Son of George Boone & nephew of Squire & Daniel Boone.
Survey shows headstone spelling as Boon.

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WILLIAM LINVILLE BOONE (George 6 ; Squire*; George 3 ), born
22 Feb., 1768, in North Carolina; died 13 Apr., 1847, in Shelby Co., Ky.
(a)
Married 1st, 16 Aug., 1789, Nancy Grubbs (b. 8 June, 1771; d. 22
Mar., 1835 at Fayette, Mo.), a daughter of Higgason and Lucy (Harris)
Grubbs (See the Grubbs Family Sketch), and married 2nd, in 1840,
Mrs. Ann (Bryan) Perry.
William Linville Boone was the third child of George (brother of
Daniel) and Ann or Nancy (Linville) Boone. About 1780, it is said he
came from Virginia with his parents, who were among the very early
pioneers, to Madison County, Ky., where in 1780, his father founded
Boone's Station, about one and one-half or two miles north of the pre-
sent courthouse in Richmond.
In 1789, he was married to Nancy Grubbs, the marriage rites being
solemnized by Rev. Christopher Harris, of Old Baptist Faith, who was
a brother of Lucy (Harris) Grubbs, thus being an uncle of the bride.
After his uncle, Edward Boone, had been killed by Indians in 1780,
William, his father, George Boone, and his uncle Daniel Boone, were in the
party which went out to bring in the mutilated body.
In the fall of 1799, when Daniel Boone moved to Missouri, William
L. Boone was one of the party which went by boat, but he did not stay
long and returned without trying to get a grant of land from Spain.
(Missouri was then Spanish territory.)
During the closing years of the 18th, and the early part of the 19th
Centuries there were two men by the name of William Boone living in
Madison County, Ky. One is the subject of this sketch, and the other
was probably his cousin, William Boone, whose wife was Margaret.
In Deed Book "G," page 431, we find "on 6th February, 1810,
Higgason Grubbs, and wife, Lucy (Harris), for 1500 dollars, conveyed to
William Boone a tract of land, granted by the Commonwealth of Ky.,
to Higgason Grubbs, 2 March, 1789, on the waters of Muddy Creek and
the Kentucky River."
Again in Deed Book "G," page 533, "on 11 October, 1810, Edward
Boone and his wife, Dorcas, of Shelby County, Ky., for 600 pounds,
conveyed to William Boone, of Madison County, 185 acres of land on
Tates and Otter Creeks in Madison County." The Edward Boone men-
tioned was probably William Boone's brother Edward, whose wife was
Mrs. Dorcas (Simpson) White. It is thought that both of these convey-
ances were made to the subject of this sketch, son of George and Anne
(Linville) Boone, for George Boone, Sr., owned lands near Richmond, on
the head waters of the Tates and Otter Creeks. The two creeks head
together in the northern part of the city of Richmond, where the ridge
divides the head stream of the two creeks, (c)
"On 2 February, 1810, William Boone and wife, Nancy (Grubbs),
conveyed to Richard Tunstall Jr., land on Tates Creek in Madison County
Ky., adjoining Berry and others." Witnesses to this deed were Re-
becca Harris, and their two daughters, Lucy and Mrs. Milly (Boone)
Carson, wife of William Carson. The land of Lindsay Carson, father of
the William Carson mentioned above, adjoined the William Boone land.
James Berry was an uncle of Nancy (Grubbs) Boone and thus a great
uncle of William Boone.
In 1811, William Boone and family, including his son-in-law, Andrew
Tribble, with his family, moved to Shelby County, Ky. Just how long he
lived here we do not know. After a time (1818) he moved to Missouri,
settling near Columbia, Boone Co. (a), living there until after the death
of his wife, Nancy (Grubbs) in 1835, when soon after he returned to
Kentucky, and again located in Shelby County.
In Heitman's Historical Register (1789-19 — ), page 230, we find the
record of William Boone of Kentucky, being 3d Lieut, of Rangers on
1 Aug., 1813, in Illinois Territory; and honorably discharged "15 (Aug.?)
1815." This may refer to the subject, William Linville Boone.
In 1845, he was sent by the Kentucky Legislature to Missouri to
gain the consent of Nathan Boone, son of Daniel, for the removal of the
bodies of Daniel and his wife, Rebecca (Bryan) Boone, from Missouri to
Frankfort, Ky. He was successful in this mission, and was one of the
pall-bearers at the time of their removal.
In 1840, at the age of seventy-two he was married a second time to
Mrs. Ann (Bryan) Perry. A few years later (1847), he died and was
buried on the old Major Andrew Tribble farm in Shelby County. In
those days each family had its own private burial ground.
Children: —
+447 Lucy Boone, b. abt., 1790 or '91.
+448 Mildred (MiUie) Boone.
+449 Matilda Boone, b. 1 Dec, 1795.
+450 Cassandra Boone, b. 1796.
+451 Hampton Lynch Boone, b. 29 June, 1802.
+452 Nestor Boone, b. 5 Mar., 1804.
+453 William Crawford Boone, b. 2 Aug., 1812.
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