I'm related to Daniel Boone
Weirdly enough. But it's very far back, of course. I think it's only by marriage, however. Well, I know I am related to him, even if it's not by blood. ;)
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The REAL Daniel Boone by the way.
If you want to know how, I'm afraid I can't tell you. My mom told me and I don't understand how myself. I just know that I am, even if only by a thread.
Alfred Hitchcock Fan
So you must be related to Pat Boone and Richard Boone too, no? They both claimed to be descendants of Daniel Boone.
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wait wait wait... Isn't Daniel Boone just a fictional character or did I miss something??
shareYou missed something, dude.
shareWell then. Care to enlighten me?
shareThe public library is your friend, Junior. Use it once in a while.
shareHehe, yeah. Asking for help on a public forum is impossible... Waste of time trying to get help on the imdb message boards. Well, well.
shareAs far as this show is concerned, Daniel Boone is a fictional character. There is very little (if any) accuracy with regards to the real Daniel Boone.
Daniel Boone was a man. He was a REAL man. (Couldn't resist that)
He didn't really wear a coon-skin hat, it was a more of a Quaker style hat. He came from Reading, PA.
I would not be unusual for someone to be a descendant of Boone, since his fathered many children. However, there is a question whether some of his children were fathered by him or his brother, Squire.
Boone was a gifted frontiersman who basically adapted well to the Kentucky frontier, so he claimed land and helped other settlers adapt to a frontier life.
He never had an Indian sidekick. The dominant tribe in the Ohio/Kentucky frontier was the Shawnee. They did capture him and adopted him even giving him a Shawnee name (Sheltowee). He actually lived in the same proximity as the young Tecumseh.
Kentucky is not considered the wild west because it was tamed in less than 30 years, unlike the huge span west of the Mississippi, but it was plenty wild in that time. Thousands of tribesmen and settlers were killed along the Ohio River during Boone's time, especially since the British gave out bounties for the scalps of settlers (did you know that they made a popping sound when removed?). Scalps were often categorized by how they were killed and if they were men, women or children.
When Kentucky was settled, Boone had very little besides his family. He lost most of the land that he had claimed to other claims by people who had lawyers. He was also not trusted by everyone because of his relation with the Shawnee and the details of his surrender.
If you want to know a LOT about Daniel Boone, look for non-fiction books written by Allen W. Eckert. "The Frontiersman" is one of the best books that I have ever read.
Fred
Thanks mate! Seems like there actually still are some good people out there :)
shareDon't feel bad. I was in San Antonio and more people asked me about Sonny Crockett than Davy Crockett.
Years ago, I had someone ask me if I was related. Another person asked, "How can you be related to a fictional character?"
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A very nice mini-biography. You are right that Daniel Boone is seen in some paintings wearing a more traditional style of hat but he is known to have worn a coon skin cap also. The links below are to paintings from 1861 and 1763 which show him with fur hats. Maybe he only wore this type of cap in the winter... who knows for sure.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Daniel_Boone_engraving.png
http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=3092210&epmid=1&partner=Google
Even if he did primarily wear a more traditional hat, it was smart of Daniel Boone's producers to capitalize on Fess Parker's popularity as Davy Crockett.
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Squire Boone was Daniel's father, not his brother.
Some historians say Jemima was actually fathered by Daniel's brother while he was away for a long time (a couple of years, at least). They say that when Daniel returned home and Rebecca told him she had assumed he was dead, he reportedly said, "Well, at least she's a Boone."
Thanks for the book recommendation; I'll look for it.
Audree7593
Squire Boone was Daniel's father, not his brother.
Some historians say Jemima was actually fathered by Daniel's brother while he was away for a long time (a couple of years, at least). They say that when Daniel returned home and Rebecca told him she had assumed he was dead, he reportedly said, "Well, at least she's a Boone."
Even in Colonial times sons were named for their fathers, Audree. Squire Boone Sr was Daniel Boone and Squire Boone, Junior's father. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing that story. He was a practical and forgiving man, was Daniel Boone.
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There was no northern aggression. The war was about slavery and whether African Americans were human beings or not. If you do your own research you'll find there were brutal fights on this topic. Claiming it was not is disingenuous. A black person was counted as three fifths (3/5) of a person or are you unaware of this fact? Yes, they were fighting for the right to own other human beings. That's what the Confederate flag represents, Tydyed. Look it up yourself, you don't have to believe anything I've told you. It's all a matter of public record.
There is bigotry here in the south right now, so much it sickens me. My beloved aunt died last month after a long life. At her funeral there was standing room only in the chapel. I made certain to speak to every person who was there. She was well loved in northern Florida and Georgia. The funeral was in Macclenny, FL, and the interment was just over the state line in rural Georgia.
An old friend of hers approached me and I spoke with him. He pulled out a five dollar bill and told me that he takes a silver dollar and draws a circle and a line over President Lincoln's portrait every time he gets that bill in change. While the old fellow spoke of his seething hatred of President Lincoln I stood there wondering why an 87-year old man would want to carry around that much resentment at his age. I was stunned. Rather than ask him why he'd want to carry around such a burden, I simply stood there. As a dear friend of my aunt, I felt she'd rather I didn't cause a scene at her funeral. Normally I'd call a person on something like that. For once I let it go. It wasn't the time to ask him why he was so full of anger. Similar attitudes exist in my own family. It's vile but true.
Don't preach to me about 'our' heritage. There's zero heritage in hatred, bitterness and resentment. Every American deserves the same rights and privileges under the Constitution you and I enjoy. It takes what it takes to make that happen.
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The slaves as 3/5 of a person was an anti-slavery gambit, not done to disparage the status of the slaves as human beings, but done by the abolitionists who were fighting slavery and southern political power. This is anti-south. Seats in Congress are allocated by population, and southerners wanted the slaves counted as full people so the south could get could get more seats, and thereby also gain power over the northern states. This, even though the slaves were not in any way actually allowed to live their lives as or be treated as full people. So in the constitutional convention John Adams and other northern abolitionists opposed, and got the southern count limited to 3/5 rather than full credit.
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Yeah, you missed something all right, you missed your schooling.
shareRichard Boone is descended from Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's brother, Tightspotkilo. Your signature is ironic in this case.
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