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Rebecca Boone <I>Grant</I> Lamond

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Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond

Birth
Surry County, North Carolina, USA
Death
7 Nov 1858 (aged 84)
Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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As found at
http://jkhg.org/rebecca_boone_grant_lamond.htm

Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond was one of the owners of the Boone Chair at Waveland State Historic Site. In addition to riding in the chair over the mountains from North Carolina, Rebecca was the last living survivor of the siege of Bryan's Station in 1782. This daguerreotype was taken shortly before her death in Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky in 1854. The image is in the collection of Waveland. Her true DOB and DOD are as follows: She was born 4 Jun 1774 and died 7 Nov 1858 in Morganfield, Union Co., Kentucky. She is buried in the Masonic Cemetery.

Ray's notes:
She was the youngest child of William Grant and Elizabeth Boone (sister of Daniel Boone) She was married to John James Lamond in May of 1789. She is recorded as having the following children: Elizabeth Boone Lamond (1795 – 1878), Frances Augustus Lamond (1798 – 1886), Mary Grant Lamond (1800 – 1841), Sarah Grant Lamond (1801-?), Augustus William Lamond (1803 – 1828), Rebecca Knox Lamond (1807 – 1854), Agnes Verner Lamond (1809-?), and John James Lamond (1813 – 1896).

She is particularly known for letters that she wrote to Lyman C. Draper, which aided him in the writing of his well known "Draper Manuscript". See http://jkhg.org/rebecca_boone_grant_lamond.htm
As found at
http://jkhg.org/rebecca_boone_grant_lamond.htm

Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond was one of the owners of the Boone Chair at Waveland State Historic Site. In addition to riding in the chair over the mountains from North Carolina, Rebecca was the last living survivor of the siege of Bryan's Station in 1782. This daguerreotype was taken shortly before her death in Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky in 1854. The image is in the collection of Waveland. Her true DOB and DOD are as follows: She was born 4 Jun 1774 and died 7 Nov 1858 in Morganfield, Union Co., Kentucky. She is buried in the Masonic Cemetery.

Ray's notes:
She was the youngest child of William Grant and Elizabeth Boone (sister of Daniel Boone) She was married to John James Lamond in May of 1789. She is recorded as having the following children: Elizabeth Boone Lamond (1795 – 1878), Frances Augustus Lamond (1798 – 1886), Mary Grant Lamond (1800 – 1841), Sarah Grant Lamond (1801-?), Augustus William Lamond (1803 – 1828), Rebecca Knox Lamond (1807 – 1854), Agnes Verner Lamond (1809-?), and John James Lamond (1813 – 1896).

She is particularly known for letters that she wrote to Lyman C. Draper, which aided him in the writing of his well known "Draper Manuscript". See http://jkhg.org/rebecca_boone_grant_lamond.htm


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