Ratcliffe. When Augusta died at the age of 39 he erected a monument in the </div> <div> old Baptist Cemetery in Hernando the inscription:</div> <bR> <div>                                           Sacred  </div> <div>                                To the Memory of  Augusta Ann</div> <div>                                     The beloved Wife of</div> <div>                                     William J. A. Boone</div> <div>                                     Born June 13, 1828</div> <div>                                     Died May 27, 1857</div> <div>                                 She died as she had lived</div> <div>                                       a Christian</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06f71bd0.jpg" border=0 width="113" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Daniel Munroe Boone</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07188bd0.jpg" border=0 width="136" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Lemuel White Boone</B></div> <bR> <div> May 11, 1893 - December 14, 1938</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="07383bd0.jpg" border=0 width="131" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <B>William Boykin Boone</B></div> <bR> <div> June 4, 1896 - January 22, 1918</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0768abd0.jpg" border=0 width="138" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Louise Miller Boone</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> February 9, 1889 - September 14, 1941</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="07880bd0.jpg" border=0 width="128" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><B>  Allie Mae Boone</B></div> <bR> <div> September 24, 1899 - January 27, 1993</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="07aa0bd0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <B>Daniel M. Boone </B>(young man)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07cb6fa0.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  Sarah Boon Oliver</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07efaf40.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B><B>Sarah Lucinda Oliver  & J.S.B. Boone</B></div> <bR> <div> Sarah: March 16, 1823 - December 14, 1915        J.S.B.: June 30, 1823 - July 17, 1900</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="080faa40.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Tulane University Pharmacy</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> This is a class photo of Lem Boone in 1915.  He was a junior class man. Lem is pictured at the top row standing in the middle.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="083faaa0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>  Coach James Abraham/Lonoke Jackrabbits</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> This photo was taken in the mid-1920's. Coach Abraham is standing to the far left dressed in a suit.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>