A brief story on why
Daniel Boone was buried at Bryan Cemetery
A brief story on why Daniel Boone was
buried at Bryan Cemetery
In March of 1813, Rebecca and Daniel were tapping trees and making
maple sugar with a few other family members at a sugar camp about five miles up
the Charette Creek from where their daughter Jemima and her husband Flanders
Callaway. The Callaways lived adjacent
to the old French village of Charette (near present Marthasville). David Bryan, Rebecca’s first cousin, who
had been raised partly by Daniel and Rebecca, lived near the Callaways as did a
few of the other early settlers. Other
than along the rivers, most of the land in Missouri was still unsettled
wilderness, and Charette was noted as a small village of then seven run down
houses in the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on its way west in
1804, and on its return in1806. Also
noted was that Charette was the farthest west white settlement in America. By the time of the sugar making in 1813,
several new settlements had been established farther to the west along the
north side of the Missouri River.
While they were making sugar at the sugar camp, Rebecca became ill, and
was taken to Jemima’s house. After
several days she passed away, and Daniel chose the place for her burial less
than a mile away on a small knoll above Tuque Creek, on David Bryan’s
farm.
Sign
at Bryan Cemetery (2008)
Bryan Cemetery from Boone
Monument Road (1936)
(the Boone Monument is
visible at center of photo)
Bryan Cemetery c. 1908
Bryan Cemetery headstones (2008)