Boone, William C.

Born: 1812-08-02 Shelby County, Kentucky

Died: 1885-01-17 Jefferson City, Missouri

Flourished: Glasgow, Missouri

Alternate name: Boon

William C. Boone was a cashier, preacher, and grand-nephew of Daniel Boone. William C. Boone moved with his parents from his native Kentucky to Boone County, Missouri, in 1818. In 1825, Boone and his parents moved to Howard County, Missouri. Boone married Lucy Ann Daly in June 1834. The couple had eleven children together. In 1841, Boon was a constituent member of the Christian Church in Glasgow, Missouri, and in 1854, he preached regularly at the Christian Church in nearby Fayette. In 1850, Boone owned real property valued at $25,000. In 1860, Boone was working as a cashier for the Glasgow branch of the Exchange Bank of St. Louis. He owned real property valued at $14,300 and had a personal estate of $49,345. Boone owned eighteen enslaved persons in 1860.

Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone Who Came to America in 1717 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1922), 197-98; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Howard County, MO, 224; The Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory (St. Louis: Sutherland & McEvoy, 1860), 94; History of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical, 1883), 342, 343; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Glasgow, Howard County, MO, 84; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Glasgow, Howard County, MO, 45; Columbia Missouri Herald, 22 January 1885, 2:5; Gravestone, Woodland-Old City Cemetery, Jefferson City, MO.