BOONE, Daniel - Putnam

Daniel Boone, aged 73 years, died at his home in Washington township, Thursday morning, surrounded by all his family, except two daughters who, live in Iowa and could not be present. His disease was pneumonia, and he had been ill about two weeks. The funeral took place from the residence Friday afternoon, conducted by Dr. 1’arkhurst, the interment being in the cemetery on the homestead. The funeral was very largelv attended.  (Mr. Boone was a grand-nephew of Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky Indian hunter, and was born in Harrison county, this State. April 12, 1814. He came to Putnam county in 1834, and settled where he has since lived. He bought the land from William Torr. father of James H. Torr. Only a small track was cleared at the time, probably three acres. He went manfully to work, and in fifteen or twenty years had cleared the heavy forest off as much as sixty acres of the bottom, and put the land in a high state of cultivation^ In 1839 he married Miss Malinda Miller, who survives him, with four sons and seven daughters, the two younger children having died in infancy.  Mr. Boone was not a member of any church, but was a Universalist in belief, and tils life was an exemplification of the beauty of the doctrines to which he so firmly adhered. First a Whig in politics, he had been a staunch Republican since the organization of that party, and his family has grown up in the same faith. Three of the sous, Lenox, John and George live in Kansas; Moses lives on the home place; Mrs. Elvira Stoner, wife of Lvcurgus Stoner, lives in the same neighborhood; Mrs. Emma Pollom, wife of Luthur Pollom, near Harmony; Mrs. Hannah Bushy, wile of George Busby, at Oakalla; Mrs. Nancy Risk, wife of John Risk, and Mrs. Julia Goodrich, wife of Daniel B. Goodrich, in Iowa; Mrs. Laura Landis, wife of Wesley Landis at Hamrock and Mrs. Alice Oliver, wife of James M. Oliver, at Reelsville.  In the death of Mr. Boone, Washington township has lost one of its very best citizens. He was always foremost in everything calculated to benefit his neighborhood and, although retiring and modest, he was a man who could always be depended upon in every emergency. - kz