Captain Squire Boone, Jr^[1]

1744 - 1815  (70 years)

• Name	Squire Boone
  Title	Captain
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	5 Oct 1744	Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	Revolutionary War Militia Captain
  Death	5 Aug 1815	Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana, USA
  Burial	Squire Boone Caverns, Mauckport, Indiana, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I21127	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Squire Boone, Sr,   b. 25 Nov 1696, Bradninch, Mid Devon District, Devon, England d. 2 Jan 1765, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Sarah Morgan,   b. 23 Sep 1700, Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Jan 1777, Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Jul 23 1720	Gwynedd Friends Monthly Meeting, Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Van Cleave,   b. 1749   d. 1829 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1765
  Family ID	F10968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Oct 2023

  
  

• Photos

  Portrait of Captain Squire Boone, Jr. Brother to Daniel Boone

  
  

• Notes

  Younger brother of Daniel Boone. He and his older brother, Daniel, found a cave in southern Indiana one time in 1787. One day three years later while Squire was running from Indians, he jumped for a vine and landed in the opening of the secret cave that the Indians did not know about. Since they did not find Squire, he believed the cave was holy and expressed his wish to be buried in the cave one day. Daniel and Squire were the frontiersmen who opened up what is now known as Kentucky. Of the first eight white men who dared to enter "the dark and bloody ground," as Kentucky was known in the early 1770s, only two returned alive: Daniel and Squire Boone. After his close encounter with the Indians in 1790, Squire would often return to the cave to pray, meditate and carve designs and verses of gratitude. In 1804, Squire moved his wife, Jane Van Cleve, and his daughter and four sons to the area and built a village and a gristmill. Squire spent the last 11 years of his life there - the longest he had stayed in one place. As his death neared - Squire suffered from heart failure - he built his own coffin from walnut trees growing near the cave. On his deathbed, he asked his sons to bury him in the cave where his life had been spared. On Aug. 15, 1815, Squire's four sons fulfilled their father's request. Squire was buried in his beloved cave, and a boulder sealed the entrance. More than 150 years passed while the walnut coffin decomposed in a hidden section of the cave. Squire's bones rested on the cave's floor and were gradually covered by silt. The exact whereabouts of his remains would not be known until 1973 when two guides of the cave decided to dig out the section of the cave that was filled with silt and debris and find the carvings. Instead, they found Squire himself. A new walnut coffin was crafted, and a Boone descendant knitted a shroud for the bones. Squire Boone's remains were placed in the coffin, the lid was sealed with wax and the casket was carried deep into Squire Boone Caverns. Today, the casket is on view at the end of the tour through the Squire Boone Caverns in Mauckport, Indiana and a headstone has been erected at the foot of the casket inside the cave at the end of the tour given by the cave guides. ∼ This monument is placed in Old Mulkey Cemetery in honor of Hanah Boone's brother, Squire. Hannah's grave is adjacent. Squire Boone was born in Exeter Township, Pennsylvania and died in Boone Township, Indiana. At his request, he was buried in a cave near Boone Township. Later, his son, Enoch, returned to the cave and saw that animals had disturbed the grave. Enoch took his father's remains and reburied them on his farm, near his mother's grave. The exact location of Squire's grave is unknown. But, Enoch's farm is in Kentucky where Fort Know is now. Like his more famous brother, Daniel, Squire Boone was a brave defender of Kentucky's pioneers. More can be found in the many biographies of Squire and Daniel Boone. There is another Find-A-Grave Memorial for Squire Boone. That Memorial has extensive biographical and familial information, as well as an interesting story behind the this burial site. SQUIRE BOONE CAVERNS Cemetery has one headstone. That of Squire Boone's. The cemetery is in Harrison County, Indiana. PLEASE SEE: Memorial #18853) [Thanks to Charlotte Ann Price, Find-A-Grave member for her memorial to Squire Boone, and for her bringing this to my attention.] Inscription SQUIRE BOONE BORN IN PENN OCT. 5, 1744 DIED IN IND. BUILT TRAVELERS REST Gravesite Details This marker is a memorial honoring Hannah Boone's brother.

  
  

• Sources

  [S175] Website: Geni World Family Tree, (https://www.geni.com/family-tree/html/start), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-6317172/squire-boone-ii-in-geni-world-family-tree (Reliability: 4). Squire Boone, II&lt;br&gt;Gender: Male&lt;br&gt;Alias name: Samual&lt;br&gt;Birth: Oct 5 1744 - Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro, Berks, Pennsylvania&lt;br&gt;Occupation: Gunsmith. In 1780, he founded the first settlement in Shelby County, Kentucky, Frontiersman, Judge, Gunsmith, frontiersman, cut through Cumberland Gap with brother Daniel Boone&lt;br&gt;Marriage: Spouse: Jane Boone (born Van Cleave) - Aug 8 1765 - North Carolina&lt;br&gt;Death: Between Aug 5 1815 and Aug 15 1815 - Buck Creek, Boone Township, Indiana Territory&lt;br&gt;Burial: Aug 15 1815 - Squire Boone Caverns, Mauckport, Indiana&lt;br&gt;Father: <a>Squire Maugridge Boone, I</a>&lt;br&gt;Mother: <a>Sarah Boone (born Morgan)</a>&lt;br&gt;Wife: <a>Jane Boone (born Van Cleave)</a>&lt;br&gt;Children: <a>Stephen Squire Boone</a>, <a>Jonathan Boone</a>, <a>Moses Boone</a>, <a>Isiah Boone</a>, <a>Sarah Cassandra Wilcoxon (born Boone)</a>, <a>Enoch Morgan Boone</a>, <a>James Boone</a>&lt;br&gt;Siblings: <a>Sarah Cassandre Wilcoxson (born Boone)</a>, <a>Joseph Unknown</a>, <a>Israel Boone</a>, <a>Jonathan Morgan Boone</a>, <a>NN Boone, died young?</a>, <a>Joseph Boone</a>, <a>Samuel Boone, Sr.</a>, <a>Samuel Boone</a>, <a>Ann Hannah Winter (born Boone)</a>, <a>Daniel Boone</a>, <a>Elizabeth Grant (born Boone)</a>, <a>Jacob Unknown</a>, <a>Jacob Boone</a>, <a>Jemimia (born Boone)</a>, <a>Mary Bryan (born Boone)</a>, <a>Nathaniel Boone</a>, <a>George W. Boone, I</a>, <a>Edward "Neddie" Boone</a>, <a>Nathaniel Boone</a>, <a>Hannah Morgan Stewart / Pennington (born Boone)</a>, <a>Mary Polly (born Boone)</a>, <a>Nathaniel Unknown</a> [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18853/squire-boone.